ESO Stamina Warden PvP Build

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

Why Should You Play ESO Stamina Warden PvP Build?

The Stamina is absolutely fantastic and, in the right hands, provides some of the best burst damage in the Elder Scrolls Online.  With the Stamden, you have flexibility in build choices, great healing, and high mobility.  What always holds the class back is resources sustain issues and most of the best skills require magicka not stamina including your main nuke Deep Fissure.

Another strength of the stamina warden is the class possesses innate buffs, like weapon/spell damage and critical. The class also has a massive armor pen with deep fissures and huge critical damage with a passive advanced species.  Making the Stamden the best for pure flexibility.  The two major downsides I see in the class are the constant need for buff cycling and the weak resource sustain.

Warden Class Pros

• Burst – Using Deep Fissure, Meteor, or Dawnbreaker, you can do some of the best burst damage in ESO PvP.
• Utility – You can argue that the Warden is the best PvP healer, offering great buffs and utility.
• Survival – With a high-health meta, the Warden shines with burst healing and healing over time capabilities.

Warden Class Cons

• Buff Cycling – most of your skills are just for buffs and increased damage requiring constant attention.
• Weak Sustain – like the Templar, your sustain is weaker than other classes.
• Complex Timing – timing Deep Fissure, Dizzy Swing, and Dawnbreaker is complex and difficult to pull off.

Stamina Warden PvP Build Features and Mechanics

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

• Class – Warden
• Weapon One – Two-Handed
• Weapon Two – Sword and Shield
• Armor Types: 2 Heavy, 3 Medium, 2 Light
• Race: Khajiit
• Attributes: 32 Health, 32 Stamina
• Infection: Vampire Stage 3
• Mundus Stone: Warrior
• Best Grimoires: Traveling Knife, Soul Burst

Skills Setup 1: Two-Handed

Skill Set 1 Front Bar

Deep Fissure (Morph of Scorch | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Bursting tool for stamina warden.

Blue Betty (Morph of Betty Netch | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Resource sustain and buffs damage if placed on front.

Bird of Prey (Morph of Falcon’s Swiftness | Skill Line : Animal Companions) – Passive damage boost and boost to our mobility.

Wrecking Blow (Morph of Uppercut | Skill Line : Two Handed) – Main spammable choice.

Executioner (Morph of Reverse Slash | Skill Line : Two Handed) – Our finisher to replace Dizzing swing around 35% health.

Dawnbreaker of Smiting (Morph of Dawnbreaker | Skill Line : Fighters Guild) – Burst ultimate.

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Back Bar

Ice Fortress (Morph of Frost Cloak | Skill Line : Winter’s Embrace) – Armor buff.

Lotus Blossom (Morph of Lotus Flower | Skill Line : Green Balance) – For critical and its long lasting.

Living Trellis (Morph of Living Vines | Skill Line : Green Balance) – This is your survivable skill on your back bar. You can swap to Budding Seeds for group play.

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

Arctic Blast (Morph of Arctic Wind | Skill Line : Winter’s Embrace) – Burst heal and AOE stun.

Enchanted Forest (Morph of Secluded Grove | Skill Line : Green Balance) – Low cost burst heal.

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Scribing Skills & Grimoires – ESO Stamina Warden PvP Build

Traveling Knife and Soul Burst are the two best Grimoires (skills) for a Stamina Warden 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 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:

• Traveling Knife (dual wield) – Bleed or Stun (focus script), Lingering Torment or Assassin’s Misery (signature script), Berserk or Vulnerability (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 PvP Warden builds performance without slotting any skills:

• Animal Companions (class skill line)
• Green Balance (class skill line)
• Winter’s Embrace (class skill line)
• Two-Hander (weapon skill line)
• Sword and Shield (weapon skill line)
• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor
• Undaunted
• Fighters Guild
• Racial
• Alliance War Support
• Alliance War Assault
• Crafting, Alchemy Medicinal Use
• Vampire

Gear Setup 1: Two-Handed

The below gear chart is for the best in slot gear with the ESO Stamina Warden PvP Build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Trainee	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	medium	Essence Thief	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Rallying Cry	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	medium	Essence Thief	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	medium	Essence Thief	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Two-Hand Axe	Essence Thief	Sharpened	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Rallying Cry	Powered	Escapist Poison
Secondary	Shield	Rallying Cry	Sturdy	Escapist Poison
Necklace		Rallying Cry	Infused	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Markyn Ring of Majesty	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Swift	Weapon Damage

Monster and Mythic

Roksa the Warped: obtained from Vet Bal Sunnar; Scribes of Fate DLC. It carries your survivability and resource sustain in a two-piece set without an Engine Guardian droid.

Markyn Ring of Majesty = is a great all-around defensive and offensive mythic that goes in a ring slot.  We are using this instead of Sea-Serpent Coil because we get major berserk using Wrecking Blow morph.

FLEX OPTIONS

1. Balorgh = burst damage
2. Engine Guardian = incredible selfish base game (just you) sustain set
3. Ozezan the Inferno = is an update 37-monster set that is great paired with heals over time.
4. Torc of Tonal Constancy = the best resource to sustain mythic.
5. Gaze of Sithis = survivability thought changes up set up and requires you to drop the monster helm.

Gear Sets

Essence Thief = obtained from Imperial City or through keys.

Rallying Cry = Rewards of the Worth set that traders can buy.  This five-piece can be back barred and provides great buff, reducing damage and increasing yours.

Armor of the Trainee: obtained in overland starter areas or trader.  Use to get more stats with a one-piece set.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Order’s Wrath = craftable set with huge burst potential.
• Plaguebreak = AoE kills
• Syvarra’s Scales = Alternative proc set for Plaguebreak.
• Gryphon’s Ferocity = great counter to Sea-Serpent’s snare
• Stuhn’s Favor = a great alternative if using off-balance Dizzying Swing
• Powerful Assault = group utility and damage
• Clever Alchemist = insane burst potential
• Daedric Trickery = a great craftable defensive back bar option because of the major buffs.
• Robes of the Hist = great back bar healing set alternate to Mara’s Balm

Skill Setup 2: Dual-Wield

Front Bar: Dual Wield

• Deep Fissure (Morph of Scorch | Skill line: Animal Companions) – If you can sustain the cost, this does huge damage and gives major and minor armor reduction equaling more damage than sub. It can be a drain on sustain, so swap morphs if that’s the case.
• Bull Netch (Morph of Betty Netch | Skill line: Animal Companions) – Great sustain resource sustain and free mini cleanse for negative effects.
• Bird Of Prey (Morph of Falcon’s Swiftness | Skill line: Animal Companions) – speed buff with added benefit of increasing damage by 5% just for slotting.
• Rending Slashes (Morph of Twin Slashes | Skill line: Dual Wield) – Used with 1vX loadout dual wield.
• Whirling Blades (Morph of Whirlwind | Skill line: Dual Wield) – Aoe damage and execute.
• Dawnbreaker Of Smiting (Morph of Dawnbreaker | Skill line: Fighters Guild) – High damage AoE ultimate.

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Back Bar: Dual Wield

• Ice Fortress (Morph of Frost Cloak | Skill line: Winters Embrace) – armor buff with minor protection.
• Green Lotus (Morph of Lotus Flower | Skill line: Green Balance) – Great healing and critical bonus bonus making us hit hard and super tanky! If you want a different sustain option, try Living Vines for sustain and healing.
• Elemental Susceptibility (Morph of Weakness to Elements | Skill line: Destruction Staff) – Use with vate frost staff loadout.
• Arctic Blast (Morph of Artic Wind | Skill line: Winters Embrace) – magicka based heal which will now scale with offensive stats.
• Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill line: Assault) – stamina based heal over time.
• Enchanted Forest (Morph of Secluded Grove | Skill line: Green Balance) – Double barred.

Gear Setup 2: Dual-Wield

This is meant for 1v1 or Playing solo and is distrusting damage.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Trainee	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	heavy	Mara’s Balm	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	medium	Druids	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Perfected Stinging Slashes	Sharpened	Flame
Secondary	Axe	Perfected Stinging Slashes	Nirnhoned	Poison
Weapon Two	Ice Staff	Perfected Wrath of Elements	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Sea-Serpent’s Coil	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Mara’s Balm	Bloodthirsty	Stamina Recovery
Ring 2		Mara’s Balm	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

• Roksa the Warped: obtained from Vet Bal Sunnar; Scribes of Fate DLC carries your survivability and resource sustain in a two-piece set, without Engine Guardian droid.
• Mara’s Balm: Obtained thru Rewards of the Worth set that can bought from traders. The best overall for pure survivability
• Perfected Stinging Slashes: obtained through Veteran Dragonstar Arena (can do normal for lesser version) in upper Craglorn. It is one of the best pressure items in the game. you’ll need to drop a skill on your bar for rending slashes master duel wield
• Perfected Wrath of Elements: obtained in Veteran Vateshran Hollows. God-tier damage with a destruction staff Elemental Susceptibility skill, and Maarselok monster. drop a skill on back bar for elemental susceptibility
• Armor of the Trainee: obtained in overland starter areas or trader. 1pc only used for little more stats.
• Druid’s Braid: craftable high isle gives 1pc bonus just smaller.

Skill Setup 3: Bomber

Front Bar: Bomber

• Deep Fissure (Morph of Scorch | Skill line: Animal Companions) – delayed burst line up with pull.
• Blue Betty (Morph of Betty Netch | Skill line: Animal Companions) – Sustain and weapon damage.
• Bird Of Prey (Morph of Falcon’s Swiftness | Skill line: Animal Companions) – Movement and damage buff.
• Cutting Dive (Morph of Dive | Skill line: Animal Companions) – Spammable
• Whirling Blades (Morph of Whirlwind | Skill line: Dual Wield) – AoE execute
• Dawnbreaker Of Smiting (Morph of Dawnbreaker | Skill line: Fighters Guild) – Burst ultimate.

Back Bar: Bomber

• Ice Fortress (Morph of Frost Cloak | Skill line: Winters Embrace) – Armor buff
• Lotus Blossom (Morph of Lotus Flower | Skill line: Green Balance) – Critical buff
• Scalding Rune (Morph of Fire Rune | Skill line: Mages Guild) – Pull with Dark Convergence
• Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill line: Assault) – heal over time
• Arctic Blast (Morph of Artic Wind | Skill line: Winters Embrace) – Burst heal and stun.
• Healing Thicket (Morph of Secluded Grove | Skill line: Green Balance) – Defensive ultimate.

Gear Setup 3: Bomber

Used to bomb huge groups.

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Balorgh	Divines	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Balorgh	Divines	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Armor of the Trainee	Divines	Prismatic
Legs	medium	Plaguebreak		Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Plaguebreak	Divines	Stamina
Boots	medium	Plaguebreak	Divines	Stamina
Belt	light	Dark Convergence	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Plaguebreak	Nirnhoned	Damage Health
Secondary	Axe	Plaguebreak	Sharpened	Flame
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Dark Convergence	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Dark Convergence	Infused	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Markyn Ring of Majesty	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Dark Convergence	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

• Plaguebreak = used for a mass explosion on killing one target.
• Dark Convergence = used to pull targets in with Mages Guild Scalding
• Armor of the Trainee: one-piece set bonus that gives us extra health.
• Markyn Ring of Majesty = great all-around defensive and offensive mythic goes in Ring
• Balorgh = burst damage if your resource sustain is good.

Gear Setup: No-Proc PvP

Meant for specific rule sets

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Magma Incarnate	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	medium	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	medium	Order’s Wrath	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	2h or DW	Order’s Wrath	Sharpened	Weapon Damage
Weapon Two	Sword	Blessing of Potentates	Defending	Escapist’s Poison IX
Secondary	Shield	Blessing of Potentates	Sturdy	Escapist’s Poison IX
Necklace		Torc of Tonal Constancy	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Mark of the Pariah	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Mark of the Pariah	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). It’s great for a one-piece item set.
• Domihaus: Monster Set – helmet obtained from Veteran Falkreath Hold dungeon (Craglorn zone), Horns of the Reach DLC. Shoulders obtained from Vendor: Urgarlag Chief-bane (Undaunted Pledge Master). Extra resource pool
• Mark of the Pariah: obtained from Wrothgar overland, Orsinium DLC or bought from traders. Most tankiness from a 5pc in no proc PvP
• Titanborn Strength: obtained from Veteran Icereach dungeon (Wrothgar zone), Harrowstorm DLC. Huge damage increase for no proc PvP.
• Blessing of Potentates: obtained in Cyrodiil Vlastarus Elite Gear Vendor or bought from traders. Great damage reduction two-piece.
• 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 Stamina Warden:

1. Khajiit: best overall due to burst critical damage bonus.
2. Orc: Gain max stamina, health, and weapon and spell damage. It also reduces the cost of sprint and increases your movement speed.
3. Dark Elf: good max stats and weapon and spell damage.

Attributes

Consider splitting your attributes into 32 health and 32 stamina. reach at least 32,000 health inside your PvP context. Adjust if not reaching those numbers.

Mundus Stone

The best mundus stone is Warrior, which increases your weapon damage.

Champion Points – Stamina Warden PvP Build

Craft	Warfare	Fitness
Steed’s Blessing	Fighting Finesse	Fortified
War Mount	Focused Mending	Pain’s Refuge
Gifted Rider	Duelist’s Rebuff	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 Stamina Warden PvP Build

1. Precision 10
2. Fighting finesse (slottable) 50
3. Mastered curation – sub constellation – blessed 10
4. Focused mending (slottable) 50
5. Eldritch insight 10
6. Staving death – sub constellation – quick recovery 10
7. Staving death – sub constellation – Ironclad (slottable) 50
8. Duelist’s rebuff (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 20
3. Tireless discipline 20
4. Eldritch insight 10
5. Blessed 10
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 Stamina Warden PvP Build:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Sprinter 10
3. Wind chaser – sub constellation – hasty 8
4. Wind chaser – sub constellation – celerity (slottable) 50
5. Hero’s Vigor 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 Vigor 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 Stamina Warden PvP Build:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Sprinter 10
3. Wind chaser – sub constellation – hasty 8
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 455CP (1365 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance.

1. Steadfast enchantment 40 cp
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 Warden PvP Build

The best consumables for the Stamina Warden 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-static 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.
  • Essence 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 Warden PvP Build

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