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 Berserking Warrior, Arms of Relequen and Selene.

• 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

Major Vulnerability can now be kept up a 100% of the time again and doesn’t have a cooldown. But the modifier took a hit from 25% to now being 10% but it will also last longer now.

Frozen Colossus:

• Removed this Ultimate and the morphs’ Major Vulnerability invulnerability.
• Increased the duration of Major Vulnerability applied from these to 12 seconds per hit, up from 8. This will increase the total duration to 15 seconds per cast.
  • Major Vulnerability: Decreased to 10%, down from 25%.

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

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?

Berserking Warrior: Hel Ra Citadel
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.
• 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

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

Champion Points [810]

Please note that the Piercing perk in the Champion Points Ritual Tree depends on your group setup. Always ask your raid/group leader how much points you should place in Piercing. This depends on many factors such as debuffs and buffs, some raids may have more and therefore need less points in piercing, or the other way around.

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, please 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

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

Area of Effect Setup

The AoE setup is more straight forward. Trash packs don’t live for a very long time, anything that provides super burst damage will be useful!

Master's Greatsword: Dragonstar Arena
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable

Update Log