Powerful SOLO Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)
Type: Dungeon, Solo Dungeons, Overland, Maelstrom & Vateshran Arena
Buildname: Solo Stamina Necromancer
Table of Contents
- Solo Setup
- Resource Management
- Rotation
- Bad Habits
- Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup
- Infinite Archive Setup
- Build Video
- Gameplay
- Necromancer Subclassing
- Update Log
Welcome to the Solo Stamina Necromancer Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). This build is optimized for solo play. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO. If you are new to the game I would also recommend checking out a few other guides:
Other Stamina Necromancer Guides:
- Stamina Necromancer Beginner Guide (Read first if you are a new player)
- Stamina Necromancer Beginner 160CP Build (Made for new players)
- Stamina Necromancer Dual Wield Build (META)
- Stamina Necromancer Bow Build
- Stamina Necromancer Two Hander Build
The Solo Stam Necromancer build is optimized for solo play. You will find three different gear setups, the first one is best in slot, the second one advanced and the third one a very easily obtainable beginner setup. However, understanding the mechanics of the build is more important than the gear itself. By mechanics I mean the abilities that we use, what functions they have and how to sustain this setup. And most importantly, how to stay alive with timed dodge rolls, blocks, and heals.
Necromancers have a nice toolkit in terms of healing and survivability. The Spirit Guardian summon gives you a total of 10% damage mitigation, heals you, and also activates the Undead Confederate passive that also increases our sustain. The Skeletal Archer also keeps the Undead Confederate passive up, deals damage, and more importantly, gives us additional penetration due to the Dismember passive. The Detonating Siphoning tether skill increases our sustain when we drain corpses and also deals a lot of damage. Necromancers in ESO have powerful execute damage due to the Death Knell passive, giving us a 4% extra Weapon Crit boost for every Grave Lord skill-line ability slotted.
- Two Hander & Bow setup
- Powerful Damage
- Good Sustain
- Good Healing
- Big Shields
- Solo Dungeons, Overland
- Maelstrom & Vateshran Hollows Arena
ESO Solo Stamina Necromancer Build
5x Tzogvin, 5x Briarheart, 1x Bloodspawn, 1x Pale Order on a Dark Elf with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food.
- Unbuffed: Out of combat, buff food active.
- Buffed: In combat, Buff food, Briarheart, Tzogvin, Skeletal Archer, Weapon Damage Enchantment and Potion active.
Gear Solo Stamina Necromancer
You will find 3 different setups here. Setup 1 is the preferred setup. People who do not have all the gear yet can use the Setup 2 which is easier to obtain and beginners can use Setup 3.
- Setup 1 – Best Setup
- Setup 2 – Advanced Gear
- Setup 3 – Beginner Gear
Gear Setup 1
- Which sets you put in which slot is not that important, the only thing that matters is that you get two full five-piece sets and a Monster Set.
- One Piece Heavy Armor gives us some extra resistance and health.
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Belt | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Tzogvin’s Warband | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Shoulder | Briarheart | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Ring of the Pale Order | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Briarheart | 2H Sword | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
| Weapon 2 | Thunderous Volley | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchantment |
Gear Setup 2
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Belt | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Shoulder | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Briarheart | 2H Sword | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
| Weapon 2 | Thunderous Volley or Briarheart | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Gear Setup 3 Beginner
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Belt | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Hunding’s Rage | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Monster Set of your choice | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Shoulder | Monster Set of your choice | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Ancient Dragonguard | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Ancient Dragonguard | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Ancient Dragonguard | Jewelry | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Ancient Dragonguard | 2H Sword | Precise | Absorb Stamina Enchant |
| Weapon 2 | Ancient Dragonguard | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchant |
Where can I get the gear?
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstores
Tzogvin’s Warband: Frostvault
Ancient Dragonguard: Craftable
Bloodspawn: vSpindleclutch II, Maj Undaunted Chest
Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Selene: vSelene’s Web, Glirion Undaunted Chest
Thunderous Volley: vMaelstrom Arena
Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities System
Vicious Serpent: Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophidia, Hel Ra Citadel
Skills Solo Stamina Necromancer
| Two Hander Mainbar | Bow-second bar |
|---|---|
| Slot 1: Brawler | Slot 1: Endless Hail |
| Slot 2: Blighted Blastbones | Slot 2: Skeletal Archer |
| Slot 3: Dizzying Swing (or Venom Skull) | Slot 3: Razor Caltrops |
| Slot 4: Reverse Slice | Slot 4: Spirit Guardian |
| Slot 5: Echoing Vigor | Slot 5: Detonating Siphon |
| Ultimate: Pestilent Colossus | Ultimate: Ravenous Goliath |
Skills explanation:
- Brawler: Your most important survival ability. Use this on a single or several enemies to gain a huge shield that will bolster your health on top of the nice damage it does.
- Blighted Blastbones: Powerful Single Target and AoE damage, always activate it on cooldown.
- Dizzying Swing: This is your spammable attack. Also sets enemies off balance, once set off balance you can follow up with a Heavy Attack to regain TWICE the resources! (Could also use Venom Skull)
- Reverse Slice: Your execute ability that also deals nice splash damage.
- Echoing Vigor: Strong heal over time that lasts for a long time. We prefer this morph because the heal is already strong enough and the longer duration is better, more time to deal damage! Compared to the other morph which only lasts for a very short duration. If you drop low on health make sure to activate this and also use Brawler to gain a shield to bolster your health.
- Pestilent Colossus: Powerful AoE and Single Target ultimate that applies Major Vulnerability for 12 seconds.
- Endless Hail: This is your DoT that you need to constantly keep up on the enemies. Very powerful both in Single Target and AoE.
- Skeletal Archer: This has to be up a 100% of the time, deals decent damage and gives us extra Stamina Recovery and Physical Penetration
- Razor Caltrops: Razor Caltrops is another Single Target and AoE Dot that you need to keep up all the time because it debuffs the enemies with Major Fracture, reducing their Physical Resistance by 5280, resulting in us dealing way more damage!
- Spirit Guardian: 10% damage mitigation and a decent heal, has to be up all the time.
- Detonating Siphon: Powerful Single Target and AoE damage.
- Ravenous Goliath: Backup ultimate, if you have trouble staying alive, activate this as it drains Health from the enemy and gives it to you.
Scribing Skills
The ESO Scribing System offers plenty of adjustable skills to add to our build. The Scribing Skills aren’t a must have, but I will present you two viable options that would fit into the build. We have access to Smash from the Two Hander skill line and Vault from the Bow skill line.
Important: Please read here how to get Grimoires, Focus Scripts, Signature Scripts and Affix Scripts for the ESO Scribing system.
Base Scribing Skill:
To unlock the Smash skill, you need to reach level 25 in the Two Handed skill line. To unlock the Vault skill you need to reach level 25 in the Bow skill line.
Smash (Bloody Smash)
Smash is the Two Handed Scribing skill. It drags your weapon along the ground to smash a cone in front of you. To maximize damage, we want to use the following scripts: Bleed Damage (Focus), Lingering Toment (Signature), and Berserk (Affix). This will turn the skill into Bloody Smash and deal Bleed AoE damage and also Bleed damage over time to all enemies hit. We also gain Minor Berserk for 20 seconds, giving us 5% more damage done.
- Grimoire
- Focus Script
- Signature Script
- Lingering Torment (Bleed Damage over time)
- Affix Script
- Berserk (Applies Minor Bersewrk buff, increasing damage done by 5%)
If you want to use this Scribing Skill, you can replace it with Brawler. However, please note that you trade damage for survivability. Brawler applies a huge damage shield to you that often absorbs all the hits, choose wisely!
Vault (Venomous Vault)
Vault is the Bow Scribing skill. It fires a burst at your feet while flipping backward 15 meters. You want to use the following scripts: Poison Damage (Focus), Lingering Toment (Signature), and Vulnerability (Affix). This will turn the scribing skill into Venomous Vault and deal Poison Damage to all enemies around you as well as Poison damage over time. We also apply Minor Vulnerability to enemies, increasing their damage taken by 5%.
- Grimoire
- Focus Script
- Signature Script
- Lingering Torment (Poison Damage over time)
- Affix Script
- Vulnerability (Applies Minor Vulnerability, increasing damage taken by 5%)
If you want to use this Scribing Skill, replace it with Consuming Trap. However, be careful using this skill because flipping backward 15 meters can mess up your positioning.
Champion Points Solo Stamina Necromancer
Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.
Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.
Click the tab below to open the allocation.
Important Info for Solo Necromancer Build
Buff-food
It is very important that you use the Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice Buff-food. This will enhance our Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery by a huge margin. You can buy the food in the guild stores for a very cheap price, or craft it yourself if you have the recipe. For more information on all buff food and drinks I recommend visiting the Buff Food and Drink Overview Page.
Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice
(Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery)
Mundus Stone
The Lover Mundus Stone provides us with extra penetration, which increases our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.
The Lover Mundus Stone (Increased Penetration)
Race
All stamina based races work with this setup. More about each race can be found on the racial overview page.
Dark Elf
Khajiit
Orc
Redguard
Imperial
Wood Elf
Nord
Argonian
High Elf
Potions
The Weapon Power Potions are important because they give us Major Brutality, Major Savagery and the Major Endurance buff. If you don’t have access to these potions, you can run normal ones too but you will lose quite a bit of damage.
Weapon Power Potion
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)
You could use skills such as Camouflaged Hunter to get the Major Savagery buff and the Rally skill to get the Major Brutality buff if you don’t have these potions.
Poisons
We are using Poisons to increase our overall damage output. If you don’t have poisons, you can just use another enchantment on your weapon.
Damage Health Poison
(Damage Poison, Damage Poison)
(Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Nirnroot)
Passives
- Grave Lord: Reusable Parts, Death Knell, Dismember, Rapid Rot
- Bone Tyrant: Death Gleaning, Disdain Harm, Last Gasp
- Living Death: Curative Curse, Corpse Consumption, Undead Confederate
- Two Handed: Forceful, Heavy Weapons, Balanced Blade, Follow Up, Battle Rush
- Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
- Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
- Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle
- Racial: All
- Alchemy: Medicinal Use
- Assault: (Optional, mount speed buff) Continuous Attack
Attributes
0 Health, 64 Stamina, 0 Magicka
Resource Management
Our setup has a lot of resource management options, some already directly built in via Stamina Recovery and some more options that you can use whenever you need it.
Stamina Recovery
Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice buff-food is key to our sustain. The buff-food gives you Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery, a lot of it. You have to make sure to use this specific buff-food. You can buy it in the guild stores for a very cheap price or craft it yourself, if you have the recipe.
The Undead Confederate increases are Stamina Recovery by a total of 200 as long as we have a summon up.
The Battle Rush passive from the Two Hander skill-line gives you another 30% Stamina Recovery for 10 seconds while you have a Two Handed weapon slotted.
Potions are another very important part of resource management. We are preferably using Essence of Weapon Power potions to gain another 30% Stamina Recovery boost, 10% Weapon Critical and a 20% Weapon Damage boost. This both increases our sustain and also damage, I highly recommend using these potions in tough situations. The ingredients are listed in the potion section of the build.
Rotation
Before we start with the rotation, you always have to make sure to weave Light Attacks between each ability. This is important because the Light Attacks deal very good damage and proc your Weapon Enchantments and Poisons. You can find a guide here on that subject: “Weaving Beginner Guide”.
Your first priority has to always be to stay alive. Therefore healing, shielding and dodging has to be prioritized over damage.
- Brawler is your survival skill, every time you hit one or several enemies you will gain a shield. Most of the times that is already enough to stay alive.
- Echoing Vigor is your main healing ability that lasts 10 seconds. I would always recommend keeping it up if there is a lot of incoming damage. The Briarhaert set is enough in most situations though if you keep up your DoTs.
- Keep up your summons such as: Skeletal Archer, Spirit Guardian.
- Keep up all your DoTs on the enemy such as Endless Hail, Detonating Siphon, Razor Caltrops.
- Once that is taken care of, you want to use your spammable on the front bar such as: Blighted Blastbones, Dizzying Swing and Reverse Slice.
Ravenous Goliath Ultimate is there as a backup, in most situations the other Ultimate will be more effective. However, Ravenous Goliath will give you an extra 30’000 Health and also drain enemies and give the health to you, so its impossible to die while the Ultimate is active.
Bad Habits
- Not keeping up your healing abilities such as Echoing Vigor and defense abilities such as Spirit Guardian is the main reason why you die on this setup. The Ghost is super important because it increases your damage mitigation by 10% and also heals you and increases sustain.
- Not keeping up your damage over time effects on the backbar will result in a huge loss in overall damage.
- Not using Brawler enough to bolster your health with the huge shield that the skill gives. Always before you swap to the backbar you should use Brawler first to gain a shield that will help you while you are on the backbar.
- Not using the right buff-food as listed will also result in sustain issues.
Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Arena Setup
Stamina Necromancer Vateshran Hollows & Maelstrom Build Setup.
- For specific tips and tricks please check out the Vateshran Hollows Guide or the Maelstrom Arena Guide which explains everything in detail.
- Ring of the Pale Order provides a lot of extra healing, I recommend getting this Mythic item, it makes the arena a lot easier.
- If you don’t have access to Mythic items, please use the gear setups above.
Gear
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Vicious Serpent | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Belt | Vicious Serpent | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Vicious Serpent | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Vicious Serpent | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Vicious Serpent | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Bloodspawn | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Shoulder | Briarheart | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Ring of the Pale Order | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Briarheart | 2H Sword | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
| Weapon 2 | Thunderous Volley | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchantment |
Skills
Buff-Food
I recommend using the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food if you have too much sustain with Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice.
Infinite Archive Setup for Solo Stamina Necromancer
Here you can find a setup that works well inside ESO’s Infinite Archive when you play solo with the Solo Stamina Necromancer Build. Make sure to read the ESO Infinite Archive Guide to understand what is going on inside the archive.
- Infinite Archive gets progressively harder
- You need to know boss mechanics, otherwise one-shots will occur often.
- Understanding how the Infinite Archive works is important
- If you get stuck, change gear or skills and try again.
Gear
Of course you can also try the Infinite Archive with any of the above setups and see how they perform. We like to go in with Briarheart on the front bar and Pillar of Nirn on the back bar. These are both sets that have a simple proc condition and they work automatically. Additionally, we also have the Stormfist set that also deals proc damage. Basically, all sets do work without you having to think about how to activate them.
For the Infinite Archive, it is recommended to go with 1x Ring of the Pale Order, 2x Stormfist, 5x Briarheart (frontbar), 5x Pillar of Nirn (backbar) and 1x Druid’s Braid. This setup will provide us with enough healing and damage. You can also use any other Monster Set if you don’t like Stormfist.
| Gear | Set | Weight | Trait | Enchantment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | Druid’s Braid | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Belt | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Shoes | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Pants | Pillar of Nirn | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Hands | Briarheart | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Head | Stormfist | Medium | Divine | Health |
| Shoulder | Stormfist | Medium | Divine | Stamina |
| Necklace | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Briarheart | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Ring | Ring of the Pale Order | Jewelry | Bloodthirsty | Weapon Damage |
| Weapon 1 | Briarheart | 2H Sword | Precise | Damage Health Poisons IX |
| Weapon 2 | Pillar of Nirn | Bow | Infused | Weapon Damage Enchantment |
Note: Two-handed weapons count as two pieces for a set.
Where can I get the gear?
Briarheart: Wrothgar, Guildstores
Pillar of Nirn: nFalkreath Hold Dungeon
Ring of the Pale Order: Antiquities System
Stormfist: vTempest Island Dungeon
Druids Braid: Guildstores, Craftable set in the High Isle and Amenos zone
Skills
Buff-Food
If you are having sustain issues it is recommended to use the Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice buff food, just keep in mind your health will be lower. If you have enough sustain you can use the Artaeum Takeaway Broth or Dubious Camoran Throne buff-food that gives good sustain and extra health.
Build Video
This is an old video, so it won’t be a 100% up to date, but it still holds value and good information on how to play the setup.
Gameplay
This is a video of me soloing veteran City of Ash 2 with Hardmode, testing and showcasing what the build can do if you really want to push it to the maximum.
ESO Necromancer Subclassing Build Options
ESO’s Subclassing offers a lot of variety, allowing you to swap, mix, and match different skill lines of various classes all on one character. Read our How does Subclassing work in ESO guide to get an understanding of how the subclass system works. We also have plenty of ESO Builds optimized for Subclassing.
Take a look at our ESO Necromancer Subclassing Build if you are interested in what you can all mix and match on a Necromancer build!
Update Log for the ESO Solo Stamina Necromancer Build
12.03.2020 Added the Solo Stamina Necromancer Build for the Harrowstorm DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
09.05.2020 Updated the Solo Stamcro Build for the GREYMOOR CHAPTER.
17.08.2020 Updated the Build for the STONETHORN DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
26.10.2020 Updated the Build for the MARKARTH DLC, Greymoor Chapter.
05.03.2021 Updated the Build for the FLAMES OF AMBITION DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
30.03.2021 Made several optimizations for the build.
25.05.2021 Updated the build for the BLACKWOOD CHAPTER.
09.08.2021 Updated the build for the WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
03.09.2021 Updated the Champion Points link and added tooltips to the buff food section, WAKING FLAME DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
14.10.2021 Updated the build for the Deadlands DLC, Blackwood Chapter.
04.03.2022 Updated the Build for the ASCENDING TIDE DLC, High Isle Chapter.
13.05.2022 Updated the Build for the HIGH ISLE CHAPTER.
08.08.2022 Updated the Build for the LOST DEPTHS DLC, High Isle Chapter.
24.10.2022 Updated the Build for the FIRESONG DLC, High Isle Chapter.
08.03.2023 Updated the Build for the SCRIBES OF FATE DLC, Necrom Chapter.
01.06.2023 Updated the Build for the ESO NECROM CHAPTER.
16.10.2023 Updated the Build for Update 40.
06.03.2024 Updated the Build for the Scions of Ithelia DLC Update 41, Gold Road Chapter
22.05.2024 Updated the Build for the Gold Road Chapter U42.
20.08.2024 Updated the Build for Update 43, Gold Road Chapter.
28.10.2024 Updated the Build for Update 44, Gold Road Chapter.
11.03.2025 Updated the Build for Update 45, Fallen Banners.
28.05.2025 Updated the Build for Update 46, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.
Tags: Solo Stamina Necromancer Build, Solo Stamcro Build PvE, Solo Stam Necro Build ESO.
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