Stamina Templar Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online

“Jabsmania”

Elsweyr Chapter

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Changes from the previous version
• Resource Management
• Trials & Dungeons Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points (810, 600, 300)
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Rotation & Target Skeleton
• Blackrose Prison Arena
• Maelstrom Arena
• Gameplay
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Stamina Templar Build PvE “Jabsmania” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. The Jabsmania Build is optimized for Trials, Dungeons & Maelstrom Arena.

We are using a Dual Wield & Bow setup, as it provides the most damage output in Dungeons, Trials and Arenas. Templars can provide Minor Fracture and Minor Breach debuff through Power of the Light which increases the groups dps by quite a bit. The build also has very high Single Target and AoE damage and can sustain well.

• Dualwield & Bow setup
• Medium Armor
• High Stamina resource pool
• good sustain
• Crazy AoE damage
• Crazy Single Target damage

Changes from the previous version

The Stamina Templar received a few changes with the Elsweyr patch. I also added Lokkestiiz to the gear setup.

Patch Notes Text:

Puncturing Strikes:

• Reduced the channel time for this ability and its morphs from to 1 seconds from 1.1 seconds. Praise the sun for whole numbers!

Power of the Light:

• Adjusted the ability rank up for this morph so it no longer gains damage on the initial hit, but instead increases the duration of Minor Fracture and Breach applied, since that is the focus of the morph. This will result in approximately a 3% damage loss on the initial hit, but the duration of the Minor Fracture and Breach will last 9 seconds, up from 6 seconds at their final rank.

Resource Management

As a Stamina Templar the most important thing is to keep up your Restoring Focus. We also use a Absorb Stamina Enchantment on the off hand which again increases our sustain. You also want to make sure that Spears or Orbs are used by your healers to activate the synergy for resources. As a Redguard/ Wood Elf you can use Blue Food and the other races should use the Gold Food. You have more options, you can also use Stormfist as a main Monster Set to gain another Stamina Recovery bonus or Vicious Serpent set that gives cost reduction and extra stamina on trash fights.

• Absorb Stamina Enchantment
• Restoring Focus
• Orbs or Spears from Healers
• Heavy Attacks (optional)
• Repentance
• Vicious Serpent Set (optional)

Trials & Dungeons Setup

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

• Lokkestiiz: Perfected Tooth of Lokkestiiz is better if you have a lot of Synergies when you compare it to Berserking Warrior. However, if you lack Synergies you are better off with Advancing Yokeda.

Gear Setup 2

This setup is for those that did not have the chances yet to step into 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 Setup 3 Beginner

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?

Tooth of Lokkestiiz: Sunspire veteran
Berserking Warrior: Hel Ra Citadel
Perfect Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Twice-Fanged Serpent: Sanctum Ophidia
Vicious Serpent: Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophidia, Hel Ra Citadel
Hunding's Rage: Craftable
Night Mother's Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Velidreth: Cradle of Shadows
Selene: Selene’s Web
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstore
Stormfist: Tempest Island
Maelstrom Bow: Maelstrom Arena

Skills

• Blazing Spear: Only use Blazing Spear on the start of a trash fight.

Championpoints

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!

Championpoints [810]

The Ritual
56 Mighty, 61 Thaumaturge, 56 Precise Strikes, 60 Piercing
The Atronach
37 Master-at-Arms
The Apprentice
The Shadow
48 Shadow Ward, 48 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Tenacity, 100 Mooncalf
The Tower
23 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 43 Spellshield

Championpoints [600]

The Ritual
44 Thaumaturge, 49 Mighty, 48 Precise Strikes, 31 Piercing
The Atronach
28 Master at Arms
The Apprentice
The Shadow
20 Shadow Ward,  31 Tumbling
The Lover
49 Tenacity, 100 Mooncalf
The Tower
The Lord
The Lady
49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 23 Thick Skinned
The Steed
61 Ironclad, 18 Spell Shield

Championpoints [300]

The Ritual
31 Thaumaturge, 27 Mighty, 28 Precise Strikes, 1 Piercing
The Atronach
13 Master at Arms
The Apprentice
The Shadow
The Lover
49 Mooncalf, 49 Tenacity
The Tower
2 Warlord
The Lord
The Lady
23 Hardy, 23 Elemental Defender, 23 Thick Skinned
The Steed
31 Ironclad

Important Info for Stamina Templar 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 Broth (Max Health+Max Stamina+Stamina Recovery+Health Recovery)
Dubious Camoran Throne (2nd option if you can not afford Artaeum)

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

Passives

• Aedric Spear: Piercing Spear, Spear Wall, Burning Light, Balanced Warrior
• Dawn’s Wrath: Enduring Rays, Prism, Illuminate, Restoring Spirit
• Restoring Light: Mending, Sacred Ground, Light Weaver, Master Ritualist
• Dualwield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All into Stamina

Rotation & Target Skeleton

Rotation

With this rotation you should be able to have an uptime of 80% with Power of the Light. Place Rearming Trap before you start the fight if possible.

Endless Hail > LA > Razor Caltrops > LA > Poison Injection > Weapon Swap >
Biting Jabs > LA > Power of the Light > LA > Rending Slashes > LA > 2x Biting Jabs (With LA) > Rearming Trap > LA > Power of the Light > Weapon Swap >
Restart

LA = Light Attack

• Make sure to recast Restoring Focus every second rotation. If you forget it you will see that your stamina will decrease a lot faster.

Target Skeleton

This video is from LIKO’S Youtube Channel, he does a full 21 million Target Dummy Parse on the Raid Dummy. This video is a fully optimized Target Dummy Setup, so it might slightly differ from the build here!

Blackrose Prison Arena

This section of the build is dedicated to the Blackrose Prison Arena, it is a bit different compared to the usual Trial and Dungeon setup due to how the Arena works and because you fight such a huge amount of enemies each wave.

• Gear Setup
• Alternative Gear Setups
• Skill Setup

Gear Setup

• Vicious Serpent is the perfect set to increase your sustain by a lot and allows us to easily run blue max Health and max Stamina food.
• Twice-Fanged-Serpent is needed because the tank can not debuff all monsters all the time so the extra penetration from that set really helps to increase the overall damage.
• Stormfist Monster Set is a very good choice in Blackrose Prison Arena as it increases your sustain and deals really nice AoE and Single Target damage.
• We run full Robust jewelry to help with the overall sustain in the arena. If you want you can run Infused but it will make sustain tougher.

Alternative Gear Setups

• 5x Berserking Warrior, 5x Vicious Serpent, 2x Stormfist
• 5x Hunding's Rage, 5x Briarheart, 2x Stormfist
• 5x Vicious Serpent, 5x Hunding's Rage, 2x Stormfist

As Bow Backbar Weapon you should optimally choose the The Maelstrom's Bow, if you do not have access to it I can also recommend the Caustic Arrow.

A lot of good combos that work elsewhere also work in the Blackrose Prison Arena, most important is that you have enough sustain to kill off all those trash pack waves that get thrown at you.

Skills

Because of the huge amount of trash monsters that gets thrown at you, you need to make sure to have a AoE damage Setup. Therefore Whirling Blades is your best friend.

Like in the rotation before, make sure to keep up your back bar DoTs, especially Endless Hail and Razor Caltrops.

Maelstrom Arena

Gear

Skills

Gameplay

Update Log