Sorcerer Skill Lines

Spearblade

Sorcerer is a mess now due to the unclear goals of each skill line, passives and active abilities. It's a relic of base game, and likely an original concept of Sorcerers being the "magic dps" class, and not healers or tanks.

The skill moves you did for Nightblade (moving Blur, Concealed Weapon, etc)? Sorcerer needs it bad. Really bad.

The only ability that they could conceivably call a spammable is in Dark Magic, with literally NO damage passives belonging to that tree.

Daedric Summoning suffers similarly. The passives are largely tank focused, albeit with some cross utility. However, the pets contained within the skill line have literally been one of the few things keeping their damage competitive to other classes. And another staple of their damage, Daedric Curse, is contained within that skill line...

Storm Calling has DPS focused passives at least, but with the exception of Hurricane, the least used damage options on the class, especially with the addition of Subclassing.

The class honestly needs more moves than you gave Nightblade, in a big way. And many of the active abilities need huge buffs to even be competitive to anything other classes offer.

Turtle_Bot

There were multiple threads made on this exact issue starting literally day 1 of the U46 PTS, unfortunately they all got completely ignored (not even a comment from ZOS acknowledging the issues and that a fix will be looked into in the future).

birdmann1230

They’re content leaving the sorc as a heavy attack easy dps (PVE). I’ve been super disappointed with the lack of benefits to subclassing for a high dps yet the pure class isn’t good either. The sustain loss for dropping too many lines is huge which nerfs the damage , and they still won’t allow the build to get away from the pets properly. I managed to do ok with gravelord in place of dark magic but realigning skill lines and adding some damage into the passives like the other classes would go a long way.

madmufffin

Sorc got absolutely nuked with subclassing and several of us made threads begging and pleading for them to reorganize the skill lines so that the class wouldn't be worthless on dps and they didn't listen. Now they'll probably look at their metrics see a bunch of people using daedric summoning line, and assume all is well while entirely ignoring that it's just tanks and healers being atro bots.

madmufffin

And what a surprise, they nerfed Sorc lmao

Anti_Virus

Templar needs some changes too, dawns wrath needs more tanks skills.

They also should move sun shield to Dawns wrath and put power of the light in Aedric spear

pinkpom

The Concealed Weapon move was made to remove Major Resolve from Concealed Weapon.
Perhaps ZOS wants to remove Major Resolve from popular skills.