ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build

This guide explains how to use the best Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Stamina Nightblade PvP Build, skills, gear, champion points, and more!

This build has been updated for the Updated 42, the Gold Road Chapter of the Elder Scrolls Online (ESO).

Stamina Nightblade PvP Gameplay in ESO

The Stamina Nightblade (Stamblade) in ESO PvP offers remarkable burst damage potential and exceptional versatility in playstyle. However, these strengths come with a steep learning curve and significant reliance on stealth mechanics. You’ll want to play this build if you want a stealthy rogue to take a hit up close and get away like a thief in the night.

We recommend playing as a Vampire in Stage 3 to take advantage of two passives. Strike from the Shadow gives you a boost in Weapon damage when leaving stealth. Along with Undeath making you very tanky the lower your health gets. While vampires make you much “tankier,” keep in mind it’s at the expense of having weaker resource sustainment.

Nightblade Class Pros

• Best Burst: The Stamblade boasts the highest burst damage output, making it ideal for ganking, brawling, or utilizing the Asylum staff with Force Pulse. This burst potential allows for quick and decisive takedowns of opponents.
• Stealth: Nightblades excel in stealth mechanics, offering constant access to this unique skill. This ability to remain hidden allows players to avoid unwanted engagements and choose their battles strategically.
• Versatile Playstyle: Whether you prefer ranged or melee combat, or even a bow-based approach, the Stamblade excels in all forms of PvP. Its adaptability allows for various tactical approaches, ensuring dominance in any situation.

Nightblade Class Cons

• Complexity: Playing a Nightblade requires a high skill cap and deep knowledge of ESO PvP mechanics. Mastering the class’s intricacies, including stealth mechanics and burst rotations, can still be challenging for less experienced players.

Playing a Stamina Nightblade in PvP revolves around leveraging your burst damage, stealth capabilities, and adaptability to outmaneuver and outmatch your opponents. Whether engaging in close-quarters combat, launching surprise attacks from stealth, or picking off enemies from range, the key is to strike swiftly and decisively.

ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build Features and Mechanics

Below are some of the features found using the ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build in the Elder Scrolls Online:

• Class – Nightblade
• Weapon One – Two-Handed
• Weapon Two – Bow
• Armor Types: 2 Light, 3 Medium, 2 Heavy
• Race: Khajit
• Infection: Vampire (stage 3)
• Attributes: 32 Health, 32 Stamina
• Mundus Stone: Shadow
• Best Grimoires: Vault, Soul Burst

Skills

Skill Set 1 Front Bar

Merciless Resolve (Morph of Grim Focus | Skill Line : Assassination) – Maintain this buff at all costs as it increases your weapon damage for each stack. You can also proc the 5-stack shot and fully-charge heavy attack from stealth to proc a “follow-up” 10% extra damage from the two-handed and fire it off. This will essentially nuke a player not even using an ultimate. Moreover, you want to be in range for the extra healing benefit.

Power Extraction (Morph of Drain Power | Skill Line : Siphoning) – Gives major buff and minor buff so it’s actually better than rally. Only downside is you will have to heal yourself purely from the back bar.

Camouflaged Hunter (Morph of Expert Hunter | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – Slotting this skill gives us increase critical chance, weapon damage and ultimate on kills via Fighters Guild passives. Moreover, it’s a great counter gank if you activate it going against another nightblade. Consider this your flex spot if you want a gap closer or something else.

Surprise Attack (Morph of Veiled Strike | Skill Line : Shadow) – Stamina main spammable that can be replaced with Concealed Weapon if you can sustain magicka.

Whirling Blades (Morph of Whirlwind | Skill Line : Dual Wield) – Flex skill but big AoE kills. Killer Blades better for single target kill.

Incapacitating Strike (Morph of Death Stroke | Skill Line : Assassination) – Single target nuke combined with fully charge from heavy attack still works well. Switch to Dawnbreaker if you want more AoE.

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Back Bar

Leeching Strikes (Morph of Siphoning Strikes | Skill Line : Siphoning) – Sustain tool keep up at all times. When active each light and heavy attack gives back stamina. Consider this your flex for bow ability or stun.

Magnum Shot (Morph of Scatter Shot | Skill Line : Bow) – Used as our stunning tool that can be followed up with hard-hitting Incap ult.

Shadowy Disguise (Morph of Shadow Cloak | Skill Line : Shadow) – Land a crit at will and stealth away. Take the other morph if you want no cloak but better healing.

Healthy Offering (Morph of Malevolent Offering | Skill Line : Siphoning) – Amazing burst heal combined with resolving vigor for great survivability.

Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill Line : Assault) – Burst heal over time.

Swarming Scion (Morph of Blood Scion | Skill Line : Vampire) – Defensive ultimate that instantly heals you to full Health, provides AoE damage and you additionally heal for 15% of all damage you deal.

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Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build

Vault and Soul Burst are the two best Grimoires (skills) for a Stamina Nightblade PvP build. Traveling Knife gives you a ranged bleed attack that acts like Rending Slashes but doesn’t require Master Dual Wield to be effective. Moreover, Traveling Knife can be given a stun in the focus script for classes lacking a ranged stun. Soul Burst is also a helpful crowd control and buff skill. You can immobilize, pull, or snare targets and get your favorite minor buffs.  Below are the suggested combination of Grimoires, focus, signature, and affix scripts:

• Vault (bow) – Immobilize (focus script), Thief’s Swiftness (signature scripts), and Evasion (affix script)
• Soul Burst (soul magic) – Immobilize or Pull (focus script), Class Mastery or Hunter’s Snare (signature script), Courage or Expedition (Affix Script)

The Scribing System utilizes one of 11 new skills from the Gold Road Chapter called Grimoires. With Grimoires, you can customize spells via Scripts. The scribing feature requires the purchase of the Gold Road Chapter (sponsored link). To learn more about scribing, check out our full guide here.

Passives Skills

Consider taking all of the passives in the below skill trees to increase your ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP performance without slotting any skills:

• Assassination (Class Skill Line)
• Shadow (Class Skill Line)
• Siphoning (Class Skill Line)
• Dual Wield (Weapon Skill Line)
• Bow (Weapon Skill Line)
• Armor
• Fighter’s Guild
• Mage’s Guild
• Undaunted
• Psijic Guild
• Alchemy Medicinal
• Race
• Assault Alliance
• Alliance Support
• Vampire

Gear – Best in Slot

This is best for solo play with high survivability and burst using the ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Balorgh	Well-Fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	Balorgh	Well-Fitted	Stamina
Chest	Heavy	Trainee	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	Medium	Night Mother’s Gaze	Well-Fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	Medium	Night Mother’s Gaze	Well-Fitted	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Night Mother’s Gaze	Well-Fitted	Stamina
Belt	Light	Rallying Cry	Well-Fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Night Mother’s Gaze	Nirnhoned	Disease
Off-Hand	Mace	Night Mother’s Gaze	Charged	Damage Health
Weapon Two	Bow	Rallying Cry	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Rallying Cry	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Markyn Ring of Majesty	Infused	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Swift	Weapon Damage

Gear Sets

• Balorgh: Obtained in March of Sacrifice Veteran dungeon. Gives the most burst potential centered around our incap burst combo.
• Markyn Ring of Majesty: Obtained through Mythic System click here for lead locations. Great damage and armor without being slowed.
• Night Mother’s Gaze: Obtained by crafting, 6 traits. Playing 1vX you get way more damage with major breach when you can’t fit it on your bar.
• Rallying Cry: Obtained via Rewards of the Worthy from PvPing or through guild traders. Provides the best damage reduction with massive weapon and spell damage.

Alternatives

• Gaze of Sithis: Mythic option that makes you much tankier though lacks the “ultimate” burst setup.
• Roksa the Warped: Amazing resource sustain monster helm.
• Essence thief: Great sustain and healing potential.
• Order’s Wrath: Good craftable option.
• Clever Alchemist: Insane burst potential, but I’d run mythic on jewelry and back bar this with a slightly different setup.
• Stygian: Good overland set if using cloak frequently.
• Shadow of the Red Mountain: Good burst ganking set.
• Stuhn’s Favor: Great penetration 5pc if not using AoE proc set.
• Back-Alley Gourmand: Light armor set that can be front bar for max burst.
• Ashen Grip: Good craftable proc set.

Gear – Ganker

This is used if you want to gank one-shot kills with the Stamblade Build Gear Setup:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Light	Balorgh	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	Balorgh	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Stygian	Divines	Prismatic
Legs	Medium	Stygian	Divines	Prismatic
Gloves	Medium	Stygian	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Stygian	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Stygian	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Shadow of the Red Mountain	Sharpened	Damage Health
Secondary	Dagger	Shadow of the Red Mountain	Precise	Damage Health
Weapon Two	Bow	Perfected Caustic Arrow	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Shadow of the Red Mountain	Infused	Prismatic Recovery
Ring 1		Shadow of the Red Mountain	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Shadow of the Red Mountain	Swift	Weapon Damage

NOTE: On armor weight, run 2x light if you’re stage 3 vampire to support resource sustain issue with a lot of magicka skills.

Monster Helm

• Balorgh: Obtained in March of Sacrifice Veteran dungeon. Gives the most burst potential centered around our incap burst combo.
• Stygian: Obtained in overland Coldharbour or from guild trader.
• Shadow of the Red Mountain: Overland set obtained in Stonefalls zone or from guild traders.
• Perfected Caustic Arrow: Obtained from Veteran Dragon Star Arena. Used to put a lot of pressure on a single target.

FLEX OPTION

1. Gaze of Sithis: Mythic option that makes you much tankier though lacks the “ultimate” burst setup.
2. Magma Incarnate: Good all-around damage, sustain and resistances.
3. Zoal the Ever-Wakeful: Counter gank.

Skill – Bomber

Front Bar: Bomber

• Ambush (Morph of Teleport Strike | Skill line: Assassination) – Pull with Rush of Agony.
• Mass Hysteria (Morph of Aspect of Terror | Skill line: Shadow) – AoE stuff.
• Camouflaged Hunter (Morph of Expert Hunter | Skill line: Fighters Guild) – Crit Buff.
• Concealed Weapon (Morph of Veiled Strike | Skill line: Shadow) – Buff our bars damage and spammable.
• Power Extraction (Morph of Drain Power | Skill line: Siphoning) – AoE damage spammable.
• Soul Tether (Morph of Soul Shred | Skill line: Siphoning) – AOE nuke ultimate.

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Back Bar: Bomber

• Twisting Path (Morph of Path of Darkness | Skill line: Shadow) – Buffs Concealed on the front and speed.
• Leeching Strikes (Morph of Siphoning Strikes | Skill line: Siphoning) – Resource sustain, flex skill.
• Phantasmal Escape (Morph of Blur | Skill line: Assassination) – Aoe damage reduction
• Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill line: Assault) – Healing over time.
• Healthy Offering (Morph of Malevolent Offering | Skill line: Siphoning) – Burst heal.
• Temporal Guard (Morph of Undo | Skill line: Psijic Order) – Slotted for damage reduction.

Gear – Bomber

Use it if you want big massive AoE Group kills.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Light	Balorgh	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	Balorgh	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Light	Plaguebreak	Divines	Prismatic
Legs	Light	Plaguebreak	Divines	Prismatic
Gloves	Light	Plaguebreak	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Light	Plaguebreak	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Light	Plaguebreak	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Rush of Agony	Precise	Damage Health
Secondary	Dagger	Rush of Agony	Precise	Damage Health
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Blessing of the Potentates	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Rush of Agony	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Rush of Agony	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Rush of Agony	Infused	Weapon Damage

• Balorgh: Gives us the most bang for the buck and you can save up 500 ultimate for a total nuclear bomb.
• Rush of Agony: Gives a pull instantly on gap closer, fear, soul tether and power extraction is combo.
• Plaguebreak: Great medium armor set for bombing.
• Blessing of the Potentates: Good damage reduction on back bar.

Gear – No Proc PvP

Meant for specific rule sets using the Stamblade PvP 1vX Build Gear Setup inside Cyrodiil and Imperial City:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Magma Incarnate	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	Light	New Moon Acolyte	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Order’s Wrath	Divines	Prismatic
Legs	Medium	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	Medium	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Order’s Wrath	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	New Moon Acolyte	Sharpened	Disease
Off-Hand	Axe	New Moon Acolyte	Nirn	Damage Health
Weapon Two	Bow	New Moon Acolyte	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Torc of Tonal Constancy	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		New Moon Acolyte	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		New Moon Acolyte	Swift	Weapon Damage

• Magma Incarnate: Monster Set – helmet obtained from Veteran Dread Cellar dungeon (Blackwood zone), Waking Flame DLC. Shoulders obtained from Vendor: Urgarlag Chief-bane (Undaunted Pledge Master). Great sustain for a one-piece item set.
• Order’s Wrath: Craftable set in High Isle Zone, High Isle DLC or bought from traders. Strong damage set that gives extra Critical chance, greatly beneficial on Nightblade PvP.
• New Moon Acolyte: Craftable set in Southern Elsweyr zone, Dragonhold DLC. Huge damage increase for no proc PvP.
• Torc or Tonal Constancy: Obtained from Mythics system. The best value for resource sustain and works in no proc.

Race

The best race choices for PvP Stamblade:

1. Khajiit: Best overall due to burst critical damage bonus.
2. Orc: Gain weapon damage and max stamina and increase movement speed.
3. Dark Elf: Good max stats and weapon and spell damage.

Attributes

You should aim to reach 32,000 health, and therefore, we recommend 32 health and 32 stamina attribute split.

Mundus Stone

Shadow is the best mundus stone because it provides critical damage, which adds to burst damage.

Champion Points – ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Steed’s Blessing	Fighting Finesse	Refreshing Stride
War Mount	Deadly Aim	Pain’s Refuge
Gifted Rider	Master-at-Arms	Celerity
Liquid Efficiency	Ironclad	Survival Instincts

Warfare Constellation Champion Points

Below is a step-by-step method for slotting your champion points in the Warfare tree (blue). We have used the minimum possible to reach 4 slottable selections all maxed out. If you have more CP, consider taking more in the passives for optimal performance.

Below are recommended Warfare Champion Point selections for the ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP:

1. Precision 10
2. Fighting finesse (slottable) 50
3. Extended might – sub constellation – piercing 10
4. Deadly aim (slottable) 50
5. Master’s – at–arms (slottable) 50
6. Tireless discpline 10
7. Staving death – sub constellation – quick recovery 10
8. Staving death – sub constellation – Ironclad (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 240 CP (720 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Precision 10
2. Piercing 10
3. Tireless discipline 10
4. Eldritch insight 20
5. Blessed 20
6. Quick recovery 10
7. Battle mastery 40
8. Mighty 30
9. Flawless ritual 40
10. War mage 30
11. Elemental aegis 20
12. Hardy 20
13. Preparation 20

This would max out the Warfare tree with all active and passive champion points at 520 spent 1,560 total spent.

Fitness Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Fitness Champion Point selections for the ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP:

1. Sprinter 10
2. Wind chaser – sub constellation – hasty 8
3. Wind chaser – sub constellation – refreshing stride (slottable) 50
4. Wind chaser – sub constellation – celerity (slottable) 50
5. Hero’s vigar 10
6. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation – mystic tenacity 10
7. Survivor’s spite – sub constellation –  pain’s refuge (slottable) 50
8. Survival instincts 50 (slottable)

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 238 CP (714 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Hero’s vigar 10
2. Tumbling 30
3. Sprinter 10
4. Defiance 10
5. Hasty 8
6. Tireless guardian 20
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble 6
9. Mystic tenacity 40
10. Tempered soul 50
11. Piercing gaze 30
12. Savage defense  30
13. Bashing brutality 20

This would max out the fitness tree with all active passive champion points at 532 cp spent 1,596 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Craft Champion Point selections for the ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP:

1. Steed’s blessing – (slottable) 50
2. Breakfall 10
3. Wanderer 15
4. Steadfast 10
5. Rationer 10
6. Liquid efficiency (slottable) 75
7. Treasure hunter 50
8. Master gatherer 15
9. Gifted rider (slottable) 100
10. War mount (slottable) 120

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 455CP (1365 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance.

1. Steadfast enchantment 40cp
2. Breakfall 40 cp
3. Wanderer 60
4. Fortunes favor 10
5. Friends in low places 25
6. Out of sight 30
7. Fleet of Phantom 40
8. Soul’s Reservoir 33
9. Gilded fingers 50
10. Fortunes favor 40
11. Inspiration boost 45
12. Infamous 30

This would max out the crafting tree with all active, passive champion points at 898 cp spent, 2,694 total spent.

Consumables – ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP Build

The best consumables for the Stamina Nightblade PvP build are Bewitched Sugar Skulls food and Essence of Health tri-stat potions. Bewitched Sugar Skulls give a massive boost to overall stats but sacrifices recovery. If you struggle with recovery, use Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch or cheaper Jewels of Misrule. The essence of health or Tri-stat potions is the best to passively give you a flood of resources and tri-recovery with alchemy medicinal use. Immovability potions are also helpful. Below are our recommended food and potion choices:

• Bewitched Sugar Skulls: Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Max Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. Ingredients: Scrib Jelly, Flour, Columbine, Bervez Juice, and Honey.
  • Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch (recovery): Increase Max Health, Health Recovery, and Stamina and Magicka Recovery (effects are scaled based on your level). Ingredients: Red Meat, Tomato, White Cap, Frost Mirriam, and Perfect Roe.
  • Jewels of Misrule (cheap): Increase Stamina and Magicka Recovery and Max Health for 2 hours. Ingredients: Rose, Mint, Lotus, Columbine, and Bervez Juice.
• Essence of Health (tri-stat): Restore 7329 Health, 6618 Magicka, and 6618 Stamina immediately. Grants Major Fortitude, Major Intellect, and Major Endurance, which increase your Health Recovery, Magicka Recovery, and Stamina Recovery by 20% for 31.7 seconds. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower.
  • Essecene of Immovability: Restores health and stamina and is immune to knockback effects. Ingredients Namria’s Rot, Columbine, and Mountain Flower.
• Escapist’s Poison IX: Immobilizes your target and grants you unstoppable, rendering you immune to control effects for 1.6 seconds. Ingredients: Columbine, Namira’s Rot, Wormwood.

Build Summary – ESO Stamina Nightblade PvP

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