Stamina Necromancer Solo Build - ESO Guide

Simulated Parse Tables

I built a simulator that takes the current setup from the guide and plays it through the listed rotation. It uses the listed gear, skills, Champion Points, race, food, potions, target armor and target health. It tracks skill casts, light attacks, DoT ticks, cooldowns, execute scaling, crits and status effect rolls. It assumes 100% of light attacks hit and a 0.025 second weave average.

Every comparison table in this guide is the average of 10 deterministic sims, with the dummy's health spread between 5.55 and 6.45 million HP. A single sim can be off by up to 1.2%, because the result depends on when the killing hit lands. The Instanced setup is treated as the default.

For comparison tables I keep the setup identical and change one thing at a time. That makes the tables better for comparing options than random dummy parses, where one run can get better crits, different status effects or a better execute window.

Class Mastery

Class Masteries are a system where each class picks 2 of 5 passive bonuses (Class Mastery Points, not Skill Points). Activating subclassing disables Class Mastery, so it's a tradeoff between keeping your native skill lines or subclassing.

Default

Necromancer Class Mastery

Nothing Wasted

As an abattoir of death, no remnants of life are wasted.

Upgrades rank 2 of Corpse Consumption to also grant a stack of Nothing Wasted for 12 seconds, which increases your Max Health by 2% and Weapon and Spell Damage by 2% per stack, up to 10 times. Stacks decay two at a time instead of all at once.

Not in Tooltip

The tooltip is misleading. Nothing Wasted won't work without Corpse Consumption passive, but it isn't tied to Corpse Consumption proccing (which has a 16 second cooldown). You simply get a Nothing Wasted stack whenever you consume any corpse, without any cooldown.

Notes

A damage option comparable to Malevolent Promise, but it also gives you up to 20% Max Health.

Necromancer Class Mastery

Cycle Unending

The cycle of life and death continues: you will live, others will die.

Upgrades rank 2 of Reusable Parts to grant Cycle Unending for 25 seconds, increasing the potency of your damage done by 1% for every 1% Health you have more than your target. The damage bonus caps at 25%, or 10% against players.

Notes

Simply the best damage option.

Situational

Necromancer Class Mastery

Pound of Flesh

Knock upon death's door and demand your due.

When you take damage you have a 10% chance to heal Health and restore 5% of your missing Stamina, up to once per second. This chance increases by 1% for every missing Health percent you have and the healing is based off your Max Health.

Health

Coefficient	10% Max Health
Tags	HealingSingle TargetDirect

Notes

Replaces Cycle Unending in fights where you have to permablock to survive and need the sustain.

Not worth it

Necromancer Class Mastery

Veil's Forfeit

Call souls back from an early grave. Only you may grant them release.

While you are in combat, directly healing a target below 66% Health relinquishes them from death's clutches and allows you to use a corpse consuming ability against them within 10 seconds, up to once every second.

Extends the duration of Major Vulnerability you apply by 50%.

Notes

Not useful for this setup.

Necromancer Class Mastery

Malevolent Promise

Death's knell is a familiar song. Share it with your enemies.

Upgrades rank 2 of Corpse Consumption to mark the closest non-player enemy to you with death's touch for 6 seconds, allowing you to use a corpse consuming ability on them. Consuming or replacing this effect forcibly triggers rank 1 of Corpse Consumption's Ultimate generation and triggers rank 2 of Death Gleaning.

This effect can occur once every 2 seconds.

Not in Tooltip

The tooltip is misleading. Malevolent Promise won't work without Corpse Consumption passive, but it isn't tied to Corpse Consumption proccing (which has a 16 second cooldown). You create the death-touch mark whenever you consume any corpse, up to once every 2 seconds.

Notes

Not useful for this setup.

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: Detonating SiphonMorph of Shocking Siphon	Slot 1: Summoner's ArmorMorph of Bone Armor
Slot 2: Grave Lord's SacrificeMorph of Sacrificial Bones	Slot 2: Spirit GuardianMorph of Spirit Mender
Slot 3: Venom SkullMorph of Flame Skull	Slot 3: Elemental SusceptibilityMorph of Weakness to Elements
Slot 4: Avid BoneyardMorph of Boneyard	Slot 4: Elemental BlockadeMorph of Wall of Elements
Slot 5: Skeletal ArcherMorph of Skeletal Mage	Slot 5: Barbed TrapMorph of Trap Beast
Ultimate: Pestilent ColossusMorph of Frozen Colossus	Ultimate: Ice CometMorph of Meteor

INFO

All frontbar skills are from the Grave Lord skill line to boost Corpseburster.

• Detonating Siphon - an ability that consumes a corpse to form a tether between it and you, which deals damage over 20 seconds and grants you Major Savagery. When the ability ends or is reactivated the corpse explodes dealing additional damage. This is your main tool for proccing Corpseburster.
• Grave Lord's Sacrifice - an ability that summons a skeleton that will charge at you after 2.5 seconds, creating a corpse and granting you a 20 second buff that increases your damage done with Necromancer abilities and DoTs by 15%. It also makes your empowered Venom Skull deal damage in an AoE
• Venom Skull - a spammable. Every third cast deals more damage and creates a corpse near the enemy. Casting any Necromancer ability while Venom Skull is slotted counts toward the third cast.
• Avid Boneyard - a ground DoT that applies Minor Vulnerability to all enemies inside of it, increasing their damage taken by 5%. It can consume a corpse to deal more damage, which will also proc Corpseburster. It also grants you the Grave Robber synergy which you can use yourself.
• Skeletal Archer - an ability that summons an archer to attack your enemies and grants you Major Brutality for 20 seconds, which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20%. It creates a corpse when it expires.
• Pestilent Colossus - an ultimate that we won't be using, but we'll keep it slotted on our frontbar to boost Corpseburster
• Summoner's Armor - an ability that will grant you Major Resolve and Minor Resolve, increasing your armor by 8922, and reduces the cost of your Grave Lord's Sacrifice, Skeletal Archer and Spirit Guardian by 15%. It also triggers the Disdain Harm passive, which reduces your damage taken from DoTs by 15%. It turns you into a corpse on cast, up to once every 10 seconds.
• Spirit Guardian - an ability that will summon a wraith that reduces your damage taken by 10% and heals you every 2 seconds. It will also create a corpse when it expires
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely strong ability that does a multitude of things. It costs 3240 Magicka. It applies Major Breach, which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 which is a massive damage increase. It also applies Burning, Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these Status Effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies' damage done by 5%
• Elemental Blockade - a 15 second ground DoT which constantly applies your Weapon Damage enchantment and deals more damage thanks to Crushing Wall.
• Barbed Trap - a 20 second DoT that will also apply Hemorrhaging status effect at the start and grant you Minor Force for 20 seconds, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%
• Ice Comet - a 200 Ultimate cost AoE that knocks enemies down and leaves a ground DoT. U51 buffed the DoT, so it does more single target damage than Shooting Star now.

SITUATIONAL

Avid Boneyard is the first skill that has to go if you need to slot something situational and can give up damage, unless the situational skill specifically says it's replacing something else. Replace Spirit Guardian instead if you can spare survivability.

• Resolving Vigor - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from Resolving Vigor is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach which can be used instead of Elemental Susceptibility in AoE fights
• Expunge and Modify - a purge that costs only Health. Use it in fights where you need to purge an important debuff
• Mortal Coil - a 12 second HoT which consumes a corpse
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight

ROTATION

Rotation	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Priority List	69.6k DPS	Baseline
Static Rotation	64.1k DPS	-7.9%

Priority List Static Rotation

Priority List

A list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh.

• 1. Spirit Guardian
• 2. Summoner's Armor
• 3. Elemental Susceptibility
• 4. Ice Comet when available
• 5. Elemental Blockade
• 6. Barbed Trap
• 7. Venom Skull if the next cast is empowered
• 8. Avid Boneyard
• 9. Grave Lord's Sacrifice - refresh when there's less than 6 seconds left
• 10. Skeletal Archer
• 11. Detonating Siphon if there's a corpse available
• 12. Venom Skull

Static Rotation

This might be easier for some players, but it is weaker than the priority list.

Only Ice Comet stays outside this repeating Static Rotation. Cast it when available.

• 1. Elemental Susceptibility
• 2. Elemental Blockade
• 3. Grave Lord's Sacrifice
• 4. Summoner's Armor
• 5. Detonating Siphon
• 6. Venom Skull
• 7. Avid Boneyard
• 8. Barbed Trap
• 9. Spirit Guardian
• 10. Skeletal Archer
• 11. Venom Skull
• 12. Venom Skull
• 13. Detonating Siphon
• 14. Venom Skull
• 15. Venom Skull
• 16. Detonating Siphon
• 17. Elemental Blockade
• 18. Avid Boneyard
• 19. Venom Skull
• 20. Detonating Siphon

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat.

• Summoner's Armor
• Spirit Guardian
• Skeletal Archer
• Grave Lord's Sacrifice

Final Setups

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

A setup for trash packs

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Detonating SiphonMorph of Shocking Siphon	Slot 1: Summoner's ArmorMorph of Bone Armor
Slot 2: Grave Lord's SacrificeMorph of Sacrificial Bones	Slot 2: Silver LeashMorph of Silver Bolts
Slot 3: Venom SkullMorph of Flame Skull	Slot 3: Razor CaltropsMorph of Caltrops
Slot 4: Avid BoneyardMorph of Boneyard	Slot 4: Elemental BlockadeMorph of Wall of Elements
Slot 5: Skeletal ArcherMorph of Skeletal Mage	Slot 5: Barbed TrapMorph of Trap Beast
Ultimate: Pestilent ColossusMorph of Frozen Colossus	Ultimate: Shooting StarMorph of Meteor

What Changes

Changes compared to the Base Setup

• Razor Caltrops replaces Elemental Susceptibility
• Silver Leash replaces Spirit Guardian

A setup which trades damage for more survivability. Use it against harder boss fights or if you simply want a tankier build and don't mind fights taking longer

Front Bar	Back Bar
Slot 1: Detonating SiphonMorph of Shocking Siphon	Slot 1: Summoner's ArmorMorph of Bone Armor
Slot 2: Grave Lord's SacrificeMorph of Sacrificial Bones	Slot 2: Spirit GuardianMorph of Spirit Mender
Slot 3: Venom SkullMorph of Flame Skull	Slot 3: Elemental SusceptibilityMorph of Weakness to Elements
Slot 4: Revealing Flare	Slot 4: Elemental BlockadeMorph of Wall of Elements
Slot 5: Skeletal ArcherMorph of Skeletal Mage	Slot 5: Barbed TrapMorph of Trap Beast
Ultimate: Pestilent ColossusMorph of Frozen Colossus	Ultimate: Ice CometMorph of Meteor

What Changes

Changes compared to the Base Setup

• Revealing Flare replaces Avid Boneyard

Skill Setup Comparison

Passives

Some trees are only needed when using situational skills, for example Psijic Order provides nothing without Precognition

Gear

Overland (Base) is your starting point and works for most situations. Crafted is a beginner version using only craftable sets. Instanced is a swap for Arenas and Dungeons where enemies have higher armor.

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

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Slimecraw	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Hands	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Necklace	Whorl of the Depths	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Whorl of the Depths	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Whorl of the Depths	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Poison
Frontbar Off Hand	Whorl of the Depths	Dagger	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand	Crushing Wall	Inferno Staff	Infused	Weapon Damage

Fallback Gear

Look here You don't need the Trial gear. The Dungeon set Aegis Caller is about 4.7% less damage, while the Crafted set Tide-Born Wildstalker is about 6.0% less damage.

Aegis Caller (Dungeon)

About 4.7% less damage

Tide-Born Wildstalker (Crafted)

About 6.0% less damage

Body

Corpseburster - Class Set (Infinite Archive)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Order's Wrath - Crafted
2. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted

Weapons and Jewelry

Whorl of the Depths - Trial Set (Dreadsail Reef)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted
2. Order's Wrath - Crafted

Monster Helm

Slimecraw - Monster Set (Wayrest Sewers I)

Alternative (same bonus)

1. Iceheart - Direfrost Keep
2. Zaan - Scalecaller Peak
3. Grundwulf - Moongrave Fane
4. Stone Husk - Stone Garden
5. The Blind - Bedlam Veil
6. Thousand Eyes - Night Market

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Highland Sentinel	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Hands	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Order's Wrath	Light	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Order's Wrath	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Necklace	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Highland Sentinel	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Poison
Frontbar Off Hand	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Dagger	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand	Tide-Born Wildstalker	Inferno Staff	Infused	Weapon Damage

The setup in the table uses only crafted gear, but if you already own parts of the Base setup like Corpseburster, Whorl of the Depths or Ring of the Pale Order you can start using them immediately.

Use this in Instanced content where enemies have 18,200 armor instead of 9,100.

Gear Slot	Set	Weight/Type	Trait	Enchantment
Head	Valkyn Skoria	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Shoulders	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Chest	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Hands	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Belt	Whorl of the Depths	Light	Divines	Stamina
Legs	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Boots	Corpseburster	Medium	Divines	Stamina
Necklace	Whorl of the Depths	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Whorl of the Depths	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Ring	Ring of the Pale Order	Jewelry	Bloodthirsty	Increase Physical Harm
Frontbar Main Hand	Whorl of the Depths	Dagger	Nirnhoned	Poison
Frontbar Off Hand	Whorl of the Depths	Dagger	Charged	Absorb Stamina
Backbar Main Hand	Crushing Wall	Inferno Staff	Infused	Weapon Damage

Fallback Gear

Look here You don't need the Trial gear. The Crafted set Tide-Born Wildstalker is about 3.5% less damage, while the Dungeon set Aegis Caller is about 4.9% less damage.

Tide-Born Wildstalker (Crafted)

About 3.5% less damage

Aegis Caller (Dungeon)

About 4.9% less damage

Body

Corpseburster - Class Set (Infinite Archive)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted
2. Order's Wrath - Crafted

Weapons and Jewelry

Whorl of the Depths - Trial Set (Dreadsail Reef)

If you don't have it, use in order

1. Tide-Born Wildstalker - Crafted
2. Order's Wrath - Crafted

Monster Helm

Valkyn Skoria - Monster Set (City of Ash II)

Alternatives

1. Slimecraw - Wayrest Sewers I
2. Kra'gh - Fungal Grotto I
3. Archdruid Devyric - Earthen Root Enclave
4. Lady Malygda - Imperial City
5. Black Gem Monstrosity - Black Gem Foundry

What Changes

Changes compared to the Overland setup

• Head switches from Slimecraw to Valkyn Skoria

Use the Penetration Calculator to fine-tune your penetration for different content. Overland enemies have 9,100 armor while Instanced enemies (Arenas and Dungeons) have 18,200.

Tool Penetration Calculator Check your total armor penetration in ESO and see exactly how much DPS you're losing. Find out if you've hit the penetration cap for the type of content you're doing.

Gear Set Comparisons

Damage comparison for the set options.

Instanced Enemy - 18,200 Armor

All of these use 6 Medium / 1 Light and Valkyn Skoria.

Body Corpseburster Weapons + Jewelry Whorl of the Depths

Body

Compares Whorl of the Depths + X body set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Body Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Corpseburster	Class Set - Infinite Archive	69.6k DPS	Baseline
Ansuul's Torment	Trial - Sanity's Edge	Interrupt 65.9k DPS No Interrupt 59.5k DPS	-5.3% -14.5%
Slivers of the Null Arca	Trial - Lucent Citadel	60.7k DPS	-12.7%
Aegis Caller	Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave	60.3k DPS	-13.4%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	60.0k DPS	-13.8%
Tzogvin's Warband	Dungeon - Frostvault	59.0k DPS	-15.2%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 58.8k DPS 0 Stacks 56.9k DPS	-15.6% -18.2%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	58.7k DPS	-15.6%
Deadly Strike	PvP - Cyrodiil	58.4k DPS	-16.0%
Pillar of Nirn	Dungeon - Falkreath Hold	57.5k DPS	-17.3%
Briarheart	Overland - Wrothgar	57.3k DPS	-17.7%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	57.3k DPS	-17.7%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	56.8k DPS	-18.4%

Weapons + Jewelry

Compares Corpseburster + X weapons and jewelry set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Ansuul's Torment	Trial - Sanity's Edge	Interrupt 74.4k DPS No Interrupt 67.4k DPS	+6.9% -3.1%
Sul-Xan's Torment	Trial - Rockgrove	Soul 70.8k DPS No Soul 63.7k DPS	+1.8% -8.5%
Whorl of the Depths	Trial - Dreadsail Reef	69.6k DPS	Baseline
Slivers of the Null Arca	Trial - Lucent Citadel	68.4k DPS	-1.7%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	67.2k DPS	-3.5%
Aegis Caller	Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave	66.2k DPS	-4.9%
Tzogvin's Warband	Dungeon - Frostvault	65.2k DPS	-6.3%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 64.7k DPS 0 Stacks 62.5k DPS	-7.0% -10.2%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	64.2k DPS	-7.7%
Symmetry of the Weald	Overland - West Weald	63.6k DPS	-8.6%
Briarheart	Overland - Wrothgar	63.6k DPS	-8.7%
Pillar of Nirn	Dungeon - Falkreath Hold	63.5k DPS	-8.8%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	62.9k DPS	-9.7%
Frostbite	Overland - Blackwood	62.6k DPS	-10.0%
Deadly Strike	PvP - Cyrodiil	62.5k DPS	-10.2%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	62.4k DPS	-10.4%
Mother's Sorrow	Overland - Deshaan	62.2k DPS	-10.6%

Overland Enemy - 9,100 Armor

All of these use 6 Medium / 1 Light and Slimecraw.

Body Corpseburster Weapons + Jewelry Whorl of the Depths

Body

Compares Whorl of the Depths + X body set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Body Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Corpseburster	Class Set - Infinite Archive	75.2k DPS	Baseline
Ansuul's Torment	Trial - Sanity's Edge	Interrupt 71.4k DPS No Interrupt 64.6k DPS	-5.0% -14.1%
Slivers of the Null Arca	Trial - Lucent Citadel	67.9k DPS	-9.8%
Aegis Caller	Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave	67.7k DPS	-10.0%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	66.0k DPS	-12.2%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 66.0k DPS 0 Stacks 63.9k DPS	-12.3% -15.1%
Deadly Strike	PvP - Cyrodiil	65.7k DPS	-12.6%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	65.3k DPS	-13.2%
Pillar of Nirn	Dungeon - Falkreath Hold	64.6k DPS	-14.1%
Briarheart	Overland - Wrothgar	64.4k DPS	-14.4%
Tzogvin's Warband	Dungeon - Frostvault	64.3k DPS	-14.5%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	64.3k DPS	-14.6%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	63.7k DPS	-15.3%

Weapons + Jewelry

Compares Corpseburster + X weapons and jewelry set.

Source All Trial Crafted Dungeon Archive Overland PvP

Set	Source	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Ansuul's Torment	Trial - Sanity's Edge	Interrupt 78.4k DPS No Interrupt 71.0k DPS	+4.3% -5.6%
Sul-Xan's Torment	Trial - Rockgrove	Soul 76.7k DPS No Soul 69.3k DPS	+1.9% -7.9%
Whorl of the Depths	Trial - Dreadsail Reef	75.2k DPS	Baseline
Slivers of the Null Arca	Trial - Lucent Citadel	74.1k DPS	-1.5%
Aegis Caller	Dungeon - Unhallowed Grave	71.7k DPS	-4.7%
Tide-Born Wildstalker	Crafted	70.7k DPS	-6.0%
Highland Sentinel	Crafted	3 Stacks 70.3k DPS 0 Stacks 68.0k DPS	-6.6% -9.6%
Order's Wrath	Crafted	69.8k DPS	-7.2%
Briarheart	Overland - Wrothgar	69.1k DPS	-8.1%
Symmetry of the Weald	Overland - West Weald	69.0k DPS	-8.3%
Pillar of Nirn	Dungeon - Falkreath Hold	69.0k DPS	-8.3%
Tzogvin's Warband	Dungeon - Frostvault	68.8k DPS	-8.5%
Hunding's Rage	Crafted	68.4k DPS	-9.1%
Frostbite	Overland - Blackwood	68.1k DPS	-9.5%
Deadly Strike	PvP - Cyrodiil	68.0k DPS	-9.6%
Law of Julianos	Crafted	67.9k DPS	-9.7%
Mother's Sorrow	Overland - Deshaan	67.6k DPS	-10.2%

Front Bar Weapons

Daggers are the default weapon.

Only the front bar weapon changes. Daggers use Nirnhoned Poison and Charged Absorb Stamina. Every one-weapon option uses a Charged Poison weapon. One Handed and Shield uses a Charged Poison one handed weapon plus a Divines Stamina shield.

Situational Swaps

Alternative setups for different goals and content types

Additional Tips

Champion Points

Unlock Order

Warfare

Fighting Finesse

8% Critical Damage and Healing

Next strongest CP damage-wise

Wrathful Strikes

205 Weapon and Spell Damage

Next strongest CP damage-wise

Master-at-Arms

6% Direct Damage

Deadly Aim

6% Single Target Damage

More Mitigation

Replace Wrathful Strikes + Fighting Finesse with 2 mitigation CPs: Ironclad, Duelist's Rebuff, Enduring Resolve, or Unassailable (depending on the type of damage the Boss deals to you)

More Healing

Reaving Blows is a decent option if you need more HPS

Fitness

Boundless Vitality

1400 Max Health

Survivability

Bloody Renewal

1500 Stamina on kills

Sustain

Rejuvenation

90 Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery

Sustain

Fortified

1731 Armor

Survivability

Block Mitigation

Use Bracing Anchor in fights where you need to block a lot and can afford to be slower

Movement Speed

Use Celerity in fights where you have to move a lot

Sustain in fights with lots of adds

Use Siphoning Spells along with Bloody Renewal if you need more Magicka sustain in fights with lots of adds

Craft

Steed's Blessing

20% Movement Speed out of combat

Extremely useful utility

Quality of Life

Green Champion Points don't affect Combat, choose whatever Quality of Life you prefer

Race

For solo you need both damage and survivability, so every race brings something to the table. I use Nord because in difficult solo content the armor racial is worth the DPS trade-off. If you want to use a different race, the table shows comparison between their DPS.

Nord

The tankiest race. Nord is also what I use for soloing Veteran Hard Mode DLC Dungeons. Rugged provides around 5-7% damage mitigation depending on your current armor, making difficult content easier to survive without sacrificing much damage.

Rugged 2600 armor

Stalwart 1500 Max Stamina, 0.5 Ultimate per second

Resist Frost 1000 Max Health, 4620 Frost Resistance

Mundus

• 

  Default

  The Thief

  5.53% Critical Chance(9.04% with 7 Divines)

  Use most of the time. It increases your Critical Chance.
• 

  Difficult Content

  The Lady

  2744 Armor(4489 with 7 Divines)

  Consider switching for extremely difficult dungeons. It increases your Armor.

Attributes

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.

As you can see, the damage loss from changing attributes is minimal, and you gain up to 7808 Health, so change attributes whenever you struggle with some harder enemy.

Food

• 

  Default

  Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch

  Max Health +4,312 Health Recovery +406 Stamina Recovery +369 Magicka Recovery +369

  The default option. Our Armor potions don't restore resources, so the food has to cover Stamina and Magicka Recovery.
  Cheaper alternative Jewels of Misrule

  Difference Max Health +3,927 −385 Health Recovery — −406 Stamina Recovery +357 −12 Magicka Recovery +357 −12
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  Full Damage

  Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables

  Max Health +5,395 Max Stamina +4,936

  Full damage option. Trades the recoveries for Max Stamina and more Max Health, but you'll need Tri-Stat or Heroism potions in order to sustain.

Setup	Simulated Parse	Damage Change
Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch + Armor Potion	69.6k DPS	Baseline
Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables + Tri-Stat or Heroism Potion	71.7k DPS	+3.0%

Potions

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  Default

  Armor Potion

  Restore Health Spell Resistance Physical Resistance

  The default option. It gives you the armor while your food covers sustain.

  Craft with: Bugloss Mountain Flower Mudcrab Chitin
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  Full Damage

  Tri-Stat Potion

  Restore Health Restore Stamina Restore Magicka

  Full damage option. The sustain from it lets you switch from Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch to Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables for more damage.

  Craft with: Columbine Bugloss Mountain Flower
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  Full Damage

  Heroism Potion

  Restore Magicka Restore Stamina Minor Heroism

  Same idea as Tri-Stat Potion, but straight up better because it adds Minor Heroism on top. More damage, just much more expensive to craft.

  Craft with: Dragon Rheum Dragon's Blood Columbine

Parses

All parses are recorded on the 6 million Target Dummy.

Regular Setup

68,871 DPS

Regular Setup

68,871DPS

6mil Skeleton Dummy

Patch

U50 PTS Week 4

Armor

6 Medium / 1 Light

Gear Setup

Instanced (No Sul-Xan)

Skill Setup

Regular

Potion

Armor Potion

Food

Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch

Mundus

The Thief

Race

Nord

CMX Parse

CMX Setup

Recording

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Gameplay

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