Those are good sets.
Just heads up for the new update though, be prepared to use light/heavy attacks more often

I personally use 5x hundings, 2x selene, and 5x spriggans.

Maybe it is the other night mothers set not the crafted set.

The advantage of wood elf is that they have more stamina sustain than Khajiti so wood elves will have less of a problem.

There are a few simple changes you can do to help with the sustain issues.
Firstly DW heavy attacks are quite fast so you can just heavy attack every so often to get back resources.
Secondly you can switch at least one of the enchantments on your jewelry to stamina regen instead of weapon damage. that should be enough, although you lose out on damage that way.
You can put about 13 points into Health instead of all in to Stamina then instead of using Food you use Dubious Camoran throne Drink for stamina regen.
You might have to craft a heavy hundings rage piece (then one light and one medium monster helm) for more damage mitagion so you don't get one shot.

I think from the PTS you are not dead just incovienced... everyone is still trying to get them not to change siphoning strikes though.

Robo_Hobo wrote: »

I think I might try out essence thief for general pve use for my stamblade. I dunno how it compares to BiS damage sets, probably not well, but with good light attack weaving it seems like a nice healing, damage and sustain set.

(2 items) Adds 967 Max Stamina

(3 items) Adds 967 Max Stamina

(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage

(5 items) When you deal damage with a Light Attack, you have a15% chance to draw essence from an enemy. Collecting the essence heals you 4300 Health, restores Stamina and increases your damage by 12% for 10 seconds.

It is an okay set but you should really sacrifice 3 virgins to Rngzuz because the 15% proc chance is really low. Additionally the rune moves to the left so it is hard to always see and Run to it