Stamina Necromancer Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online

“Reaper”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Trials & Dungeons Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Rotation & Target Skeleton
• Build Video & Video (Alternate Setup)
• AoE Setup
• Maelstrom Arena
• Update Log

Introduction

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

If you are new to the game I highly recommend checking out the Stamina Necromancer Beginner Guide. Make sure to also check out the Bow and Two Hander Build!

Necromancers have access to a lot of stamina abilities which is great. Gear wise not much changed but we have a lot of nice Stamina based Necromancer abilities that we use 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 & Bow Setup
• Trials, Dungeon & Arenas

Changes from the previous version

Updated sets, skills, rotation, champion points and added an AoE setup for the Scalebreaker DLC.

Resource Management

Keeping up the Skeletal Archer will allow you to have the Undead Confederate passive up a 100% of the time. Thanks to the Last Gasp passive we can use Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice Food and put 20 points into our Health attribute. that way we loose a little bit of health and stamina but gain around 200 extra Stamina Recovery, which we really need. In case you still lack stamina, make sure to activate the Spear or Orb Synergy on cooldown and do Heavy attacks. Activate potions on cooldown to benefit from the Major Endurance buff which gives a 20% stamina recovery boost to your character.

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

Trials & Dungeons Setup

5x Perf. Relequen, 5x Perf. Lokkestiiz, 2x Maelstrom Dual Wield, Orc with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice food and 20 points into Health attribute.

• Unbuffed: Out of Combat
• Buffed: Raid Dummy buffs, Weapon Damage Enchant, Potion, and 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

Gear Setup 2

This setup is for those that did not have the chances yet to step into a trial.

• Briarheart Dagger: There is an unique Dagger “Materre’s Bodkin” that you can get fairly easy, instead of buying it expensive in the store.

Gear Setup 3 Beginner

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 trait to reach this value if you want.

Where can I get the gear?

Tooth of Lokkestiiz: Sunspire
Cruel Flurry (Maelstrom DW): vet Maelstrom Arena
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena
Caustic Arrow (Master's Bow): Dragonstar Arena
Perfect Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Twice-Fanged Serpent: Sanctum Ophidia
Vicious Serpent: Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophidia, Hel Ra Citadel
Hunding's Rage: Craftable
Night Mother's Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Velidreth: Cradle of Shadows
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstore

Skills

Ring of Preservation back bar: We use this to get the extra 3% weapon damage and in case you need a heal, you can also drop this.

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, 66 Thaumaturge, 66 Precise Strikes, 34 Piercing
The Atronach
40 Master-at-Arms
The Apprentice
The Shadow
31 Shadow Ward, 66 Tumbling
The Lover
23 Tenacity, 100 Mooncalf
The Tower
48 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
56 Hardy, 56 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
72 Ironclad, 38 Spellshield

Championpoints [600]

The Ritual
64 Mighty, 36 Thaumaturge, 40 Precise Strikes, 29 Piercing
The Atronach
34 Master at Arms
The Apprentice
The Shadow
27 Shadow Ward,  27 Tumbling
The Lover
23 Tenacity, 92 Mooncalf
The Tower
29 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
56 Hardy, 56 Elemental Defender
The Steed
51 Ironclad, 37 Spell Shield

Championpoints [300]

The Ritual
18 Thaumaturge, 32 Mighty, 18 Precise Strikes, 15 Piercing
The Atronach
17 Master at Arms
The Apprentice
The Shadow
15 Tumbling, 13 Shadow Ward
The Lover
32 Mooncalf, 23 Tenacity
The Tower
15 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
32 Hardy, 35 Elemental Defender
The Steed
18 Ironclad, 15 Spell Shield

Important Info for Stamina Necromancer Build PvE

Buff-food

We are using the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice Food to increase our overall stats, we loose a bit of Health and Stamina but gain a lot of extra Stamina Recovery!

Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
(Saltrice, Flour, Potato, Scrib Jelly)

Mundus Stone

The Shadow (Increased Critical Damage)

Race

If you want to learn more about the different racial passives that each race offers, check out my Race Guide which explains everything in detail.

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
• Dualwield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

20 Health, rest into Stamina

Rotation & Skeleton Parse

The rotation we have here is completely static, therefore you do not need a buff tracker.

I usually make sure that I do not weapon swap on Rapid Strikes, that is why our last skill that we use is Rending Slashes on the front bar, this will make it easier to weapon swap animation cancel.

Rotation:

Arrow Barrage > LA > Skeletal Archer > LA > Poison Injection > LA > BB > Weapon Swap

LA > Rapid Strikes > LA > Barbed Trap > LA > Soul Splitting Trap > LA > Detonating Siphon > LA > Rapid Strikes > Rending Slashes > LA >Weapon Swap

BB = Blighted Blastbones
LA = Light Attack

• Between each skill you have to do a Light Attack.
• Use the Ultimate whenever it is ready.
• If you have sustain issues, do a heavy attack after Detonating Siphon to restore Stamina.

Target Skeleton

This video is from LIKO’S Youtube Channel, he does a full 21 million Target Dummy Parse on the Raid Dummy. This video is a fully optimized Target Dummy Setup, so it might slightly differ from the build here!

Please remember, this target dummy provides ALL raid buffs, therefore the dps is way higher compared to a 3 or 6 million target dummy, which provides zero extra buffs.

Video

Build Video

Alternate Setup

This Video is not directly tied to the build, it is here to introduce you to the class and show you a general setup that you can play solo.

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. On AoE fights you usually have less debuffs on the enemies, therefore we want to get more penetration and sustain for yourself. Twice-Fanged Serpent and Vicious Serpent do the perfect job here.

Instead of the Master’s Bow, you want to use the Maelstrom Bow here.

Gear Setup

Skills

Instead of Barbed Trap, you can also use Channeled Acceleration here, that way you can apply the Minor Force buff before you engage the enemies.

Maelstrom Arena

I also recommend reading the in depth Maelstrom Arena Guide.

Gear

Skills

Update Log