Thank you for your reply @TehMagnus I just started to read your thread on the subject I imagine playing a sorc would be a nice change for my bosmer archer

I love my Sorc It does just as good now if not better than it did in 1.5. Mind you I don't PvP but I have soloed all most all of the DC areas including dolmens, world bosses and public dungeons.

rosarose wrote: »

Thank you for your reply @TehMagnus I just started to read your thread on the subject I imagine playing a sorc would be a nice change for my bosmer archer

Have fun! And while I am sure you will experiment and try things out for yourself, I can offer something that might be useful and that has worked pre- and post-Update 6. Might give some you some ideas to think about.

I haven't done end-game things, but this really generic, not-at-all original Sorc build has helped me solo or group through Alliance PvE zones. It's still going strong through Cadwell's Gold:

Race: Breton

Class: Sorcerer

Attributes: 2 Magicka then 1 Health until 25 Health, then all Magicka

Mundus Stone: The Thief

Championship Points: The Tower (33 points) - Magician (33 points); The Apprentice (33 points) - Elemental Expert (30), Elfborn (3); The Lady (33) - Light Armor Focus

Crafting Boons: Alchemy - Medicinal Use; Provisioning - Gourmand, Connoisseur (even my non-crafting or non-Alchemist/non-Provisioner characters level up to get these passives then the other points in these skill lines are removed)

Gear: 7 light armor below level 50, 7 or 5 light after Veteran ranks (I wanted to level up Heavy and Medium so I have been using 5). Five piece bonus for Seducer, including staff (Restoration Staff and all armor pieces except hands, waist, and feet. The rest is three piece Twilight's Embrace. Both sets are easy to craft/acquire because they only require that your clothing crafter know two traits.

Solo PvE questing before gaining lots of experience with various skill lines/playing at Vet Ranks:

Weapon Bar One (Restoration Staff):

1- Crystal Shard (Crystal Fragments) 2- Mage's Fury (Endless Fury) 3-Magelight (Radiant Magelight) 4-Unstable Familiar (Volatile Familiar) 5-Grand Healing (Mutagen) U-Overload (Power Overload)

Weapon Bar Two (Destruction Staff - Lightning) was never changed from the second PvP bar below.

These abilities, especially 1, 2, 4, and 5, get you through levels 1-10 very well. At level10 I went to Cyrodiil and snuck/kited my way to 85% of the skyshards and lore books that weren't underground, giving me enough skill points and a high enough Mages Guild rank to get Magelight.


Group PvP while leveling 10-50 (10-12 on Haderus, 12-50 on Blackwater Blade):

Weapon Bar One (Restoration Staff)

1-Crystal Fragments 2-Endless Fury 3-Radiant Magelight 4-Healing Springs 5-Ward Ally U-Negate (Suppression Field)

Weapon Bar Two was mostly the same except the Restoration Staff skills were replaced with things like Boundless Storm and Liquid Lightning with (Power) Overload for the Ultimate. Mostly just used Bar One.


Solo PvE questing after gaining lots of experience with various skill lines/playing at Vet Ranks:

Weapon Bar One (Restoration Staff):

1-Daedric Prey 2-Twilight Matriarch 3-Radiant Magelight 4-Healing Springs 5-Ward Ally U-Greater Storm Atronach

Weapon Bar Two (Destruction Staff - Fire)

1-Crushing Shock 2-Endless Fury 3-Radiant Magelight 4-Critical Surge 5-Flame Pulsar

This is what I've been using since I leveled out of Blackwater Blade and went back to pick up the original Alliance zones I missed, Coldharbor, and Cadwell's Silver. I am in Cadwell's Gold now. I can use this to solo pretty much everything and I rarely use potions, just blue food for increased Magicka and Health.

Bar Two is the standard. Get Critical Surge up (lasts 20 seconds) and if it is a weak to moderate difficulty solo mob use Crushing Shock a few times finishing with Endless Fury. If it is a group of trash mobs same thing only run around in a Figure Eight after hitting Critical Surge while blasting them with Flame Pulsar. You don't get anything from the weapon power buff for Crit Surge, but with your base 10% Spell Crit, the 10% from Magelight, the boon from your Mundus stone, and the Prodigy passive bonus for wearing at least 5 piece of Light, the part of Crit Surge that heals you for 60% of critical damage done still works well enough to complete solo questing content. Once you get 30 points into The Apprentice you unlock the Spell Precision boon, granting another 12% to Spell Critical.

Bar One is for tougher fights like the overland bosses and the champions in group dungeons. It is also what I use to solo dark anchors. Summon the Twilight, cast Daedric Prey on the target, and use your Ultimate to summon the Storm Atronach. Keep replenishing Ward Ally regularly as it will shield your Twilight and keep it alive as it takes aggro and does damage. Continually hit the (first/primary) target with heavy attacks from your restoration staff and heal with Healing Springs as necessary, as you want to maximize damage and ultimate generation while keeping your magicka up. Also keep Daedric Prey up on your target, and when it explodes re-apply immediately. The Twilight and Atronach will do extra damage plus you get the explosive damage when it ends. If the battle is still iffy/not nearly done when the Atronach expires another should be ready soon after. Once the target is in the kill zone for Endless Wrath swap bars for the execute if it is just one enemy or just keep going and pick another target when it expires if there are multiple opponents.

Thank you so much for your kind answers Right now I am thinking either altmer or breton. Not sure what I will prefer in the long run yet

rosarose wrote: »

Thank you so much for your kind answers Right now I am thinking either altmer or breton. Not sure what I will prefer in the long run yet

I haven't really paid much attention to the racial Passives in ESO but Altmer and Sorc should have some good magicka bonuses

I am enjoying my sorcerer more after 1.6 than before.

rosarose wrote: »

But it seems like it's a lot of negative talk about sorc's now? Don't get me wrong, I will probably try it anyway, but can anyone say something positive about them now, or should I expext to die a lot?

Been seeing a lot more pet builds lately, which was sort of absent for a few months. Pet builds where generally easy mode PVE back when ESO started