Type: Dungeon, Trial, Arena & Overland
Buildname: Arc
Welcome to the Stamina Arcanist Bow Build PvE “Arc” for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the Arcanist bow build for each new Update of ESO. The archer build is a stamina-focused bow damage dealer build. It is made for endgame content like Trials and Dungeons. You can also find plenty of other Stamina Arcanist content on the website such as:
Other Stamina Arcanist Guides:
The Arcanist Bow Build shows you one possible option of how to play your Arcanist. Please make sure to not forget to adjust the build to your needs. You will also find beginner gear setup on this page.
- Arcanist Class
- Medium Armor Build
- Double Bow Setup
- Good Sustain
- Good AoE Damage
- Good Single Target Damage
Trials & Dungeons Setup Arcanist Bow Build
5x Relequen, 5x Pillar of Nirn, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Harpooner’s Wading Kilt, on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice food.
- Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active
- Buffed: In combat, buff food, Raid Target Dummy buffs, Harpooner, Weapon Power Potion, Weapon Damage Enchantment active.
Gear Arcanist Bow Build
You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. Players 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 is with Trial Gear
- Setup 2 is without Trial Gear
- Setup 3 is for Beginners
There are a lot of good Stamina Sets available, you can find more viable stamina dps sets in this Stamina DPS Sets Article. I also elaborate on specific sets that are often used in this article to give you a bit more insight as to why they are used.
Gear Setup 1
If you don’t have access to the Harpooner Mythic item you can instead run a full monster set.
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Belt | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Harpooner’s Wading Kilt (Mythic) | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Perfected Arms Of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Slimecraw | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 | Pillar of Nirn | Bow | Precise | Flame Damage Enchant |
Weapon 2 | Perfected Thunderous Volley | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Setup 2
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
Belt | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Stormfist | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Stormfist | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Pillar of Nirn | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 | Pillar of Nirn | Bow | Precise | Flame Damage Enchant |
Weapon 2 | Pillar of Nirn | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Beginner
This gear setup is pretty easy to get, you need to ask a guildmate to craft you Hundings Rage and Night Mothers Gaze. You can buy Agility in Guildstores, if you want really cheap pieces just buy the Healthy Trait ones, then you can actually invest all points into Stamina and you should get to a decent Health level. I also do recommend using Dubious Camoran Throne Drink with this setup to get good sustain.
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
Belt | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Agility | Jewelry | Robust/ Healthy | Stamina Recovery |
Ring | Agility | Jewelry | Robust/ Healthy | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 | Hunding’s Rage | Bow | Precise | Flame Damage Enchant |
Weapon 2 | Hunding’s Rage | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Where can I get the gear?
Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Arms Of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Perfected Point-Blank Snipe: vVateshran Hollows
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Perfected Thunderous Volley: vMaelstrom Arena
Thunderous Volley: Maelstrom Arena
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Stormfist: vTempest Island Dungeon, Undaunted Chest Reward
Skills Arcanist Bow Build
Instead of Escalating Runeblades you could also use Lethal Arrow as your main spammable if you prefer that.
If you don’t have Channeled Acceleration (Psijic Skill) then replace it with Lightweight Beast Trap from the Fighters Guild.
Bow Mainbar | Bow-second bar |
---|---|
Slot 1: Pragmatic Fatecarver | Slot 1: Arrow Barrage |
Slot 2: Fulminating Rune | Slot 2: Poison Injection |
Slot 3: Escalating Runeblades | Slot 3: Inspired Scholarship |
Slot 4: Acid Spray | Slot 4: Channeled Acceleration |
Slot 5: Camouflaged Hunter | Slot 5: Resolving Vigor |
Ultimate: The Languid Eye | Ultimate: Ballista |
Skills Explanation:
- Pragmatic Fatecarver: Strong channel that also applies a shield to you while using the beam.
- Fulminating Rune: Strong damage over time area effect that sticks to the enemy.
- Escalating Runeblades: Your main spammable, deals great damage and also deals AoE damage.
- Acid Spray: Your AoE spammable, also applies a damage over time poison effect on targets that are hit by it.
- Camouflaged Hunter: Passively slotted to gain Minor Berserk.
- The Languid Eye: Your main single-target ultimate. Deals great damage.
- Arrow Barrage: Strong area of effect damage over time effect.
- Poison Injection: Strong single target damage over time effect.
- Inspired Scholarship: Long buff that adds extra damage. Also adds Major Sorcery and Major Brutality to your character.
- Channeled Acceleration: Buff that applies Minor Force, increasing your critical damage.
- Resolving Vigor: This is your heal, you can replace this with something else if you don’t need it.
- Ballista: Your backup ultimate. You can slot another ultimate here if you prefer (Flex Spot).
Champion Points for the Arcanist Archer Build
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 Stamina Arcanist Bow Build PvE
Buff-food
Any of the three foods below works well with the build. For a list of all buff food and drink consumables please visit the Buff Food and Drinks Overview Page.
Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
(Saltrice, Flour, Potato, Scrib Jelly)
Artaeum Takeaway Broth
(Max Health+Max Stamina+Stamina Recovery+Health Recovery)
Dubious Camoran Throne
(2nd option if Artaeum is too expensive)
Mundus Stone
The Thief Mundus Stone increases our overall Weapon Critical Rating which boosts our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.
The Thief Mundus Stone (Increased Weapon Critical)
Race
Any race with stamina based perks works for this setup. If you want a complete overview of all races and racial passives, then I recommend checking out the ESO Races Overview page.
Orc
Khajiit
Dark Elf
Nord
Redguard
Wood Elf
Imperial
High Elf
Potions
Weapon Power Potions
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)
Passives
- Herald of Tome: Fated Fortune, Harnessed Quintessence, Psychic Lesion, Splintered Secrets
- Curative Runeforms: Hideous Clarity, Erudition, Intricate Runeforms
- Soldier of Apocrypha: Circumvented Fate, Implacable Outcome
- Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
- Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
- Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked
- Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
- Racial: All
- Alchemy: Medicinal Use
Attributes
All points into Stamina
Resource Management for the Arcanist Bow Build
The Hideous Clarity and Erudition passive both help with sustain on the Arcanist.
During the fight healers or tanks will throw Energy Orb that you can synergize to get back resources, these are very important!
Other than that you have to use potions on cooldown to give you a huge amount of stamina back and you can always perform some heavy attacks throughout the fight to restore stamina. If you have all these things you should be fine with sustain, just don’t forget to do heavy attacks when you drop low on stamina.
- Hideous Clarity Passive
- Erudition Passive
- Orbs or Spears from Healers
- Heavy Attacks resource return (optional)
- Potions
Rotation Arcanist Archer Build
The “Weaving Beginner Guide” explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.
In case you don’t know what weaving light attacks is, make sure to check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling. Proc sets will auto fire, you don’t have to worry about these.
- Your main spammable is Escalating Runeblades.
- Activate Inspired Scholarship and Channeled Acceleration whenever it runs out.
- Keep up your damage over time effects: Arrow Barrage, Poison Injection, Fulminating Rune.
- Activate the ultimate The Languid Eye whenever it is ready.
- Use Pragmatic Fatecarver whenever enemies get too close to you.
Make sure to activate Ability Bar Tracking ingame via Settings > Combat > Ability Bar. More info in the Ability bar Timers Guide.
Arcanist Bow Outfit Showcase
- Dye: Voidstone Violet, Bloodroot Wine
- Motif: Welkynar
- Head Marking: Eyes of Umaril
- Skin: Soul-Shriven
- Personality: Assassin
Update Log for the Stamina Arcanist Bow Build
22.05.2023 Added the first version of the Stamina Arcanist Bow Build for the ESO Necrom Chapter.
25.10.2023 Updated the Build for the Necrom Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.
Tags: Stamina Arcanist Bow Build, Arcanist Archer Build, Stamina ARC Bow Build, Stam ARC Bow Build PvE.
You can find more Arcanist builds in the Arcanist Build Category.