Ultimate Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build For ESO

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This beginner build for the Stamina Nightblade class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started! This build has powerful single-target damage and great self-healing making it an easy Nightblade Build to start ESO with.

What you will learn in this beginner build guide:

• The best item sets to use with the Stamina Nightblade 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.

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.

Stamina Nightblade Beginner Primary Sets

Our main 5 piece set on this build is Briarheart, a fantastic medium armor set that provides a great damage buff as well as passive healing.

Order’s Wrath is another powerful set that is fairly easy to craft which also boosts the Nightblade’s inherent Critical Damage and Critical Chance bonuses.

For the final two pieces of gear on this build Armor Of The Trainee is recommended for the extra Health and Magicka.

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.

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%.

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

Stamina Nightblade Beginner Alternative Sets

For alternative sets, Innate Axiom makes a nice Crafted replacement for 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.

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

Stamina Nightblade Beginner Gear Loadout

Stamina Nightblade Beginner Alternate Gear

Stamina Nightblade Beginner Attributes

The best attribute for a Stamina Nightblade 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 Nightblade 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 Nightblade Beginner Mundus

The best mundus stone for a stamina Nightblade 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

Beginner Stamina Nightblade Food & Drink

The best drink, food, consumable for the stamina Nightblade 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 Nightblade Beginner Potions

The best Stamina potions for the Stamina Nightblade 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

Beginner Stamina Nightblade Skills

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

1. Killer’s Blade
2. Blood Craze
3. Camouflaged Hunter
4. Surprise Attack
5. Merciless Resolve
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. Barbed Trap
5. Dark Cloak or Shadowy Disguise
6. ULT: Soul Tether

Beginner Stamina Nightblade Skills Explanation

Front Bar – Dual Wield Explanation

1. Killer’s Blade: execute meaning it hits harder at 25% health or lower on a single target enemy.
2. Blood Craze: a high powered single target DOT that should be placed on priority mob.
3. Camouflaged Hunter: this skill is slotted purely to gain critical buff and minor berserk.
4. Surprise Attack: main spammable attack that sunders enemies, and you can set off-balancing attacking from side or rear.
5. Merciless Resolve: you gain stacks boosting your weapon and spell damage for light and heavy attacks and after 5 stacks you can see icon changed and fire off free damage attack.
6. ULT: Incapacitating Strike: low cost burst ultimate that can stun the target and rewards using more ultimate.

Bar Bar – Bow Explanation

1. Endless Hail: AOE DOT place at range before closing distance, useful as opener because there is a delay before damage.
2. Venom Arrow: damage over time that also grants major brutality and sorcery buff and also interrupts enemies.
3. Leeching Strikes: resource sustain buff that you should keep up at all times to increase health and stamina regeneration.
4. Barbed Trap: a good single target DOT that also gives minor Force and Hemorrhaging status effect.
5. Dark Cloak or Shadowy Disguise use Dark Cloak if you want a heal and no stealth, Shadowy Disguise for Invisibility and higher damage.
6. ULT: Soul Tether: burst ultimate that does AOE damage and heals you while tether is attached to targets.

Stamina Nightblade Beginner Rotation

Buffs: Maintain Merciless Resolve buff at all times.

Damage: Start on the backbar by casting Endless Hail, Venom Arrow, Leeching Strikes and Barbed Trap. Bar Swap.

Cast Blood Craze, 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.

Stamina Nightblade Beginner 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

Stamina Nightblade 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 Nightblade Class, I recommend Above and Beyond which increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing potential along with An Eye for Exploitation which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage and reduces Damage Taken based on your target’s missing Health.

Above and Beyond

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An assassin is only as good as their reputation.

Effect

Increases your Critical Damage and Healing by 25%. This effect is reduced to 5% against targets with Battle Spirit.

Increases your maximum Critical Damage and Healing by 30%.

An Eye For Exploitation

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Every strike, every stab, is a step towards execution.

Effect

Increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by up to 2000, based on your target’s missing Health. Reduces your damage taken by up to 20%, based on your attacker’s missing Health.

Both effects are halved against targets with Battle Spirit.

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