Powerful Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents

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

Welcome to the Stamina Necromancer Build PvE “Reaper” for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Reaper Necromancer Build is optimized for Trials, Dungeons, Arena, and Overland.

Necromancers have access to a lot of powerful stamina abilities. The gear that we are using will also allow us to pull crazy high numbers. There are several gear setups in case you don’t have all the gear available. Our Necromancer Build uses plenty of class-based abilities such as Detonating Siphon, Blighted Blastbones, Skeletal Archer, and the Ultimate Pestilent Colossus.

It is the first class to have that many Stamina abilities built in which makes it quite unique to play compared to most other Stamina based setups. It is currently also one of the strongest setups that you can play in the game!

• Necromancer Class
• High Burst Damage
• High Single-target damage
• High AoE Damage
• Good Sustain
• Dual Wield & 2H Setup
• Trials, Dungeon & Arenas

Other Stamina Necromancer Guides:

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

• 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 Two Hander Build

Build Setup – ESO Stamina Necromancer Build

Let’s take a look at the Stamina Necromancer Build. 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 Necromancer Build.

5x Pillar of Nirn, 5x Perf. Relequen, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active.
• Buffed: In combat, raid target dummy buffs, weapon power potion, weapon damage enchantment, Skeletal Archer active.

Gear for the Stamina Necromancer Build

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People that do not have all the gear yet can use 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 Necromancer Build

This is the tier 1 setup for the Stamina Necromancer Build that you should try to get, this is the most optimal setup to achieve high damage.

Gear Setup 2 – Stamina Necromancer Build

This setup is for those that did not have the chance yet to step into 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 Necromancer 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 traits 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
Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet (Mythic): Antiquities
Perf. Ansuul’s Torment: vSanity’s Edge Trial
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 for the Stamina Necromancer Build

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

Skills explanation:

• Blighted Blastbones: Your main semi-spammable ability. Deals very high damage.
• Deadly Cloak: Deals AoE damage and gives us 20% AoE damage mitigation.
• Venom Skull: Your main Single Target spammable.
• Detonating Siphon: Deals a lot of damage both Single Target and AoE.
• Antri-Cavalry Caltrops: Strong AOE damage over time skill.
• Pestilent Colossus: Your Ultimate, activate this to gain a huge damage boost.
• Stampede: 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.
• Carve: Strong single target and AoE bleed ability.
• Avid Boneyard: Great single target and area of effect damage ability. Applies Minor Vulnerability to all enemies in the skill area. Also provides a Synergy.
• You can also activate your own synergy to deal extra damage.
• Resolving Vigor: Your healing ability. (Flex Spot)

Necromancer 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 Necromancer Build

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Stamina Necromancer Build PvE

In this section of the ESO Stamina Necromancer Build we are going to take a look at Buff-food, Mundus Stone, Potions, Poisons, Passives and Attributes you should use.

All these things are important, I will give you one example to showcase how fast you can lose power. Often players forget to use/activate the Medicinal Use passive. Therefore the player won’t be able to have a 100% uptime on his potions, which means he will lose a lot of weapon damage, weapon critical and resources.

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 Necromancer Build

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

• 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
• 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

0 Health, 64 Stamina, 0 Magicka

Resource Management

Keeping up the Skeletal Archer will allow you to have the Undead Confederate passive up a 100% of the time to benefit from the 200 Stamina Recovery.

The Last Gasp passive bumps up our health a little bit, therefore we can easily use Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice Food. That way we loose a little bit of health and stamina but gain around 200 extra Stamina Recovery, which we really need.

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.

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

Rotation for the Stamina Necromancer Build

Here is a quick explanation of what you have to do with all the skills on your bar.

• Your main spammable is Venom Skull
• Your semi spammable is Blighted Blastbones (Use after every 3rd skill if possible)
• Reapply DoTs (damage over time) effects after they run out: Deadly Cloak, Detonating Siphon, Stampede, Carve, Skeletal Archer, Avid Boneyard and Barbed Trap.
• Activate Pestilent Colossus Ultimate whenever it is ready
• Always light attack between each ability.

AoE 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.

Skills

Note: You can also check out the Two Hander version of the AoE setup in case you want to run Dual Wield for Single Target and Two Hander for AOE like most players do.

Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena

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

Gameplay

Please keep in mind that the gameplay footage might be from previous patches and therefore doesn’t exactly match the build on the page here. However, it should still give you a good idea of what kind of gameplay you can expect from the Stamina Necromancer Build.

Sunspire Trial with the Stamina Necromancer Build

Here you can watch a run in the Sunspire trial on veteran hardmode with the Stamina Necromancer Build.

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!

Outfit Style Showcase of the Reaper Necromancer Build for ESO

Lets take a look at the outfit style of the Stamina Necromancer 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.

• Annihilarch’s Chosen Motif Style: Helmet, Epaulets, Bracers, Guards, Jack, Belt, Boots, Daggers
• Skin: Spiderkith
• Dyes: Void Pitch, Cardsharp Crimson

Update Log for the ESO Stamina Necromancer Build

11.08.2019 Updated Stamina Necromancer Build for the SCALEBREAKER DLC, Elsweyr Chapter, Stamina Necromancer Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
19.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
23.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
20.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
03.09.2020 Updated the Champion Points 810, 600, 300 and changed from Nirnhoned/Sharpened to Nirnhoned/Precise.
31.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
03.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
28.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
02.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added buff food tooltips, WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
22.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
10.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
27.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
12.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
28.10.2022 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.
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.
27.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

Tags: Stamina Necromancer Build, Stamina Necro Build, StamCro Build PvE.

Related Content

• Necromancer Builds Overview Page
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• Set and Skill data provided by ESO-Hub.com