BladeThirst – A Solo Stamina Nightblade Build

This ESO Solo Stamina Nightblade build excels in its ability to lay down immense single target and aoe burst damage. The Stamblade is well suited to solo content due to having access to so many abilities that bring life back. In this solo 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: Thief
• 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 Nightblade DPS build.

SLOT	SET	WEIGHT	TRAIT	ENCHANTMENT
Head	Slimecraw	Heavy	Divines	Stamina
Shoulder	Briar	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Vicious Ophidian	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Vicious Ophidian	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Shoes	Vicious Ophidian	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Hands	Vicious Ophidian	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Pants	Vicious Ophidian	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Necklace	Briar	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty (or infused)	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Ring of The Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Briar	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Weapon 1	Briar	Dagger Dagger	Nirnhoned Sharpened	Stamina Absorb
Weapon 2	Master’s Or Maelstrom	Bow	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchantment

• Slimecraw drops in Wayrest 1
• Vicious Ophidian is a Hel Ra Citadel set (Crag Trials)
• Briar drops in Wrothgar (Delve bosses, world bosses, chests, daily quest coffers)
• Ring of the Pale Order is a Mythic Item and can be found Here
• New Moon Acolyte is a crafted set you can use if you don’t have briar or VO
• Maelstrom comes from Maelstrom Arena (Wrothgar), Master’s comes from Dragon Star Arena (Craglorn)

SKILLS

Deadly Cloak	Bloodthirst	Whirling Blades	Blood Craze	Relentless Focus	Incapacitating Strike
Endless Hail	Razor Caltrops	Resolving Vigor (Flex)	Barbed Trap	Dark Shade	Incapacitating Strike

SKILL LINEAGE

SKILL (MORPH)	BASE ABILITY	SKILL TREE
Deadly Cloak	Blade Cloak	Weapon > Dual Wield
Bloodthirst	Flurry	Weapon > Dual Wield
Whirling Blades	Whirlwind	Weapon > Dual Wield
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
Barbed Trap	Trap Beast	Guild > Fighters Guild
Dark Shade	Summon Shade	Nightblade > Shadow

ROTATION

• Relentless Focus > Dark Shade (OUR PRE – BUFFS)
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• Apply Dots
• Blood Thirst (until Relentless focus or is ready to proc or dots need reapplying)
  
  
  

• *Any time all dots are ticking, use spammable
  • Spammable is Bloodthirst until boss HP is at 25%
    
  • Spammable is Whirling Blades at 25% and below
    
  • Also during execute, we stop casting Relentless Focus
    
    
• After Every 5th light attack, proc your Relentless Focus
  
  
  
• Swap out Killer’s Blade for Whirling Blades when you need more AOE damage, such as during trash fights or boss fights with many ads
  

PASSIVES

• CLASS
  • All Passives
• WEAPON
  • Dual Wield: All Passives
  • Bow: All Passives
• ARMOR
  • Medium Armor: All Passives
• WORLD
  • None
• GUILDS
  • Undaunted Guild: All Passives
• 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 Advancing Yokeda (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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