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!
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
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.
Order’s Wrath
LVL 50 – CP 160
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
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 1454 Maximum Health
(2 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1454 Maximum Stamina
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
LVL 50 – CP 160
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
LVL 50 – CP 160
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
Sample Gear Loadout
| Weapon/Armor | Set | Trait | Weight | Glyph |
| Main Hand | Armor Of The Trainee Daggers | Precise / Sharpened | NA | Damage Poisons |
| Backup | Armor Of The Trainee Bow | Infused | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Head | Briarheart | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Briarheart | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Chest | Briarheart | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Waist | Briarheart | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Gloves | Briarheart | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Legs | Order’s Wrath | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Feet | Order’s Wrath | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Necklace | Order’s Wrath | Robust | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 1 | Order’s Wrath | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
| Ring 2 | Order’s Wrath | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
Attributes
Most of our skills cost Stamina to cast, so putting all of your Attribute Points into the Stamina stat makes the most sense.
0 Magicka
0 Health
64 Stamina
Consumables, Race, Mundus
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.
Mundus
The Lover
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489
Food/Drink Buff
Dubious Camoran Throne
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.
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Potions
Basic Stamina Potions
Sample Skills
Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Killer’s Blade
- Blood Craze
- Camouflaged Hunter
- Surprise Attack
- Merciless Resolve
- ULT: Incapacitating Strike
Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Sample 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.
Important Passives
- Refreshing Shadows
- Shadow Barrier
- Executioner
- Hemorrhage
- Pressure Points
- Catalyst
- Wind Walker
- Dexterity
- Twin Blade And Blunt
- Ranger
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