BladeThirst – A Solo Stamina Nightblade Build

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

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

OVERVIEW

• Race: Orc
  • I choose Orc for its raw power, though other acceptable alternatives that will perform nearly as well and you can find them on our race guide page here.
• Mundus: Shadow
• Attributes:
  • Magicka: 0
  • Health: 10
  • Stamina: 54
• Consumables
  • Food: Dubious Cameron Throne
    • Cheap alternative is tripe trifle pocket
  • Potion: Essence of weapon power
    

GEAR

SLOT	SET	WEIGHT	TRAIT	ENCHANTMENT
Head	Domihaus	Medium	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	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Ring of The Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Briar	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Weapon 1	Briar	Axe Dagger	Nirnhoned Sharpened	Stamina Absorb
Weapon 2	Master’s Or Maelstrom	Bow	Infused	Weapon Damage Enchantment

• Domihaus drops in Veteran Falkreath Hold
• 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

Blood Craze	Blood Thirst	Killers Blade	Relentless Focus	Deadly Cloak	Incapacitating Strike
Endless Hail	Poison Injection	Resolving Vigor (Flex)	Dark Shade	Consuming Trap	Incapacitating Strike

SKILL LINEAGE

SKILL (MORPH)	BASE ABILITY	SKILL TREE
Blood Craze	Twin Slashes	Weapon > Dual Wield
Bloodthirst	Flurry	Weapon > Dual Wield
Killers Blade	Assassins Blade	Nightblade > Assassination
Relentless Focus	Grim Focus	Nightblade > Assassination
Deadly Cloak	Blade Cloak	Weapon > Dual Wield
Incapacitating Strike	Death Stroke	Nightblade > Assassination
Endless Hail	Volley	Weapon > Bow
Dark Shade	Summon Shade	Nightblade > Shadow
Resolving Vigor	Vigor	Alliance War > Assault
Leeching Strikes	Siphoning Strikes	Nightblade > Siphoning
Consuming Trap	Soul Trap	World > Soul Magic

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 Killer’s Blade 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

PARSE TIME

A couple of minor changes that will maximize your parse:

1. Use Relequen and Advancing Yokeda (same traits/enchants)
2. If you want to squeeze all damage out, spec all 64 Attribute Points into Stamina for parse
3. Replace Resolving Vigor with any Fighters Guild ability for the 3% damage passive

Rotation stays the same! Everything stays the same!

Confused by light attack weaving or animation cancelling? Click here.