Honestly, you can't go wrong with either. Stamina NBs can have insane burst damage. Doing an Ambush from sneak, all on its own, is generally enough to drop an enemy of your level to ~5% health. Enemy has more HP? Do a Surprise Attack or execute with Killer's Blade. Boss? Stick a Soul Harvest in there. I use DW primarily, so for anything more, I can single target or spam Steel Tornado.

Stamina Templars do really well with sustain. Maintaining high constant damage and staying alive are where they excel. I use 2H with mine for the gap closer and execute. Other than that, Biting Jabs, on a well spec'ed Templar, is kind of all you need. Simply casting it grants you Major Savagery, the crit buff. Normally, you'd need Evil Hunter or Sea of Flames, wasting a slot, or drink a potion. I love the idea of getting 10% crit just by attacking. When you're finished killing stuff, Repentance to regain health and stamina for free.

To my mind, the NB is great for sneaking and killing silently and quickly, while the Templar is just brute force, getting in enemies' faces and shoving your attacks down their throats, whether they like it or not. Of course, it's ESO, so there's no right answer, but both classes are great for stamina builds.

Thanks for the input. I was already thinking my weapons would be 2h and a bow. Prolly going to stick with those. I was leaning more towards the templar already as alot of my guild guys are stamina NB (and holy crap can those characters wreck whole mobs in a single swoop)

I think I will stay templar as if its not my cup of tea (a pure stamina melee toon), then ill just respec all health and become an undying pit of health kinda tank.

@flintstone, yeh I have seen some viable DK builds, but I want it all to be playing off each other, that's why I'm looking for a class that has some good stamina skills within the class trees. Granted I could just roll a DK and only use two skills from the DK line, but imo that takes away from the passives you could be using.

You may have a bunch of DK passives on, but with only using 2 DK skills it just seems like a waste. A class with some stamina based skills may have some better passives more suited to my build.

And this game isn't about the moves, its about the passives and how many you can have working for you. (probably not but that's the way I've looked at it recently)

Ah, I didn't know some of the skills morphed to stamina. Thanks for that sorry as I saw all skills were magicka I jumped to conclusions, but thanks that's really handy to know.