This is my day to day solo PvE character I use for sneaking past all the trashmobs and killing the bosses, good for overland, world bosses, public dungeons and the like. Excellent for doing Guild quests where they want something from a delve, or storyline quests.
I got into the idea of sneaking past all the trash playing SWTOR on an assassin and thought I'd make a build for ESO which worked the same way. I started with all the stealth sets; 3 x Night Terror, 4 x Darloc Brea and 5 x Mother's Embrace, but that's really overkill on a nightblade and for solo the Pale Order ring seemed essential so I lost the Mother's Embrace for Stinging Slashes, to make the spammable hit harder, and Slimecraw for more damage. The backbar bow is Darloc Brea which gives 6 pieces of that on the backbar, that's a travel bar so I want the bow for the Hasty Retreat passive, and the Darloc Brea 5 piece bonus is good, but only out of combat, and having 2 pieces of something else gives no better out of combat bonus that I could find, so I went with it.
The back bar is for travel, you move reasonably quickly in stealth if you keep popping race against time, you can pop shadowy disguise to move past mobs in doorways or corridors, concealed weapon is only there for the passive speed buff if gives. I guess you can use it if you like the animation or something, but if you're behind someone then blade of woe is a much better option from stealth.
When you want to attack you move round to the flank of the enemy sticking the reaper's mark on them and leeching strikes and shadowy disguise on you, then you bar switch, close the gap with Ambush, heavy attack, power extraction, light, rending slashes, light, rending slashes, light … , killer's blade. Camouflaged hunter is also only there for the passives, bear in mind half of them need you to be flanking.
Incap Strike is there for the passive (which no longer exists) but it does give +20% damage now when you trigger it and it's a nice stun, soul tether gives another healing option if things start getting dicey, but could be swapped out for something else, Dawnbreaker or the Mage's Comet maybe?
Stealth Elf - Nightblade Build PvE - ESO
Solo PvE Stealthblade: quick, invisible, deadly and not an undead monstrosity
By sysape • Updated 1 month ago
Armor Sets
All equipped armor sets
Skills
Equipped active Skills
Front Bar
Back Bar
Champion Points
All active and passive stars
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Breakfall
50
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Fleet Phantom
40
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Fortune's Favor
50
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Gilded Fingers
50
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Inspiration Boost
45
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Out of Sight
30
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Soul Reservoir
33
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Steadfast Enchantment
50
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Wanderer
75
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Battle Mastery
40
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Blessed
20
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Eldritch Insight
20
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Elemental Aegis
20
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Flawless Ritual
40
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Hardy
20
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Mighty
30
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Piercing
20
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Precision
20
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Preparation
20
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Quick Recovery
20
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Tireless Discipline
20
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War Mage
30
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Bashing Brutality
20
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Defiance
20
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Fortification
30
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Hasty
16
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Hero's Vigor
20
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Mystic Tenacity
50
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Nimble Protector
6
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Piercing Gaze
30
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Savage Defense
30
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Sprinter
20
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Tempered Soul
50
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Tireless Guardian
20
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Tumbling
30
Character
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Consumables
Food, Drinks & Potions

Bervez Juice (1)
Fish (1)
Dwarven Oil (1)
Water Hyacinth (1)

Essence of Weapon Power
Passives
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Nightblade
Assassination
Siphoning
Weapon
Armor
Light Armor
Medium Armor
Heavy Armor
World
Soul Magic
Guild
Alliance War
Assault
Racial
Wood Elf Skills
Craft
Blacksmithing
Enchanting
Jewelry Crafting
Buffs & Debuffs
Buffs granted from skills, items & potions
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Increases the damage of your Heavy Attacks by 70%. |
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Increases Mounted Speed by 15% |
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Increases all damage done by 10% |
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Reduces Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948 |
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Increases Weapon Damage by 20% |
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Increases Movement Speed by 30% |
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Increases Spell Critical chance by 12% |
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Increases Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by 5948 |
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Increases Weapon Critical by 12% |
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Increases Spell Damage by 20% |
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Increases all damage done by 5% |
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Increases Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 215 |
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Reduces Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 215 |
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Increases Movement Speed by 15% |
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Increases Critical Damage by 10% |
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Increases Weapon Critical by 6% |
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Increases Damage Taken by 5% |
Guide
Build Explaination

sysape
Updated 1 month ago