Stamina Necromancer 2H Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online

“Cleave”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Dungeon & Trial Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Stamina Necromancer 2H Build PvE “Cleave” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Stamina Necromancer DPS 2H Build “Cleave” is optimized for Dungeons, Arenas & Trials. You can also find plenty of other Stamina Necromancer content on the website such as:

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

This build is made for a Necromancer Two Hander setup. It is a pretty standard endgame setup that can also easily be transformed into Dual Wield or Bow if you wish to do so. Like always, we are using a pretty standard endgame setup with Perfected Tooth of Lokkestiiz, Arms of Relequen and Velidreth.

• Two Hander & Bow setup
• High single target (ST) damage
• High area of effect (AoE) damage
• Crazy splash damage
• Shield on trash fights
• Dungeon, Arena  & Trial Build

Changes from the previous version

• Added visuals to the rotation
• Made the overall rotation easier
• Changed the skill layout
• Maelstrom bow is once again our primary back bar weapon due to rotation change.

Patchnote changes:

Due to many mechanical issues with the Necromancer’s engagement with corpses and targeting of corpses, the following changes have been made in hopes to alleviate some of these shortcomings:

• Blastbones and its morphs’ corpses will now last 6 seconds, rather than 5 seconds.
• Skeletal Mage and Spirit Mender and their morphs’ corpses will now last 10 seconds, rather than 5 seconds.
• Improved the targeting areas from all tether abilities, and will now link to the corpse closest to your reticle from a much larger radius.

• Blastbones
  • The skeleton from this ability and its morphs will now attempt to leap from up to 28 meters after a short delay of spawning in, rather than 15 meters.
  • Fixed an issue where the skeleton would appear to jump backwards when leaping in close ranges. The skeleton will now also properly attempt to face its target while leaping, rather than moon-walk jumping.
  • Increased the speed in which the skeleton jumps.

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

Dungeons & Trial Setup

• Unbuffed: Out of combat
• Buffed: Raid Dummy Buffs, Weapon Damage Enchant, Archer and Potion were active, Orc with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice Food.

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

Gear Setup 2

This setup is fairly easy to get and also very strong. I recommend it to people that did not yet have the chance to get Trial gear.

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

This setup is for new players. You want to craft 5x Hundings Rage with the weapon that you can use again later on, 4x Night Mother’s because it has nice stats and then Agility set for more max stamina and weapon damage, all of those are either craftable or cheap to find in the guildstores.

Where can I get the gear?

Perfect Tooth of Lokkestiiz: Sunspire vet
Perfect Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest Vet
Velidreth: vCradle of Shadows
Selene: vSelene’s Web, Glirion
Hunding's Rage: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Night Mother's Gaze: Craftable
Leviathan: Crypts of Hearts 1 & 2
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena
Caustic Arrow (Master's Bow): Dragonstar Arena

Skills

Skills explanation:

• Blighted Blastbones: Your main semi spammable ability.
• Barbed Trap: We activate this once per rotation, gives us Minor Force, increasing our Critical Damage done by 10%.
• 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
• Detonating Siphon: Deals a lot of damage both Single Target and AoE and restores Stamina too.
• Pestilent Colossus: Your Ultimate, activate this to gain a huge damage boost.
• Endless Hail: Very powerful Single Target and AoE ability.
• 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.
• Detonating Siphon: This is again slotted only for the extra 3% damage boost it passively gives.
• Resolving Vigor: Your healing ability.

Championpoints

If you need optimized defensive Champion Points for a specific trial I recommend checking out my Maximize Damage Mitigation in Trials Article.

Championpoints [810]

The Ritual
64 Mighty, 44 Thaumaturge, 66 Precise Strikes, 14 Piercing
The Atronach
66 Master-at-Arms, 16 Physical Weapon Expert
The Apprentice
The Shadow
48 Shadow Ward, 48 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Tenacity, 100 Mooncalf
The Tower
23 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 43 Spellshield

Championpoints [600]

The Ritual
34 Thaumaturge, 56 Mighty, 34 Precise Strikes, 26 Piercing
The Atronach
34 Master at Arms, 16 Physical Weapon Expert
The Apprentice
The Shadow
25 Shadow Ward,  26 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Tenacity, 75 Mooncalf
The Tower
23 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 37 Thick Skinned
The Steed
37 Ironclad, 28 Spell Shield

Championpoints [300]

The Ritual
16 Thaumaturge, 27 Mighty, 18 Precise Strikes, 12 Piercing
The Atronach
16 Master at Arms, 11 Physical Weapon Expert
The Apprentice
The Shadow
13 Tumbling, 13 Shadow Ward
The Lover
32 Mooncalf, 27 Tenacity
The Tower
15 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
27 Hardy, 27 Elemental Defender, 28 Thick Skinned
The Steed
16 Ironclad, 12 Spell Shield

Important Info for Stamina Necromancer Build PvE 2H

Buff-food

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

Mundus Stone

The Shadow (Increased Critical Damage)

Race

Orc
Redguard
Wood Elf
Khajiit
Dark Elf
Imperial

Potions

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

Poisons

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

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
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Vampire: Optional
• Psijic Order (AoE Setup): Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

20 Health, 44 Stamina

Video

How To Play Beginners Guide

If you are looking for a more general approach to the class and wonder how to play it for solo content, check out this video:

Rotation

Prebuff with: Skeletal Archer and Blighted Blastbones

Main rotation:

Endless Hail > LA > Skeletal Archer > Weapon Swap

LA > BB > LA > Barbed Trap > LA > Wrecking Blow > LA > BB > LA > 2x Wrecking Blow (with LA)  > LA > BB > LA > 2x Wrecking Blow (with LA) > LA > BB > 2x Wrecking Blow (with LA) > Weapon Swap

Restart

• BB = Blighted Blastbones
• LA = Light Attack
• Activate Detonating Siphon whenever you have time to reapply it
• Use Reverse Slice instead of Wrecking Blow once you reach 25% enemy health to execute

In case you don’t know what 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.

Area of Effect Setup

This setup is made for AoE damage, it is meant for trash packs. During trash packs you can usually not debuff the monsters as good as on boss fights, therefore we are using Twice-Fanged Serpent to get more physical penetration and the Titanic Cleave for a huge AoE damage boost thanks.

Master's Greatsword: Dragonstar Arena vet
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena vet
TFS: Sanctum Ophidia
Perf. Tooth of Lokkestiiz: Sunspire vet

Update Log