ESO Stamina Nightblade Build | U51 | 2026✅

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

Welcome to the Group DPS Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Stamina Nightblades in ESO are very powerful and are one of the top tier damage dealers in the game. Stamina Nightblades have very unique and great abilities such as Surprise Attack, Dark Shade, Leeching Attacks, Power Extraction, Relentless Focus, Killer’s Blade and Incapacitating Strike.

All these abilities make the Stamina Nightblade very unique, a more detailed layout can be found below in each of the build sections.

• Medium Armor
• Dual Wield & Two-Handed Setup
• Insane Burst Damage
• Insane High Single Target (ST) Damage
• Great Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
• Great Sustain
• Maximum Damage Build
• Trials, Dungeon & Arena Group Build

Other Stamina Nightblade Guides:

• Stamina Nightblade Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Nightblade Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Nightblade Bow Build
• SOLO Stamina Nightblade Build

Build Setup – Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO

Let’s take a look at the Stamina Nightblade 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 Nightblade 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, Essence of Power potion, Relentless Focus, weapon damage enchantment active.

Gear for the Stamina Nightblade Build

You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People who 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 Nightblade Build

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

Gear Setup 2 – Stamina Nightblade Build

This setup is for those who have not yet had the chance to step into a trial. You will deal slightly less damage than with the tier 1 setup, but not by much. Overall, the gear here is easier to get because you aren’t required to enter a trial.

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

Gear Setup 3 Beginner – Stamina Nightblade 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 trait 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
Perfected Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Perfected Spectral Cloak: vBlackrose Prison

Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstore

Skills for the Stamina Nightblade Build

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

Skills explanation:

• Debilitate: Strong damage over time single target skill.
• Deadly Cloak: Deals AoE damage and gives us 20% AoE damage mitigation.
• Surprise Attack: This is your spammable, deals great single target damage.
• Killer’s Blade: This is your execute ability that you use after 25% instead of your spammable.
• Relentless Focus: Very powerful Spectral Bow proc that you want to activate whenever it procs.
• Incapacitating Strike: Powerful Ultimate that increases damage by up to 30%. Always use this after you finished your backbar, swap, place DoTs and then use Ultimate right before your spammable. That way you gain the most out of the extra damage while using your spammable.
• Stampede: Very powerful Single Target and AoE ability.
• Dark Shade: Long uptime and good damage, also applies Minor Maim, reducing enemies damage.
• Twisting Path: Deals great damage both single target and AoE (area of effect). The skill costs magicka but scales with both stamina and magicka stats.
• Siphoning Attacks: This is your sustain tool, only use it when you go below 50% resources.
• Carve: Strong single target and AoE bleed ability.
• (Optional) Resolving Vigor: If you are playing in a group with a healer you won’t need it. Otherwise replace Twisting Path or Carve for the heal.

Class Mastery

Class Mastery allows pure class builds to get two additional powerful passives to better compete against Subclass builds. Activating subclassing will deactivate Class Mastery passives.

All Nightblade Class Mastery Passives

For our Stamina Nightblade Build, we are going to use the following:

• An Eye for Exploitation – Gives Spell/Weapon damage and reduced damage taken.
•  Share the Spoils – Increase sustain and ultimate regen.

Champion Points for the Stamina Nightblade Build

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Stamina Nightblade Build PvE

In this section of the ESO Stamina Nightblade 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
(Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

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 Critical Chance which boosts our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Thief Mundus Stone (Increased Critical Chance)

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

Relentless Focus already provides us with Major Savagery, so we can use this potion to get all the benefits.

Essence of Power Potions
(Spell & Weapon Damage, Restore Magicka, Restore Stamina)
(Columbine, Corn Flower, Blessed Thistle)

Passives for the Stamina Nightblade Build

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

• Assassination: Master Assassin, Executioner, Pressure Points, Hemorrhage
• Shadow: Refreshing Shadows, Shadow Barrier, Dark Vigor, Dark Veil
• Siphoning: Catalyst, Transfer
• 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
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All points into Stamina

Resource Management for the Stamina Nightblade Build

Leeching Attacks has to be activated once its duration is over. That way you will always gain resources when you do Light Attacks and at the end of the duration you will gain an additional huge bump in resources.

Incapacitating Strike now also gives you resources every time you do a light attack. That is why we always want to either run it on the backbar or the frontbar. That way we benefit from the extra sustain.

Energy Orb can be provided by group members such as your Healer or Tank. 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.

• Leeching Attacks
• Orb Synergy
• Heavy Attacks
• Incapacitating Strike
• Potions

Rotation for the Stamina Nightblade Build

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

• Your main spammable is Surprise Attack
• When boss has 25% health or less use Killer’s Blade instead of Surprise Attack.
• Your semi spammable is Relentless Focus (Use it whenever it is ready)
• Reapply DoTs (damage over time) effects after they run out: Deadly Cloak, Stampede, Carve, Dark Shade, Twisting Path and Debilitate.
• Activate Incapacitating Strike Ultimate whenever it is ready
• Always light attack between each ability.

Area of Effect Setup

The AoE setup of the Stamina Nightblade Build is more straightforward. Trash packs don’t live for a very long time, and anything that provides us with extra burst damage is useful.

Skills

Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena

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

ESO Nightblade 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 Nightblade Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Nightblade build!

Outfit Style Showcase of the Stamblade Rampage Build for ESO

Let’s take a look at the outfit style of the Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO. You can find a few images here and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.

• Darloc Brae Beast Mask: Hat
• Pit Daemon: Pauldrons
• Xivkyn: Gauntlets
• Apostle: Greaves, Jack, Belt, Shoes
• Dyes: Transliminal Violet, Rank 10 Material
• Skin: Z’Maja’s Shadow

Update Log

11.08.2019 Updated the Rampage Build for the SCALEBREAKER DLC, Elsweyr Chapter. Stamina Nightblade Build PvE.
20.10.2019 Updated the Build for the DRAGONHOLD DLC.
20.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
06.03.2020 Added visualized rotation the the Stamblade Build.
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.
30.10.2020 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.
25.05.2022 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 U41, 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.
18.08.2025 Updated the Build for Update 47 Feast of Shadows DLC, Seasons of the Worm Cult.
27.10.2025 Updated the Build for Update 48, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2.
04.03.2026 Updated the Build for Update 49, Season 0.
03.06.2026 Updated the Build for Update 50, Season 0 and 1.
15.09.2026 Updated the Build for Update 51, Season 1 and 2.

Tags: Stamina Nightblade Build, Stamina NB Build PvE, StamBlade PvE Build, Stamina Nightblade Build PvE.