Hexys Stamina Sorc Heavy Armor PvP Build for Dark Brotherhood (2.4.5) - Duels and Small Scale PvP

Hexys

Hexys Stamina Sorcerer Heavy Armor PvP Build for Dark Brotherhood (2.4.5) - Duels and Small Scale PvP
Welcome everyone to my Sorcerer Stamina PvP build that is focused on dueling/small scale PvP using One-hand+Shield and a Two-Hander. With the Dark Brotherhood stamina sorcerers gained some very nice buffs within the storm calling skill-tree in the form of Hurricane, increased physical damage and disintegration changed to Implosion which now also implodes enemy's at low health dealing physical damage! Dark Deal (dark magic skill-tree) also got a huge buff and in this build this skill will cost 3k magicka and returning you with 5-6k Health + 4-5k Stamina! Although I was in love with dawnbreaker on my magicka sorcerer, this ultimate got changed from magic damage to physical damage with a knock-down which makes stamina sorcerers quite strong, still not on balance with other classes but definitely a buff towards this!

Zenimax has buffed the constitution passive (heavy armour skill-tree) to give around 190 magicka/stamina per heavy armor piece when getting hit on a 4 seconds cooldown. While wearing 5 heavy armor pieces this passive is getting buffed to around 950 magicka/stamina every 4 seconds while in a fight. Converting this to regular recovery (which is 2 seconds) means this is around 450-500 recovery (also while blocking!). This sounds very nice but it get's even better as there is a heavy armour set in the game that gives us the stats we need while also buffing this passive by 40%...BLACK ROSE! With this set we gain 1x Max Health, 2x Max Stamina, 1x Weapon damage and 40% to this passive, which in 5 heavy is an extra 180-200 recovery! Besides the constitution passive they also added the Wrath passive, boosting our weapon damage by 20 for 6 seconds each time we are hit, stacking up to 10 times!

Stamina Sorcerer in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYzCS2HFOA&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z13mhhwimwu3vtdll23zi1pzbxe0wjnpz04

Race

To start off there are 2 races that will suite this build the best.

1. Redguard (by far)
- 9% increased stamina recovery
- 10% increased maximum stamina
- Restores stamina while damaging with melee attacks (This is stamina return while block-casting, combine this with the constitution passive, it's insane!)

2. Imperial
- 12% increased max health
- 10% increased maximum stamina
- 10% chance to restore health while damaging with melee attacks

The following races will also do fine with this build in order:
3. Wood Elf
4. Orc
5. Khajiit
6. Dark Elf
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Racial+Skills

Attributes / Mundus stone / Consumable

Attributes
0 magicka / 0 health / 64 stamina
This build is using food, while also using heavy armor we are already pushing our health over 25k, by putting all our points into stamina we are increasing our damage!

Mundus stone
The serpent
This is for sustain.

Consumable
V15 blue food that is increasing Health and Stamina
The only skill in this build that requires magicka will be Dark Deal, while the constitution passive provides us with around 1400 magicka every 4 seconds, 10k magicka is enough to use this efficiently.

Setup

1 Light / 1 Medium / 5 Heavy (all cp 160)
I use this setup to benifit from the Undaunted Mettle Passive in the Undaunted Skill line. (2% extra max stamina, magicka and health for every different armor type)
Going 7 Heavy is not a bad idea as each heavy armour piece will give you more sustain due to the constitution passive.

Gear
5/5 Black Rose
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Black+Rose+Set
(2 item) Maximum Health
(3 item) Maximum Stamina
(4 item) Maximum Stamina
(5 item) Increased Weapon/Spell damage + 40% increased constitution passive

Body: Heavy - Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina
Legs: Heavy - Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina
Boots: Heavy - Well Fitted / Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina
Gloves: Heavy - Well Fitted / Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina
Belt: Heavy - Well Fitted / Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina

2/2 Malubeth or Bloodspawn
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Scourge+Harvester+Set
(1 item) Maximum Health
(2 item) 6% chance when hit to create a beam that steals 5652 Health from target. Beam breaks from targets greater than 10 meters away. While beam holds gain 30.0% increased healing from all sources

http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Blood+Spawn+Set
(1 item) Stamina Recovery
(2 item) 6% chance when hit to gain 6450 Armor and Spell Resist for 6.0 seconds and restore 15 Ultimate

Helm: Sturdy > Well Fitted > Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina
Shoulders: Sturdy > Well Fitted > Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina

2/5 Marksman
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Endurance+Set
(2 item) Stamina recovery

Ring: Robust - Reduced Stamina cost
Ring: Robust - Reduced Stamina cost

3/3 Agility
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Agility+Set
(2 item) Maximum Stamina (50% more)
(3 item) Weapon Damage (50% more)

Sword: Sharpened - Weapon Damage
Shield: Impenetrable - Maximum Stamina
Necklace: Robust - Weapon Damage

1/1 Maelstrom Two-Hander OR Agility Two-Hander

Ability Bars

One-Hand & Shield (1st ability bar)



1. Bound Armaments (Deadric Summoning, morph of Bound Armor)
- Toggle ability, this increases our maximum stamina by 8%, boosts our physical resistance, increases our heavy attack damage and while slotted giving us the important 20% stamina recovery from the Deadric Summoning passives.

2. Heroic Slash (One-Hand & Shield, morph of Low Slash)
- Our bread-and-butter ability which we will weave with Light-Attacks and Bash. The 60% reduced movement is really important to keep the enemy within our Hurricane, also the Minor Main (15% reduced damage from the enemy) is quite important to lower the damage taken! In this build the tooltip of this ability is getting close to 8500!

3. Reverberating Bash (One-Hand & Shield, morph of Power Bash)
- Our timed CC and Major Defile (30% healing debuff) which is really important to keep the pressure up!

4. Invasion (One-Hand & Shield, morph of Shield Charge)
- Many may think why I'm not using Critical Rush/Stampede from the Two-hander skill-line on my second bar. This is because for me the weapon-swap after Critical Rush/Stampede is just to unresponsive. If it feels right for you, you can put Dark Deal here and put Critical Rush/Stampede on the second bar.

5. Resolving Vigor (Assault, morph of Vigor)
- With our big stamina pool, this ability will provide us with a very nice heal over time, try to keep this up as much as possible.

U. Dawnbreaker of Smiting (Fighter's Guild, morph of Dawnbreaker)
- Instant, High Damage with a Knock-down! It's very nice using this ultimate after a Heavy Attack to provide burst damage.

Two-Hander (2nd ability bar)


1. Bound Armaments (Deadric Summoning, morph of Bound Armor)
- Toggle ability, this increases our maximum stamina by 8% and while slotted giving us the important 20% stamina recovery from the Deadric Summoning passives.

2 Shuffle (Medium Armor, morph of Evasion)
- This is for Major Evasion (20% dodge chance), the removal of snare and a short immunity!

3. Hurricane (Storm Calling, morph of Lightning Form)
- This ability got updated in the DB patch, this AoE over-time ability is great for constant pressure and should be active at all times. It also boosts our resistance and grants us Minor Expedition (10% increased movement speed).

4. Dark Deal (Dark Magic, morph of Dark Exchange)
- This ability is our magicka dumb, with a 1 seconds channel time this ability converts 3k magicka into 5-6k health and 4-5k stamina. Use this to keep your stamina pool high. This ability is bash-able and will immobalize you without granting CC immunity if you don't break out of it.

5. Rally (Two-handed, morph of Momentum)
- Main weapon damage buff, Heal over time and a increasing burst heal longer the duration lasts.

U.1. Devouring Swarm (Vampire, morph of Bat Swarm)
- Combine this ultimate with Hurricane and a Immovable pot for great AoE pressure against a small group, while active try to focus the most important enemy with single target to even the odds!

U.2. Supression Field (Dark Magic, morph of Negate Magic)
- Supression Field got changed and in this patch it keeps enemies silenced from using magicka skills even after CC break, It's the ultimate counter if you are facing a group that is mainly build of templars/healers! This ultimate now also does damage over time.

Champion System (based on 501 points)

The Tower: 100 Warlord / 10 Bashing Focus
The Lover: 30 Mooncalf
The Shadow: 17 Tumbling / 10 Shadow Ward

The Apprentice: 27 Blessed
The Atronach: 10 Melee Weapon Expert
The Ritual: 25 Thaumaturge / 15 Precise Strikes / 90 Mighty

The Steed: 27 Resistant
The Lady: 45 Hardy / 45 Elemental Defender / 30 Thick Skinned
The Lord: 20 Quick Recovery

Extra

- Vampire: Yes
- Werewolf: No
- Alchemy passive Medicinal Use 3/3
- Use Immovable potions with Health/Stamina return

My Stats (non buffed + buffed) - (I'm a Dark Elf)

Buffs: none


Buffs: Hurricane / Rally / Potion


I hope this build suits you well and gives you good fights in Cyrodiil, I'm open for suggestions and ways to improve for a even better experience. Enjoy!

For question leave a post or /w ingame (EU Megaserver) on @Hexiss

Bubbly_Sponge

#imperial4life

DDuke

Oh lol, somehow we came up with almost the same setup for heavy armor stam sorc @Hexys

What are the odds


I run 7 pieces of heavy though - Constitution is awesome with Black Rose set particularly.

Also, have you thought of slotting Restraining Prison? I've found that to be really useful on the Dark Deal bar - allows you to keep people rooted & unable to interrupt your casting.

Sandman929

I've got a Khajit stam sorc collecting dust and I love tanky builds. I think since he's already a Khajit I'll slot crit surge and try to take advantage of my high crit chance with a tank.
Pretty soon my whole roster is going to be different kinds of tanks.

snejremllov

OP build Hexy! Now make a viable magicka sorc build

glavius

Nice for duels possibly, but can't see it being that good at small scale, no escape option whatsoever. Unless you use major expedition potions full time. (which is not possible until zenimax fix medicinal use sometime in 2023)

Bubbly_Sponge

glavius wrote: »

Nice for duels possibly, but can't see it being that good at small scale, no escape option whatsoever. Unless you use major expedition potions full time. (which is not possible until zenimax fix medicinal use sometime in 2023)

Hexy and I been running stam sorc in smallscale groups and it's working pretty well. You're super tanky and you usually got rapid from someone so there's no real problem

Wtrenga

@Hexys sounds like a lot of fun! gonna try this out- Thank you!

Hexys

DDuke wrote: »

Oh lol, somehow we came up with almost the same setup for heavy armor stam sorc @Hexys

What are the odds


I run 7 pieces of heavy though - Constitution is awesome with Black Rose set particularly.

Also, have you thought of slotting Restraining Prison? I've found that to be really useful on the Dark Deal bar - allows you to keep people rooted & unable to interrupt your casting.

Before BDO I used to play 2h/bow stamsorc with the Prison, but for this build because of no burst I like my CC to be timed.

EDIT; I read it wrong, I thought you were talking about the defensive rune, so ye bow = bombard

snejremllov wrote: »

OP build Hexy! Now make a viable magicka sorc build

@Sheey uploaded a sorcerer magicka build video on his channel, I really like what he did with speccing into weapon damage/mighty so Dawnbreaker is still viable on a magicka sorcerer.

Blakeabutler_Blasius

Hexys wrote: »

@Sheey uploaded a sorcerer magicka build video on his channel, I really like what he did with speccing into weapon damage/mighty so Dawnbreaker is still viable on a magicka sorcerer.

Got a link to his video?

Hexys

Blakeabutler_Blasius wrote: »

Hexys wrote: »

@Sheey uploaded a sorcerer magicka build video on his channel, I really like what he did with speccing into weapon damage/mighty so Dawnbreaker is still viable on a magicka sorcerer.

Got a link to his video?

Here you go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiC4s3MlgA

Hridh

This sounds very interesting as a build, thank you for sharing @Hexys ! I was on the verge of giving up my Stam sorc, whose cornerstone was critsurge healing and medium armour crit build, but indeed, going heavy armour and dark exchange could be an interesting twist. Also, I am a Nord, so let's stack some health

I wonder if you tried vMA and stuff like that with it, for those who don't yet have farmed Maelstrom weapons and don't want to reroll magika to farm it ?

A question although, regarding the defensive buff: isn't Shuffle counter-productive, as when you dodge, you don't get a Constitution proc? Of course, Immovible gives same buffs to resistance as lightning form, but still, isn't immunity to CC more powerful in Cyrodiil than snare immunity from Shuffle? Or does the break free cost reduction from Heavy make up for it? Maybe run Purge instead of shuffle ?? hard to choose...

SKYRYKER

very nice build hexy

very annoying to come up against as a nb

cschwingeb14_ESO

It seems like a waste to use 2H as just a rally/buff bar. Armaments also seems weak as it always does. My thought would be:

Swapping 2h to DW
Drop rally and armaments
Add Surge, steel tornado, (sigh) bone shield and possibly shrouded daggers or quick cloak or flurry in place of one of those

Hurricane/ST/Bats would be huge AE pressure. I need to test shrouded daggers (the multi target morph) as a ranged/AE/brutality substitute all in one skill.

The real downside is lack of a rally heal, which is why I suggest bone shield. But there has to be something better. Clanfear! Heh

Id like to try this, but with the surge nerf my khajit stam sorc got a lot less appealing. Truly inferior to redguard

Hexys

Hridh wrote: »

This sounds very interesting as a build, thank you for sharing @Hexys ! I was on the verge of giving up my Stam sorc, whose cornerstone was critsurge healing and medium armour crit build, but indeed, going heavy armour and dark exchange could be an interesting twist. Also, I am a Nord, so let's stack some health

I wonder if you tried vMA and stuff like that with it, for those who don't yet have farmed Maelstrom weapons and don't want to reroll magika to farm it ?

A question although, regarding the defensive buff: isn't Shuffle counter-productive, as when you dodge, you don't get a Constitution proc? Of course, Immovible gives same buffs to resistance as lightning form, but still, isn't immunity to CC more powerful in Cyrodiil than snare immunity from Shuffle? Or does the break free cost reduction from Heavy make up for it? Maybe run Purge instead of shuffle ?? hard to choose...

I got my maelstrom weapons so I'm not doing Maelstrom anymore, maybe someone else can copy this build and try.

As for shuffle/immovable/constitution; Getting rid of snares is so important and it's not a problem for sustain dodging attacks as when it procs I would love to dodge everything for 4 seconds and then get hit again. Immovable is not worth it for that 6 seconds of CC immunity, Hurricane is to much pressure to get rid off in small scale. Purge costs way to much but yes I have thought about this as most of my deaths is radiant destruction/poison injections, but 6-7k magicka cost for you and around 2k cost for them is not a good trade and you can better LoS and heal it out.

This is also why stamina sorcerer is still behind every other class; Stamknight has Igneous shield with Major Mending and more mitigation, Stamplar has purify with Major Mending and Jabs, stamblades have the highest damage/cc output (pressure = not getting pressured) and survivablity in cloak/shadow image.

cschwingeb14_ESO wrote: »

It seems like a waste to use 2H as just a rally/buff bar. Armaments also seems weak as it always does. My thought would be:

Swapping 2h to DW
Drop rally and armaments
Add Surge, steel tornado, (sigh) bone shield and possibly shrouded daggers or quick cloak or flurry in place of one of those

Hurricane/ST/Bats would be huge AE pressure. I need to test shrouded daggers (the multi target morph) as a ranged/AE/brutality substitute all in one skill.

The real downside is lack of a rally heal, which is why I suggest bone shield. But there has to be something better. Clanfear! Heh

Id like to try this, but with the surge nerf my khajit stam sorc got a lot less appealing. Truly inferior to redguard

This is also a very viable option and will for sure give you more AoE pressure but the burstheal from rally is to important for me. Clanfear is not going to work as it will die to fast, you also need it on both bars and it literally drains your whole magicka pool to zero, but ye it can critheal for like 20k which is insane ofc XD. I think going bow with bombard might be superior to duel-wield as this gives you more control and the shuffle/dodge roll makes you really fast, it will be easier to re-position.

As far as race goes, Redguard is just way to powerfull on a stamina heavy armor build, that last passive + constitution is insane. Image if ZOS gives us race changes, I'm pretty sure 80% of all stamina builds will be redguards.

DemonDruaga

Really strong build.. brings always trouble when you show up .)

Soris

isnt your weapon dmg so low?

DemonDruaga

I think with bash cancel this amount of weapon dmg is enough to bring people down, just because the amount of attacks one brings out in no time

Soris

I have buffed 3.9k dmg and 35k stamina with templar but most of the time neither la+ransack+bash cancel nor jab spam is enough on duelers. Still most of my fights are endless.

Ahzek

Bubbly_Sponge wrote: »

glavius wrote: »

Nice for duels possibly, but can't see it being that good at small scale, no escape option whatsoever. Unless you use major expedition potions full time. (which is not possible until zenimax fix medicinal use sometime in 2023)

Hexy and I been running stam sorc in smallscale groups and it's working pretty well. You're super tanky and you usually got rapid from someone so there's no real problem

But you are exploiting utilizing Malubeth, so anything you do doesnt count xP

Hexys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYzCS2HFOA&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z13mhhwimwu3vtdll23zi1pzbxe0wjnpz04

I added the video into the main post, as I'm currently enjoying the stamina sorcerer alot I will probably make more video's soon and will add them asap!

Soris wrote: »

I have buffed 3.9k dmg and 35k stamina with templar but most of the time neither la+ransack+bash cancel nor jab spam is enough on duelers. Still most of my fights are endless.

Alot of duels against magicka templars, magicka sorcerers are really long or endless. This is also a reason why there isn't so many duels in my video, I lost a big interest in duels as almost all duels take way to long and became boring.

Ahzek wrote: »

Bubbly_Sponge wrote: »

glavius wrote: »

Nice for duels possibly, but can't see it being that good at small scale, no escape option whatsoever. Unless you use major expedition potions full time. (which is not possible until zenimax fix medicinal use sometime in 2023)

Hexy and I been running stam sorc in smallscale groups and it's working pretty well. You're super tanky and you usually got rapid from someone so there's no real problem

But you are exploiting utilizing Malubeth, so anything you do doesnt count xP

Malubeth is broken! But for a stamina sorcerer it's kinda an 'excuse' to make up for the class balance. I don't always run it and in many cases bloodspawn comes actually on top as your ultimate is really important. Don't forget the Lingering Health potions Jo, they are 100% malubeth uptime.

Cathexis

Is this a block build? I've noticed they are doing substantially better this patch, and that black rose has become over the top. I've been thinking about switching over to a block build, but I am finding that dual wield/damage stack in heavy armor with bow/bombard, resto/combat prayer, or swordboard/deep slash on flip just destroys people and does pretty well in up to 1v3, but the problem still remains for me that once you reach 3v1, there is still no way to heal/absorb the sheer damage. Honestly, a prepared/typical 3v1 will just crush you every time as stam in heavy on a sorc. If you can tank more than that on a heavy id make the switch.

Mind you I'm not running malubeth, I don't have it.