Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Sorcerer Builds, Beginner Builds
This beginner build for the Stamina Sorcerer class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Dual Wield and Two-Handed skills and includes lots of Damage Over Time!
What you will learn in this beginner build guide:
- The best item sets to use with the Stamina Sorcerer 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.
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Primary Sets
Our main 5 piece set on this build is Hexos Ward, a medium armor set from the Deadlands zone which provides a lot of great survivability, especially if you want to play solo. Wretched Vitality is also especially good on the Stamina Sorcerer as it allows us to EASILY maintain both Stamina and Magicka skills by providing plenty of sustain. Armor Of The Trainee can also be used in any remaining two slots for some nice stat bonuses.
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) Dealing direct Critical Damage grants you a damage shield that absorbs up to 12305 damage for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds.
LVL 50 – CP 160
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.
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
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Alternative Sets
For alternatives players can also take advantage of basic damage sets like Spriggan’s Thorns or Briarheart as well basic sustain sets like Eternal Vigor. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Bow, Prohpet’s Dagger, etc.) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.
Eternal Vigor
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(3 items) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
(4 items) Adds 129 Health Recovery
(5 items) Adds 337 Stamina and Magicka Recovery while your Health is above 50%. Adds 1011 Health Recovery while your Health is 50% or less.
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
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.
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner 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 Two Hander | Infused | NA | Weapon/Spell Damage |
| Head | Wretched Vitality | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Shoulder | Wretched Vitality | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Chest | Wretched Vitality | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Waist | Wretched Vitality | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Gloves | Wretched Vitality | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Legs | Hexos Ward | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Feet | Hexos Ward | Divines | Medium | Stamina |
| Necklace | Hexos Ward | Robust | NA | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 1 | Hexos Ward | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
| Ring 2 | Hexos Ward | Robust | NA | Stamina Recovery |
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Attributes
The best attribute for a Stamina Sorcerer 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.
0 Magicka
0 Health
64 Stamina
Stamina Sorcerer 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 Sorcerer Beginner Mundus
The best mundus stone for a stamina Sorcerer 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
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744
With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Food & Drink
The best drink, food, consumable for the stamina Sorcerer 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
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 Sorcerer 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.
Basic Stamina Potions
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Skill Loadout
Main Weapon: DUAL WIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
- Summon Unstable Clannfear
- Daedric Prey or Deadly Cloak
- Crystal Fragments or Steel Tornado
- Bloodthirst
- Camouflaged Hunter
- ULT: Summon Greater Storm Atronach
Backup Weapon: TWO HANDED – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Stamina Sorcerer Beginner Skill Explanation
Front Bar – Dual Wield Explanation
- Summon Unstable Clannfear: pet that passively deals damage and can be activated for more damage, must be double barred to stay on.
- Daedric Prey or Deadly Cloak: Prey helps with range damage, Cloak lowers incoming AOE damage and increases survivability.
- Crystal Fragments or Steel Tornado: Frags for more single target and range while Steel Tornado for more AOE damage in melee.
- Bloodthirst: main spammable in melee also heals you.
- Camouflaged Hunter: this skill is slotted purely to gain critical buff and minor berserk.
- ULT: Summon Greater Storm Atronach: ranged ultimate that deals great single target damage for a long time and grants a synergy to an ally.
Bar Bar – Bow Explanation
- Carve: this is a good AOE DOT that can be placed on multiple target and stack in effectiveness with more swipes.
- Stampede: this is your gap closer that also hits hard and leaves a powerful DOT at target.
- Summon Unstable Clannfear: double bar.
- Critical Surge: grants you spell and weapon damage buff and gives healing everytime you deal critical damage based on damage done.
- Hurricane: grants armor buff, speed, and AOE damage that the radius grows bigger the longer the skill is maintained.
- ULT: Suppression Field: removes ground effects inside and does damage, used to shutdown spellcasters and protect you from incoming spells.
Stamina Sorcerer Important Passives
- Unholy Knowledge
- Daedric Protection
- Expert Summoner
- Exploitation
- Power Stone
- Capacitor
- Energized
- Amplitude
- Expert Mage
- Controlled Fury
- Balanced Blade
- Dexterity
- Wind Walker
- Agility
Stamina Sorcerer 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 Sorcerer class I recommend Font of Power which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage based on the higher of your Max Magicka or Stamina and Static Reverberation which gives you a chance to deal additional shock damage.
Font of Power
Within you is a wellspring of near unlimited power.
Effect
Upgrades rank 2 of Exploitation to work with any Sorcerer ability and increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 16% for 10 seconds. The Weapon and Spell Damage increases by 1% for every 1750 Max Magicka or Stamina you have, whichever is higher.
Static Reverberation
The battlefield crackles with untapped potential. Make use of it.
Effect
When you deal damage, you have a 5% chance to deal 747 Shock Damage, up to once every 0.3 seconds.
The chance increases by 1% for every 1% missing Health the target has. The chance is divided by 1 plus every permanent pet you have active.
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