Powerful 2H Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Table of Contents

• Group Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Necromancer Subclassing

Welcome to the 2H Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). This build is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials & arenas and has a very glass-cannon approach. The 2H Stamina Necromancer build is optimized for maximum damage. The build works best in a group but with some minor adjustments can also be played as a solo setup if necessary.

Stamina Necromancers are very powerful two-hander users who benefit a lot from Necromancer passives and skills. Passives such as Death Knell, Rapid Rot and Undead Confederate help a lot with damage and sustain. Powerful skills like Detonating Siphon, Skeletal Archer and Blighted Blastbones deal insane damage. And the Necros favorite ultimate Pestilent Colossus increases the damage of the whole group, a must have!

• Two Hander & Bow Setup
• Insane Single Target (ST) Damage
• Insane Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Crazy Splash Damage
• Dungeon, Trial & Arena Build

It is also recommended to read the Stamina Necromancer Beginner Guide if you are a new player. You can find more Necromancer Builds & Guides in the Necromancer category of the website.

Group Setup – 2H Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO

5x Relequen, 5x Pillar of Nirn, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet, 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, Weapon damage enchantment, Weapon Power Potion, Skeletal Archer active.

Gear

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

Perfected vs Imperfect Gear: Both perfected and imperfect gear is viable for the build. The perfected versions are a lot harder to obtain though. So if you don’t have any aim for the normal version first.

Gear Setup 2

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

This setup is for new players. You want to craft or ask someone to craft 5x Hunding’s Rage and 4x Night Mother’s Gaze. 3x Agility jewelry can be bought in the guildstores for little money.

Where can I get the gear?

Perfected Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Spectral Cloak (Maelstrom 2H): vBlackrose Prison Arena
Spectral Cloak: nBlackrose Prison Arena
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet (Mythic): Antiquities
Perf. Ansuul’s Torment: vSanity’s Edge Trial

Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Leviathan. Crypts of Hearts 1 & 2
Perfected Titanic Cleave (Master’s Two Hander): vDragonstar Arena
Titanic Cleave (Master’s Two Hander): Dragonstar Arena
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

Skills

Skills explanation:

• Blighted Blastbones: Your main semi spammable ability.
• Carve: Strong AoE (area of effect) damage, also applies a DoT (damage over time) on the enemy.
• Wrecking Blow: Your main Single Target spammable. (You can also use Venom Skull here if you want)
• Reverse Slice: Your execute ability, use this at around 25% instead of Wrecking Blow
• Stampede: Powerful single target and area of effect damage ability.
• Pestilent Colossus: Your Ultimate, activate this to gain a huge damage boost.
• Deadly Cloak: Your main backbar damage over time area effect.
• Skeletal Archer: This is your summon, keep it up all the times because it gives you extra Physical Penetration, extra Stamina Recovery and damage.
• Necrotic Potency: Use this when there is corpses nearby, to regain a lot of Ultimate points.
• Anti-Cavalry Caltrops: Deals AOE damage over time.
• Detonating Siphon: This is again slotted only for the extra 3% damage boost it passively gives.
• Resolving Vigor: Your healing ability.

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System allows us to add modified new skills to our build. We have one good option for our two hander build called Bloody Smash. Bloody Smash deals good direct and damage over time damage. However it isn’t stronger than any of the other skills, therefore you can slot it but don’t have to.

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

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 – 2H Stamina Necromancer Build

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info – 2h Stamina Necromancer Build

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

Potions are an important part of the 2H Stamina Necromancer build, they apply very powerful buffs and extra resources to your character. Potions benefit from the Alchemy passive Medicinal Use, make sure to always have that passive active.

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

Passives

• Grave Lord: Reusable Parts, Death Knell, Dismember, Rapid Rot
• Bone Tyrant: Death Gleaning, Disdain Harm, Last Gasp
• Living Death: Curative Curse, Corpse Consumption, Undead Confederate
• Two Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Dual Wield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Psijic Order (AoE Setup): Clairvoyance, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

20 Health, 44 Stamina

Resource Management

Keeping up the Skeletal Archer will allow you to have the Undead Confederate passive up a 100% of the time. Make sure to activate potions on cooldown to keep up the recovery passives and make sure to use the right food, that way we can almost reach 1950 Stamina Recovery which should be enough to sustain. In case you still have trouble, you can also do heavy attacks to restore stamina.

• Undead Confederate
• Lava Foot and Saltrice Soup Food
• Heavy Attacks
• Potions

Rotation – 2H Stamina Necromancer Build

• Your main spammable is Wrecking Blow. Use Reverse Slice after boss health is lower than 25%.
• Activate Blighted Blastbones every 3rd skill.
• Keep up your damage over time effects: Stampede, Carve, Detonating Siphon, Skeletal Archer, Endless Hail, Barbed Trap.

Make sure to activate Ability Bar Tracking ingame via Settings > Combat > Ability Bar. More info in the Ability bar Timers Guide.

The “Weaving Beginner Guide” explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.

Area of Effect Setup – 2H Stamina Necromancer Build

Skills

Video

How To Play Beginners Guide

If you are looking for a more general approach on how to play a Stamina Necromancer, please check out this video.

ESO Necromancer 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 Necromancer Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Necromancer build!

Related Content

Other Stamina Necromancer Guides:

• Stamina Necromancer Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Necromancer Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Necromancer Bow Build
• Stamina Necromancer Dual Wield Build
• More viable Stamina DPS Sets Article for Endgame

Other 2H Stamina Builds:

• 2H Stamina Arcanist DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Templar DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Sorcerer DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Dragonknight DPS Build
• 2H Stamina Warden DPS Build

Update Log 2H Necromancer Build for ESO

11.08.2019 Updated Build for the Scalebreaker DLC, Elsweyr Chapter. Stamina Necromancer 2H Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
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17.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
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03.09.2020 Updated the Champion Points 810, 600, 300.
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.
25.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
12.08.2021 Updated the Build for the WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
02.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added tooltips to the buff food links, WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
21.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
10.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
20.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
10.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
26.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
13.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
31.05.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO NECROM CHAPTER.
25.10.2023 Updated the Build for the Necrom Update 40.
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