ESO Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

Welcome to my Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build for ESO! Nightblade is the Class of Stealth and Shadow, that requires good Light Attack Weaving to master. This Beginner Build is designed for 160 Champion Points and beyond in order to help you level up but also farm better Armor Sets. The Build is focusing on c160 and above simply because that is when having a proper build matters! Before you reach c160 all you have to worry about is leveling up and unlocking as many skill lines and skills as possible.

c160 is also the gear cap in The Elder Scrolls Online, so after you hit that level every Set piece you drop is good to use forever! When you start getting better gear, you can check dedicated Solo or DPS Nightblade Builds that will help you clear the content you are after. Some more Nightblade Guides and Builds you can check are:

• Nightblade Beginner Guide
• Nightblade Builds
• Magicka Nightblade Beginner Build

Table of Contents

• Build Setup
• Armor Sets
• Skills
• Passive Skills
• Champion Points
• Food and Potions
• Info
• Rotation
• Companion

ESO Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build Setup

The core of the Build is two Crafted 5-piece Sets that you can get easily from other players or even craft yourself! You can prepare the Sets and use them the moment you reach c160! Order’s Wrath is an amazing Set that offers a boost to Damage and Healing. Night Mother’s Gaze on the other hand debuffs enemies, making it easier to defeat them.

Your priority when you hit c160 is to farm a good Monster Set to wear! Stormfist is a nice option that you can get from a relatively easy Dungeon, the Veteran Tempest Island. Selene is another great Set you can use, that you can farm inside the Veteran Selene’s Web Dungeon. Before you can farm these Monster Sets, you can complement the Build with two pieces from the Agility Set. Epic(purple) quality is more than enough for the Build.

Piece	Set	Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Night Mother's Gaze/Stormfist	Medium/Heavy	Divines	Max. Stamina
Shoulders	Night Mother's Gaze/Stormfist	Medium/Light	Divines	Max. Stamina
Hands	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Max. Stamina
Legs	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Max. Stamina
Chest	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Max. Stamina
Waist	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Max. Stamina
Feet	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Max. Stamina
Necklace	Agility/Night Mother's Gaze	Jewel	Robust	Stamina Recovery
Ring	Agility/Night Mother's Gaze	Jewel	Robust	Stamina Recovery
Ring	Night Mother's Gaze	Jewel	Robust	Stamina Recovery
One Handed Weapon	Night Mother's Gaze	Dagger	Charged	Fire Damage
One Handed Weapon	Night Mother's Gaze	Dagger	Charged	Poison
Two Handed Weapon	Night Mother's Gaze	Bow	Infused	Weapon Damage

Armor Sets for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

These are the Best Sets for the Build and where you can find them:

• Order’s Wrath: High Isle, Crafted
• Night Mother’s Gaze: Reaper’s March, Bangkorai, The Rift – Crafted
• Agility: Random Daily Dungeon Reward, Imperial City(Imperial City DLC required)
• Stormfist: Veteran Tempest Island, Glirion the Redbeard
• Selene: Veteran Selene’s Web, Glirion the Redbeard

Skills for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

The following skills are strong against single targets and groups of enemies in PVE! They will also help you practice your Light Attack Weaving! Surprise Attack is a great Nightblade spammable that can boost your damage. Along with Killer’s Blade, Incapacitating Strike and Spectral Arrow from Relentless Focus, it can devastate any target. Endless Hail and Poison Injection from Bow, offer a few nice ranged attacks.

• Deadly Cloak(Blade Cloak): Good DPS skill.
• Surprise Attack(Veiled Strike): Main offensive skill, spammable.
• Killer’s Blade(Assassin’s Blade): Powerful execute ability. Start using this skill only after the enemy’s health drops below 25%-30%.
• Relentless Focus(Grim Focus): Boosts damage and turns into a deadly Spectral Arrow after five light/heavy attacks.
• Barbed Trap(Trap Beast): Very good DOT damage that also boosts Critical Damage.
• Flawless Dawnbreaker(Dawnbreaker): Secondary Ultimate.
• Endless Hail(Volley): Strong AOE damage skill.
• Poison Injection(Poison Arrow): Strong Poison skill.
• Twisting Path(Path of Darkness): Strong Damage over Time ability.
• Siphoning Attacks(Siphoning Strikes): Powerful Sustain ability.
• Resolving Vigor(Vigor): Main heal ability. Can replace with Dark Shade(Summon Shade) if you feel the passive healing of the Build is enough!
• Incapacitating Strike(Death Stroke): Main Ultimate.

Passive Skills for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

Passive skills are always important for every character and can help you maximize the potential of your Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build. Try to unlock them as fast as possible, so you can become stronger and tackle harder content faster. These are the Passive Skills you should unlock for the Build.

• All Passive Skills from your Class’ Lines
• All Passive Skills from Weapon Lines you are using
• Passive Skills from Armor Lines you are using
• Passive Abilities from Guild lines(Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Psijic Order) that affect your skills/Build
• Fighters Guild Passives: Intimidating Presence, Slayer, Banish the Wicked, Skilled Tracker
• Mages Guild Passives: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Undaunted Passives
• Your Racial Passives
• Medicinal Use Passive from Alchemy to boost the effectiveness of Potions

Champion Points for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

Below you will find the best Champion Points setup(c160) for the Build. When allocating Champion points to Slottable and Passive Stars your primary goal is to create paths! Allocate the minimum required points to stars along your path in order to reach your desired Slottable Stars faster. Once you have unlocked all Stars, start allocating more Champion Points to them to fill them out. Focus on Slottable Stars first, then Passive Stars. If you would like to learn more about Champion Points and how they work, you can read my ESO Champion Points Guide.

Warfare

• Eldritch Insight: 10
• Quick Recovery: 10
• Tireless Discipline: 10
• Piercing: 10
• Presicion: 14

Craft

• Gilded Fingers: 18
• Fortune’s Favor: 10
• Wanderer: 15
• Steadfast Enchantment: 10

Fitness

• Sprinter: 10
• Hasty: 8
• Hero’s Vigor: 10
• Bloody Renewal(Slottable): 10
• Rejuvenation(Slottable): 15

Food and Potions for Stamblade Beginner Build

Dubious Camoran Throne is the Best Food for the Build while Essence of Stamina is the best option as Potions.

Info for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

Several important info for the Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build. What Mundus to use, the best race for the build and how to assign your attribute points.

Attribute Points

All points to Stamina.

Mundus Stone

The Thief to boost Critical Chance.

Race

The Best Race for the Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build in ESO is Dark Elf. Orc and Khajiit are nice alternative Races you can use for a DPS focused Build. Any Race with Stamina bonuses can work well though. You can find more about the playable races in my ESO Race Guide!

Vampire or Werewolf

Neither is necessary

Rotation for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build

Drink a potion, set your Barbed Trap, attack with Endless Hail, Poison Injection, Twisting Path. Switch bars and continue with Spectral Arrow (if ready), Deadly Cloak, Surprise Attack. Continue attacking with Surprise Attack as your spammable and re cast the other skills when necessary. When the enemy’s health drops below 25%-30% start using Killer’s Blade instead of Surprise Attack as your spammable. Always use Spectral Arrow, Incapacitating Strike when ready, heal with Resolving Vigor and cast Siphoning Attacks if you need to restore Resources. Always Light Attack before every skill and action to boost your damage!

Best Companion for Stamina Nightblade Beginner Build ESO

If you need help to clear content alone you can bring along a mighty Companion! Companions in ESO are helpful allies that can assist you in combat. Every Companion can fulfill every role in the game and help you enjoy ESO more by clearing content faster or by simply interacting with them and their charming personality! There are various Builds you can use for every available ESO Companion!

As a Beginner my recommendation is to bring along a Tank or Healer Companion! To find out which ESO Companion is the Best in every role you can take a look at my ESO Best Companion Guide! To further maximize the potential of your chosen Companion, you can wear the Telvanni Efficiency Set! A Crafted Set that reduces the cooldown of your Companions abilities, improving their damage and overall effects and assisting you further in combat.