The Best Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build For ESO

Categories: Best ESO Builds, Best Nightblade Builds, Leveling Builds

This leveling build for the Stamina Nightblade class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started! This build has powerful damage capabilities along with great survival and self-healing, making the perfect combination to level up FAST in ESO!

What you will learn in this Leveling Build guide:

• The best item sets to use while leveling a Stamina Nightblade 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 51.

Table Of Contents

1. Nightblade Class Overview
2. Best Leveling Sets
3. Alternate Leveling Sets
4. Gear Setup
5. Attributes
6. Race
7. Mundus Stone
8. Food/Drink Buff
9. Potions
10. Recommended Skills
11. Skills Explanation
12. Rotation
13. Important Passives
14. More Nightblade Builds For ESO

Nightblade Class Overview

The Nightblade Class is an extremely powerful way to play in The Elder Scrolls Online. Nightblades have many powerful abilities located in their dedicated Class Skill lines for DPS, for Healing, and for Tanking. Nightblades are a great choice for dealing damage, mobility and healing, and are very fun for both PVE and PVP content in ESO. For a more detailed guide be sure to review our ESO Nightblade Class Guide.

Best Stamina Nightblade Leveling Sets

Our main 5 piece set on this build is Spriggan’s Thorns, a fantastic medium armor set that provides a great damage buff due to increased Offensive Penetration. As an Overland set in ESO, this set is fairly easy to farm at any level.

Swamp Raider is another powerful set that works great on the Nightblade class and is obtainable in the base game without any DLC’s. This set buffs your poison and disease damage skills of which the Stamina Nightblade has several.

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

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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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

Swamp Raider

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 600 Weapon and Spell Damage to your Poison and Disease Damage abilities.

Armor Of The Trainee

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina

Alternate Stamina Nightblade Leveling Sets

For alternative sets, Innate Axiom makes a nice Crafted replacement for any other set on this build. Briarheart is also an excellent damage focused set once you are ready for the more difficult zone of Wrothgar.

Briarheart as most of our damaging skills are class-based. Another great option will be Spriggan’s Thorns for the extra Penetration.

Innate Axiom

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka, Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 400 Weapon and Spell Damage to your Class abilities.

Briarheart

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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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 Nightblade Leveling Build Gear Setup

The gear options below are suggestions based on optimal traits for leveling up faster.

Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build Attributes

Most of our skills cost Stamina to cast, so putting all of your Attribute Points into the Stamina stat makes the most sense.

Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build Race

Khajiit is one of my favorite options for any Nightblade build as its racial passives synergize well with Nightblade’s critical focus passives. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Stamina Nightblade 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

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Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744

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With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489

Stamina Nightblade 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

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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 Nightblade Leveling Build Potions

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Basic Stamina Potions

Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build Recommended Skills

Main Weapon: TWO HANDER – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Killer’s Blade
2. Brawler
3. Swallow Soul
4. Surprise Attack
5. Relentless Focus
6. ULT: Incapacitating Strike

Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Endless Hail
2. Venom Arrow
3. Leeching Strikes
4. Shrewd Offering
5. Dark Cloak or Shadowy Disguise
6. ULT: Soul Tether

Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build Skills Explanation

Main Weapon: TWO HANDER – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Killer’s Blade: single target execute ability which increases in damage the lower health your target is.
2. Brawler: two handed skill which creates a damage shield that increases in size based on the amount of targets hit by this ability.
3. Swallow Soul: cast this for a powerful heal over time effect, healing you for 10 seconds. You also get many useful passives from the Siphoning Skill line.
4. Surprise Attack: powerful single target DPS skill.
5. Relentless Focus: Big Burst damage skill that also heals you back. Requires you to gain stacks from light attacking or heavy attacking. Also passively provides bonus Critical Chance via the Major Prophecy and Major Savagery buffs.
6. ULT: Incapacitating Strike: great single target ultimate ability which deals damage and increases your damage vs. that target for a short period of time.

Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Endless Hail: basic AOE damage skill from the Bow skill line which can also proc your backup weapon enchantment.
2. Venom Arrow: single target DOT that also increases your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage via the Major Brutality and Major Sorcery buffs.
3. Leeching Strikes: the ultimate sustain skill, costing Health and giving back Magicka and Stamina.
4. Shrewd Offering: use this as an emergency burst heal.
5. Dark Cloak or Shadowy Disguise: flex spot for healing or invisibility (cloak) if you prefer.
6. ULT: Soul Tether: useful defensive ultimate which stuns surrounding enemies, dealing damage and providing a heal over time effect.

Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build Rotation

Buffs: Maintain Relentless Focus buff at all times.

Damage: Start on the backbar by casting Endless Hail, Venom Arrow, Leeching Strikes and Swallow Soul (for extra healing). Bar Swap.

Cast Brawler, Merciless Resolve Bow, Surprise Attack x5, Merciless Resolve Bow, then Bar Swap back.

Tips: Remember to Light Attack in between each skill. This will add stacks to your Merciless Resolve which can then be cast for BIG damage and healing. Use Killer’s Blade to execute enemies when their health is low enough.

Stamina Nightblade Leveling Build Important Passives

1. Refreshing Shadows
2. Shadow Barrier
3. Executioner
4. Hemorrhage
5. Pressure Points
6. Catalyst
7. Wind Walker
8. Dexterity
9. Twin Blade And Blunt
10. Ranger

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More Nightblade Builds For ESO

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