ESO Stamina Warden PvE Build

This guide explains how to use the best Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Stamina Warden 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 Warden PvE Build?

The ESO Stamina Warden PvE build allows players to complete group content with a well-rounded class. This build has very high single target and aoe damage abilities and great sustain. Stamina Wardens are currently one of the hardest-hitting stamina classes in the game.

ESO Stamina Warden PvE Build Features and Mechanics

Below are some of the features found using the ESO Stamina Warden PvE Build:

• Class – Warden
• Attribute – Stamina
• 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, 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.

Survival:

You also have an execute in this build, which you’ll want to switch to on your back bar once your target reaches around 10%.

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

Front Bar – Dual Wield

Front Bar Weapon choice options:

1. Dual Wield
2. Frost Staff
3. Two-handed
4. Bow

Rapid Strikes (Morph of Flurry | Skill Line : Dual Wield) – Great single target damage for parsing. Switch to Whirling Blades for better damage in group content.

Subterranean Assault (Morph of Scorch | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – This morph becomes a stamina ability that does AoE poison damage.

Winter’s Revenge (Morph of Impaling Shards | Skill Line : Winter’s Embrace) – AoE DoT that can apply chilled status effect.

Barbed Trap (Morph of Trap Beast | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – A trap that immobilizes target, procs minor force buff and does good single target damage.

Deadly Cloak (Morph of Blade Cloak | Skill Line : Dual Wield) – Reduces damage from AoE and deals AoE in return.

Wild Guardian (Morph of Feral Guardian | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Strong single target ultimate that fights at your side. Remember to activate it for extra damage, when available, and slot it on both bars.

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Back Bar – Two Handed

1. Two Handed
2. Frost Staff
3. Dual-Wield
4. Bow

Stampede (Morph of Critical Charge | Skill Line : Two Handed) – Gap closer that does impact damage to target and AoE to surrounding enemies.

Carve (Morph of Cleave | Skill Line : Two Handed) – Main spammable that stacks DoT up to three. AoE damage and huge shield when hitting targets.

Fetcher Infection (Morph of Swarm | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Great damage over time ability.

Executioner (Morph of Reverse Slash | Skill Line : Two Handed) – Deals extra damage when enemy has less than 50% health.

Arctic Blast (Morph of Arctic Wind | Skill Line : Winter’s Embrace) – Great AoE damage, stun and burst heal.

Wild Guardian (Morph of Feral Guardian | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Strong single target ultimate that fights at your side. Remember to activate it for extra damage, when available, and slot it on both bars.

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Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO PvE Stamina Warden Build

Ulfsild’s Contingency, Traveling Knife, and Torchbearer are the best Grimoires (skills) for the ESO PvE Stamina Warden 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 skills lines that add power without requiring a skill slot while playing the ESO Stamina Warden PvE Build. Consider taking all the skill passives in the skill tree listed below:

• Winter’s Embrace (class skill line)
• Animal Companions (class skill line)
• Green Balance (class skill line)
• Dual-Wield (weapon skill line)
• Two-Handed (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Undaunted
• Fight’s Guild
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use

Rotation and Parse

With the new changes to status effects, Wardens are one of the most successful classes for keeping Hemmorhaging stacks up on the target, and the overall boost to status effect damage is great for the class. Unfortunately, Wardens still fall short in group content with Arcanists and DKs in the game, but Wardens can still hit very hard in the current meta. They are still viable in dungeon content where the group does not already have a Warden but is strongest in PvP in the current meta.

As for your rotation, you want to start by making sure your bear is summoned, then casting Deadly Cloak>Subterranean Assault>Guardian’s Savagery>engaging the boss>Barbed Trap>Bar Swap>Stampede>Carve>Fetcher>Bar Swap>Winter’s Revenge>Subterranean Assault>Bar Swap>Arctic Blast>Carve>Bar Swap>Rapid Strikes spam. Make sure you are casting Subterranean Assault every six casts, as you’ll lose a lot of dps if you recast this ability sooner, and you want to cast your ultimate every time it is off cooldown. As this build uses Carve, you will also want to stack that DoT up to three stacks and ensure that bleed does not fall off throughout the fight.

Stampede and Executioner

Stampede is another challenging skill for light attack weaving. When you Stampede, you must move immediately after your cast, or you will have a short delay before you cast another ability. I like to cast Stampede, jump to my target, and immediately walk backward just a step, so I stay within light attack range while adding in that movement to keep dealing damage.

The other unique part of this build is the Executioner on the back bar. Once you reach around 10-12%, you’ll want to start spamming Executioner to kill the boss quicker. If you can line your DoTs up to expire as the boss is dying, you’ll hit hard in execute. You can reapply Subterranean Assault one final time before bar swapping and using Executioner around 10% until your target dies.

Gear – Best in Slot

The gear chart below represents the best gear for ESO Stamina Warden 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	Frost Damage
Necklace		Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Aegis Caller	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Aegis Caller	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

Monster Helms and Mythic

Velothi Ur-Mages Amulet: Mythic item requiring the Antiquies system and Necrom Chapter. Requires five leads; find them here. There is extreme 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 an excellent 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 a 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: The trial set can be found in the 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 = a 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 Setup – 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	Frost Staff	Agility	Precise or Sharpened	Damage Health Poison
Weapon Two	2H Greatsword	Agility	Infused	Weapon 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 ESO Stamina Warden 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 Warden 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 Warden 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 Warden 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 Warden PvE Build:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Boundless vitality (slottable) 50
3. Rejuvenation (slottable) 50
4. Sprinter 10
5. Winder chaser – sub constellation – 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 Warden 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 Warden PvE build are Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables and Essence of Health tri-stat 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. Wardens have decent sustain, but you might run into some stamina issues. 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, 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.

• 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 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 Stamina Warden PvE Build

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