STAMINA BOW SUBCLASS SOLO GUIDE

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Stamina Bow Subclass


Last updated: Update 46 - 2nd August 2025

This build is capable of soloing every Veteran dungeon that doesn’t have a specific mechanic that requires multiple people. It’s also capable of soloing most Hard Mode dungeons, and with some adjustments even the more difficult ones.

In this guide I’ll be regularly using the terms Regular and Difficult. Regular refers to content that is intended to be solo-ed (such as Maelstrom Arena or Vateshran Arena) and to any overland content such as World Bosses, Dolmens, Dragons, Volcanic Vents, Harrowstorms, Mirrormoor Incursions, etc. Majority of dungeon fights will also fall under that category. Difficult refers to extremely difficult dungeon fights.


SUBCLASSING


Combination

Nightblade - Assassination

Warden - Animal Companions

Sorcerer - Storm Calling

This build uses Nightblade's Assassination, Warden's Animal Companions and Sorcerer's Storm Calling skill lines. Your base class does not matter.

Assassination provides a lot of Critical Chance and Critical Damage with its passives and grants us access to extremely strong skills like Merciless Resolve and Soul Harvest

Animal Companions skill line is crucial because in a Bow/Bow build we do not have access to Elemental Susceptibility and Elemental Blockade so we need a different source of Major Breach and Minor Breach, and that source will be the Deep Fissure skill from Animal Companions skill line. It also grants us access to Bull Netch which grants a damage boost, sustain and purges debuffs.

Storm Calling is a skill line with decent passives that's also going to give us access to the Major Resolve buff through the Hurricane skil.


SKILL SETUPS


Base Setup

A base setup that will work for most situations and which should be your starting point when making situational setups

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Focused Aim Slot 1: Hurricane
Slot 2: Deep Fissure Slot 2: Poison Injection
Slot 3: Merciless Resolve Slot 3: Bull Netch
Slot 4: Killer's Blade Slot 4: Endless Hail
Slot 5: Camouflaged Hunter Slot 5: Barbed Trap
Ultimate: Soul Harvest Ultimate: Shooting Star
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Final Setups

A few examples of final setups you could end up with after applying the situational skills to the base setup

A setup with lots of damage mitigation for bosses that hit very hard

Front Bar Back Bar
Slot 1: Focused Aim Slot 1: Hurricane
Slot 2: Deep Fissure Slot 2: Critical Surge
Slot 3: Merciless Resolve Slot 3: Bull Netch
Slot 4: Revealing Flare Slot 4: Endless Hail
Slot 5: Camouflaged Hunter Slot 5: Ulfsild's Contingency
Ultimate: Soul Harvest Ultimate: Shooting Star

EXPLANATION:


PASSIVES

  • Class
  • Weapon
  • Armor
  • Guild
  • Alliance War
  • Racial
  • Craft

Class - Assassination

Master Assassin - High Priority

Executioner - High Priority

Pressure Points - High Priority

Hemorrhage - High Priority


GEAR


Base Setup

A base setup that will work for most situations and which should be your starting point when making situational setups

Switching gear for trash packs isn't worth it unless you're using gear-swap addons

Default setup

Gear Slot Set Weight/Type Trait Enchantment

Head

Slimecraw Medium Divines Stamina

Shoulders

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Stamina

Chest

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Stamina

Hands

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Stamina

Belt

Tide-Born Wildstalker Light Divines Stamina

Legs

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Stamina

Boots

Ansuul's Torment Medium Divines Stamina

Necklace

Tide-Born Wildstalker Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Ring

Tide-Born Wildstalker Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Ring

Ring of the Pale Order Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Frontbar Main Hand

Tide-Born Wildstalker Bow Precise Shock

Backbar Main Hand

Thunderous Volley Bow Infused Weapon Damage

If you want to switch to a situational set it's best to replace Ansuul’s Torment if the situational set you're getting has a Minor Slayer line, and replace Tide-Born Wildstalker otherwise. When replacing Tide-Born Wildstalker with a Medium armor set, change your Slimecraw head-piece to Light armor type.

For example, a default setup for trash packs would replace Ansuul's Torment with Sul-Xan’s Torment

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Final Setups

A few examples of final setups you could end up with after applying situational rules to the base setup

This is the crafted gear setup you can start with

Gear Slot Set Weight/Type Trait Enchantment

Head

Tide-Born Wildstalker Medium Training/ Divines Stamina

Shoulders

Tide-Born Wildstalker Medium Training/ Divines Stamina

Chest

Order's Wrath Heavy / Medium Training/ Reinforced Stamina

Hands

Order's Wrath Medium Training/ Divines Stamina

Belt

Order's Wrath Light Training/ Divines Stamina

Legs

Order's Wrath Medium Training/ Divines Stamina

Boots

Order's Wrath Medium Training/ Divines Stamina

Necklace

Tide-Born Wildstalker Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Ring

Tide-Born Wildstalker Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Ring

Tide-Born Wildstalker Jewelry Bloodthirsty Increase Physical Harm

Frontbar Main Hand

Assassin's Guile Bow Precise Shock

Backbar Main Hand

Assassin's Guile Bow Infused Weapon Damage

The weight distribution of the setup from the table is 1 Heavy 5 Medium 1 Light so that you can start leveling up all your armor skill lines. Once you transition to Regular setup you'll be using 6 Medium 1 Light most of the time, switching to 1 Heavy 5 Medium 1 Light only against more difficult fights

The setup in the table uses only crafted gear, but if you already own parts of the Regular setup like Ring of the Pale Order you can start using them immediately

If you want to Solo some difficult content without Ring of the Pale Order you'll have to switch to Critical Surge or add Reaving Blows to your CP setup

ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • Use Training traits if you're still leveling. If you're already max level and have enough Champion Points you can instead use Divines

CHAMPION POINTS

Warfare

Fitness

ADDITIONAL INFO:


RACE

When it comes to solo PvE, you need both damage and survivability so pretty much all races have useful racials.

The best race for dealing damage is Khajiit. While the Critical Damage from Feline Ambush can sometimes be wasted due to Critical Damage being capped at 125%, it will never happen in solo content, because there will be no tanks or healers providing you with the Major Force buff.

The best race for survivability is Nord. The Rugged racial will provide around 6% damage mitigation.


MUNDUS

For instanced content you should use The Lover Mundus which increases Penetration.

For overland content you should use The Thief Mundus which increases Critical Chance

For extremely difficult dungeons you should consider switching to The Lady Mundus, which increases your Armor.


ATTRIBUTES

HEALTH

0

STAMINA

64

MAGICKA

0

For most content you should put all 64 points into Stamina. For difficult content you should devote as many attribute points as necessary to Health - for some content you’ll be able to get away with 32 Health 32 Stamina, for the extremely difficult stuff you’ll need 64 Health.


FOOD

Your sustain can vary greatly because it's impacted by your armor weight composition, your race and how much blocking/dodge rolling you're required to do in a certain fight. Choose the food with more Stamina Recovery if you can't sustain


POTIONS

Most of the time you should use Tri-Stat potions (Restore Health, Restore Stamina, Restore Magicka). They'll greatly improve you sustain. You can craft them by combiningColumbine,Bugloss andMountain's Flower.

There are better potions but they're expensive. Heroism potions (Heroism, Restore Stamina, Restore Magicka) can provide a 100% uptime on Minor Heroism buff which generates ultimate, but they're extremely expensive because they're crafted by combiningDragon Rheum,Dragon's Blood andColumbine.


PARSE

69.2k on the 6mil dummy using Regular setup

Recording of the 69.2k parse

OTHER PARSES

Crafted - 67.6k DPS


GAMEPLAY

Here you can see this build tackling Veteran dungeons

Solo Veteran Hard Mode Scalecaller Peak

Log - https://www.esologs.com/reports/CRPr924dnKxjpQNX

Solo Veteran Hard Mode Falkreath Hold

Log - https://www.esologs.com/reports/W9FG2BvqxyVhMT16


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