The CROSSBONES Build is an amazing burst damage build for the Stamina Necromancer in The Elder Scrolls Online, combining Skeletal Bombs with ESO’s only Crossbow skill! With powerful damage, fantastic speed, and amazing health recovery, this build is great choice for Grinding XP or any other type of Solo Content in ESO.
Primary Sets
The recommended item sets for the CROSSBONES Stamina Necromancer Build are focused on Critical Chance as well as Weapon Damage with the goal of blowing our enemies to pieces!
First, the New Moon Acolyte set is a great all-around damage set for any build in The Elder Scrolls Online due to its great mix of stats including Critical Chance, Damage and Penetration. Not only are the stats great, but this set is also fairly easy to obtain, either from Guild Traders or through Crafting.
Next, the Leviathan set provides a ton of Critical Chance for this build, ensuring that most of our attacks will do Crit Damage.
Finally, most Monster Sets will not be a great option for this build because enemies die too quickly for them to be useful. Instead, choosing two separate Monster Set pieces to obtain two bonuses will most likely be the best. For this build, Slimecraw and Velidreth work great.
Click on a Set Name below to learn more.
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(5 items) Adds 401 Weapon and Spell Damage. Increases the cost of your active abilities by 5%.
Leviathan
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 1528 Critical Chance
Slimecraw
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance
(2 items) Gain Minor Berserk at all times, increasing your damage done by 5%
Alternate Sets
Any offensively focused set can be used on this build including Hunding’s Rage, Briarheart or 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) Adds 300 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage
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.
Gear Setup
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | New Moon Acolyte Daggers | Sharpened / Precise | NA | Weapon Damage / Absorb Stamina |
| Backup | Any Bow | Any | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Head | Slimecraw | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Velidreth | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Chest | Leviathan | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Waist | Leviathan | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Gloves | Leviathan | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Legs | Leviathan | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Feet | Leviathan | Training | Medium | Stamina |
| Necklace | New Moon Acolyte | Infused | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 1 | New Moon Acolyte | Infused | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 2 | New Moon Acolyte | Infused | NA | Weapon Damage |
Consumables, Race, Mundus
Race
I prefer Khajiit on this build due to their increased Critical Damage. Other Stamina focused races like Orc, Dark Elf, Wood Elf and Redguard will make solid options as well. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.
Mundus
The Thief
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167
Food/Drink Buff
Lava Foot Soup-and-saltrice
Increase Max Stamina by 4936 and Stamina Recovery by 493 for 2 hours. These effects are scaled based on your level.
Potions
Basic Stamina Potions
Skills – One Bar Setup
Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Razor Caltrops
- Blighted Blastbones
- Camouflaged Hunter
- Silver Shards
- Hircine’s Fortitude or Shrouded Daggers
- ULT: Pestilent Colossus
Skills – Two Bar Setup
Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Whirling Blades
- Blighted Blastbones
- Camouflaged Hunter
- Silver Shards
- Hircine’s Fortitude or Shrouded Daggers
- ULT: Pestilent Colossus
Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Skills Discussion & Rotation
Combat Tips
The one bar set up is extremely easy to blow things up with! Simply cast Blighted Blastbones, then Razor Caltrops, followed by Silver Shards.
Passive Skills
Class Passives
- Reusable Parts
- Death Knell
- Dismember
- Rapid Rot
- Death Gleaning
- Disdain Harm
- Health Avarice
- Last Gasp
- Curative Curse
- Near-Death Experience
- Corpse Consumption
- Undead Confederate
Weapon Passives
- Slaughter
- Dual Wield Expert
- Controlled Fury
- Ruffian
- Twin Blade And Blunt
- Long Shots
- Accuracy
- Ranger
- Hawk Eye
- Hasty Retreat
Armor Passives
Guild Passives
Racial
Other
Champion Points
Below you will find the recommended Active and Passive Champion Point Stars for this build, broken down into 300, 600, 900, and 1200 CP ranges.
For more information on Champion Points click on a Star name below or browse our detailed Champion Points Guides.
Constellation Descriptions:
Craft
The Green Craft Constellation is focused on crafting and utility-centered upgrades.
Warfare
The Blue Warfare Constellation focuses primarily on increasing player damage, healing and defenses
Fitness
The Red Fitness Constellation is focused on character survival and sustain.
-300 Champion Points-
GREEN
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
RED
-600 Champion Points-
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 30 Fortune’s Favor
- 30 Wanderer
- 10 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer (Slot)
BLUE
RED
- 20 Sprinter
- 8 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Bloody Renewal (Slot)
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
-900 Champion Points-
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 50 Fortune’s Favor
- 30 Wanderer
- 10 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer (Slot)
- 75 Liquid Efficiency (Slot)
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
- 50 Deadly Aim (Slot)
- 50 Fighting Finesse (Slot)
- 50 Untamed Aggression (Slot)
- 20 Battle Mastery
- 30 Mighty
RED
- 20 Sprinter
- 8 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Bloody Renewal (Slot)
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
- 50 Strategic Reserv (Slot)
- 30 Tumbling
- 20 Defiance
-1200 Champion Points-
GREEN
- 50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
- 50 Gilded Fingers
- 50 Fortune’s Favor
- 30 Wanderer
- 10 Steadfast Enchantment
- 30 Rationer (Slot)
- 75 Liquid Efficiency (Slot)
- 50 Treasure Hunter (Slot)
BLUE
- 20 Precision
- 20 Piercing
- 50 Biting Aura (Slot)
- 50 Deadly Aim (Slot)
- 50 Fighting Finesse (Slot)
- 50 Untamed Aggression (Slot)
- 20 Battle Mastery
- 30 Mighty
- 20 Tireless Discipline
- 20 Quick Recovery
- 20 Hardy
- 20 Elemental Aegis
- 20 Preparation
RED
- 20 Sprinter
- 8 Hasty
- 20 Hero’s Vigor
- 50 Bloody Renewal (Slot)
- 50 Boundless Vitality (Slot)
- 50 Rejuvenation (Slot)
- 50 Strategic Reserve (Slot)
- 30 Tumbling
- 20 Defiance
- 20 Tireless Guardian
- 30 Fortification
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