Powerful Stamina Warden Build PvP for ESO – High Burst

Table of Contents

• Cyrodiil Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Scribing Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes
• Resource Management
• Battlegrounds
• Warden Subclassing
• Outfit Style Showcase
• Update Log

Welcome to the Stamina Warden Build PvP “Assault” for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. This build is optimized for Cyrodiil and also works in Battlegrounds.

With this Stamina Warden PvP Build, we are using a heavy armor setup that focuses on crazy high burst damage and great mobility. At the same time, we are also very tanky and have good healing capabilities. To achieve this, we are using Clever Alchemist, New Moon Acolyte, and Balorgh. Clever Alchemist and New Moon Acolyte both provide a crazy amount of extra Weapon Damage that both boost damage and healing values.

Stamina Wardens have really high damage because of their unique combo, Dizzying Swing, Subterranean Assault, Dawnbreaker of Smiting, and Reverse Slice. All these abilities, if timed correctly, can blow up within 1.5 seconds in combat.

• Cyrodiil & Battlegrounds
• Heavy Armor 2H + DW Build
• Crazy Burst Damage
• Good Sustain
• Good Healing
• High Resistances
• Good Defense

Cyrodiil Setup Stamina Warden PVP Build

Now let’s take a look at how you can build the Stamina Warden PVP Build for ESO. Everything you need to know is explained in detail in this section of the build.

5x Alchemist, 5x New Moon Acolyte, 2x Balorgh on an Orc with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.

• Unbuffed: out of combat, Buff-food active
• Buffed: In Combat, Buff-food, Weapon Damage Enchant, Balorgh Proc (Permafrost), Ice Fortress, Bull Netch, Essence of Weapon Crit Potion, and Minor Toughness are active.

Gear

• 5-2 Setup: We are using a 5-2 setup, 5 pieces heavy and 2 medium.
• Our Dual Wield bar is for defense and healing and our Two hander bar is for offense.
• Offensive Bar: Two Hander bar has New Moon Acolyte active for maximum damage.
• Defensive Bar: Dual Wield bar has Spectral Cloak active for maximum damage mitigation while we rebuff/heal.

Where can I get the gear:

Clever Alchemist: Craftable
New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Balorgh: vMarch of Sacrifices, Undaunted Enclave
Spectral Cloak: Blackrose Prison Arena
Perfected Spectral Cloak: vBlackrose Prison Arena

Skills

2H Mainbar	Dual Wield second bar
Slot 1: Forward Momentum	Slot 1: Deadly Cloak
Slot 2: Subterranean Assault	Slot 2: Shimmering Shield
Slot 3: Reverse Slice	Slot 3: Bull Netch
Slot 4: Dizzying Swing	Slot 4: Resolving Vigor
Slot 5: Bird of Prey	Slot 5: Ice Fortress
Ultimate: Dawnbreaker of Smiting	Ultimate: Permafrost

• Forward Momentum: Applies the Major Brutality and Minor Endurance buff, removes snares and immobilizes and gives you immunity to them for 4 seconds.
• Subterranean Assault: This is your main damage ability in combination with Dizzying Swing and Dawnbreaker, makes for the best combos if all goes off at the same time.
• Reverse Slice: Your Execute ability, also has a lot of splash AoE damage.
• Dizzying Swing: Deals a lot of damage and sets enemies off balance.
• Bird of Prey: Passively gives more damage via the Minor Berserk buff and when activated applies a speed buff called Major Expedition.
• Dawnbreaker of Smiting: Your main offensive AoE conal Ultimate which stuns the enemy and that also applies a damage over time effect after the impact.
• Deadly Cloak: Gives you AoE damage reduction via the Major Evasion buff, deals damage and with Spectral Cloak Weapons, you get 6% more damage and damage mitigation.
• Shimmering Shield: Your main defense against ranged enemies, this absorbs most spells from enemies and also gives you Major Heroism.
• Bull Netch: Needs to be up at all times, this is a very important sustain tool and also applies the Major Brutality buff.
• Resolving Vigor: Your main heal, keep this heal over time up! Only let it drop during the offensive phase for a short duration.
• Ice Fortress: Applies Major Resolve increasing resistances and applies extra damage mitigation through Minor Protection.
• Permafrost: You can also use this ultimate, deals good damage and stuns the enemy (can’t be blocked)

Scribing Skills

The ESO Scribing System offers plenty of adjustable skills to add to our build. You can test out the skills below and see if they work for you. They are mostly here to annoy the enemy by stunning or immobilizing them.

Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing system.

Base Scribing Skill useful to our build:

• Two Handed: Smash (Repelling Smash)
• World: Soul Burst (Leashing Burst)

Repelling Smash

Smash turns into Repelling Smash scribing skill, knocks enemies back and stuns them. Additionally, it also immobilizes them and interrupts their casting. Especially the stun and immobilization combo is super annoying to deal with. You get stunned, then you have to break free and you are still stuck in place.

• Focus Script
  • Knockback
• Signature Script
  • Immobilizing Strike
• Affix Script
  • Interrupt

Leashing Burst

Wield Soul turns into Leashing Burst. After 2 seconds, this pulls enemies to you within 8 meters. Also applies Oblivion damage to any enemy hit and interrupts their casting. You can change Interrupt to something else if you want. The main appeal of the skill is to pull enemies in after 2 seconds and then hit them and attack them with our combo.

• Focus Script
  • Pull
• Signature Script
  • Anchorite’s Cruelty
• Affix Script
  • Interrupt

Champion Points – Stamina Warden PVP Build

Below you can find the recommended slottable Champion Points setup for this build. Prioritize the slottable perks and get as many passive perks as possible.

Warfare Tree Points Allocation

• Deadly Aim (50) (Slottable)
• Master-at-Arms (50) (Slottable)
• Wrathful Strikes (50) (Slottable)
• Duelist’s Rebuff (50) (Slottable)

Fitness Tree Points Allocation

• Boundless Vitality (50) (Slottable)
• Sustained by Suffering (50) (Slottable)
• Pain’s Refuge (50) (Slottable)
• Slippery (50) (Slottable)

Craft Tree Points Allocation

• Steed’s Blessing (50) (Slottable)
• Rationer (30)
• Liquid Efficiency (75)
• Treasure Hunter (50)

Important Info for Stamina Warden Build PvP

Buff-food

For this setup, we are using the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food. This will boost our max Stamina and Stamina Recovery by a lot for this setup. You can buy this food for a cheap price in the guildstores, if you click on the link of the buff food you can also see price data.

Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice

(Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)

Mundus Stone

We use the Warrior Mundus Stone to get extra weapon damage which boosts our overall damage. You can learn more about all the other Mundus Stones on the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Warrior Mundus Stone (Increased Weapon Damage)

Race

All stamina-based races work. More about each race can be found on the racial overview page.

Orc
Redguard
Imperial
Wood Elf
Khajiit
Nord
Argonian
High Elf

Potions

I recommend using the Essence of Weapon Crit Potion. The nice thing is, on a Warden you do not really need that much Magicka, therefore we can actually use this potion that gives us Stamina, Health and an extra 12% Weapon Crit, which is a HUGE buff in terms of damage output.

Essence of Weapon Critical Potion
(Crit ,Stamina, CC Immunity)
(Water Hyacinth, Columbine, Dragonthorn)

Poison

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

Passives

• Animal Companion: Bond with Nature, Savage Beast, Flourish, Advanced Species
• Green Balance: Accelerated Growth, Nature’s Gift, Emerald Moss, Maturation
• Winter’s Embrace: Glacial Presence, Frozen Armor, Icy Aura, Piercing Cold
• Dual Wield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Two-Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
• Heavy Armor: Resolve, Constitution, Juggernaut, Revitalize, Rapid Mending
• Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Athletics, Agility, Improved Sneak
• Fighters Guild: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Assault: Continuous Attack, Reach, Combat Frenzy
• Support: Magicka Aid, Combat Medic, Battle Resurrection
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Racial: All
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

20 Health, 44 Stamina, 0 Magicka

Resource Management Stamina Warden PVP Build

We run 1 Stamina Recovery Glyph and the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice for increased recovery. So with all these things combined and some abilities that help with sustain we should have enough.

The Bull Netch has to be kept up all the time, it returns a lot of stamina to you. You can also always do Heavy Attacks at the right moment to restore plenty of Stamina. And we also do have potions that give you a big chunk of Stamina back when activated.

• Stamina Recovery Glyphs
• Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
• Bull Netch
• Heavy Attacks
• Potions

Battlegrounds Stamina Warden PVP Build

Instead of Weapon Damage glyphs on our jewelry, we are going with Stamina Recovery to make up for the sustain gap in Battlegrounds.

Mundus Stone

If you still struggle with sustain, you could get The Serpent Mundus Stone to further increase sustain.

The Serpent Mundus Stone (Increased Stamina Recovery)

ESO Warden Subclassing Build Options

ESO’s Subclassing offers a lot of variety, allowing you to swap, mix, and match different skill lines of various classes all on one character. Read our How does Subclassing work in ESO guide to get an understanding of how the subclass system works. We also have plenty of ESO Builds optimized for Subclassing.

Take a look at our ESO Warden Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Warden build!

Outfit Style Showcase of the Assault Stamden PvP Build for ESO

Let’s take a look at the outfit style of the Stamina Warden Melee Brawler PvP Build for ESO. You can find a close-up shot, an image from the back and an image of the outfit editor dye station below.

• Honor Guard Style: Helm, Gauntlets, Belt, Sabatons, Greatsword
• Welkynar Style: Guards
• Firedrake Style: Helm
• Dyes: Bloodroot Wine, Void Pitch

Update Log for the Stamina Warden PVP Build

19.05.2019 ADDED the Build for the Scalebreaker DLC, Elsweyr Chapter, Stamina Warden Build PvP.
19.10.2019 Updated the build for the Dragonhold DLC, Elsweyr Chapter.
21.02.2020 Updated the Build for the HARROWSTORM DLC.
25.05.2020 Updated the Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
18.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
26.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
05.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
31.05.2021 Updated the Build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
18.08.2021 Updated the Build for the WAKING FLAMES DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
27.10.2021 Updated the Build for the DEADLANDS DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
09.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
14.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
09.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
28.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
08.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter
26.05.2023 Updated the Build for the NECROM CHAPTER.
25.10.2023 Updated the Build for the Necrom Update 40.
08.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter.
27.05.2024 Updated the Build for the Gold Road Chapter U42.
20.08.2024 Updated the Build for Update 43, Gold Road Chapter.
02.11.2024 Updated the Build for Update 44, Gold Road Chapter.
11.03.2025 Updated the Build for Update 45, Fallen Banners.
30.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.

Tags: Stamina Warden, Stam Warden PvP Build, Stam Warden 2H Build PvP Stamwarden PvP Build

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