The Best Werewolf Beginner Build For ESO

This werewolf build for The Elder Scrolls Online is fairly easy to get started with and has access to plenty of damage and healing, plus insane speed! This build will do great in both PVE and PVP.

What you will learn in this beginner build guide:

• The best item sets to use with the Werewolf 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.

Best Beginner Werewolf Sets

Our main 5 piece set on this build is Eternal Vigor, a heavy armor set from the Greymoor Chapter. This set is fairly easy to get early in the game from quests and delves in Greymoor, and adds substantially to the overall sustain and survival of the Werewolf.

Gryphon’s Ferocity comes from the Summerset chapter and adds damage and speed to the build through the Minor Expedition and Minor Force buffs.

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

Eternal Vigor

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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 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.

Gryphon’s Ferocity

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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

Alternate Beginner Werewolf Sets

For alternatives, I also recommend Spriggan’s Thorns. I recommend using the Level Up Rewards weapons (Prophet’s Bow, Prophet’s Dagger, etc.) to make up the remaining 2 open gear slots.

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

Beginner Werewolf Gear Setup

Beginner Werewolf Attributes

Most of our skills cost Stamina to cast, so putting all Attribute Points into Stamina will be the most effective.

Beginner Werewolf Class

I prefer being a Stamina Sorcerer for the cost-reduction passives (regular abilities and ultimate transformation) or a Stamina Nightblade for the bonus to their recoveries. Other popular options include the Templar class for their powerful offensive passives and even the Arcanist class.

Beginner Werewolf Race

Orc or Dark Elf will be a strong choice for this setup if you want as much damage as possible. Imperial will also be a nice option if you have access to them, due to the extra stats and cost reduction of abilities. Nord can also be a nice option for extra defense and ultimate regeneration while outside of Werewolf form. For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Beginner Werewolf Mundus Stone

The Lover or The Thief

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

The Thief

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Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

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With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167

Beginner Werewolf Food/Drink Buff

Bewitched Sugar Skulls

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Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. 

These effects are scaled based on your level.

Beginner Werewolf Potions

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Basic Stamina Potions

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Tri-Stat Potions

Beginner Werewolf Skills

1. Deafening Roar
2. Feral Pounce
3. Hircine’s Rage
4. Howl Of Agony
5. Claws Of Life
6. ULT: Werewolf Berserker

Beginner Werewolf Skills Explanation

1. Deafening Roar: this is an important debuff as it reduces enemy Armor via Major Breach, making all of your skills do increased damage.
2. Feral Pounce: excellent gap closer which can be recast to apply a DOT to your enemies. Can also extend your time in werewolf form.
3. Hircine’s Rage: this skill heals you and restores resources while also increasing your damage if you are at full health.
4. Howl Of Agony: this is our main DPS spammable attack which does big damage.
5. Claws Of Life: use this ability to apply a damage over time effect to enemies while also giving your self some extra healing.
6. ULT: Werewolf Berserker: this must be slotted to transform into a Werewolf.

Beginner Werewolf Important Passives

1. Power Stone
2. Unholy Knowledge
3. Blood Rage
4. Savage Strength
5. Pursuit
6. Call Of The Pack
7. Wind Walker
8. Agility
9. Dexterity

Werewolf 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, which is my recommended class for Werewolf, plan to use 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

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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

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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.

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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