Powerful Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO – META DPS

Skills explanation:

• Barbed Trap: Deals damage and gives us Minor Force, increasing Critical Damage by 10%.
• Deadly Cloak: Deals AoE damage and gives us 20% AoE damage mitigation.
• Surprise Attack: This is your spammable.
• 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 20%. 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 20% extra damage while using your spammable.
• Endless Hail: Powerful Single Target and AoE damage over time ability, has to always be up.
• Dark Shades: Long uptime and good damage, also applies Minor Maim, reducing enemies damage.
• Consuming Trap: Deals good damage and increases our sustain because it costs magicka.
• Leeching Strikes: Only use this if you have sustain issues. So basically after 50% stamina activate it to regain stamina.
• Resolving Vigor: This is your heal if you need it.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker: This is your Ultimate for AoE situations.

Champion Points for the Stamina Nightblade Build

In this section you can find a distribution of the Champion Points system for the Stamina Nightblade Build. If you need optimized defensive Champion Points for a specific trial I recommend checking out my Maximize Damage Mitigation in Trials Article.

• Calculator: In case you need help distributing your Champion Points, make sure to check out the Champion Points Calculator!

Champion Points [810]

The Ritual
64 Mighty, 48 Thaumaturge, 66 Precise Strikes, 6 Piercing
The Atronach
72 Master-at-Arms, 14 Physical Weapon Expert
The Apprentice
The Shadow
48 Shadow Ward, 48 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Tenacity, 100 Mooncalf
The Tower
23 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 43 Spell Shield

Champion Points [600]

The Ritual
40 Thaumaturge, 64 Mighty, 40 Precise Strikes, 5 Piercing
The Atronach
37 Master at Arms, 13 Physical Weapon Expert
The Apprentice
The Shadow
25 Shadow Ward,  26 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Tenacity, 75 Mooncalf
The Tower
23 Warlord, 2 Sprinter
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 37 Thick Skinned
The Steed
37 Ironclad, 28 Spell Shield

Champion Points [300]

The Ritual
18 Thaumaturge, 32 Mighty, 18 Precise Strikes, 5 Piercing
The Atronach
16 Master at Arms, 11 Physical Weapon Expert
The Apprentice
The Shadow
13 Tumbling, 13 Shadow Ward
The Lover
32 Mooncalf, 27 Tenacity
The Tower
15 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
27 Hardy, 27 Elemental Defender, 28 Thick Skinned
The Steed
16 Ironclad, 2 Spell Shield

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

Depending on what race you have choose one of these two buff foods. If you do not have the money for Artaeum Takeaway Brooth, then you can also use Dubious Camoran Throne Drink.

Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables (Max Health+Max Stamina)
or
Artaeum Takeaway Brooth (Max Health+Max Stamina+Stamina Recovery+Health Recovery)

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 (with Artaeum Food)
Khajiit (with Artaeum Food)
Dark Elf (with Artaeum Food)
Nord (with Artaeum Food)
Redguard (with Blue Food)
Wood Elf (with Blue Food)
Imperial (with Artaeum Food)

Potions

Weapon Power Potions 
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Poisons

Damage Health Poison
(Damage Poison, Damage Poison)
(Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Nirnroot)

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
• 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
• Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
• Psijic: Only if you use Channeled Acceleration for the AoE setup.
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All points into Stamina

Resource Management for the Stamina Nightblade Build

Leeching Strikes 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 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.

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

Rotation for the Stamina Nightblade Build

Please check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling. This is important to reach the maximum damage potential.

Nightblade rotations are fairly difficult to master. The basic concept around it is that you keep up your damage over time effects and once that is taken care of you use your spammable and Spectral Bow procs.

Area of Effect 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.

Gear Setup

Skills

Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena

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

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Related Content

• Nightblade Builds Overview Page
• DPS Tier List for all ESO classes
• Set and Skill data provided by ESO-Hub.com