Gear Review
All the gear sets are fairly easy to obtain even for fairly new PvE players who have yet to grind their Set Collections/Stickerbook.
The Undaunted monster set Iceheart can be obtained in two steps: first you have to do Veteran Direfrost Keep (a very easy basegame dungeon, no need to do the Hard Mode) for the headpiece and do Pledges whether on Normal or Veteran to procure Undaunted Keys to draw a Iceheart shoulder piece from Glirion the Redbeard's coffer.
Iceheart is an extremely strong set that allows you to continue to be on the offensive when its 6 second long shield activates off of your attacks. The Dragonthorn build doesn't have the resources nor the skill slots to slot any kind of shield like many Magicka classes for extended fights so we have to depend on Iceheart to shield us from all incoming damage.
Kinras's Wrath drops in the Flames of Ambition DLC dungeon Black Drake Villa. Instead of doing it on Veteran mode, you can do it on Normal mode and still get the body pieces very easily.
Kinras's Wrath is a great set to have even for endgame PvE in Trials as a Stamina Damage Dealer and in solo instances, it's even nicer to have since you're not expecting others to buff you up with damage modifiers like Major Berserk. You also easily keep the Burning Heart aura active after you Light Attack every 5 seconds so there's no need to keep mashing your Light Attack button/trigger.
In terms of traits for the body pieces, we want all Divines to boost the armor Penetration we gain from The Lover Mundus stone. For jewelry, we can stick with Robust as having a higher Max Stamina pool is beneficial for both damage and sustain.
Witchman Armor is actually a highly overlooked set, not only is it a Medium armor set making the weight attractive for saving time on grinding gear/jewelry but it also has great stat lines and emulates one of the Dragonknight class's signature abilities to regain resources upon using their Ultimates.
There's a reason why the Dragonknight class is very easy to handle for many newer players and the Battle Roar passive they have that grants them Health, Stamina and Magicka upon casting any Ultimate is a major reason why.
Witchman will help you not only regain resources but also your Health, it's a pretty great amount, on casting Flawless Dawnbreaker we regain 5700 Health, Magicka and Stamina which lets you get away with more aggressive gameplay or stats or will let you play more defensively if you anticipate more incoming damage.
Enchantments can be preference but at least one Weapon Damage enchantment on one jewelry piece can help our damage go higher. Feel free to experiment with the enchantments as many encounters will most likely let you get away with 2 or 3 Weapon Damage enchantments.
Your Maul should be Sharpened as you need all the Penetration you can get which are now sourced from your Mundus Stone, the penetration passive from wielding a Maul and now the Sharpened trait itself.
To gain the benefits of all the Armor bonuses & passives in The Elder Scrolls Online, the Dragonthorn will have 5 medium armor pieces, 1 heavy armor piece and 1 light armor piece. This decision with armor weight will also yield an additional 6% stat gain for your Max Health, Stamina and Magicka should you have the Undaunted Mettle passive unlocked.
Skills Review
On your skill bar, you will have Biting Jabs, your main spammable that is great at dealing damage as an Area-of-Effect and Direct Damage skill. You will need to be careful at times with casting Biting Jabs as it has a channel time of about 1 second which means as the ability is active, you won't be able to block-cast it.
Don't be afraid to block and cancel the animation for your Biting Jabs if you need to Block or even Roll Dodge a heavy attack from an enemy.
Restoring Focus is a skill that comes packaged with a Healing-over-Time effect (HoT) that scales off of your Max Health, Stamina return every second and an armor buff called Major Resolve that significantly increases your Physical/Spell Resistances.
Resolving Vigor is a skill easily unlocked after entering a PvP Campaign for Cyrodiil. It's the main healing ability for many Stamina Damage Dealers across different classes. Its burst heal is incredibly strong and is active as you Roll Dodge, Block or Break Free. The heal should be more used in anticipation of incoming damage rather than in reaction should you be able to do so!
While many solo players like the other morph Echoing Vigor due to the longer duration, Stamina Templar doesn't have very good burst healing nor does this build have enough skill slots to accommodate more HoTs or burst heals.
Repentance is your fourth skill on the bar and it passively gives you more sustain by increasing your Stamina, Magicka and Health Recovery by 15%. As an active ability, you can use corpses around you to regain Health and Stamina back in significant amounts. Even one corpse goes a long way which is perfect for much of overland content.
The last skill on the bar will be Turn Evil which puts down an AoE stun on the ground that fears any non-elite mobs or non-bosses for five seconds. In addition to being a potential stun to get some breathing room, Turn Evil also gives you Minor Protection (5% damage mitigation) and should you ever not slot Repentance, it also gives the same 15% Stamina Recovery buff (Minor Endurance) so long as you're standing in it. Finally, the skill itself gives you more Weapon Damage should you have the Fighters Guild passive Slayer.
You can swap Turn Evil out with any other skill you may need for specific situations.
Lastly, the Ultimate on your bar will be Flawless Dawnbreaker. Upon casting it, you get an additional 300 Weapon Damage for 20 seconds while debuffing anything you hit with a 6 second DoT.
You could consider other alternative Ultimates depending on how hard enemies/bosses are hitting you such as Remembrance.
Craft
Warfare
Fitness
Champion Points Review
To see what each Champion Point does, hover over or tap each one shown in the allocation chart.
Master-at-Arms is a very good Warfare Slottable to use as it buffs your Biting Jabs, Light Attacks and the initial hit of your Flawless Dawnbreaker.
Biting Aura also buffs your Flawless Dawnbreaker and Biting Jabs as well.
Duelist's Rebuff and Unassailable will help mitigate any single target direct damage or AoE damage which is usually the majority of the incoming damage in The Elder Scrolls Online for much of overland. Should you encounter any devastating Damage-over-Time effects on you, you can stand in your Restoring Focus with Resolving Vigor active.
Boundless Vitality, Ironclad and Rejuvenation will help both your survivability and sustain.
Bloody Renewal as a fourth Fitness Slottable can be swapped out for whatever you think is best but as a sustain Slottable, it works wonders should you want to spec more aggressively.
Introduction (Update 30, Blackwood)
The Dragonthorn Stamplar is a beginner-friendly PvE solo build that allows anyone to tackle on all overland content including Delve Bosses, Public Dungeons, World Bosses, Dragon Bosses, World Events such as Harrowstorms/Dolmens/Deadlands Portals with or without any other player. This build can work in Normal Dungeons as well.
The focus of this build is on both decent damage and survivability that allows players to comfortably navigate the dangers of Tamriel in their quests for rewards and glory.
Speaking of comfort, it's a one-bar only build which means you don't need to barswap or have a secondary skill bar set up to solo things! Until the website is updated, do ignore the "Backbar" portion of the build page.
Stamina Templar is one of the strongest classes to apply this concept to as their main spammable Biting Jabs is an Area-of-Effect Direct Damage ability that has a high DPS ceiling. In conjunction with their Class passives and skills such as Repentance and Restoring Focus, the Stamplar serves well despite being limited to one skill bar.
As the original intent of this build was to have a Dragonslayer theme (solo'ing Northern/Southern Elsweyr Dragons), the amount of Health points can be lowered a lot for the content you wish to solo, but take note that Restoring Focus' heal scales off of Max Health!
For a gameplay demonstration, refer to the video above.
Any race can work for this build although Imperial, Nord, Orsimer, Dunmer and Bosmer have favorable stats for it.
Recommended Mundus Stone is The Lover.
Recommended potions for this build will be Essence of Weapon Power which grants Stamina, Major Savagery and Major Brutality.
Recommended food for this build is any bi-stat food that gives Max Health/Max Stamina.