ESO Stamina Sorcerer PVE Build The Ricochet

Welcome to the ESO Stamina Sorcerer PVE Damage Dealer build. In this guide you will find information on any patch-related changes, the class, skills, champion points, gear options, tips, and more!

Updated for Blackwood Chapter Update 30

Should You Play This Build?
Skills
Rotation
Passives
Gear
Race
Consumables
Mundus Stone
Attribute Points
Champion Points

Should You Play This Build?

The Stamina Sorcerer PVE build is for players that are looking to complete solo content or small group content on a class that offers insane damage as well as great survivability. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or seasoned player, there is a build option for you!

Skills

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

Bar One Dual Wield: damage and DoTs

Bound Ornaments: Slotting this increases your max stamina as well as gives your light and heavy attacks to summon a bound weapon, attacking enemies for physical damage

Deadly Cloak: Grants you major evasion, reducing your damage taken

[flex for better sustain and healing] Consuming Trap: Deals magic damage to enemies and if an enemy dies you restore magicka and stamina. It also provides a heal to yourself

Hurricane: Summon winds around you, dealing physical damage overtime to nearby enemies. As time goes on the aoe target area grows around you

Bloodthirst: a spammable dual wield ability that increases the damage with each strike and also heals you for a portion of it Whirling Blades: Spin into enemies, dealing physical damage

Flawless Dawnbreaker: Powerful ultimate that deals physical damage over time, and increases your weapon damage for 20 seconds

Bar Two Bow: Dots, buffs and heals

Barbed Trap: Sets a trap at in front of you that deals physical damage to enemies and grants you minor force, increasing critical damage

Razor 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

Critical Surge: Gain Major Brutality and Major Sorcery, which increases your weapon and spell damage

Endless Hail: Arrows rain down on enemies within the aoe area, dealing physical damage over time

Echoing Vigor: A burst heal that heals you and nearby allies Greater Storm Atronach: Storm Atronach is summoned and deals shock damage to nearby enemies while also stunning them

Greater Storm Atronach: Storm Atronach is summoned and deals shock damage to nearby enemies while also stunning them

ROTATION

EASY MODE: Swap Barb trap to front dropping deadly cloak, swap Echoing Vigor to front dropping Shrouded Dagger. Maintain bound ornaments, Barb Trap, hurricane and using Whirling Blades as a filer and Echoing Vigor as a heal.

PRE BUFF: cast crit surge, Endless Hail, Razor Caltrops, close distance and lay down Trap, bar swap

cast ornaments, cloak, hurricane and 2x Shrouded Dagger and move to reapply buffs/DoTs

Remember, longest to shortest in rotation, after awhile they will be on different times, so use Shrouded Dagger as a filer, but really no more than 2-3x unless in execute range around 25% health

Priority Skill Lines & Passives

Class-Specific Skill Lines

Daedric Summoning
Dark Magic
Storm Calling

Weapon Skill Lines

Dual Wield
Bow

Armor Skill Lines

Light Armor
Medium Armor
Heavy Armor

Guild Skill Lines

Undaunted
Fighter’s Guild

Alliance War Skill Lines

Assault

Crafting Skill Lines

Alchemy
Provisioning

Racial Skill Line

GEAR

Suggested Gear Option #1 Beginner PVE

This gear setup is for the newer player who wants an easy to use gear setup with high resource sustain, survivability and damage.

Slot	Weight	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Heavy	Monster Helm	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Light	Monster Helm	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	Poison
Secondary	Dagger	Agility	Precise	Poison
Weapon Two	Bow	Agility	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Vengeance Leech	Robust	Weapon Damage
Ring		Vengeance Leech	Robust	Weapon Damage
Ring		Vengeance Leech	Robust	Weapon Damage

Monster Helms Options

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.

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

Suggested Gear Option #2 Solo

This is a general set up for players who are looking for a balanced solo build that focuses on survival, resource sustain and mobility.

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

Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1, Veteran Dungeon

(1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance

Briarheart: obtained in overland Wrothgar or 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 100 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and the heal scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.

Vicious Serpent: obtained in trial 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.

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

Suggested Gear Option #3 Optimal Group PVE

This set up is for players looking to play an optimal build with high damage

Slot	Weight	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	Medium	Kinras’s Wrath	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Medium	Kinras’s Wrath	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Perfect Arms of Relequen	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Medium	Perfect Arms of Relequen	Divines	Stamina
Gloves	Medium	Perfect Arms of Relequen	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Perfect Arms of Relequen	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Perfect Arms of Relequen	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Perfected Executioner’s Blade	Precise	Poison
Secondary	Dagger	Perfected Executioner’s Blade	Precise	Poison
Weapon Two	Bow	Maelstrom Perfected	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Kinras’s Wrath	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring		Kinras’s Wrath	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring		Kinras’s Wrath	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

Kinra’s Wrath: Obtained in Black Drake Villa

(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%.

Perfected Arms of Relequen: obtained in Veteran Cloudrest Trial

(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 52 Physical Damage every 1 second. This effect can stack once every half second, up to 10 times and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
[flex if you don’t have] Briarheart: obtained in overland Wrothgar or 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 100 Health. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and the heal scales off the higher of your Maximum Magicka or Stamina.

Perfected Executioner’s Blade: obtained in Veteran Vateshran Arena can obtain lesser version on normal

(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
Scrolls: If you need to level CP, scrolls from the crown store can help make the leveling process much faster! While using these scrolls they increase the rate that you earn experience points

MUNDUS STONE

60% critical or higher
- Increases Critical Damage and Healing by 11%. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Critical Damage and Healing by 17%
59% critical or lower
- The Thief: Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167

ATTRIBUTE POINTS

Aim for 22,000 health or more with food on. With my champion points/race/etc. I have all 64 points into stamina. You may not, hit the HP with food on then rest into stamina.

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
Deadly Aim 50 [slot-able] ncrease your damage done with single target attacks by 2% per stage.
- Helps with overall damage as mainly your sub and dagger are source of damage
Master at Arms 50 [slot-able] Increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by 2% per stage
- Helps with overall damage as your main spammable direct damage

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

ESO Stamina Sorcerer PVE Build The Ricochet