ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build

This guide focuses on the best ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build, skills, gear, champion points, consumables, tips, and more!

This build has been updated for the Update 41 patch, Scions of Ithelia for the Elder Scrolls Online.

Why Should You Play the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build?

You should play the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build because it’s incredibly durable with high damage. Thanks to the Arcanist’s support and defense skills, you can control the battlefield and fight outnumbered while maintaining significant, sustained damage. The build provides everything you need to overwhelm your opponents in the Elder Scrolls Online PvP!

Below is a general PvP Guide that can help anyone understand and develop their PvP knowledge and skills. This video is applicable for every build and should be viewed if you want general ESO PvP knowledge that applies to all aspects, Battlegrounds, Cyrodiil, and Imperial City.

ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Features

• Class: Arcanist
• Attribute: Stamina
• Primary Weapon: Dual Wield
• Secondary Weapon: Frost Staff
• Armor Types: Light, Medium, Heavy
• Race: Khajiit
• Attributes: 32 Stamina, 32 Health
• Mundus Stone: Warrior

ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Playstyle

The PvP is different from the PvE. Your purpose is to buff and heal while constantly pressuring your opponents and executing burst combos. If you want to survive in ESO PvP, you must keep your buffs and healing over time at all times. As a result, the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP build provides tools and skills within the gear to help you achieve it all in PvP.

Use the environment to your advantage. Never stay in an open field; exposing yourself to damage makes you easy to target and kill. Hide behind objects to lower the pressure. If they can’t see you, they can’t hit you!

The class has a strong survivability skill, Spiteward of the Lucid Mind.  Use Spiteward in combination with Resolving Vigor for healing along with your defensive ultimate, Sanctum of the Abyssal Sea, as a “panic button”. Hold block and heal! However, remember to hide as soon as possible and refresh the buffs. Burst healing will not keep you or your teammates alive forever. The skill will quickly burn through your magic, leaving you vulnerable.

Try to use both resource pools (stamina and magicka) to sustain. If you run out of resources, do a heavy attack – if done on an off-balance target, it’ll refill twice as many resources. As an Arcanist, you’ll need to generate and consume Cruxes to enhance your stats constantly, so keep close attention to it. Flail is your Crux Generator and Spiteward, which are consumed to process important buff passives like increased critical damage.

Skills Setup 1 Standard – ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build

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Skill Setup Ranged Fateweaver- ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build

Front Bar: Beam Build

• Rune Of The Colorless Pool (Morph of Rune of Eldritch Horror | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – single target cc
• Cephaliarchs Flail (Morph of Abyssal Impact | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – Main spammable crux builder
• Recuperative Treatise (Morph of Tome-Bearer’s Inspiration | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – resource sustain weapon damage buff.
• Pragmatic Fatecarver (Morph of Fatecarver | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – beam for big damage after CC.
• Camouflaged Hunter (Morph of Expert Hunter | Skill line: Fighters Guild) – slotted for critical buff.
• The Tide Kings Gaze (Morph of The Unblinking Eye | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – burst ultimate.

Back Bar: Beam Build

• Cruxweaver Armor (Morph of Fatewoven Armor | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – armor buff
• Runeguard Of Freedom (Morph of Runic Defense | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – CC immunity burst heal when low.
• Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill line: Vampire) – mobility tool can drop vampire and use Race Against Time or Apocryphal gate.
• Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill line: Assault) – selfish heal over time.
• Spiteward Of The Lucid Mind (Morph of Runespite Ward | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Burst heal when dumping crux and shield.
• Sanctum Of The Abyssal Sea (Morph of Gibbering Shield | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Defensive ultimate.

Skills Passives

• Class
• Destructive Staff Skill Line
• Dual Wield Skill Line
• Armor
• Fighter’s Guild
• Mage’s Guild
• Undaunted
• Psijic Guild
• Alchemy Crafting – Medicinal Use
• Race
• Assault Alliance
• Alliance Support
• Vampire

Gear – Best in Slot

The below gear setup is the optimal for a ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Daedric Trickery	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Daedric Trickery	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	light	Armor of the Trainee	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	heavy	Daedric Trickery	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	medium	Druid’s Braid	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Perfected Stinging Slashes	Nirnhoned	Flame
Secondary	Mace	Perfected Stinging Slashes	Sharpened	Poison
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Perfected Wrath of Elements	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Sea-Serpent Coil’s	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Daedric Trickery	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Daedric Trickery	Swift	Weapon Damage

Monster Helm & Arena Weapons

Roksa the Warped: found in Bal Sunnar Veteran Dungeon, shoulder from Undaunted vendor. Scribes of Fate DLC. It gives great resource sustain. Swap if you feel damage is low to Balorgh.

Perfected Stinging Slashes: obtained through Veteran Dragonstar Arena (can do normal for lesser version) in upper Craglorn. It’s one of the best pressure items in the game. you’ll need to drop a skill on your bar for rending slashes master duel wield

Perfected Wrath of Elements: obtained in Veteran Vateshran Hollows. God-tier damage with a destruction staff Elemental Susceptibility skill and Maarselok monster drop a skill on the back bar for elemental susceptibility.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Balorgh = best to use for burst ultimate.
• Maarselok = is the most damage-producing set with an arena weapon setup.
• Bloodspawn – good ultimate generation.
• Engine Guardian = Great base game sustain option.
• Markyn Ring of Majesty = great all-around defensive and offensive mythic.
• Torc of Tonal Constancy = is a resource sustain mythic.

Gear Set

Daedric Trickery: 8 trait craftable in Vvardenfell/Morrowind. Used to trigger defensive buffs on back bar that stack even when on your front bar.

Armor of the Trainee: obtained in overland starter areas or trader. One piece set bonus that gives us extra health.

Druid’s Braid: craftable high isle gives 1pc bonus just smaller. Another one-piece set bonus that gives us extra health.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Order’s Wrath = good craftable option
• Deadly Strike – good medium armor set for overall damage.
• Rallying Cry = great group utility set as well as strong solo with a bonus that increased your offensive and defensive potential.
• Mara’s Balm – Good survivability set on the body.
• Powerful Assault = group utility and weapon damage that stacks with Rallying Cry.
• Robes of the Hist = great back bar healing set alternate to Mara’s Balm.

Secondary Option Non-Arena Weapons

The below setup is for non-arena weapons with the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Armor of the Trainee	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	medium	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	light	Rallying Cry	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Rallying Cry	Sharpened	Flame
Secondary	Axe	Rallying Cry	Charged	Poison
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Phoenix Moth Theurge	Powered	Spell and Weapon Damage
Necklace		Sea-Serpent Coil’s	Infused	Weapon Damage
Ring 1		Rallying Cry	Swift	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Swift	Weapon Damage

• Roksa the Warped: resource sustain monster, can use Balorgh for more damage.
• Rallying Cry = great group utility set as well as strong solo with a bonus that increased your offensive and defensive potential.
• Armor of the Trainee: obtained in overland starter areas or trader.
• Phoenix Moth Theurge = great self and group buff set.

Skill – Ranged

Front Bar: Beam Build

• Rune Of The Colorless Pool (Morph of Rune of Eldritch Horror | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – single target cc
• Cephaliarchs Flail (Morph of Abyssal Impact | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – Main spammable crux builder
• Recuperative Treatise (Morph of Tome-Bearer’s Inspiration | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – resource sustain weapon damage buff.
• Pragmatic Fatecarver (Morph of Fatecarver | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – beam for big damage after CC.
• Camouflaged Hunter (Morph of Expert Hunter | Skill line: Fighters Guild) – slotted for critical buff.
• The Tide Kings Gaze (Morph of The Unblinking Eye | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – burst ultimate.

Back Bar: Beam Build

• Cruxweaver Armor (Morph of Fatewoven Armor | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – armor buff
• Runeguard Of Freedom (Morph of Runic Defense | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – CC immunity burst heal when low.
• Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill line: Vampire) – mobility tool can drop vampire and use Race Against Time or Apocryphal gate.
• Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill line: Assault) – selfish heal over time.
• Spiteward Of The Lucid Mind (Morph of Runespite Ward | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Burst heal when dumping crux and shield.
• Sanctum Of The Abyssal Sea (Morph of Gibbering Shield | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Defensive ultimate.

Gear – Ranged

The below gear setup is for the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build intending to use Fatecarver and play at range:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	medium	Roksa the Warped	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Soulshine	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Soulshine	Reinforced	Prismatic
Gloves	heavy	Soulshine	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	medium	Armor of the Trainee	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	light	Rallying Cry	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Soulshine	Nirnhoned	Damage Healther
Secondary	Axe	Soulshine	Sharpened	Flame
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Rallying Cry
Necklace		Sea-Serpent Coil’s	Infused	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Rallying Cry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Rallying Cry	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

• Roksa the Warped: great resource sustain two-piece monster when running vampire stage three.
• Sea-Serpent’s Coil: Obtained through Mythic System click here for lead locations.  This mythic essentially provides two five-piece damage sets in one, with nearly zero drawbacks.
• Soulshine: great heavy armor set that boosts our weapon damage when using the channel and applies when we switch the back bar.
• Rallying Cry = a great option for high damage and survivability.
• Armor of the Trainee: obtained in overland starter areas or guild trader.  Added stats with a one-piece item set.

Gear – Bomber

This gear setup is designed for huge plague break bombs kills and is weak against single target:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	heavy	Gaze of Sithis	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Magma Incarnate	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	medium	Plaguebreak	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	medium	Plaguebreak	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Plaguebreak	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	medium	Plaguebreak	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	medium	Plaguebreak	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	2H Maul	Perfected Titanic Cleave	Sharpened	Escapist Poisons
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Dark Convergence	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Dark Convergence	Bloodthirsty	Stamina Recovery
Ring 1		Dark Convergence	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Dark Convergence	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

• Gaze of Sithis = best survivability mythic for 1pc.
• Magma Incarnate = good resource sustain set.
• Plaguebreak = used for a mass explosion on killing one target.
• Perfected Titanic Cleave = makes Carve hit insanely hard.
• Dark Convergence = used to pull targets in, can swap in Rush of Agony with leap skill.

Skill – Bomber

Front Bar: Bomber Build

• Rune Of the Colorless Pool (Morph of Rune of Eldritch Horror | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Single target CC ability.
• Elusive Mist (Morph of Mist Form | Skill line: Vampire) – mobility tool.
• Recuperative Treatise (Morph of Tome-Bearer’s Inspiration | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – Weapon damage buff.
• Brawler (Morph of Cleave | Skill line: Two-Handed) – AOE Spammable when everyone is grouped up
• Camouflaged Hunter (Morph of Expert Hunter | Skill line: Fighters Guild) – Used for critical damage buff.
• Sanctum Of The Abyssal Sea (Morph of Gibbering Shield | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Defensive ultimate. Put Dawnbreaker here if you want more passive damage.

Back Bar: Bomber Build

• Cruxweaver Armor (Morph of Fatewoven Armor | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Armor buff.
• Runeguard Of Freedom (Morph of Runic Defense | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Protection Skill and CC immunity.
• Scalding Rune (Morph of Fire Rune | Skill line: Mages Guild) – Used as an pull for Dark Convergence. You can also ONLY use our ultimate and flex in another skill in this position.
• Resolving Vigor (Morph of Vigor | Skill line: Assault) – Selfish heal.
• Spiteward Of The Lucid Mind (Morph of Runespite Ward | Skill line: Soldier Of Apocrypha) – Shield and crux dump.
• The Languid Eye (Morph of The Unblinking Eye | Skill line: Herald Of The Tome) – Amazing burst ultimate on the back bar it will proc Dark Convergence 5pc gear set.

Gear No-Proc PvP

This gear setups is for No-Proc CP Cyrodiil and Imperial City:

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Order’s Wraith	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Shoulders	light	Magma Incarnate	Well-fitted	Stamina
Chest	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Reinforced	Prismatic
Legs	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Prismatic
Gloves	medium	Order’s Wraith	Well-fitted	Stamina
Boots	heavy	Mark of the Pariah	Well-fitted	Stamina
Belt	medium	Order’s Wraith	Well-fitted	Stamina
Weapon One	Mace	Order’s Wraith	Nirnhoned	Damage Health
Secondary	Axe	Order’s Wraith	Sharpened	Flame
Weapon Two	Frost Staff	Blessing of Potentates	Powered	Weapon Damage
Necklace		Torc of Tonal Constancy	Infused	Stamina recovery
Ring 1		Mark of the Pariah	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage
Ring 2		Mark of the Pariah	Bloodthirsty	Weapon Damage

• Magma Incarnate: great sustain for a one-piece item set.
• Mark of the Pariah: best survivability set in no-proc PvP.
• Order’s Wraith: great no proc set because it influences your damage and healing received.
• Blessing of Potentates: great damage reduction two-piece.
• Torc or Tonal Constancy:  the best value for resource sustain and works in no proc.

Race

The best race choices for PvP Stamina Arcanist:

1. Khajiit: best overall due to burst critical damage bonus.
2. Orc: Gain max stamina, health, and weapon and spell damage. It also reduces the cost of sprint and increases your movement speed.
3. Dark Elf: good max stats and weapon and spell damage.

Attributes

Consider splitting your attributes to 32 health and 32 stamina. reach at least 32,000 health inside your PvP context. Adjust if not reaching those numbers.

Mundus Stone

The best mundus stone is Warrior to increase your weapon damage.

Champion Points

Warfare

Below is a step-by-step method for slotting your champion points in the Warfare tree (blue) using the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build.  We have used the minimum possible to reach 4 slottable selections all maxed out.  If you have more CP, consider taking more in the passives for optimal performance.

1. Precision 10
2. Fighting Finesse (slottable) 50
3. Extended Might sub-constellation  – piercing 10
4. Extended Might sub-constellation  – Force of nature (slottable) 50
5. Tireless Discipline 10
6. Staving Death sub-constellation  – quick recovery 10
7. Staving Death sub-constellation– Ironclad (slottable) 50
8. Duelist Debuff (slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 240 CP (720 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Precision 10
2. Piercing 10
3. Tireless discipline 10
4. Eldritch insight 20
5. Blessed 20
6. Quick recovery 10
7. Battle mastery 40
8. Mighty 30
9. Flawless ritual 40
10. War mage 30
11. Elemental aegis 20
12. Hardy 20
13. Preparation 20

This would max out the Warfare tree with all active and passive champion points at 520 spent 1,560 total spent.

Fitness

Below are recommended Fitness Tree Champion Point selections:

1. Fortified (slottable) 50
2. Tumbling – 15
3. Defiance – 10
4. Slippery (slottable) – 50
5. Juggernaut (slottable) 50
6. Survivor’s spite sub-constellation – mystic tenacity 10
7. Survivor’s spite sub-constellation – relentlessness( slottable) 50

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 238 CP (714 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance. 

1. Sprinter 10
2. Hero’s Vigor 10
3. Tumbling 20
4. Defiance 20
5. Hasty 8
6. Tireless Guardian 20
7. Fortification 30
8. Nimble Protector 6
9. Tempered Soul 50
10. Rousing Speed 50
11. Savage Defense 30
12. Bashing Brutality 20

This would max out the fitness tree with all active passive champion points at 542 cp spent 1,626 total spent.

Craft

Below are recommended champion point Craft Tree selections for the ESO Stamina Arcanist PvP Build:

1. Steed’s Blessing (slottable) – 50
2. Breakfall 10
3. Wanderer 15
4. Steadfast 10
5. Rationer (slottable) 30
6. Treasure hunter 50
7. Master gatherer 15
8. Gifted rider (slottable) 100
9. War mount (slottable) 120

This would be the bare minimum setup, spending 400CP (1200 total required). The next step is to max out passives, that do not require a slottable but increase performance.

1. Steadfast enchantment 40cp
2. Breakfall 40 cp
3. Wanderer 60
4. Fortunes favor 10
5. Friends in low places 25
6. Out of sight 30
7. Fleet of Phantom 40
8. Soul’s Reservoir 33
9. Gilded fingers 50
10. Fortunes favor 40
11. Inspiration boost 45
12. Infamous 30

This would max out the crafting tree with all active passive champion points at 843 cp spent 2,529 total spent

Consumables

Food: Bewitched Sugar Skulls GOOD MAX STATS

Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Max Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Scrib Jelly (2), Flour (5), Columbine (2), Bervez Juice (2), Honey (5)

Food: Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch GREAT RECOVERY

Increase Max Health by 4312, Health Recovery by 406 and Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 369 (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Red Meat (1), Tomato (1), White Cap (1), Frost Mirriam (1), Perfect Roe (1)

Food: Jewels of Misrule

CHEAP: Increase Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 357 and Max Health by 3927 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Rose (1), Mint (1), Lotus(1), Columbine (1), Bervez Juice (1)

Potion: Tri-Restoration Potion or Essence of Health (tri-stat)

Restore 7329 Health, 6618 Magicka, and 6618 Stamina immediately. Grants Major Fortitude, Major Intellect, and Major Endurance which increase your Health Recovery, Magicka Recovery, and Stamina Recovery by 20% for 31.7 seconds. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower

Build Summary – Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) Stamina Arcanist PvP Build

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