Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Here we have a Stamina Necromancer Dual Wield/Bow PVE build and Iron Atronach Parse for Scalebreaker. I will show one rotation but describe several others in the description below.

Here I will not describe any rotation which relies on Detonating Siphon. Bitterly disappointing that it still doesn't work, since it is amazing for sustain (costs no resources) and does decent AOE and Single Target damage too. With Siphon, 106k+ is possible.

If you're looking for:
vMA Dagger Rotation: youtu.be/JXrSpAHqLHU
2H/Bow: youtu.be/TYF_AVj3iIw

There have been loads of changes across the board for combat in ESO. I would recommend you to read the relevant patch notes.

I am using the Max Stam/Stam Regen food, with 64 points into Stamina for all Stamina Setups in these rotations. This is simply for comparison purposes in this test environment.

So, the Stamina Necromancer is the go-to class as a DD in Trials in ESO, mainly because of their Ultimate, the Pestilent Colossus, which gives an AOE Major Vulnerability debuff for 5 seconds.

I tried a few parses with different setups with high Stamina Regen so I could try setups which are impossible to solo sustain on the dummy, but perfectly normal in a raid (e.g using a lot of Whirling Blades). I had a Healer with a Master Resto spam Healing Springs on me to allow me to properly test the strength of all these rotations (Thanks @stileanima even though you were tabbed out half the time). Here in this video, I am showing a solo parse for demo purposes.

Setups Tried:
1. As shown in the video (Rapid Strikes + Blastbones)
2. Pure Rapid Strikes (See AOEGU's video for a great example: youtu.be/kPYDtEyPlEU)
3. Venom Skull + Blastbones
4. Rapid Strikes + Whirling Blades + Blastbones
5. Venom Skull + Whirling Blades + Blastbones
6. Whirling Blades + Blastbones


To summarize, sorry to be predictable but they were all within 1-2k of each other, so I don't think you can go wrong with any of them. I have, however, listed them roughly in order of Stamina Drain (#1 is more or less the most Stamina efficient, though I still had to heavy attack 3 times in this parse, whereas #7 is least so). As always, bashing will add some nice free DPS if you have extra sustain, and you can do just as many bashes with any setup in most scenarios, though I guess using Rapid Strikes does not allow you to be as opportunistic with bashing. So in scenarios where sustain may be an issue, you may want to chose a rotation which is higher up the list. The combinations lower down the list generally have worse sustain, but also offer better cleave damage, so I guess it's fair. In Elsweyr, I tested several setups in Sunspire's Fire Dragon Boss in the earlier weeks, and they all felt kinda the same to me, just like here.

CMX Parse from parse in video - https://i.imgur.com/AdLAp0f.png
CMX Build Screenshot from parse in video (Skillbars, Gear, CPs) - https://i.imgur.com/thi2mrQ.png


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Rotation

You want a 10-seconds long because Arrow Barrage, Poison Injection, Rending Slashes and Consuming Trap are each 10 seconds long.

The minimum backbar rotation is simply: Arrow Barrage - Poison Injection. You can choose to have Barbed Trap or Skeletal Archer on your backbar as the 3rd skill you occasionally cast after the above two skills, if needed.

On your front bar, make sure to cast Rending and Consuming Trap once. Cast your Barbed Trap or Archer (whichever is not being cast on your backbar). Otherwise generally you want to fill up your time with Blastbones and your spammable of choice (Whirling, Venom Skull, Rapid Strikes) in the rest of the time.

In execute, if you are using 3 Bloodthirsty, Whirling Blades is better than Blastbones below 25%. So if you have Whirling Blades slotted, given your sustain, drop Blastbones completely. In a Rapid Strikes rotation, it is pretty borderline so you can go either way since Rapid Strikes is also technically an execute.

For Maarselok, you will need to Bash once every 7 or more seconds to proc its effect.


Proposed Static Rotation:

Start: Archer - Trap - Blastbones

Pattern 1 (Burstier)
Barrage - Injection
Blastbones - Rending - Consuming Trap - Blastbones - Spam - Spam - Spam - Blastbones

Pattern 2 (With Archer and Trap refreshed. You can swap these 2 skills around if you prefer, based on passives)
Barrage - Injection - Archer
Blastbones - Rending - Consuming Trap - Blastbones - Barbed Trap - Spam - Blastbones

Spam = Venom Skull or Rapid Strikes or Whirling Blades starting from 35-30% and below.

In execute, you can continue the same patterns but use Whirling Blades (if slotted) in place of Spam and Blastbones.

Use your Ultimate whenever required.


Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope it helps. Happy to reply to comments below!


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