The Best Stamina Sorcerer Leveling Build For ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Sorcerer Builds, Leveling Builds

This Leveling Build for the Stamina Sorcerer class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Two Handed and Daedric 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 Sorcerer 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

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

Best Stamina Sorcerer 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 Shadow Of The Red Mountain – a very fun starter set in ESO that summons a fiery Volcano to damage nearby enemies when you deal damage with weapon attacks, which the Stamina Sorcerer can use quite a bit!

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

Shadow Of The Red Mountain

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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 Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal damage with a weapon, you spawn a volcano that erupts after 1 second, launching liquid hot lava at the closest enemy dealing 1800 Flame damage. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

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 Sorcerer 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 for more AOE damage is the Venomous Smite set which deals poison damage to surrounding enemies when you critically strike.

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

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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.

Venomous Smite

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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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.

Stamina Sorcerer Leveling Build Gear Setup

Stamina Sorcerer Leveling Build Attributes

Most of our skills cost Stamina to cast, so putting all Attribute Points into the Stamina stat will be the most effective.

Stamina Sorcerer 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. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Stamina Sorcerer 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 Sorcerer 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 Sorcerer 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.

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Basic Stamina Potions

Stamina Sorcerer Leveling Build Recommended Skills

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

1. Reverse Slice
2. Brawler or Carve
3. Camouflaged Hunter
4. Wrecking Blow
5. Summon Unstable Clannfear
6. ULT: Greater Storm Atronach

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

1. Endless Hail
2. Dark Deal
3. Summon Unstable Clannfear
4. Hurricane
5. Critical Surge
6. ULT: Suppression Field

Stamina Sorcerer Leveling Build Skills Explanation

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

1. Reverse Slice: this skill does damage to multiple targets as well as bonus damage to enemies that are low health, making it ideal for finishing off groups of enemies.
2. Brawler: use this to create a damage shield that gets stronger the more enemies you hit.
3. Carve: this can be used in place of Brawler if you want more damage for your build.
4. Camouflaged Hunter: this skill provides a passive boost to your Critical Chance.
5. Wrecking Blow: this is our main spammable DPS skill, doing great single target damage.
6. Summon Unstable Clannfear: use this skill for extra shock AOE damage plus a handy stun versus enemies.
7. ULT: Greater Storm Atronach: this is an amazing ultimate, combining damage, a stun, and a powerful group synergy.

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

1. Endless Hail: basic AOE damage over time skill which can also proc your backup weapon glyph.
2. Dark Deal: use this to gain some extra sustain plus a burst heal if needed. Also grants Minor Berserk to increase your damage done by 5%.
3. Summon Unstable Clannfear: Sorcerer pets must be slotted on both skill bars or they will die when you bar swap.
4. Hurricane: this powerful defensive skill grants you movement speed and the Major Resolve buff, increasing your Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance so you take less damage from enemies. Also does some solid AOE damage.
5. Critical Surge: this skill grants you the important Major Brutality and Major Sorcery Buffs which increase your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 20%, plus while active, your Critical Strikes heal you!
6. ULT: Suppression Field: this is a defensive Ultimate which can be used to lock down groups of enemies while also dealing damage to them.

Important Passives

1. Unholy Knowledge
2. Power Stone
3. Daedric Protection
4. Expert Summoner
5. Wind Walker
6. Dexterity
7. Agility
8. Heavy Weapons
9. Expert Mage

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