Category: Best ESO Builds, Best Warden Builds, Beginner Builds
This beginner build for the Stamina Warden class in The Elder Scrolls Online is a great place to get started. This build focuses on Bow Skills and Animal Companions for a very fun play style and will serve you well all the way from level 1 to level 50 and possibly beyond.
What you will learn in this beginner build guide:
- The best item sets to use with the Stamina Warden 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 Warden Beginner Primary Sets
Armor Of The Trainee provides great bonuses to stamina, magicka and health. Even though this is a stamina-focused build, the Warden class has many magicka based buffs so Trainee will help with sustaining all of those, plus the extra health is always good when starting out, especially if you plan to play solo.
Shadow Of The Red Mountain is a great damage oriented set, but remember, this only procs the 5 piece bonus on weapon attacks, so keep those bow abilities firing as much as possible! Since Trainee potentially drops in light, medium or heavy, try to get at least 5 pieces of medium armor total (both sets count towards this) to unlock the ideal medium armor passives.
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
Shadow Of The Red Mountain
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(5 items) When you deal damage with a weapon, you spawn a volcano that erupts after 1 second, launching liquid hot lava at the closest enemy dealing 1800 Flame damage. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
Stamina Warden Beginner Alternative Sets
For alternatives, I also recommend Spriggan’s Thorns and Venomous Smite. Remember that your armor pieces can go into any gear slot, meaning you only need to use 10 slots total for this build. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Bow) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.
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
Venomous Smite
LVL 50 – CP 160
SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Dealing Critical Damage inflicts Hunter’s Venom on your enemy for 10 seconds, dealing 2241 Poison Damage to your target and enemies within 6 meters of them every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.
Stamina Warden Beginner Attributes
The best attribute for a Stamina Warden 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 Warden 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 Warden Beginner Mundus
The best mundus stone for a stamina Warden 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
Beginner Stamina Warden Food & Drink
The best drink, food, consumable for the stamina Warden 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 Warden Beginner Potions
The best Stamina potions for the Stamina Warden 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
Beginner Stamina Warden Skills
Main Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more
Beginner Stamina Warden Skills Explanation
Front Bar – Bow Explanation
- Bombard: this is your main spammable for AOE that stops targets.
- Subterranean Assault: delay damage attack that hits after 3 seconds and only hits once with this morph
- Camouflaged Hunter: this skill is slotted purely to gain critical buff and minor berserk.
- Focused Aim: main spammable single target at range.
- Bird Of Prey: passively grants minor berserk and it can be activated for increased movement speed and removal of snares.
- ULT: Wild Guardian: high damage ultimate that is single target focus and must be double barred, activate to deal increased damage.
Back Bar – Bow Explanation
- Poison Injection: ranged DOT that also acts as an execute below 50% health.
- Endless Hail: AOE DOT place at range before closing distance, useful as opener because there is a delay before damage.
- Echoing Vigor: stamina heal over time that heals allies and can trigger sets and skills
- Bull Netch: grants weapon and spell damage buff, cost nothing, triggers animal companion passives, and gives stamina resource sustain.
- Ice Fortress: armor buff that reduces your damage and also grants minor protection.
- ULT: Wild Guardian: must be double barred.
Beginner Stamina Warden Important Passives
Stamina Warden 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 Warden class, I recommend Wild Adaptation which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage for each status effect on your target and Glacial Obstinance which upgrades Bond with Nature to active also on Winter’s Embrace abilities and grant 15% Weapon and Spell Damage.
Wild Adaptation
The battlefield is your grove. Tend to it.
Effect
Gain 333 Weapon and Spell Damage for each status effect on your target, up to a maximum of 1665.
Glacial Obstinance
Tap into the wellspring of permafrost’s resolve.
Effect
Upgrade Bond with Nature to also activate when casting Winter’s Embrace abilities and to grant 15% Weapon and Spell Damage for 10 seconds if you are at full Health after the heal.
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