ESO Stamina Templar PVE Build, The Harvester

ESO Stamina Templar PVE Build –  
The Harvester

Welcome to the ESO Stamina Templar 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

Table of Contents

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

Build Video

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Should You Play This Build?

The ESO Stamina Templar PVE build is for players that are looking to complete solo content or small group content with a stamina class. The ESO Stamina Templar PVE build offers insane single target damage as well as AOE damage. Templars in general have great tool kits for self heals, and the rotation for Stamina Templars or Stamplars are the simplest in the game so they’re a great option for newer players. If you’re wanting to try out a Magicka Templar click here or a simple one bar build click here 

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Skills

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

Bar One | Dual Wield primary damage bar

Power of the Light (morph of Backlash | Templar/Dawns Wrath skill line): Summon a beam of light that deals physical damage to enemies. It also hits enemies with Minor Breach which decreases their spell and physical resistance

Deadly Cloak (morph of Blade Cloak | Weapon/Dual Wield skill line): AoE damage, AoE damage reduction and recently buffed making it really strong ability single target or AoE

• [Solo Play] Consuming Trap (morph of Soul Trap | World/Soul Magic skill line): Deals magic damage to enemies and if an enemy dies you restore magicka and stamina. It also provides a heal to yourself

Repentance (morph of Restoring Aura | Templar/Restoring Light skill line): resource sustain on corpses and passive resource sustain while slotted

Biting Jabs (morph of Puncturing Strikes | Templar/Aedric Speak skill line): This is your main spammable AoE and single target

Camouflaged Hunter (morph of Expert Hunter | Guild/Fighters skill line): Slotting this skill gives you increase weapon critical and minor berserk when you critical attacking from the flank

Flawless Dawnbreaker (morph of Dawnbreaker | Guild/Fighters skill line): passive bonus via Slayer increasing weapon damage for slotting, used as a burst ultimate to increase weapon damage for 20 seconds

• [Solo Play] = Rend (morph of Laceration | Weapon/Dual wield skill line): decent dot damage, but insane healing for 16 seconds ideal for solo play without healers

 

Bar Two | Bow primarily buff and heal bar

Barbed Trap (morph of Trap Beast | Guild/Fighters skill line): Sets a trap at in front of you that deals physical damage to enemies and grants you minor force, increasing critical damage

Razor Caltrops (morph of Caltrops | Alliance War/Assault skill line): 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

Restoring Focus (morph of Rune Focus | Templar/Restoring Light skill line): Step into a rune of protection that increases your physical and spell resistance. While you stand within the rune your stamina recovery increases

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

Echoing Vigor (morph of Vigor | Alliance War/Assault skill line): A burst heal that heals you and nearby allies

Shooting Star (morph of Meteor | Guild/Mages Guild skill line): A comet blasts down on enemies in the area, dealing magic damage. If you have the passives unlocked for the Mages Guild Skill line then slotting this will also increase your max magicka

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Rotation 

EASY MODE: Literally Barb Trap, Power of the Light, Biting Jabs.  Add more buffs/debuffs as you get better

Pre buff: Trap, Caltrops, Arrow Barrage, Rune bar swap, Deadly Cloak

WHY: this way when you enter fight/spawns are happing you’ll not need to spend time applying buffs.

Priority: Power of the Light, and then light attack weave/Biting Jabs.

After 2/3x Biting Jabs, you’ll reapply Power of the Light and go back to your Bow and do the Caltrops/Arrow Barrage and close to reapply Trap

Bar swap Power of the Light, Jabs, 2/3x etc.

Survival = use dodge rolls, repentance, rune and heal when in trouble 

Ultimate use = start fight with meteor then Dawnbreaker on cool down unless saving for a specific boss/burn mechanic 

 

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Passives

• Aedric Spear
• Dawn’s Wrath
• Restoring Light

Weapon Skill Lines

• Dual Wield
• Bow

Armor Skill Lines

• Light Armor
• Medium Armor
• Heavy Armor

World Skill Line

• Soul Magic

Alliance War Skill Line

• Assault

Guild Skill Lines

• Undaunted
• Fighter’s Guild

Crafting Skill Lines

• Alchemy
• Provisioning

Racial Skill Line

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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	Deadly Strikes	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Deadly Strikes	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Medium	Deadly Strikes	Divines	Stamina
Gloves	Medium	Perfected Sul-Xan	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Perfected Sul-Xan	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Perfected Sul-Xan	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Perfected Sul-Xan	Precise	Poison
Secondary	Dagger	Perfected Sul-Xan	Precise	Poison
Weapon Two	Bow	Perfected Maelstrom	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Deadly Strikes	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring		Pale Order	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring		Deadly Strikes	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1, Veteran Dungeon

• (1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance

Deadly Strike: PvP Cyrodiil Vendor in Town of Bruma buy random bags with Alliance Points

• (2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
• (3 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
• (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
• (5 items) Increase the damage your Physical, Bleed, Poison, and Disease Damage over time and channeled abilities do by 20%
  • [flex if sustain is issue] 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.

Perfected Sul-Xan’s Torment: trial set Rockgrove Blackwood DLC can use non-perfected if unable to obtain Perfected. 

• (2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
  (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 657 Weapon Critical, When an enemy you recently damaged dies, they leave behind a vengeful soul for 6 seconds. You can only create one vengeful soul at a time. Touching the soul increases your Weapon Critical by 0 and your Critical Damage by 12% for 30 seconds.
  • Briarheart is a good replacement (obtained in Wrothgar overland or traders)

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	Slimecraw	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Medium	Deadly Strike	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Medium	Deadly Strike	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Medium	Harpooner’s Wading Kilt	Divines	Stamina
Gloves	Medium	Perfected Sul-Xan	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Medium	Perfected Sul-Xan	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Medium	Perfected Sul-Xan	Divines	Stamina
Weapon One	Dagger	Perfected Sul-Xan	Precise	Poison
Secondary	Dagger	Perfected Sul-Xan	Precise	Poison
Weapon Two	Bow	Maelstrom Perfected	Infused	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Deadly Strike	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring		Deadly Strike	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring		Deadly Strike	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

Slimecraw: Wayrest Sewers 1, Veteran Dungeon

• (1 item) Adds 771 Critical Chance

Perfected Sul-Xan’s Torment: trial set Rockgrove Blackwood DLC can use non-perfected if unable to obtain Perfected. 

• (2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
  (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 657 Weapon Critical, When an enemy you recently damaged dies, they leave behind a vengeful soul for 6 seconds. You can only create one vengeful soul at a time. Touching the soul increases your Weapon Critical by 0 and your Critical Damage by 12% for 30 seconds
  • Briarheart is a good replacement (obtained in Wrothgar overland or traders)

Deadly Strike: PvP Cyrodiil Vendor in Town of Bruma buy random bags with Alliance Points

• (2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
• (3 items) Adds 657 Weapon Critical
• (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
• (5 items) Increase the damage your Physical, Bleed, Poison, and Disease Damage over time and channeled abilities do by 20%

Harpooner’s Wading Kilt: par of Antiquity system in Blackwood Chapter, must level scrying, and excavating skill lines along with collecting 5 leaves listed below (lot of work but worth it)

• (1 item) Dealing direct damage grants you a stack of Hunter’s Focus for 1 minute, up to 10 stacks max. You can only gain 1 stack of Hunter’s Focus per second. Each stack of Hunter’s Focus increases your Critical Chance by 125 and your Critical Damage by 1%. Taking direct damage removes 5 stacks of Hunter’s Focus, up to once per second. Removing Harpooner’s Wading Kilt removes all stacks of Hunter’s Focus.

Lead	Location	Source
Kothringi-Cut Leather	Blackwood	Death Wart(World Boss) Sul-Xan Ritualists(World Boss)
Bog-Blue Jasper Fetish	Shadowfen	Ruins of Mazzatun Tree-Minder Ka-Nesh(Final Boss)
Tide-Glass Beads	Shadowfen	Water Plants: Nirnroot, Water Hyacinth, etc
Wolf-Tail Sash	Murkmire	Fishing (Foul Water)
Silverweave Cord	Bal Foyen	Random drop from Covenant Marksmen

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

 

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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.

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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

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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

 

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Attribute Points

This patch players get a huge health boost so it will not be necessary to put any points into health. So all 64 points will go into stamina

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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