ESO Stamina Templar PvE Build

This guide explains how to use the best Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Stamina Templar PvE 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.

Why Should You Play the ESO Stamina Templar PvE Build?

The ESO Stamina Templar PvE Build is for players looking to complete group content with a stamina class. The ESO Stamina, Templar PvE build, offers insane single-target and AOE damage. Templars generally have great tool kits for self-heals, and the rotation for Stamina Templars or Stamplars is one of the easier classes to learn in the game, so they’re a great option for newer players.

ESO Stamina Templar PvE Build Features and Mechanics

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

• Class – Templar
• Attribute: Stamina
• Weapon One – Dual Wield
• Weapon Two – Bow
• 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, Torchbearer

Use the following rotation as the starter point. After, apply your buffs and cast the DoT skills on cooldown for the best, highest DPS. 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 Mages Guild or the Barb Trap from Fighters Guild. Maintain DoTs and use your spammable skill as filler until you reapply the DoTS.

Replace your spammable with your in-class or weapon, and execute at certain percentages if you have one in this build. Executes are the skills that deal more damage and lower the opponent’s health. Ideally, these will replace your main spammable skill at anywhere between 40% (Radiant Oppression) 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.

Survival:

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.

Skills 1 – Front Bar

Front Bar – Dual Wield

Front Bar Weapon choice options:

1. Dual Wield
2. Two-handed

Biting Jabs (Morph of Puncturing Strikes | Skill Line : Aedric Spear) – Main spammable, use when all your DoTs are applied, Swap to beam at or around 40%.

Power of the Light (Morph of Backlash | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Great single target damage ability.

Radiant Glory (Morph of Radiant Destruction | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Ranged execute start using around 40% health. This morph heals you and gives you extra magicka.

Barbed Trap (Morph of Trap Beast | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – Great single target DoT that can trigger hemorrhage.

Deadly Cloak (Morph of Blade Cloak | Skill Line : Dual Wield) – Great damage in AoE and AoE damage reduction.

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. You actually want to switch to this ultimate during your execute.

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Back Bar – Bow

Back Bar Weapon choice options:

1. Bow
2. Two Handed
3. Flame Staff

Endless Hail (Morph of Volley | Skill Line : Bow) – Increased duration for this AoE ability.

Poison Injection (Morph of Poison Arrow | Skill Line : Bow) – Powerful damage over time with master’s bow buffs overall damage.

Ritual of Retribution (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill Line : Restoring Light) – AoE DoT and has a nice group synergy with it.

Vampire’s Bane (Morph of Sun Fire | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Deals damage and grants buff on cast with long duration.

Solar Barrage (Morph of Solar Flare | Skill Line : Dawn’s Wrath) – Powerful area damage and long duration.

Shooting Star (Morph of Meteor | Skill Line : Mages Guild) – Best single target ultimate.

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Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO PvE Stamina Templar Build

Ulfsild’s Contingency, Traveling Knife, and Torchbearer are the best Grimoires (skills) for the ESO PvE Stamina Templar Build  Contingency grants powerful area-based damage and buffs. Traveling Knife gives you a ranged bleed attack that does damage on the return. Torchbearer also gives you a good spammable when in melee range or if your class is single-target heavy. You can also use the Bow Vault skill as an immobilization or mobility tool. Below are the suggested combination of Grimoires, focus, signature, and affix scripts:

• Ulfsild’s Contingency (Mage Guild) – Flame Damage (focus script), Class Mastery (signature script), Vulnerability (Affix Script)
• Traveling Knife – Bleed (focus script), Lingering Torment (signature script), Berserk (Affix Script)
• Torchbearer (Fighters Guild) – Flame Damage (focus script), Class Mastery (signature script), 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).  To learn more about scribing, check out our full guide here.

Passives Skills

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

• Aedric Spear (class skill line)
• Dawn’s Wrath (class skill line)
• Restoring Light (class skill line)
• Dual Wield (weapon skill line)
• Bow (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Undaunted
• Fight’s Guild
• Mages Guild
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use

Rotation and Parse

Stamina Templar should deal slightly higher DPS than the Magicka Templar in this patch, similar to Update 41, because of how strong the Master’s Bow is alongside your Radiant Glory. Master’s Bow greatly boosts weapon and spell damage to targets affected by Poison Arrow. This pushes your execute damage through the roof.

You can even run Bow/Bow Templar with Stamina, moving the Master’s Bow to the front bar with Maelstrom Bow on your back bar. You can trade out Biting Jabs for Lethal Arrow and add Blazing Spear to your bar for the Piercing Spear passive Critical Damage.

To start this parse, pre-buff your Deadly Cloak>Solar Barage, then cast Shooting Star>Endless Hail>Bar Swap>Barbed Trap>Power of the Light>Bar Swap>Vampire’s Bane>Poison Injection>Ritual of Retribution>Bar Swap>then Biting Jabs spam, casting Power of the Light every sixth skill cast. You then just recast your DoTs as they fall off, and your skill priority stays the same until execute.

Templar Parse Explained

The key to a solid Templar parse is to time your execute correctly. The percentage on a boss where Radiant Destruction begins to overtake Biting Jabs in damage is around 40%. You can turn on health percentages in the settings to see the boss’s health percentage, and you’ll change your skill priority once you reach that point. From there, you apply every DoT as it falls off, while substituting beam instead of Sweeps.

At around 20%, you’ll reapply your DoTs one more time, ending with Poison Injection and Endless Hail, then keep beaming, only applying Power of the Light. If you have the ultimate for a Flawless Dawnbreaker, that will give you some weapon and spell damage to further push your beam damage, and you’ll stop applying Power of the light at 10%, beaming until the boss dies. If you can learn to time your abilities to where they are falling off as the boss dies, you’ll hit some crazy numbers in execute.

Gear – Optimal

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

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Deadly Strike	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	Deadly Strike	Charged	Fire
Secondary	Dagger	Deadly Strike	Charged	Shock
Weapon Two	Bow	Perfected Caustic Arrow	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Deadly Strike	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Deadly Strike	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

In PvE, high-end DPS builds, magicka, and stamina builds run similar gear setups, including medium armor. Medium is stronger in trials due to the passive bonuses. If you don’t play with the coordinate trials team, you can swap to Light, though it will suffer overall damage loss.

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.
4. Zaan – high DPS monster helm
5. Kra’gh – one pc is great for pen, two-piece does good single-target damage
6. Stormfist – always works, easy to obtain and  AoE DPS set.

Gear Sets

Deadly Strikes: These were obtained in Cyrodiil, Bruma Elite Gear Vendor. Incredible damage with damage over time and spammable execute skills.

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 Caustic Arrow: Found in Dragonstar Arena, upper craglorn. Used to buff overall damage with Venom Arrow.

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Perfected Coral Riptide: Great damage if resources are lowered.
2. Pillar of Nirn: great damage proc set.
3. Perfected Crushing Wall: flex back bar run inferno staff and Elemental Blockade instead.
4. Perfect Whorl of the Depths = another S tier proc damage set.
5. Perfected Arms of Relequen = the bust pure damage set in the game.
6. Perfected Coral Riptide = god tier damage if you run low stamina (dodge roll a bit before pull)
7. Order’s Wrath = great craftable option though watch for too much critical damage (125% cap)
8. 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	Bow	Agility	Infused	Weapon & Spell Damage
Necklace		Briarheart	Robust	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Briarheart	Robust	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Briarheart	Robust	Weapon Damage

FLEX OPTIONS FOR BEGINNERS

• 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 Stamina Templar 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 weapon damage and max stamina, though there is no magicka bonus.
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 choice is 64 stamina, which increases damage, healing, and DoTs.

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 Templar 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 Templar 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 Templar 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 Templar 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 – PvE Stamina Templar Build

The best consumables for the Stamina Templar PvE build are Artaeum Takeaway Broth and Essence of Health tri-stat potions. Artaeum Takeaway Broth gives health, stamina, and sustain, stats that give you a well-rounded mix. If you need the extra health, you could switch to Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables or Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice for more sustain. You really want a line of health on your food though, if possible.

For your potions, both of your major weapon/spell damage and critical chance buffs are sourced through the build, so you can run tri-pots. This gives you a large burst of resources when you need them. You can of course switch these out for heroism potions, but with Update 42, many groups can source Minor Heroism through group scribing skills instead.

• 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).
  • 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).
• 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.

Build Summary – ESO PvE Stamina Templar

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