Stamina Sorcerer - survivability and dark deal?

Scora

Hi all- Im thinking of returning to ESO and starting fresh with a new character. I've always been interested in making a stamina sorcerer but im a bit worried about their survivability. I know they have critical charge but it does'nt seem reliable enough. I wonder how is the new Dark Deal for selfhealing?

exiledtyrant

Dark deal is good for healing when you don't have aggro it does a pretty poor job of healing solo. It recovers about 50% of your hp bar over 4 seconds but that 50% return can turn into 20% or less if everything is beating on you. I found combining rapid regeneration + quick siphon to be a better alternative. Those combined with critical surge healing adds up to a lot of healing without having to pause for 4 seconds.

The problem with dark deal is it is such a strong heal it had to be given a major weakness. If they just made it a better equilibrium that traded like 10% of a resource for 20% of magic and health or stam/ health it would probably be more useful.

Scora

Would the heals from Rally combines with the heals from Critical surge boost survivability noticbly or is using Rally as waste?

Flaminir

Whilst I don't play a stamina Sorc (I'm magicka)... I would encourage you in the strongest possible way to have a look at a lot of the stamina sorc threads on the forum....

Sorcs have no affinity with stamina at the minute & a lot of problems with it, and you will end up with a bottom of the barrel character.

NotSo

As a stamina based sorcerer, I find myself not needing dark exchange at all. Heavy attacks from 2h restore a huge amount of stamina, heavy attacks from staves restore a huge amount of magicka. Rolling around with power surge, forward momentum, siphon, degeneration, and mutagen.

Honestly I wouldn't be caught dead with dark exchange, no way I'm going to let up on other players in pvp just to heal myself.