2H Stamina Sorcerer Build for ESO – Damage Dealer DPS

Table of Contents

• Group Setup
  • Gear
  • 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 Sorcerer Build for ESO. This build is optimized for group content such as dungeons, trials & arenas and has a very glass-cannon approach. The 2H Stamina Sorcerer 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 Sorcerers are very powerful two-hander users which benefit a lot from Sorcerer passives. The passive Energized alone increases your overall damage by quite a bit and the passive Amplitude gives you another powerful damage boost early in combat. You also benefit from less expensive ultimate cost due to the Power Stone passive.

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

Group Setup – 2H Stamina Sorcerer Build

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 the perfected and imperfect gear are viable for the build.

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?

Kinras’s Wrath: Black Drake Villa Dungeon
Perfected Arms of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers, Undaunted Enclave
Grundwulf: vMoongrave Fane, Undaunted Enclave
Perfected Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): vMaelstrom Arena
Thunderous Volley (Maelstrom Bow): Maelstrom Arena
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
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Mechanical Acuity: Craftable

Skills

Champion Points – 2H Stamina Sorcerer Build

Important Info – 2H Stamina Sorcerer Build

Buff-food

I do recommend using the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or the Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food. Buff-food is very important because it boosts your overall resources by a lot.

Artaeum Takeaway Brooth
(Max Health, Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery, Health Recovery)

(or Dubious Camoran Throne Drink)
(Max Health, Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

Mundus Stone

The Thief (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 Sorcerer 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
• 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
• 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: Hurricane and Bound Armaments

Endless Hail > LA > Hurricane > Weapon Swap

LA > Barbed Trap > 11x Wrecking Blow (with LA) > Weapon Swap

Restart

• LA = Light Attack
• Activate Bound Armaments when it is ready
• Use Reverse Slice instead of Wrecking Blow from 25% enemy HP

AoE Setup

The AoE setup of the 2H Stamina Sorcerer Build is more straight forward. 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 New Moon Acolyte as well as the very powerful Perfected Titanic Cleave.

Skills

Related Content

More Stamina Sorcerer Builds & Guides:

• Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
• Stamina Sorcerer Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
• Stamina Sorcerer Dual Wield Build
• Solo Stamina Sorcerer 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

Update Log