Powerful SOLO Stamina Warden Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Table of Contents

• Solo Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• Bad Habits
• Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup
• Infinite Archive Setup
• Warden Subclassing
• Build Video
• Update Log

Welcome to the Solo Stamina Warden Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). This build is optimized for solo play. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. If you are new to the game I would also recommend checking out a few other guides:

Other Stamina Warden Guides:

• Stamina Warden Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Warden Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Warden Dual Wield Build (META)
• Stamina Warden Two Hander Build
• Stamina Warden Bow Build

The Solo Stam Warden build is optimized for solo play. You will find three different gear setups, the first one is best in slot, the second one advanced and the third one a very easily obtainable beginner setup. However, understanding the mechanics of the build is more important than the gear itself. By mechanics I mean the abilities that we use,what functions they have, and how to sustain this setup.And most importantly, how to stay alive with timed dodge rolls, blocks, and heals.

Stamina Wardens have a nice toolkit for solo play. Abilities such as Bull Netch give us Major Brutality, increasing Weapon Damage by 20% and boosting our sustain with Stamina return. The Green Lotus skill applies Major Savagery, increasing Weapon Critical by 10% and also healing us every time we do a Light Attack.

Ice Fortress creates frost armor around us increasing our resistances and damage mitigation. The Two-Handed skill-line gives us huge shields through the Brawler skill, that way we can really bolster our Health with shields that soak up incoming damage. You can also use this build with a Dual Wield setup, more info on that is below.

• Two Hander & Bow setup
• Powerful Damage
• Powerful Sustain
• Good Healing
• Big Shields
• Solo Dungeons, Overland
• Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena

ESO Solo Setup Stamina Warden Build

5x Tzogvin, 5x Briarheart, 1x Bloodspawn, 1x Pale Order on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active.
• Buffed: In combat, buff food, Briarheart, Tzogvin, Bull Netch, Green Lotus, Ice Fortress, Potion, Weapon Damage Enchantment, and Minor Toughness active.

Gear Solo Stamina Warden

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People who do not have all the gear yet can use the Setup 2 which is easier to obtain and beginners can use Setup 3.

• Setup 1 – Best Setup
• Setup 2 – Advanced Gear
• Setup 3 – Beginner Gear

Gear Setup 1

• Which sets you put in which slot is not that important, the only thing that matters is that you get two full five-piece sets and a Monster Set.
• One Piece Heavy Armor gives us some extra resistance and health.

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

Where can I get the gear?

Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstores
Tzogvin’s Warband: Frostvault
Ancient Dragonguard: Craftable
Bloodspawn: vSpindleclutch II, Maj Undaunted Chest
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Selene: vSelene’s Web, Glirion Undaunted Chest
Thunderous Volley: vMaelstrom Arena
Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities System
Vicious Serpent: Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophidia, Hel Ra Citadel

Skills Solo Stamina Warden

Skills explanation:

• Brawler: Your most important survival ability. Use this on a single or several enemies to gain a huge shield that will bolster your health on top of the nice damage it does.
• Sub. Assault: Powerful Single Target and AoE damage ability that pops twice.
• Cutting Dive: This is your spammable attack, if you are more than 7 meters away from the target you set the enemy off balance.
• Reverse Slice: Your execute ability that also deals nice splash damage.
• Growing Swarm: Applies a strong damage over time effect on the enemy and debuffs them with Minor Vulnerability, increasing their damage taken by 5%.
• Wild Guardian: Powerful Single Target ultimate. You could use another ultimate if you don’t want the pet.
• Endless Hail: This is your DoT that you need to constantly keep up on the enemies. Very powerful both in Single Target and AoE.
• Bull Netch: This has to be up a 100% of the time, constantly returns Stamina and applies Major Brutality, increasing Weapon Damage by 20%.
• Green Lotus: This has to be up a 100% of the time, heals you every time you Light Attack and applies Major Savagery, increasing Weapon Critical by 12%.
• Echoing Vigor: Strong heal over time that lasts for a long time. We prefer this morph because the heal is already strong enough and the longer duration is better, more time to deal damage! Compared to the other morph which only lasts for a very short duration. If you drop low on health make sure to activate this and also use Brawler to gain a shield to bolster your health.
• Ice Fortress: This is your defensive buff, applies Major Resolve, increasing resistances and also gives you Minor Protection, increasing mitigation by another 5%.

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System offers plenty of adjustable skills to add to our build. The Scribing Skills aren’t a must have, but I will present you two viable options that would fit into the build. We have access to Smash from the Two Hander skill line and Vault from the Bow skill line.

Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing system.

Base Scribing Skill:

• Two Handed: Smash (Bloody Smash)
• Bow: Vault (Venomous Vault)

To unlock the Smash skill, you need to reach level 25 in the Two Handed skill line. To unlock the Vault skill you need to reach level 25 in the Bow skill line.

Smash (Bloody Smash)

Smash is the Two Handed Scribing skill. It drags your weapon along the ground to smash a cone in front of you. To maximize damage, we want to use the following scripts: Bleed Damage (Focus), Lingering Toment (Signature), and Berserk (Affix). This will turn the skill into Bloody Smash and deal Bleed AoE damage and also Bleed damage over time to all enemies hit. We also gain Minor Berserk for 20 seconds, giving us 5% more damage done.

• Grimoire
  • Smash
• Focus Script
  • Bleed Damage
• Signature Script
  • Lingering Torment (Bleed Damage over time)
• Affix Script
  • Berserk (Applies Minor Bersewrk buff, increasing damage done by 5%)

If you want to use this Scribing Skill, you can replace it with Brawler. However, please note that you trade damage for survivability. Brawler applies a huge damage shield to you that often absorbs all the hits, choose wisely!

Vault (Venomous Vault)

Vault is the Bow Scribing skill. It fires a burst at your feet while flipping backward 15 meters. You want to use the following scripts: Poison Damage (Focus), Lingering Toment (Signature), and Vulnerability (Affix). This will turn the scribing skill into Venomous Vault and deal Poison Damage to all enemies around you as well as Poison damage over time. We also apply Minor Vulnerability to enemies, increasing their damage taken by 5%.

• Grimoire
  • Vault
• Focus Script
  • Poison Damage
• Signature Script
  • Lingering Torment (Poison Damage over time)
• Affix Script
  • Vulnerability (Applies Minor Vulnerability, increasing damage taken by 5%)

If you want to use this Scribing Skill, replace it with Consuming Trap. However, be careful using this skill because flipping backward 15 meters can mess up your positioning.

Champion Points Solo Stamina Warden

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Solo Warden Build

Buff-food

It is very important that you use the Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice Buff-food. This will enhance our Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery by a huge margin. You can buy the food in the guild stores for a very cheap price, or craft it yourself if you have the recipe. For more information on all buff food and drinks I recommend visiting the Buff Food and Drink Overview Page.

Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice
(Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

Mundus Stone

The Lover Mundus Stone provides us with extra penetration, which increases our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Lover Mundus Stone (Increased Penetration)

Race

All stamina based races work with this setup. More about each race can be found on the racial overview page.

Dark Elf
Khajiit
Orc
Redguard
Imperial
Wood Elf
Nord
Argonian
High Elf

Potions

You can use normal stamina potions with this setup, as we already get Major Brutality and Major Savagery through skills like Bull Netch and Green Lotus.

If you want to remove the two skills and use more damage abilities instead, then please make sure to use the Weapon Power potions.

Weapon Power Potions 
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Poisons

We are using Poisons to increase our overall damage output. If you don’t have poisons, you can just use another enchantment on your weapon.

Damage Health Poison
(Damage Poison, Damage Poison)
(Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Nirnroot)

Passives

• Animal Companion: Bond with Nature, Savage Beast, Flourish, Advanced Species
• Green Balance: Accelerated Growth, Nature’s Gift, Emerald Moss, Maturation
• Winter’s Embrace: Glacial Presence, Frozen Armor, Icy Aura, Piercing Cold
• Two Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Assault: (Optional, mount speed buff) Continuous Attack

Attributes

0 Health, 64 Stamina, 0 Magicka

Resource Management

Our setup has a lot of resource management options, some already directly built in via Stamina Recovery and some more options that you can use whenever you need it.

Stamina Recovery

Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice buff-food is key to our sustain. The buff-food gives you Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery, a lot of it. You have to make sure to use this specific buff-food. You can buy it in the guild stores for a very cheap price or craft it yourself, if you have the recipe.

The Flourish passive will increase overall Stamina Recovery by 12%.

The Battle Rush passive from the Two Hander skill-line gives you another 30% Stamina Recovery for 10 seconds while you have a Two Handed weapon slotted.

Potions are another very important part of resource management. You can use normal potions with this setup but you still should activate potions on cooldown to benefit from the huge resource boost and the 30% Stamina Recovery buff.

Skills

The Bull Netch ability returns 4416 Stamina over 25 seconds.

Rotation

Before we start with the rotation, you always have to make sure to weave Light Attacks between each ability. This is important because the Light Attacks deal very good damage and proc your Weapon Enchantments and Poisons. You can find a guide here on that subject: “Weaving Beginner Guide”.

Your first priority has to always be to stay alive. Therefore healing, shielding and dodging has to be prioritized over damage.

1. Brawler is your survival skill, every time you hit one or several enemies you will gain a shield. Most of the times that is already enough to stay alive.
2. Echoing Vigor is your main healing ability that lasts 10 seconds. The Briarheart set is enough in most situations though if you keep up your DoTs.
3. Keep up your two most important skills: Bull Netch, Green Lotus and Ice Fortress.
4. Keep up all your DoTs on the enemy such as Endless Hail and Growing Swarm.
5. Once that is taken care of, you want to use your spammable on the front bar such as: Subterranean Assault, Cutting Dive and Reverse Slice.

Front loading as much Animal Companion abilities as possible is a good way to boost your overall damage due to the Advanced Species passive. However, survivability is more important than damage in the end, keep that in mind.

Bad Habits

1. Not keeping up your healing abilities such as Echoing Vigor, Green Lotus and defense abilities such as Ice Fortress is the main reason why you die on this setup.
2. Not keeping up your damage over time effects on the backbar will result in a huge loss in overall damage.
3. Not using Brawler enough to bolster your health with the huge shield that the skill gives. Always before you swap to the backbar you should use Brawler first to gain a shield that will help you while you are on the backbar.
4. Not using the right buff-food as listed will also result in sustain issues.

Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup

Stamina Warden Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Build Setup.

• For specific tips and tricks please check out the Vateshran Hollows Guide or the Maelstrom Arena Guide which explains everything in detail.
• Ring of the Pale Order provides a lot of extra healing, I recommend getting this Mythic item, it makes the arena a lot easier.
• If you don’t have access to Mythic items, please use the gear setups above.

Gear

Gear	Set	Weight	Trait	Enchantment
Chest	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Health
Belt	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Shoes	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Pants	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Hands	Vicious Serpent	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Head	Bloodspawn	Medium	Divine	Health
Shoulder	Briarheart	Medium	Divine	Stamina
Necklace	Briarheart	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring	Briarheart	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Weapon 1	Briarheart	2H Sword	Precise	Damage Health Poisons IX
Weapon 2	Thunderous Volley	Bow	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchantment

Skills

Buff-Food

I recommend using the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food if you have too much sustain with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice.

Infinite Archive Setup for Solo Stamina Warden

Here you can find a setup that works well inside ESO’s Infinite Archive when you play solo with the Solo Stamina Warden Build. Make sure to read the ESO Infinite Archive Guide to understand what is going on inside the archive.

• Infinite Archive gets progressively harder
• You need to know boss mechanics, otherwise one-shots will occur often.
• Understanding how the Infinite Archive works is important
• If you get stuck, change gear or skills and try again.

Gear

Of course you can also try the Infinite Archive with any of the above setups and see how they perform. We like to go in with Briarheart on the front bar and Pillar of Nirn on the back bar. These are both sets that have a simple proc condition and they work automatically. Additionally, we also have the Stormfist set that also deals proc damage. Basically, all sets do work without you having to think about how to activate them.

For the Infinite Archive, it is recommended to go with 1x Ring of the Pale Order, 2x Stormfist, 5x Briarheart (frontbar), 5x Pillar of Nirn (backbar) and 1x Druid’s Braid. This setup will provide us with enough healing and damage.  You can also use any other Monster Set if you don’t like Stormfist.

Note: Two-handed weapons count as two pieces for a set.

Where can I get the gear?

Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstores
Pillar of Nirn: nFalkreath Hold Dungeon
Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities System
Stormfist: vTempest Island Dungeon
Druids Braid: Guildstores, Craftable set in the High Isle and Amenos zone

Skills

Buff-Food

If you are having sustain issues it is recommended to use the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food, just keep in mind your health will be lower. If you have enough sustain you can use the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food that gives good sustain and extra health.

Build Video

The build video is from an older patch but it still holds relevance for how the build plays and its mechanics.

ESO Warden Subclassing Build Options

ESO’s Subclassing offers a lot of variety, allowing you to swap, mix, and match different skill lines of various classes all on one character. Read our How does Subclassing work in ESO guide to get an understanding of how the subclass system works. We also have plenty of ESO Builds optimized for Subclassing.

Take a look at our ESO Warden Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Warden build!

Update Log

16.03.2020 Added the Solo Stamina Warden build for the Harrowstorm DLC.
17.05.2020 Updated the build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
17.08.2020 Updated the build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
26.10.2020 Updated the build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
05.03.2021 Updated the build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
30.03.2021 Made several optimizations for the build.
25.05.2021 Updated the build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
09.08.2021 Updated the build for the WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
03.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added tooltips to the buff food section, WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
14.10.2021 Updated the build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
04.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
14.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
08.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
24.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
08.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
01.06.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO NECROM CHAPTER.
16.10.2023 Updated the Build for Update 40.
08.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.
22.05.2024 Updated the Build for the Gold Road Chapter U42.
20.08.2024 Updated the Build for Update 43, Gold Road Chapter.
28.10.2024 Updated the Build for Update 44, Gold Road Chapter.
11.03.2025 Updated the Build for Update 45, Fallen Banners.
28.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

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