BowBlade – A Solo Stamina Bow Nightblade Build

This ESO Solo Bow/Bow Stamina Nightblade build excels in its ability to lay down single target and aoe burst damage at range. The Stamblade is well suited to solo content due to having access to so many abilities that bring life back. In this solo double bow wielding stamblade build guide we will cover the following:

1. Overview
   • Race
   • Mundus
   • Attributes
   • Consumables
2. Gear
3. Skills
4. Rotation
5. Passives
6. Champion Points
7. Parse Time

OVERVIEW

• Race: Dark Elf, Khajiit, Orc, or Redguard
  • These are the strongest options, though other acceptable alternatives that will perform nearly as well and you can find them on our race guide page here.
• Mundus: Lover while solo. Thief in group
• Attributes:
  • Magicka: 0
  • Health: 0
  • Stamina: 64
• Consumables
  • Food: Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
  • Potion: Essence of weapon power
    

GEAR

In this section, we will cover both the starter gear and veteran gear for the solo Stamina Bow Nightblade DPS build.

SLOT	SET	WEIGHT	TRAIT	ENCHANTMENT
Head	Slimecraw	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Shoulder	Tzogvin	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Relequen or Briar	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Relequen or Briar	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Shoes	Relequen or Briar	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Hands	Relequen or Briar	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Pants	Relequen or Briar	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Necklace	Tzogvin	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Ring of The Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Tzogvin	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Weapon 1	Tzogvin	Bow	Precise	Stamina Absorb
Weapon 2	Maelstrom	Bow	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchantment

• Slimecraw drops in Wayrest 1
• Relequen is a Cloudrest set (Summerset Trial)
• Briar drops in Wrothgar (Delve bosses, world bosses, chests, daily quest coffers)
• Tzogvin drops in Frostvault (Dungeon)
• Ring of the Pale Order is a Mythic Item and can be found Here
• Maelstrom comes from Maelstrom Arena (Wrothgar)

SKILLS

Acid Spray	Lethal Arrow	Killer’s Blade	Consuming Trap	Relentless Focus	Incapacitating Strike
Endless Hail	Razor Caltrops	Resolving Vigor (Flex)	Poison Inject	Dark Shade	Incapacitating Strike

SKILL LINEAGE

SKILL (MORPH)	BASE ABILITY	SKILL TREE
Acid Spray	Arrow Spray	Weapon > Bow
Lethal Arrow	Snipe	Weapon > Bow
Killer’s Blade	Assassin’s Blade	Nightblade > Assassination
Consuming Trap	Soul Trap	World > Soul Magic
Relentless Focus	Grim Focus	Nightblade > Assassination
Incapacitating Strike	Death Stroke	Nightblade > Assassination
Endless Hail	Volley	Weapon > Bow
Razor Caltrops	Caltrops	Alliance War > Assault
Resolving Vigor	Vigor	Alliance War > Assault
Poison Injection	Poison Arrow	Weapon > Bow
Dark Shade	Summon Shade	Nightblade > Shadow

ROTATION

• Relentless Focus > Dark Shade (OUR PRE – BUFFS)
  >
  
• Apply Dots
  > > >
  
• Use Spammable Lethal Arrow until a dot falls off or merciless resolve is ready to proc
  
  
  Use

• After Every 5th light attack, proc your Relentless Focus
  

• IN OTHER WORDS
• Any time all dots are ticking, use spammable
  • Spammable is Lethal Arrow until boss HP is at 25%
    
  • Spammable changes Killer’s Blade at 25% and below
    
  • Also during execute, we stop casting Relentless Focus

PASSIVES

• CLASS
  • All Passives
• WEAPON
  • Bow: All Passives
• ARMOR
  • Medium Armor: All Passives
• WORLD
  • None
• GUILDS
  • Undaunted Guild: All Passives
• ALLIANCE
  • Assault : First Passive
• Racial: All Passives
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use

CHAMPION POINTS

In this section, we will go over the solo Stamina Nightblade champion point setup for cp 2.0.

PARSE TIME

A couple of minor changes that will maximize your parse:

1. Use Relequen and Tzogvin (same traits/enchants)
2. Replace Resolving Vigor with any Fighters Guild ability for the 3% damage passive

Rotation stays the same! Everything stays the same!

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