ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build

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

This build has been updated for the Update 42 patch of the Elder Scrolls Online.

Why Should You Play the ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build?

The ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build is for players who are looking to complete group content on a class that offers insane damage as well as great survivability. The Stam Sorc is the hardest hitting single target class in the game right now, and they got even better with Gold Road. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or seasoned player, there is a build option for you!

ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build Playstyle

Use the following rotation as the starter point. After, apply your buffs and cast the DoT skills on cooldown for the best, highest DPS. In total, the Damage over Time skills (DoTs) do more damage than your main spammable. Thus, they need to be cast less often and are easier to maintain, for example, The Degeneration from the Mages Guild or the Barb Trap from Fighters Guild. Maintain DoTs and use your spammable skill as filler until you need to reapply the DoTS.

At certain percentages, replace your spammable with your in-class or weapon execute if you have one in this build. Executes are the skills that deal more damage the lower the health of the opponent becomes. Ideally, these are meant to replace your main spammable skill at anywhere between 35% (Radiant Oppression) all the way to 20% (Mages’ Fury). At a high level, execute skills become so strong that the lower the enemy’s health, the fewer DoTs you maintain because it does so much damage.

Use the healing skill when your health drops below 50% or the shield skill when you anticipate damage. Also, always use the suggested food and potions as they significantly increase your damage, survivability, and resource sustain.

If you run out of resources, do a heavy attack and return to your rotation. Remember that a heavy attack on off-balance enemies will return double the resources. Additionally, if you are a beginner or struggle with sustain, you can flex in the Consuming Trap skill instead of a DoT skill. The Consuming Trap gives you a flood of both resources when a target dies.

ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build Features and Mechanics

Below are some of the features found using the One Bar PvE Stamina Sorcerer in the Elder Scrolls Online:

• Class – Sorcerer
• Weapon One – Dual Wield
• Weapon Two – Two-Handed
• Armor Types: 6 Medium, 1 Light
• Mythic: Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet
• Race: Dark Elf
• Attributes: 64 Stamina
• Mundus Stone: Thief
• Best Grimoires: Ulfsild’s Contingency, Traveling Knife, Soul Burst

Skills 1 – Front Bar

Front Bar – Dual Wield

Front Bar Weapon choice options:

1. Dual Wield
2. Two-handed
3. Bow

Whirling Blades (Morph of Whirlwind | Skill Line : Dual Wield) – AoE damage that acts as an execute, dealing more damage to enemies below 50% health

Crystal Fragments (Morph of Crystal Shard | Skill Line : Dark Magic) – This is your main spammable which you can recast instantly when proc’d.

Daedric Prey (Morph of Daedric Curse | Skill Line : Daedric Summoning) – Damage ability that gives massive damage boost to our pets. Bound Armaments is another good option here.

Summon Volatile Familiar (Morph of Summon Unstable Familiar | Skill Line : Daedric Summoning) – Huge damage and boost to single target and AoE damage.

Summon Twilight Matriarch (Morph of Summon Winged Twilight | Skill Line : Daedric Summoning) – Great self and group heal.

Flawless Dawnbreaker (Morph of Dawnbreaker | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – The performance of Dawnbreaker is very good now that it grants a massive spell damage boost of 300 for 20 seconds. Not to mention added spell damage from Fighters guild, Slayer passive. This is a great ultimate to use that’s low cost.

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Back Bar – Flame Staff

Back Bar Weapon choice options:

1. Fire Destruction Staff
2. Two Handed
3. Bow

Blockade of Fire (Morph of Wall of Elements | Skill Line : Destruction Staff) – AoE deals magic damage plus additional effect depending on type of staff

Hurricane (Morph of Lightning Form | Skill Line : Storm Calling) – AoE Dot, armor buff, and mobility.

Anti Cavalry Caltrops (Morph of Caltrops | Skill Line : Assault) – Causes physical damage, movement reduction, and stamina drain.

Summon Volatile Familiar (Morph of Summon Unstable Familiar | Skill Line : Daedric Summoning) – Double bar to keep active.

Summon Twilight Matriarch (Morph of Summon Winged Twilight | Skill Line : Daedric Summoning) – Double bar to keep active.

Summon Charged Atronach (Morph of Summon Storm Atronach | Skill Line : Daedric Summoning) – Strongest single target ulimate for Sorc.

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Scribing Skills – ESO PvE Stamina Sorcerer Build

The best grimoires for a Stamina Sorcerer PvE build are Ulfsild’s Contingency, Traveling Knife, and Soul Burst. Contingency gives you a large radius burst of damage as well as a long DoT. Setting Contingency up with shock damage modifiers gives you the greatest dps increase for aoe fights, but this skill isn’t really worth using in more single target encounters. Traveling Knife is another great grimoire for the Sorcerer that does great damage, and Soul Burst is your go-to aoe grimoire for no-pet trash builds. Below are the suggested combination of Grimoires, focus, signature, and affix scripts:

• Ulfsild’s Contingency: Shock Damage (Focus Script), Lingering Torment (Signature Script), Minor Vulnerability (Affix Script)
• Traveling Knife: Bloody (Focus Script), Warrior’s Opportunity (Signature Script), Major Savagery/Prophecy (Affix Script)
• Soul Burst: Shocking Burst (Focus Script), Class Mastery (Signature Script), Minor Breach (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). If you wish to know more about Scribing, check out our full guide here.

Rotation and Parse

Stamina Sorcerer is still the hardest hitting class on the dummy this patch. The only changes you would make to this build on the target dummy is to swap out Crystal Fragments for Bound Armaments and run Stampede and Carve on the backbar with a Maelstrom Greatsword instead of Blockade and Caltrops. You’ll also want to run Weapon Power Potions to source your major damage buffs. You can also change your Atronach morph to Greater Atronach for high single target dps.

You can also change your Twilight morph to Tormentor, getting a little more damage at the start of the fight, but losing the heal, especially in dungeons, isn’t the best idea for a negligible damage increase.

Parsing on the Sorcerer is relatively straight forward. You pre-buff Hurricane>Volatile Familiar to start the fight. Then you open with Daedric Prey>Bar Swap>Blockade>Atronach>Hurricane>Bar Swap>Whirling Blades then you’re casting Crystal Fragments only when you get a frag proc and making sure you cast Daedric Prey every six seconds. You can watch Daedric Prey explode as it expires, allowing you to recast it. If you recast Daedric Prey early, you’ll miss out on that final damage explosion, cutting the dps of the skill in half.

Crystal Fragments Explained

One thing you can change in content that will help your group is to start every fight by casting a regular Crystal Fragments. The reason we run Crystal Fragments in content over Bound Armaments is we don’t have another Dark Magic ability on our bar. Through the passive Exploitation, every time you cast a Dark Magic ability, you give your group Minor Prophecy for 20 seconds. This increases the spell critical chance of your group. Your group will lose out on this buff, assuming there is not another Sorcerer in group, until you get a Crystal Fragments proc, so casting this as the tank is pulling the boss can give your group this buff from the moment you pull the boss. If there is another sorcerer in group, you can run bound Armaments instead, casting it every time it stacks up for four for a dps increase over Crystal Fragments.

One other thing you can do to increase your dps is to only cast Volatile Familiar when you are on your front bar. Crystal Fragments procs every time you spend resources on your front bar, so you have a chance at another frag proc if you recast your Familiar on that bar. You’ll want to cast your frag proc every time as a priority over other skills.

Passives Skills

Below are passive skill lines that add power without requiring a skill slot while playing the ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build. Consider taking all the skill passives in the skill tree listed below:

• Dark Magic (class skill line)
• Daedric Summoning (class skill line)
• Storm Calling (class skill line)
• Dual Wield (weapon skill line)
• Flame Staff (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Undaunted
• Fight’s Guild
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use

Gear – Best in Slot

The gear chart below represents the best gear for ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Aegis Caller	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Light	Slimecraw	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Perfected Ansuul’s Torment	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Medium	Perfected Ansuul’s Torment	Divines	Stamina
Gloves	Medium	Perfected Ansuul’s Torment	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Perfected Ansuul’s Torment	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Perfected Ansuul’s Torment	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Aegis Caller	Charged	Fire
Secondary	Dagger	Aegis Caller	Charged	Poison
Weapon Two	Flame Staff	Perfected Crushing Wall	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet	Bloodthirsty	Weapon/Spell Damage
Ring 1		Aegis Caller	Bloodthirsty	Weapon/Spell Damage
Ring 2		Aegis Caller	Bloodthirsty	Weapon/Spell Damage

Monster Helms and Mythic

Velothi Ur-Mages Amulet: Mythic item requiring the Antiquies system and Necrom Chapter. Requires five leads; find them here. Incredibly strong passive damage in the current meta.

Slimecraw: Obtained in Wayrest Sewers I Veteran dungeon and Maj Undaunted Vendor. Gives us the highest critical chance for a one-piece item.

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Harpooner’s Wading Kilt Set = Great mythic if avoiding damage and can keep the stacks up.
2. Mora’s Whisper = This provides up to 10% critical chance but requires collections of Mages Guild Books on your specific character.
3. Death Dealer’s Fete = Is a great option because it boosts max stats with zero downsides.

Gear Sets

Aegis Caller: Dungeon set that drops in Unhallowed Grave, Harrowstorm DLC. Passive Bleed damage and good bonuses for martial melee build.

Perfected Ansuul’s Torment: Obtained in Sanity’s Edge, Necrom Chapter Trial. It is the best overall damage-dealing set that comes in medium armor. If you struggle with resources, you can swap to a light armor setup but it will be less damage.

Perfected Crushing Wall: From Veteran Maelstrom Arena in Orsinium. Increase your overall DPS due to the ability of the wall of elements and more damage.

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Pillar of Nirn: Obtained in Falkreath Hold dungeon, Horns of the Reach DLC.
2. Perfect Whorl of the Depths: Trial set found in Dreadsail Reef, High Isle chapter.
3. Kinra’s Wrath = Dungeon set that drops in Black Drake Villa, Flames of Ambition DLC.
4. Perfected Arms of Relequen = the bust pure damage set in the game.
5. Perfected Coral Riptide = god tier damage if you run low stamina (dodge roll a bit before pull)
6. Order’s Wrath = great craftable option though watch for too much critical damage (125% cap)
7. Leviathan = easy base game dungeon set with high critical

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Gear – Beginner

Starter setup for someone just starting ESO.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Briarheart	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Medium	Briarheart	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Hunding’s Rage	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Medium	Hunding’s Rage	Divines	Stamina
Gloves	Medium	Hunding’s Rage	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Hunding’s Rage	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Hunding’s Rage	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Agility	Precise or Sharpened	Damage Health Poison
Secondary	Dagger	Agility	Precise or Sharpened	Damage Health Poison
Weapon Two	2H Greatsword	Agility	Infused	Weapon & Spell Damage
Necklace		Briarheart	Robust	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Briarheart	Robust	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Briarheart	Robust	Weapon Damage

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• Briarheart: obtained in overland Wrothgar (Orsinium DLC) or from traders. WHY? great burst damage and nice healing and easy to obtain set.
• Hunding’s Rage: craftable 6 traits, crafting stations found in Bangkorai, Reaper’s March, The Rift. WHY? Craftable set that has well-balanced stats.
• Agility: found in Imperial City with keys or Dungeon Finder via random dungeons and or traders sell. WHY? easy to obtain with massive stats as a two-piece set.

Race

The best racial choice for the ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build is below:

1. Dark Elf: Gain max magicka, stamina, and weapon and spell damage. The flame resistance is also helpful and considered the strongest overall PVE DPS race.
2. Orc: Gain max stamina, health, and weapon and spell damage. Also reduces the cost of sprint and increases your movement speed.
3. Khajiit: This race gets recovery, max stats, and critical damage and healing. Consider the Khajiit a great option if you aren’t over the critical cap of 125%.

Attributes

The best Attribute point choice for the ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build is 64 points into Stamina. This will increase your damage, healing and shields.

Mundus Stone

The Thief is the best Mundus Stone for PvE Builds because it gives Increases Weapon and Spell Critical Strike a chance.

Champion Points – ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Treasure Hunter	Fighting Finesse	Bloody Renewal
Liquid Efficiency	Deadly Aim	Boundless Vitality
Gifted Rider	Master-at-Arms	Rejuvenation
Steed’s Blessing	Wrathful Strikes	Fortified

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 Sorcerer PvE Build:

1. Precision 10
2. Wrathful Strikes (slottable) 50
3. Fighting Finesse (slottable) 50
4. Extended Might – sub constellation – piercing 10
5. Deadly Aim (slottable) 50
6. Master – at- Arms (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 220 CP (660 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 20
4. Eldritch insight 20
5. Blessed 20
6. Quick recovery 20
7. Flawless ritual 40
8. War mage 30
9. Battle mastery 40
10. Mighty 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 Sorcerer PvE Build:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Boundless vitality (slottable) 50
3. Rejuvenation (slottable) 50
4. Sprinter 10
5. Winder chaser – sub con – hasty 8
6. Hero’s Vigor 10
7. Bloody Renewal (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 228 CP (684 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Hero’s Vigor 10
2. Tumbling 30
3. Sprinter 10
4. Defiance 20
5. Hasty 8
6. Tireless guardian 20
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble 6
9. Mystic tenacity 50
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 542 cp spent and 1,626 total spent.

Craft Constellation Champion Points

Below are recommended Craft Champion Point selections for the ESO Stamina Sorcerer PvE Build:

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

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 370CP (1110 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. Rationer 10
6. Friends in low places 25
7. Out of sight 30
8. Fleet of Phantom 40
9. Soul’s Reservoir 33
10. Gilded fingers 50
11. Fortunes favor 40
12. Inspiration boost 45
13. Infamous 30

This would max out the crafting tree with all active passive champion points at 823 cp spent 2,469 total spent.

Consumables

The best consumables for the Stamina Sorcerer PvE build are Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables and Spell Power Potions. Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables gives a massive amount of health and stamina, stats that give you both the most survivability and damage of any other consumable. If you struggle with stamina sustain, you could switch to Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne as a cheaper option. These both give up some stamina and health for stamina sustain.

For your potions, your build doesn’t source your major weapon/spell damage and crit buffs, so you need to bring those buffs on your potions. We have spell power potions here because as a Sorcerer, you will always bring Minor Prophecy to the group, and your critical chance scales off of whichever is higher, your weapon or spell crit. In a group, Nightblades provide the group with Minor Savagery, so if you have a Nightblade in group, you could run either Weapon Power Potions or Spell Power Potions. If you do end up running Traveling Knife with Major Savagery and Prophecy as an Affix, you can run tri-pots.

• Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables: Increase Max Health by 5395 and Max Stamina by 4936 for 1.5 hours. Ingredients: Greens (1), Seasoning (1), Small Game (1).
  • Artaeum Takeaway Broth: Increase Max Health by 3326, Health Recovery by 406, Max Stamina by 3080, and Stamina Recovery by 338 for 2 hours. Ingredients: Fish (20), Melon (5), Powdered Mother of Pearl (5), Torchbug Thorax (5).
• Essence of Spell Power: Restore 7582 Magicka immediately. Grants you Major Intellect which increases your Magicka Recovery by 30%. Grants Major Sorcery which increases your Spell Damage by 20%. Grants Major Prophecy which gives you 2629 Spell Critical Rating. Ingredients: Lady Smock, Corn Flower, and Water Hyacinthe.

Build Summary – ESO PvE Stamina Sorcerer

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