Powerful Stamina Arcanist Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents

• Stamina Arcanist Build Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• AoE
• Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena
• Outfit Style Showcase
• Update Log

Welcome to the Group DPS Stamina Arcanist Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). The Arcanist is a new class that is part of the Necrom Chapter. This build has a very glass-canon approach and is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials and arenas. This build works best if played with at least a group of four.

Stamina Arcanists can push out a lot of damage with class-specific abilities such as Escalating Runeblades, Cephaliarch’s Flail, Fulminating Rune or the Inspired Scholarship ability which infuses your weapons to deal extra damage. Of course, there are plenty of other skills and also sets that are very useful, all listed below in this build. The Languid Eye ultimate also deals massive damage when activated.

• Medium Armor Build
• Dual Wield & Two Hander setup
• High Single Target (ST) Damage
• High Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Good Sustain
• Maximum Damage Build
• Trials, Dungeon & Arena Group Build

Other Stamina Arcanist Guides:

You can also find plenty of other Stamina Arcanist content on the website such as:

• Stamina Arcanist Two Hander Build
• Stamina Arcanist Bow Build

Build Setup – Stamina Arcanist Build for ESO

Let us take a look at the Stamina Arcanist Build for ESO. Below you will find things like Sets, Skills, Champion Points, Buff-food, Mundus Stone, Potions, Passives and Attributes. These are all important aspects of the Stamina Arcanist Build.

5x Pillar of Nirn, 5x Perf. Relequen, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Harpooner’s Kilt on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food, Major Savagery, Major Brutality active.
• Buffed: In combat, raid target dummy buffs, weapon power potion, Harpooner’s Kilt, weapon damage enchantment active.

Gear for the Stamina Arcanist Build

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. For people that 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 – Stamina Arcanist Build

Optionally, you can also wear a full monster set.

Gear Setup 2 – Stamina Arcanist Build

This setup is for those that did not have the chance yet to step into a trial. You will deal slightly less damage than with the tier 1 setup, but not by much. Overall, the gear here is easier to get because you aren’t required to enter a trial.

• Briarheart Dagger: There is a unique Dagger “Materre’s Bodkin” that you can get fairly easily, instead of buying it expensive in the store.

Gear Setup 3 Beginner – Stamina Arcanist Build

This setup is dedicated to people that have not had the chance to farm the necessary gear for the maximum damage potential. All the gear here is either craftable or cheap to get in a guildstore.

Make sure to ask a friend to craft Hunding’s Rage and Night Mother’s Gaze. Agility jewelry can be obtained in the Guildstores. I do recommend having around 18k health (with buff-food). You can buy cheap Agility jewelry with healthy trait to reach this value if you want.

Where can I get the gear?

Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Merciless Charge (Maelstrom 2H): vMaelstrom Arena
Merciless Charge: nMaelstrom Arena
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Harpooner’s Wading Kilt (Mythic): Antiquities
Perfect Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstore
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

Skills

The skill setup for the Stamina Arcanist Build is very focused on maximizing your damage in your group.

Camouflaged Hunter is only on the front bar to increase our overall Weapon Damage through Fighters Guild passives.

Skills explanation:

• Barbed Trap: We activate this once per rotation, gives us Minor Force, increasing our Critical Damage done by 10%.
• Deadly Cloak: Deals AoE damage and gives us 20% AoE damage mitigation.
• Escalating Runeblades: Your main DPS skill, deals great single target damage and the last rune that hits the enemies also deals AoE damage.
• Cephaliarch’s Flail: Deals great damage but more importantly increases your damage output by 5%.
• Camouflaged Hunter: Gives you Minor Berserk (5% more damage) and also more Weapon Damage thanks to Fighters Guild passive.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker: Deals good AoE damage but is mostly slotted for the extra Weapon Damage that you gain through Fighters Guild passives.
• Stampede: Very powerful Single Target and AoE ability.
• Fulminating Rune: Deals great damage over time and AoE damage.
• Carve: Strong single target and AoE bleed ability.
• Inspires Scholarship: Adds extra damage to your class abilities every few seconds. Buff on self has a long duration.
• Resolving Vigor: Your healing ability. (Flex Spot)
• The Languid Eye: Deals great single target and area of effect damage to enemies that stand in the beam.

Arcanist Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System offers plenty of adjustable skills to add to our build. We have two good options. Venomous Knife and Bloody Smash. Bloody Smash deals good direct and damage over time damage. Venomous Knife with the Warrior’s opportunity is a must have in stamina groups because it lets enemies take 8% more physical damage. But you only need this once, if someone else has it swap to Lingering Torment script to get additional damage over time. Both skills also give us easy access to Minor Berserk. If you already have that buff, swap it out with another Affix script.

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

Base Scribing Skill:

• Dual Wield: Traveling Knife
• Two Handed: Smash

You need to reach level 25 in the skill lines of Dual Wield and Two-handed to unlock these Scribing Skills.

Venomous Knife

Traveling Knife turns into Venomous Knife with our Scribing scripts. You can use other Signature or Affix scripts as well, depending on the situation.

• Focus Script
  • Poison Damage
• Signature Script
  • Warrior’s Opportunity (8% more Physical Damage) or
  • Lingering Torment (Damage over time)
• Affix Script
  • Berserk (5% more damage)

Bloody Smash

Smash turns into Bloody Smash with our Scribing scripts.

• Focus Script
  • Bleed Damage
• Signature Script
  • Lingering Torment (Damage over time)
• Affix Script
  • Berserk (5% more damage)

You can You can also test more combinations out with the ESO Scribing Simulator.

Champion Points for the Stamina Arcanist 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 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 Crit Potions 
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Passives for the Stamina Arcanist Build

Below you can find a full list of all the recommended passives for the Stamina Arcanist Build.

• 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
• Dual Wield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Two Hander: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
• Psijic: Only if you use Channeled Acceleration for the AoE setup.
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

64 Stamina, 0 Health, 0 Magicka

Resource Management

The Hideous Clarity and Erudition passive both help with sustain on the Arcanist.

Energy Orb will always be present in a good group. When you get close to the Orb you can activate its synergy to regain resources.

Potions should always be used on cooldown to gain the maximum benefit from them.

Heavy Attacks help you restore Stamina, if you drop low on resources do a few Heavy Attacks between skills to refill your Stamina.

• Hideous Clarity Passive
• Erudition Passive
• Orbs or Spears from Healers
• Heavy Attacks
• Potions

Area of Effect Setup

This setup here is focusing on an AoE setup, this way you can be more effective when fighting trash packs or just a large amount of monsters.

Gear Setup

Skills

Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena

Please check out the Solo Stamina Arcanist Build for specific Maelstrom Arena and Vateshran Hollows Arena setups.

Outfit Style Showcase of the Lost Tomes PvE Build for ESO

Let us take a look at the outfit style of the Stamina Arcanist PvE Build for ESO. You can find a close-up shot, an image from the back and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.

• Fargrave Guardian: Bracers, Greaves, Cuirass, Belt, Boots, Daggers
• Shoulders: Dremora Kynreeve Pauldrons
• Head: Xivkyn Helmet
• Dyes: Void Pitch, Patron’s Gold
• Skin: Dro-M’athra

Update Log for ESO Stamina Arcanist Build

26.04.2023 Created first version of the Stamina Arcanist DPS Build for ESO
26.10.2023 Updated the Build for Necrom Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.
29.05.2024 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.

Tags: Stamina Arcanist Damage Dealer Build, Stamina Arcanist DPS Build, Stam Arcanist DPS Build

Related Content

• Arcanist Builds Overview Page
• DPS Tier List for all ESO classes
• Set and Skill data provided by ESO-Hub.com