Powerful 2H Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Table of Contents

• Group Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing 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 Nightblade Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). This build is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials & arenas and has a very glass-cannon approach. The 2H Stamina Nightblade 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 Nightblades are very powerful two-hander users, they have plenty of skills that fit the melee playstyle well. Visit our ESO Nightblade Builds overview page for more info on other setups.

• Two Hander & Dual Wield 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 Nightblade Beginner Guide if you are a new player. You can find more Nightblade Builds & Guides in the Nightblade category of the website.

Group Setup – 2H Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO

5x Relequen, 5x Pillar of Nirn, 1x Slimecraw, 1x Harpooner’s Wading Kilt, on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice food.

• Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active
• Buffed: In Combat, buff food, Raid Target Dummy buffs, Weapon damage enchantment, Weapon Power Potion 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 perfected and imperfect gear is viable for the build. The perfected versions are a lot harder to obtain though. So if you don’t have any aim for the normal version first.

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?

Perfected Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Spectral Cloak (Maelstrom 2H): vBlackrose Prison Arena
Spectral Cloak: nBlackrose Prison Arena
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Harpooner’s Wading Kilt (Mythic): Antiquities

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
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

Skills

Skills explanation:

• Carve: AoE (area of effect) damage ability, this deals great upfront damage and puts a bleed on the enemies. (Note: You can use the other morph Brawler for easier survivability).
• Relentless Focus: Always keep this active, it buffs your damage and also allows you to activate a powerful spectral bow proc that deals insane damage.
• Surprise Attack: Your main spammable, cut them down!
• Killer’s Blade: Your execute ability, use this instead of your spammable from 25% and lower enemy health.
• Stampede: Placed a ground AoE (area of effect) damage field on the ground.
• Incapacitating Strike: Your main ultimate, increases damage by 20% for a short duration on the enemy.
• Deadly Cloak: Blackrose Prison daggers activate their effect with this. Also deals good single and AoE damage.
• Leeching strikes: Your main sustain tool, reactivate it as soon as it runs out.
• Barbed Trap: Deals good damage and applies Minor Force, increasing your critical damage.
• Twisting Path: AoE (area of effect) ground based damage ability, scales with stamina stats but costs magicka.
• Dark Shade: Summons a dual wielding helper, deals AoE (area of effect) damage and also debuffs the enemy with Minor Maim, reducing enemy damage, scales with stamina stats but costs magicka.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker: AoE ultimate

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System allows us to add modified new skills to our build. We have one good option for our two hander build called Bloody Smash. Bloody Smash deals good direct and damage over time damage. However it isn’t stronger than any of the other skills, therefore you can slot it but don’t have to.

Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing System.

Base Scribing Skill:

• Two Handed: Smash

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 – 2H Stamina Nightblade Build

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Important Info – 2H Stamina Nightblade Build

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

Potions are an important part of the 2H Stamina Nightblade 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 Power 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

• Dark Magic: Unholy Knowledge, Persistence
• Daedric Summoning: Power Stone, Daedric Protection, Expert Summoner
• Storm Calling: Energized, Amplitude, Expert Mage
• Two Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Dual Wield: All
• 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

All into Stamina

Resource Management

Using the Artaeum Buff Food already gives us a lot of extra stamina recovery that we need. During the fight healers or tanks will throw Energy Orb that you can synergize to get back resources, these are very important!

Other than that you have to use potions on cooldown to give you a huge amount of stamina back and you can always perform some heavy attacks throughout the fight to restore stamina. If you have all these things you should be fine with sustain, just don’t forget to do heavy attacks when you drop low on stamina.

• Artaeum Takeaway Brooth
• Orbs or Spears from Healers
• Heavy Attacks resource return (optional)
• Potions

Rotation

In case you don’t know what what weaving light attacks are, make sure to check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.

Prebuff with: X

AoE Setup

The AoE setup of the 2H Stamina Nightblade Build is more straightforward. Trash packs don’t live for a very long time, anything that provides us with extra burst damage is useful, therefore we use sets like Mechanical Acuity and Pillar of Nirn as well as the very powerful Perfected Titanic Cleave.

Skills

Related Content:

More Stamina Nightblade Builds & Guides:

• Stamina Nightblade Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Nightblade Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Nightblade Dual Wield Build
• Solo Stamina Nightblade Build
• More viable Stamina DPS Sets Article for Endgame

Other 2H Stamina Builds:

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

Update Log for 2H Nightblade Build for ESO

31.05.2024 Added the Stamina Nightblade 2H build to the website.

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