Updated: Markarth DLC, Greymoor Chapter
Type: Dungeon, Trial, Arena & Overland
Buildname: Rampage
Welcome to the Group DPS Stamina Nightblade Build for ESO. 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 Strikes, 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 Armoar
- Dual Wield & Bow Setup
- Insane Burst Damage
- Insane High Single Target (ST) Damage
- Great Area of Effect (AoE) Damage
- Great Sustain
- Maximum Damage Build [META]
- 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
Lets 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 Perfected Relequen, 5x Berserking Warrior, 2x Selene on an Orc with Artaeum Takeaway Broth food.
- Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff-food active.
- Buffed: In combat, Buff-food, Raid target dummy buffs, Weapon Damage Enchantment, Weapon Damage Potions.
Gear for the Stamina Nightblade Build
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 – 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 | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
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Chest | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Belt | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Perfected Arms of Relequen | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Selene | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Selene | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Berserking Warrior | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Berserking Warrior | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Berserking Warrior | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 DW | Berserking Warrior | Axe | Nirnhoned | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 1 DW | Berserking Warrior | Dagger | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 2 | Perfected Thunderous Volley | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Setup 2 – Stamina Nightblade Build
This setup is for those that did not have the chances yet 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 an unique Dagger “Materre’s Bodkin” that you can get fairly easy, instead of buying it expensive in the store.
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Heavy | Divine | Stamina |
Belt | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Selene | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Selene | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 DW | Briarheart | Axe | Nirnhoned | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 1 DW | Briarheart | Dagger | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 2 | Thunderous Volley | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
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.
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Heavy | Divine | Health |
Belt | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Night Mother’s Gaze | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Agility | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 DW | Hunding’s Rage | Axe | Nirnhoned | Poison Damage Enchant |
Weapon 1 DW | Hunding’s Rage | Dagger | Precise | Absorb Stamina Enchant |
Weapon 2 | Hunding’s Rage | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Where can I get the gear?
Berserking Warrior: Hel Ra Citadel
Perfect Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Perfected Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): vMaelstrom Arena
Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): vMaelstrom Arena
Selene: vSelene’s Web
Vicious Serpent: Hel Ra Citadel, Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophidia
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstore
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable
Perfect Spectral Cloak: vBlackrose Prison Arena
Skills for the Stamina Nightblade Build
The skill setup for the Stamina Nightblade Build is very focused at maximizing your damage in your group.
Dual Wield Mainbar | Bow-second bar |
---|---|
Slot 1: Barbed Trap | Slot 1: Endless Hail |
Slot 2: Deadly Cloak | Slot 2: Dark Shades |
Slot 3: Surprise Attack | Slot 3: Consuming Trap |
Slot 4: Killer’s Blade | Slot 4: Leeching Strikes |
Slot 5: Relentless Focus | Slot 5: Resolving Vigor |
Ultimate: Incapacitating Strike | Ultimate: Flawless Dawnbreaker |
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
Please note that the Piercing perk in the Champion Points Ritual Tree depends on your group setup. Always ask your raid/group leader how much points you should place in Piercing. This depends on many factors such as debuffs and buffs, some raids may have more and therefore need less points in piercing, or the other way around.
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
Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chest | New Moon Acolyte | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Belt | New Moon Acolyte | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoes | New Moon Acolyte | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Pants | New Moon Acolyte | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Hands | New Moon Acolyte | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Head | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Shoulder | Mechanical Acuity | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
Necklace | Mechanical Acuity | Jewelry | Infused | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Mechanical Acuity | Jewelry | Infused | Weapon Damage |
Ring | Mechanical Acuity | Jewelry | Infused | Weapon Damage |
Weapon 1 DW | Perfect Spectral Cloak | Dagger | Nirnhoned | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 1 DW | Perfect Spectral Cloak | Dagger | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
Weapon 2 | Perfected Thunderous Volley | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Skills
Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena
Please check out the Solo Stamina Nightblade Build for specific Maelstrom Arena and Vateshran Hollows Arena setups.
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.
Changes to the previous Version
U28 Markarth DLC: Updated Gear & Character Screenshot.
Champion System
- Reduced the Weapon and Spell Critical Chance granted from Perfect Strike and Spell Precision to 3% each, down from 9%.
Major/Minor System
- Major Savagery and Prophecy: Increased to 12%, up from 10%.
- Minor Berserk: Decreased to 5%, down from 8%.
- Minor Vulnerability: Decreased to 5%, down from 8%.
- Minor Magickasteal: Decreased to 168 per hit, down from 300.
Tags: Stamina Nightblade Build, Stamina NB Build PvE, StamBlade PvE Build, Stamina Nightblade Build PvE.
Related Content
- Nightblade Builds Overview Page
- DPS Tier List for all ESO classes
- Set and Skill data provided by ESO-Hub.com