Ultimate Stamina Arcanist Beginner Build For ESO

Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Arcanist Builds, Beginner Builds

This beginner build for the Stamina Arcanist class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started! This build focuses on powerful damage abilities to melt your enemies!

What you will learn in this beginner build guide:

• The best item sets to use with the Arcanist beginner Build, and why they are important.
• How the skills work, synergies with the gear, 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.

Arcanist Class Overview

The Arcanist Class is an extremely powerful way to play in The Elder Scrolls Online. Arcanists have many similarities with other classes in ESO such as dedicated Class Skill lines for DPS, for Healing, and for Tanking. Arcanists are also extremely unique in that they make use of a powerful new game mechanic called Crux. For a more detailed guide be sure to review our ESO Arcanist Class Guide located here.

The Arcanist class is available to players who have purchased the Necrom Chapter. You can also buy the class directly for 1,500 Crowns (roughly $15). Therefore, this is not a base game class and will require you to spend extra money to unlock. However, it is worth it for serious ESO players as it remains one of the best classes overall!

Arcanist Beginner Primary Sets

Our main 5-piece set on this build is Spriggan’s Thorns, a fantastic base game set that increases Weapon and Spell Damage, Maximum Stamina, and Penetration, which will let all of your abilities do more damage.

Next, is Briarheart, a powerful medium armor set that provides a great damage buff as well as some passive healing which will help us with survival.

For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka. This set can be easily farmed in any of ESO’s starting zones.

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

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.

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

Arcanist Beginner Alternative Sets

For alternative sets, I also recommend any options that improve the sustain of your build such as Wretched Vitality. Another great all-around crafted set is Order’s Wrath.

Wretched Vitality

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS

(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) While in combat, applying a Major Buff or Debuff to a target grants you 260 Magicka and Stamina Recovery for 15 seconds. While in combat, applying a Minor Buff or Debuff to a target grants you 130 Magicka and Stamina Recovery for 15 seconds.

Order’s Wrath

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LVL 50 – CP 160

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SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) Adds 943 Critical Chance, Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 8%.

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Gear Loadout

Note that the location of these gear pieces (weapons, jewelry or body pieces) is not important and can be mixed and matched depending on which pieces you acquire first.

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Attributes

The best attribute for a Stamina Arcanist is Stamina because it increase the effectiveness of our skills. Additionally, increased stamina can increase the size of a damage and healing spells. It’s best to pick one attribute pool and “stack” for optimal damage and resource sustain. Therefore, I recommend 64 stamina, 0 health, and 0 magicka. However, make sure you reach 18,000 health or higher, and adjust your attributes if you’re low while food is active.

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Race

The most optimal choice for meta end game stamina build is Dark Elf because of the spell and weapon damage and two resource pools. Khajiit is great for critical damage, but is weaker in high-end PvE content. Meanwhile, the Orc and Redguard are two great choices for better resource sustain. Here are thoughts on the best stamina based beginner races:

• Dark Elf: best overall for end game PvE DPS
• Orc: best for end game PvP content and decent in PvE
• Imperial: high stats and it lowers cost of skills
• Redguard: best for resource sustain, though weaker damage
• Khajiit: highest burst damage
• Nord: most survivable race for stamina beginners

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

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Mundus

The best mundus stone for a stamina Arcanist build is the Lover due to Physical Penetration. Unlike light armor builds that favor magicka skills, medium armor lacks offensive penetration. Therefore, this is the best stat for a beginner or playing solo. As you start to play in group PvE content, swap to the Thief especially with coordinated tanks and healers. The cap for Veteran enemies is 18,200, if you go over that, the stats are wasted. Lastly, use the Serpent if you constantly run out of resources as it helps with stamina regeneration.

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 Arcanist Beginner Food & Drink

The best drink, food, consumable for the stamina Arcanist is Dubious Camoran Throne because it gives stats across the board. This drink is easy to get from vendors and increases your max stamina, health, and grants stamina recovery. As a new player, you desperately need resource sustain as well as damage, which is why this is selected. Later as you advance, other food is used like “bi-stat” which forgoes stamina recovery for higher max stats. But, this comes with a big downside and that is weak sustain and not recommended right away. Buy these from guild traders until you can craft with provisioning.

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 Necromancer Beginner Potions

The best Stamina potions for the Stamina Arcanist are the base potions that give you Stamina recovery. The recover, with medicinal use passive from alchemy, can run 47.5 seconds. With potion cooldown only last 45 seconds, you can maintain 100% up time on an additional 20% recovery. As you advance, tri-potions (all three stats), spell power potions (buffs and recovery), or even heroism potions (ultimate generation buff) can be used. However, consider using these right now depending on your level and don’t be shy about drinking them.

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Basic Stamina Potions

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Skill Loadout

Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Pragmatic Fatecarver
2. Cephaliarch’s Flail
3. Deadly Cloak
4. Evolving Runemend
5. Camouflaged Hunter
6. ULT: The Tide King’s Gaze

Backup Weapon: TWO-HANDED – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

1. Stampede
2. Carve
3. Reconstructive Domain
4. Cruxweaver Armor
5. Recuperative Treatise
6. ULT: Sanctum Of The Abyssal Sea

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Skill Explanation 

Front Bar – Dual Wield Explanation 

1. Pragmatic Fatecarver: Consume crux to shoot massive beam and hold it for most damage.
2. Cephaliarch’s Flail: deals physical damage, heals you if you hit enemy, and generates crux, acts a a crux builder then use Fatecarver.
3. Deadly Cloak: reduces incoming AOE damage, also does AOE damage to surrounding enemies every two seconds.
4. Evolving Runemend: cost your max resource and heals you while generating a crux.
5. Camouflaged Hunter: this skill is slotted purely to gain critical buff and minor berserk.
6. ULT: The Tide King’s Gaze: Burst ultimate that will follow target and leave AOE at it’s feet.

Back Bar – Two-Handed Explanation 

1. Stampede: this is your gap closer that also hits hard and leaves a powerful DOT at target.
2. Carve: this is a good AOE DOT that can be placed on multiple target and stack in effectiveness with more swipes.
3. Reconstructive Domain: ground based skill that heals and provides damage and resouce buffs.
4. Cruxweaver Armor: grants you major resolve, increasing armor, while also granting minor breach reducing enemies that hit you armor.
5. Recuperative Treatise: your resource sustaining skill.
6. ULT: Sanctum Of The Abyssal Sea: powerful shield that gives you a panic defensive ultimate.

Stamina Arcanist Beginner Rotation

Buffs: Start on the front bar with Deadly Cloak, then bar swap and cast Cruxweaver Armor and Recuperative Treatise. Cast Reconstructive Domain and stay inside this rune for extra healing and defensive buffs if needed for more difficult content.

Damage: Start on the back bar by casting Stampede and Carve x2. Bar Swap.

Next, cast Cephaliarch’s Flail to immobilize enemies and build Crux or use Evolving Runemend if more healing is needed. Both abilities build Crux. Remember, your goal is to reach 3 total Crux.

Once at 3 Crux stacks, cast Pragmatic Fatecarver to melt all enemies in front of you!

Ultimates: The Tide King’s Gaze is useful when you need to kill an enemy very quickly, like with a boss. For more difficult encounters, facing off against multiple hard-hitting enemies, this is where you’ll want to use Sanctum Of The Abyssal Sea for a huge damage shield, allowing you to survive pretty much anything!

Stamina Arcanist Important Passives

1. Erudition
2. Fated Fortune
3. Splintered Secrets
4. Harnessed Quintessence
5. Implacable Outcome
6. Wind Walker
7. Dexterity
8. Twin Blade And Blunt
9. Balanced Blade
10. Agility

Stamina Arcanist Class Mastery

Players that reach level 50 in ESO while also fully reaching Rank 50 for their class skill lines and not subclassing can use 2 Class Mastery passives to improve their build. For the Arcanist class I recommend Abyssal Emergence for an immediate boost to max Crux plus 666 bonus Weapon and Spell Damage when you cast an Arcanist Ultimate as well as Unbound Potential which increases your damage done by 30%.

Abyssal Emergence

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Dive deep into the abyss where power is yours to claim.

Effect

Activating an Arcanist Ultimate immediately generates maximum Crux and grants you 666 Weapon and Spell Damage for 15 seconds.

Unbound Potential

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Surpass your limits in the fieldwork of battle.

Effect

Upgrades rank 2 of Fated Fortune to also increase your damage done by 30%, halving against players, for the duration.

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