2H Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents

• Group Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Resource Management
• Rotation
• AoE Setup
• Related Content
• Update Log

Welcome to the 2H Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO. 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 which 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

5x Relequen, 5x Kinras, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Grundwulf, 1x Maelstrom Bow on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff 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 the perfected and imperfect gear are viable for the build.

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?

Kinras’s Wrath: Black Drake Villa Dungeon
Perfected Arms of Relequen vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers, Undaunted Enclave
Grundwulf: vMoongrave Fane, Undaunted Enclave
Perfected Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): vMaelstrom Arena
Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): Maelstrom Arena
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
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

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.
• 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.

Champion Points – 2H Stamina Necromancer Build

Important Info – 2h Stamina Necromancer Build

Buff-food

We use the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food which provides us with Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery. Because we don’t gain health from it, we have 20 points in the health attribute.

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

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)

Poisons

Poisons increase your overall damage, therefore they are also an important part of the build. However, they are less important than potions.

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
• 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

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

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.

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

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