Stamina Warden PvP Build
Stamina Warden PvP builds have always been very strong. They serve as front-line brawlers, combining their strong self-healing, innate tankiness and high burst damage together to create a hard-hitting juggernaut. Stamina Warden PvP builds have seen some changes over the years, and are now even more capable of dishing out the damage.
Gear Sets
Frenzied Momentum: When combined with Subterranean Assault, this allows you to line up a hefty burst of damage to delete your opponent quickly. You can get this unique weapon from Vateshran Hollows.
Wretched Vitality: Stamina Wardens make heavy use of both Stamina and Magicka abilities, so maintaining both of those resources is important for success. Wretched Vitality makes this easy, being fully activated by simply using Ice Fortress, and can be crafted making it easy to obtain.
Pariah: Stamina Wardens have a lot of potent healing potential available, meaning extra tankiness goes a long way towards making them very difficult to bring down. Pariah is perfect for this, especially when combined with Vampirism which is possible on this build.
Sea-Serpent's Coil/Markyn Ring of Majesty: The Sea-Serpent's Coil brings the most overall damage, and will be able to carry your offensive abilities on its own. If you use Bird of Prey and/or Mist Form, the snare won't be a problem. The Markyn Ring of Majesty is a good alternative, however.
Armor of the Trainee/Magma Incarnate: We have one slot available. If you are managing your resources fine, then stick with Armor of the Trainee for a health boost. Otherwise, go with Magma Incarnate for a resource recovery boost.
Skills
Deep Fissure: We use this morph for access to both Major and Minor Breach, reducing enemy resistances massively and leaving them sitting ducks against your attacks.
Crushing Weapon: This can be used as your main spammable, but is more precisely designed to be delivered simultaneously with Frenzied Momentum and Deep Fissure, directly followed by Dawnbreaker of Smiting.
Whirling Blades: Your execute to be used on enemies below 30% health. If you prefer, you can run two-handed on this bar as well and slot Executioner instead.
Arctic Blast/Polar Wind: I prefer Polar Wind here as a potent burst heal. Arctic Blast does also provide some healing, but converts the rest into damage and a stun.
Bird of Prey: Passively grants Major Berserk, and can be used to break free from immobilizations and snares, granting immunity briefly.
Dawnbreaker of Smiting: Your primary offensive ultimate that should be used as a combo with Frenzied Momentum, Deep Fissure and Crushing Weapon.
Rally: A nice escalating burst heal that also activates the Frenzied Momentum weapon, allowing us to build up stacks towards our burst.
Resolving Vigor: A strong heal over a short duration that also provides Minor Resolve. Try to keep this up as much as possible.
Blinding Flare: We have this slotted for the passive Major Protection that it provides, boosting damage mitigation substantially.
Ice Fortress: This is your source of Major Resolve, granting you a ton of extra resistances and Minor Protection as well, boosting your survivability a little.
Fetcher Infection: A simple damage over time effect that has the added benefit of inflicting Minor Vulnerability, causing even greater damage against your opponent.
Enchanted Forest: This is an amazing burst heal and heal over time that will keep you alive through whatever your enemy has to throw at you. If you or allies are low health, you will gain ultimate, and it is already cheap to cast.
Champion Points
Master at Arms: Direct damage is one of the most common types in PvP, and is often where the ability to burst down your opponents lies, making this a valuable buff.
Biting Aura: This class in particular really benefits from a buff to area damage, making this a smart choice for increasing your burst damage potential, so make sure you always have it slotted.
Ironclad: Since direct damage is so common, it is important to also defend against it. That is where Ironclad comes in, boosting your mitigation against this damage type.
Resilience: No matter what the meta is running, critical damage will always be a big part of what many players build around in PvP. It is important to defend against that, and Resilience will help you there in combination with Impenetrable armour pieces.
Boundless Vitality: Every bit of health makes a difference, especially in some of the tougher content that The Elder Scrolls Online has to offer. This will help you bump yours up a little more, increasing your survivability.
Slippery: In PvP, pinning your opponent down with CC before you burst them down is important. This will prevent that from happening to you so easily, making it an important addition.
Rejuvenation: Recoveries are important for every role. For healers, it is essential for keeping your group alive, for tanks, it is the source of most of your buffs and debuffs, for DPS, you can't deal damage with no fuel, and in PvP, no resources means death.
Celerity: Extra movement speed is an amazing boost in all content. In PvE, it helps massively with avoiding nasty mechanics, and in PvP, it allows you to run circles around your opponents.
Mundus Stone
The best Mundus Stone to use on this build is the Lover for significantly better Penetration. The Lover gives the best overall boost to damage output on average against players, especially since players in PvP tend to run a lot of resistance. However, if you need more recovery, consider the Serpent instead.
Food Buff
The Artaeum Takeaway Broth offers an excellent combination of Max Health, Max Stamina, Health Recovery and Stamina Recovery, making it perfect for Stamina-oriented PvP characters. However, if you can't keep up with its hefty cost, you can go with the Dubious Camoran Throne for similar stats, but no Health Recovery.
Race
My preferred race to run on this build is a Dark Elf (Dunmer) for their superior overall damage. However, if you wish, you can switch to a Wood Elf for higher overall sustain, Nord for more damage resistance, or Orc for balanced stats, higher damage and speed.
Potion
PvP builds generally work best when running Immovability potions, which grants a lengthy immunity to snares, immobilizations and stuns. It's good to carry some potions to reveal invisibility as well to counter Nightblades.
Mortality
Vampirism can be useful for boosting the overall survivability of a Stamina Warden in PvP. They generally have good access to resource management tools which helps to off-set the increase in cost from Vampirism, and having access to Mist Form is always great, but the big selling point is the Undeath passive, which shines on a Warden.
Notes
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