Powerful Stamina Arcanist Bow Build for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Gear Setup 2

Gear Beginner

This gear setup is pretty easy to get, you need to ask a guildmate to craft you Hundings Rage and Night Mothers Gaze. You can buy Agility in Guildstores, if you want really cheap pieces just buy the Healthy Trait ones, then you can actually invest all points into Stamina and you should get to a decent Health level. I also do recommend using Dubious Camoran Throne Drink with this setup to get good sustain.

Where can I get the gear?

Pillar of Nirn: Falkreath Hold Dungeon
Perfected Arms Of Relequen: vCloudrest
Arms of Relequen: Cloudrest
Perfected Point-Blank Snipe: vVateshran Hollows
Slimecraw: vWayrest Sewers 1, Undaunted Enclave
Perfected Thunderous Volley: vMaelstrom Arena
Thunderous Volley: Maelstrom Arena

Hunding’s Rage: Craftable
Night Mother’s Gaze: Craftable
Agility: Guildstore
Stormfist: vTempest Island Dungeon, Undaunted Chest Reward

Skills Arcanist Bow Build

Instead of Escalating Runeblades you could also use Lethal Arrow as your main spammable if you prefer that.

If you don’t have Channeled Acceleration (Psijic Skill) then replace it with Lightweight Beast Trap from the Fighters Guild.

Skills Explanation:

Pragmatic Fatecarver: Strong channel that also applies a shield to you while using the beam.
Fulminating Rune: Strong damage over time area effect that sticks to the enemy.
Escalating Runeblades: Your main spammable, deals great damage and also deals AoE damage.
Acid Spray: Your AoE spammable, also applies a damage over time poison effect on targets that are hit by it.
Camouflaged Hunter: Passively slotted to gain Minor Berserk.
The Languid Eye: Your main single-target ultimate. Deals great damage.
Arrow Barrage: Strong area of effect damage over time effect.
Poison Injection: Strong single target damage over time effect.
Inspired Scholarship: Long buff that adds extra damage. Also adds Major Sorcery and Major Brutality to your character.
Channeled Acceleration: Buff that applies Minor Force, increasing your critical damage.
Resolving Vigor: This is your heal, you can replace this with something else if you don’t need it.
Ballista: Your backup ultimate. You can slot another ultimate here if you prefer (Flex Spot).

Champion Points for the Arcanist Archer Build

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.

Important Info for Stamina Arcanist Bow Build PvE

Buff-food

Any of the three foods below works well with the build. For a list of all buff food and drink consumables please visit the Buff Food and Drinks Overview Page.

Lava Foot Soup and Saltrice
(Saltrice, Flour, Potato, Scrib Jelly)

Artaeum Takeaway Broth
(Max Health+Max Stamina+Stamina Recovery+Health Recovery)

Dubious Camoran Throne
(2nd option if Artaeum is too expensive)

Mundus Stone

The Thief Mundus Stone increases our overall Weapon Critical Rating which boosts our damage. For more information on Mundus Stones please visit the Mundus Stone Overview Page.

The Thief Mundus Stone (Increased Weapon Critical)

Race

Any race with stamina based perks works for this setup. If you want a complete overview of all races and racial passives, then I recommend checking out the ESO Races Overview page.

Orc
Khajiit
Dark Elf
Nord
Redguard
Wood Elf
Imperial
High Elf

Potions

Weapon Power Potions 
(Weap dmg, Weap Crit, Stamina)
(Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

Passives

Herald of Tome: Fated Fortune, Harnessed Quintessence, Psychic Lesion, Splintered Secrets
Curative Runeforms: Hideous Clarity, Erudition, Intricate Runeforms
Soldier of Apocrypha: Circumvented Fate, Implacable Outcome
Bow: Long Shots, Accuracy, Ranger, Hawk Eye, Hasty Retreat
Medium Armor: Dexterity, Wind Walker, Improved Sneak, Agility, Athletics
Fighters Guild: Banish the Wicked
Undaunted: Undaunted Mettle, Undaunted Command
Racial: All
Alchemy: Medicinal Use

Attributes

All points into Stamina

Resource Management for the Arcanist Bow Build

The Hideous Clarity and Erudition passive both help with sustain on the Arcanist.

During the fight healers or tanks will throw Energy Orb that you can synergize to get back resources, these are very important!

Other than that you have to use potions on cooldown to give you a huge amount of stamina back and you can always perform some heavy attacks throughout the fight to restore stamina. If you have all these things you should be fine with sustain, just don’t forget to do heavy attacks when you drop low on stamina.

Hideous Clarity Passive
Erudition Passive
Orbs or Spears from Healers
Heavy Attacks resource return (optional)
Potions

Rotation Arcanist Archer Build

The “Weaving Beginner Guide” explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling.

In case you don’t know what weaving light attacks is, make sure to check out the “Weaving Beginner Guide” which explains how to weave light attacks between abilities, aka animation canceling. Proc sets will auto fire, you don’t have to worry about these.