Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Necromancer Builds, Leveling Builds
This Leveling Build for the Stamina Necromancer class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Two Handed and Summoning Skills, providing lots of potential for easy leveling from 1 to 50!
What you will learn in this Leveling Build guide:
- The best item sets to use while leveling a Stamina Necromancer Build in ESO, and why they are important.
- How the skills work, important passives, and your rotation.
- The best consumables, race, and mundus, and most importantly, why you should select them.
This guide has been updated for The Elder Scrolls Online Update 50.
Table Of Contents
- Leveling Sets
- Alternate Sets
- Gear Setup
- Attributes
- Race
- Mundus Stone
- Food/Drink Buff
- Potions
- Recommended Skills
- Skills Explanation
- Important Passives
- More Necromancer Builds For ESO
Best Stamina Necromancer Leveling Sets
First, Spriggan’s Thorns is one of the best beginner sets in the game for Stamina builds as it helps increase Offensive Penetration and Maximum Stamina to bring your build more damage with every ability.
The next set I recommend is Venomous Smite – another extremely useful early game set in The Elder Scrolls Online, increasing your Critical Chance, Damage and providing a unique poison AOE effect that synergizes well with the Stamina Necromancer playstyle.
For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka.
Spriggan’s Thorns
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 3460 Offensive Penetration
Venomous Smite
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Dealing Critical Damage inflicts Hunter’s Venom on your enemy for 10 seconds, dealing 2241 Poison Damage to your target and enemies within 6 meters of them every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.
Armor Of The Trainee
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina
Alternate Stamina Necromancer Leveling Sets
The Briarheart set is another powerful option for beginners in ESO offering lots of Critical Chance and bonus damage, though it is quite popular so it can cost more to purchase from traders.
Another nice option to increase your speed and damage on the Stamina Necromancer is the Gryphon’s Ferocity set, which provides both Minor Force for bonus critical damange and Minor Expedition for bonus speed!
Remember that your armor pieces can go into any gear slot, meaning you only need to use 10 slots total for this build. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Staff) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.
Briarheart
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 450 for 10 seconds. While this effect is active your Critical Strikes heal you for 100 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and the heal scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.
Gryphon’s Ferocity
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 450 for 10 seconds. While this effect is active your Critical Strikes heal you for 100 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and the heal scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Gear Setup
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Armor Of The Trainee Two Hander | Precise / Sharpened | NA | Absorb Magicka |
| Backup | Armor Of The Trainee Bow | Infused | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Head | Venomous Smite | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Venomous Smite | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Chest | Venomous Smite | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Waist | Venomous Smite | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Gloves | Venomous Smite | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Legs | Spriggan’s Thorns | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Feet | Spriggan’s Thorns | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Necklace | Spriggan’s Thorns | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
| Ring 1 | Spriggan’s Thorns | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
| Ring 2 | Spriggan’s Thorns | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Attributes
Most of our skills cost Stamina to cast, so putting all Attribute Points into the Stamina stat will be the most effective.
0 Magicka
0 Health
64 Stamina
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Race
Orc will be the best option for this build as they have good Weapon and Spell Damage as well as Stamina and Health to improve our sustain and survival. Khajiit is another solid option for players looking for a bit of extra recovery plus Critical Damage which synergizes well with Necromancer passives. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Mundus Stone
The best Mundus Stone for leveling in the Elder Scrolls Online is the Lover Mundus because this increases your Offensive Penetration, allowing all of your skills to do more damage. Offensive Penetration can usually only be obtained through Light Armor Passives and rarely on gear sets, so boosting this stat early through your Mundus Stone will make the biggest impact, helping you kill enemies faster and thus level up faster! Review our complete Mundus Stone guide for more information.
The Lover
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Food/Drink Buff
Dubious Cameron Throne is the best food or drink buff available when leveling up a Stamina build in ESO because it provides Maximum Stamina which boosts your Damage, Stamina Recovery which helps you sustain your skills and Maximum Health which improves your survivability. This drink scales with your level and can be crafted or purchased from Guild Traders.
Dubious Camoran Throne
Increase Stamina Recovery by 315, Max Stamina by 2856 and Max Health by 3094 for 2 hours.
These effects are scaled based on your level.
A dessert cocktail of jagga, rotmeth, and sweetbread puree. Definitely Green Pact compliant.
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Potions
Basic Stamina Potions are fine for leveling up as a Stamina build in ESO. Keep these on hand to restore your Stamina and increase your Stamina recovery when running low on resources.
Basic Stamina Potions
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Recommended Skills
Main Weapon: TWO HANDER – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Blighted Blastbones
- Brawler
- Ruinous Scythe or Detonating Siphon
- Venom Skull
- Camouflaged Hunter
- ULT: Glacial Colossus
Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Stamina Necromancer Leveling Build Skills Explanation
Main Weapon: TWO HANDER – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Blighted Blastbones: your bread and butter AOE DPS skill. Cast this skill as often as possible for huge damage and to continually generate corpses to power other skills.
- Brawler: a powerful damage shield skill which increases in strength the more enemies you hit with it.
- Ruinous Scythe: use this skill when facing off against multiple enemies for massive healing, and set them all off balance.
- Detonating Siphon: requires a corpse on the ground and creates a damaging tether between you and the target. Also explodes for bonus damage.
- Venom Skull: basic single target spammable DPS skill.
- Camouflaged Hunter: provides passive Critical Chance boost
- ULT: Glacial Colossus: this ultimate does fantastic damage plus debuffs enemies with the powerful Major Vulnerability effect, increasing all of their damage taken.
Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Endless Hail: basic AOE Damage Over Time skill which can also proc your backup weapon glyph.
- Mortal Coil: use this skill if you need even more healing for you or group members.
- Skeletal Archer: keep this skill up as much as possible to buff your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage with the important Major Brutality and Major Sorcery buffs.
- Spirit Guardian: provides self-healing and damage reduction.
- Beckoning Armor: this skill increases your Armor by a huge amount thanks to giving both the Major Resolve and Minor Resolve buffs, plus it pulls in enemies that damage you, making them easier to group together!
- ULT: Ravenous Goliath: this is your best survival ultimate option, vastly increasing your Max Health and healing you.
Important Passives
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More Necromancer Builds For ESO
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