Stamina Nightblade Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online

Skills explanation:

• Barbed Trap: Deals damage and gives us Minor Force, increasing Critical Damage by 10%.
• Consuming Trap: Deals good damage and increases our sustain because it costs magicka.
• 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 Main, reducing enemies damage.
• Mirage: Only use this in though situations where you get a lot of AoE damage from the enemy, this will reduce incoming damage by a lot (This is your flex spot, you can place any ability that you like here).
• 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 – 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
56 Mighty, 44 Thaumaturge, 56 Precise Strikes, 61 Piercing
The Atronach
40 Master-at-Arms, 13 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 Spellshield

Champion Points [600]

The Ritual
34 Thaumaturge, 56 Mighty, 34 Precise Strikes, 29 Piercing
The Atronach
34 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
16 Thaumaturge, 27 Mighty, 18 Precise Strikes, 12 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

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

• Assassination: Executioner, Pressure Points, Hemorrhage
• Shadow: Refreshing Shadows, Shadow Barrier, Dark Vigor, Dark Veil
• Siphoning: Catalyst, Transfer
• Dualwield: 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 Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Psijic: Only if you use Channeled Acceleration for the AoE setup.
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All points into Stamina

Rotation

Make sure to weave Light Attacks between each ability, in case you need some extra explanation with that, I can highly recommend checking out the Weaving Guide.

The base rotation is very simple as you can see below in the picture. On the frontbar you want to make sure to keep activating the Spectral Bow from the Relentless Focus ability, which you can use after you did 5 Light Attacks.

On the backbar you only have two abilities unless you need to reactivate the Leeching Strikes ability. You can reactivate the Leeching Strikes ability once you are on the backbar again. I recommend only using this ability if you have sustain issues. Otherwise it is just lost time and you could use more damage abilities instead.

To gain as much benefit from the 20% damage increase from the Incapacitating Strike Ultimate, you want to activate the Ultimate after Consuming Trap. That way all your Surprise Attack and Spectral Bow procs from Relentless Focus will be empowered and you will truly benefit from the extra damage boost!

After 25% you want to use the execute ability Killer's Blade instead of Surprise Attack.

Mirage is only used if you need extra mitigation for enemy AoE attacks. You could also slot Fighters Guild abilities there to increase your overall Weapon Damage slightly.

Area of Effect Setup

Skills

Maelstrom Arena

Gear

We use two robust instead of infused here to boost our overall stamina to make resource management easier. You could use two infused or two bloodthirsty if you want.

Skills

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