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The Specter ESO Stamina Nightblade PVE Build

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Welcome to the ESO Stamina Nightblade PVE build, called The Specter updated for the Flames of Ambition patch. In this guide you will find information on any patch-related changes, the class, skills, champion points, gear options, tips, and more!

Table of Contents

Relevant Changes
  • Champion point system overhaul
  • New armor passives
  • Latest racial passives
  • Updated mundus stone passives
  • Current weapon passives
  • More base health

Should You Play This Build?

The ESO Stamina Nightblade PVE build is for players that are looking to complete solo content or small group content with a rewarding, yet challenging class. The ESO Stamina Nightblade PVE build has very high burst damage and unique abilities like cloak to gain invisibility against incoming enemies.

Skills

There are various skill options that can work for the Stamina Nightblade, so choose what works best for you and your play style

Bar One Specter Nightblade Dual Wield damage

Relentless Focus (Assassination skill line | morph of Grim Focus): burst damage after light/heavy attack weaving that heals when in range

Consuming Trap (World/Soul Magic skill line| morph of Soul Trap): sustain tool that does a little bit of damage, please on low health mob to start fights

  • [FLEX] Deadly Cloak (Dual Wield skill line | morph of Blade Cloak): AoE damage and AoE Damage reduction

Camouflaged Hunter (Guild/Fighters skill line | morph of Expert Hunter):  slotting gives us minor berserk when criting from behind and ultimate generation via Fighters Guild passives banish the wicked

Surprise Attack (Shadow skill line | morph of Veiled Strike): main spammable attack to use when solo and not playing with Vateshran Perfected weapons

  • [FLEX] Shrouded Dagger (Dual Wield skill line | morph of Hidden Blade): use this ability if playing in group with Vateshran dual wield weapons

Whirling Blades (Dual Wield skill line | morph of Whirlwind): AoE damage spammable and execute

Soul Harvester (Assassination skill line | morph of Soul Harvest): incredible ultimate generation and low cost ultimate that works well as a finisher

  • [FLEX] Flawless Dawnbreaker (Guild/Fighters skill line | morph Dawnbreaker): great for single target boss fights
Bar Two Specter Nightblade Bow Buffs and Damage over Time 

Barbed Trap (Guild/Fighters skill line | morph of Trap Beast): strong damage over time effect and procs minor force adding to our damage

Razor Caltrops (Alliance War/Assault skill line | morph of Caltrops): Caltrops fall over enemies in the target area, causing physical damage over time and also reducing their movement speed, as well as applying major breach

Leeching Strikes (Siphoning skill line | morph of Siphoning Strikes): sustain tool keep up at all times

Arrow Barrage (Bow skill line | morph of Volley): Arrows rain down on enemies within the AOE area (Area of Effect), dealing physical damage over time

Echoing Vigor (Alliance War\Assault skill line | morph of Vigor): A strong heal over time that cost stamina

Shooting Star (Guild/Mages Guild | morph of Meteor): hard hitting AoE ultimate on stamina build though can flex out if you prefer something else

Gear

Beginner Suggested Gear starter: great for resource sustain and easy to obtain

Slot Weight Set Trait Glyph
Head Heavy Monster Helm Divines Stamina
Shoulders Light Monster Helm Divines Stamina
Chest Medium Hundings Rage Divines Stamina
Legs Medium Hundings Rage Divines Stamina
Gloves Medium Hundings Rage Divines Stamina
Boots Medium Hundings Rage Divines Stamina
Belt Medium Hundings Rage Impenetrable Prismatic
Weapon One Dagger Agility Precise Poison
Secondary Dagger Agility Precise Poison
Weapon Two Bow Agility Infused Weapon Damage
Necklace Vengeance Leech Robust Stamina Recovery
Ring Vengeance Leech Robust Weapon Damage
Ring Vengeance Leech Robust Weapon Damage

Monster Helms

Balorgh (ultimate burst): found in Veteran dungeon March of Sacrifices DLC Wolfhunter

  • (1 item) Adds 129 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage
  • (2 items) When you use an Ultimate ability, you gain Weapon Damage and Spell Damage equal to the amount of total Ultimate consumed, and Physical and Spell Penetration equal to 23 times the amount for 12 seconds.

Bloodspawn (utility): found in Veteran dungeon in Spindleclutch 2 base game

  • (1 item) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
  • (2 items) When you take damage, you have a 6% chance to generate 13 Ultimate and increase your Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by 3731 for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.

Selene’s (proc burst): found in Veteran dungeon Selene’s Web

  • (1 item) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
  • (2 items) When you deal melee damage, you call upon a primal spirit that mauls the closest enemy in front of you after 1.3 seconds for 11754 Physical Damage. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds.

Engine Guardian (sustain): found in Veteran dungeon Darkshade Caverns 2

  • (1 item) Adds 129 Health Recovery
  • (2 items) When you use an ability, you have a 25% chance to summon a Dwemer automation to restore 550 Stamina or Magicka or 1955 Health to you every 0.5 seconds for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

Hunding’s Rage: craftable 6 traits, crafting stations found in Bangkorai, Reaper’s March, The Rift

  • (2 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
  • (4 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (5 items) Adds 300 Weapon Damage

Agility: found in Imperial City with keys or Dungeon Finder via random dungeons and or traders sell

  • (2 items) Adds 1752 Maximum Stamina
  • (3 items) Adds 206 Weapon Damage

Vengeance Leech: found in Cyrodiil PvP zone Bruma Elite Gear Vendor or sold on traders

  • (2 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
  • (3 items) When you kill an enemy, you heal for 2570 Health and restore 2570 Magicka and Stamina

Solo: Suggested Gear solo: incredible survivability and resources sustain 

Slot Weight Set Trait Glyph
Head Medium Slimecraw Divines Stamina
Shoulders Medium Vicious Ophidian Divines Stamina
Chest Medium Vicious Ophidian Divines Stamina
Legs Medium Vicious Ophidian Divines Stamina
Gloves Medium Briarheart Divines Stamina
Boots Medium Briarheart Divines Stamina
Belt Medium Briarheart Impenetrable Prismatic
Weapon One Dagger Briarheart Precise Poison
Secondary Dagger Briarheart Precise Poison
Weapon Two Bow Perfected Maelstrom Infused Weapon Damage
Necklace Pale Order Bloodthirsty Weapon Damage
Ring Vengeance Leech Bloodthirsty Weapon Damage
Ring Vengeance Leech Bloodthirsty Weapon Damage

Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1, Veteran Dungeon

  • (1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance

Vicious Ophidian/Serpent: trial set Hel Ra Citadel, Aetherian Archive and Sanctum Ophidia

  • (2 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
  • (4 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (5 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage, Reduces the cost of your Stamina Abilities by 8%. When an enemy you have recently damaged dies, you restore 2454 Stamina and gain Major Expedition for 8 seconds, increasing your Movement Speed by 30%. These effects can occur once every second.

Briarheart: Overland from Wrothgar view drops can be bought on traders

  • (2 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
  • (4 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you increase your Weapon Damage by 450 for 10 seconds. While this effect is active your Critical Strikes heal you for 349 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

Ring of the Pale Order: Mythic obtained by collecting five pieces:

  • Bangkorai – Aurmine Ancestral Signet – Chests
  • Alik’r Desert – Direnni Elegy Loop – Coldrock Diggings Delve Boss
  • Wrothgar – Onix Accent Stones – All World Bosses
  • Glenumbra – Order-Etched Gallery Rail – Bad Man’s Hallow Trash Monsters
  • The Reach – Pale Order’s Golden Band – Nighthollow Keep (Blackreach: Arkthzand Cavern start north of map)

Set bonus

  • (1 item) Restore 18% of the damage you deal as Health, up to a maximum of 2750 Health per attack. You cannot be healed by anyone but yourself

Perfected Thunderous Volley: Veteran Maelstrom Arena in Orsinium

  • (2 items) Adds 526 Weapon Critical, Increases the damage Volley deals by 430 each tick. This bonus increases by 143 every time Volley ticks, up to a maximum of 8 times

Group: Suggested Gear group: when playing with coordinated group, healers and tanks

Slot Weight Set Trait Glyph
Head Medium Kinra’s Wrath Divines Stamina
Shoulders Medium Kinra’s Wrath Divines Stamina
Chest Medium Perfected Relequen Divines Stamina
Legs Medium Perfected Relequen Divines Stamina
Gloves Medium Perfected Relequen Divines Stamina
Boots Medium Perfected Relequen Divines Stamina
Belt Medium Perfected Relequen Impenetrable Prismatic
Weapon One Dagger Perfected Vateshran Precise Poison
Secondary Dagger Perfected Vateshran Precise Poison
Weapon Two Bow Perfected Maelstrom Infused Weapon Damage
Necklace Kinra’s Wrath Bloodthirsty Weapon Damage
Ring Kinra’s Wrath Bloodthirsty Weapon Damage
Ring Kinra’s Wrath Bloodthirsty Weapon Damage

Kinras’s Wrath: Found in Black Drake Villa Dungeon Flames of Ambition DLC

  • (2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
  • (3 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
  • (5 items) Dealing damage with a Light or Heavy Attack grants you a stack of Burning Heart for 5 seconds, up to 5 stacks. While you have 5 stacks, you generate an aura of wrath, granting you Major Berserk, increasing your damage done by 10%. While you have an aura of wrath, Allies within 12 meters of you gain Minor Berserk, increasing their damage done by 5%.

Perfect Arms of Relequen: found in Trial Cloudrest Veteran (do normal to obtain lesser version)

  • (2 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
  • (4 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
  • (5 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina, Your Light and Heavy attacks apply a stack of harmful winds to your target for 5 seconds. Harmful winds deal 355 Physical Damage every 1 second. This effect can stack once every half second, up to 10 times.

Perfected Executioner’s Blade (Vateshran): found in solo Vateshran Hollows Veteran Arena Markarth DLC

  • (2 items) Adds 526 Weapon Critical, Hidden Blade deals up to 250% more damage to targets under 100% Health when you are standing behind them. Restores 1890 Stamina if the target was below 50% Health.

Perfected Thunderous Volley: Veteran Maelstrom Arena in Orsinium

  • (2 items) Adds 526 Weapon Critical, Increases the damage Volley deals by 430 each tick. This bonus increases by 143 every time Volley ticks, up to a maximum of 8 times

Race

  • Khajiit = critical damage is optimal for PvE DPS along with all around good max stats and recovery.
Passive Skills
Cutpurse Increases your experience gain with the Medium Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your chance to successfully pickpocket by 5%.
Robustness Increases your Health Recovery by 100 and your Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 85.
Lunar Blessings Increase your Maximum Health, Magicka, and Stamina by 915.
Feline Ambush Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 12%. Decreases your detection radius in Stealth by 3 meters.
  • Orc = well balanced stamina race and great for PvP
Passive Skills
Craftsman Increases your experience gain with the Heavy Armor skill line by 15%. Increases your crafting inspiration gained by 10%.
Brawny Increases your Maximum Stamina by 1000.
Unflinching Rage Increases your Maximum Health by 1000. When you deal damage, you heal for 2125 Health. This can occur once every 4 seconds.
Swift Warrior Increases your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 258. Reduces the cost of Sprint by 12% and increases the Movement Speed bonus of Sprint by 10%.
  • Dunmer (Dark Elf) = all around great if you want to switch between magicka/stamina build though lacks resources sustain
Passive Skills
Ashlander Increases your experience gain with the Dual Wield skill line by 15%. Reduces your damage taken from environmental lava by 50%.
Dynamic Increases your Maximum Magicka and Maximum Stamina by 1910.
Resist Flame Increases your Flame Resistance by 4620.
Ruination Increases your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 258.

 

Consumables

  • Food: Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables if playing group PVE
    • Artaeum Takeaway Broth: Increases max health by 3326 and health recovery by 406 and max stamina by 3080 and stamina recovery by 338 for 2 hours
    • Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables: Increase max health by 5395 and stamina by 4936 for 60 minutes
  • Potions: Weapon Damage or Weapon Crit
    • Essence of Weapon Power: = Increases weapon damage, grants major savagery increasing weapon critical, restores stamina, and increases stamina recovery. A great option if you want to go full damage
    • Essence of Weapon Critical: Gives you Major Savagery, increasing your weapon critical, restores health and stamina immediately and increases your health and stamina recovery. Another great option for increased damage
    • Essence of Health/Tri-Pots: Restores Magicka, Stamina, and Health. These are great to use if you’re having issues with survivability and/or sustain
  • Poisons: Damage Health
    • Damage Health: Deals poison damage. Poison damage is applied to 20% of the time on light attacks, heavy attacks, or weapon abilities. If you slot this it does suppress your weapon enchantments

Mundus Stone

  • Thief: Run this if you don’t have a precise weapon trait
    • Bonus = Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333
      With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167
    • Location = Malabal Tor, Alik’r Deser, Eastmarch
  • Shadow: Great with high crit chance daggers/precise trait
    • Bonus = Increases Critical Damage and Healing by 11%
      With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Critical Damage and Healing by 17%
    • Location = Greenshade, Shadowfen and Rivenspire
  • Lover: Run if using higher damage setup and for solo content
    • Bonus: Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 2744
      With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Physical and Spell Penetration by 4489
    • Location: Auridon, Stonefalls, Glenumbra
  • Warrior: All around good balance or PVP and PVE mix
    • Bonus: Increases Weapon Damage by 238
      With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Weapon Damage by 389
    • Location: Malabal Tor, Eastmarch, Alik’r Desert

Champion Points

Fitness

  • Rejuvenation 50 [slot-able] Grants 3 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery per stage.
    • Helps with sustain
  • Ironclad [slot-able] Grants 34.6 Armor per stage.
    • Helps being more durable
  • Boundless Vitality [slot-able] Grants 28 Max Health per stage.
    • Helps being more durable
  • Bloody Renewal [slot-able] Restore 300 Stamina per stage, whenever you kill an enemy.
    • Helps resource sustain

Warfare

  •  Fighting Finesse 50 [slot-able] Increases your Critical Damage and Critical Healing done by 2% per stage.
    • Helps with overall damage running high critical chance/damage
  •  Backstabber 50 [slot-able] Increases your Critical Damage done by 3% per stage against enemies you are flanking.
    • Helps with damage when you can stand behind reliably
    • [flex] Master at Arms if you cannot position behind or playing solo
  •  Thaumaturge 50 [slot-able] Increases your damage done with damage over time effects by 2% per stage.
    • Helps with overall damage as Stamplar uses mainly DoTs
  •  Biting Aura 50 [slot-able] Increases your damage done with area of effect attacks by 2% per stage.
    • Helps with overall damage as Stamplar is primarily AoE

Craft

  • Treasure Hunter 50 [slot-able] Increase the quality of items you find in treasure chests.
    • Helps with farming gear
  • Rationer 30 [slot-able] Adds 10 minutes to the duration of any food or drink that increases your character’s stats per stage.
    • Helps save gold
  • Liquid Efficiency 75 [slot-able] Whenever you use a potion or poison you have a 10% chance to not consume it.
    • Helps save gold
  • Steed’s Blessing 50 [slot-able] Increases your out of combat Movement Speed by .4% per stage.
    • Helps getting around faster

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