I would not presume to be a master but I'll share a few things I do in the PVE setting.

I only use impulse on my bar when I am in a group AOE clearing trash mobs. If I'm out soloing it never gets all the mobs down fast enough before one of them kills me. Consider trying out crushing shock in its place. Combined with critical surge and inner light its very potent.

For multiple mobs, if you want to use a pet then send it in to attack first. You then attack one of the others. I prefer to use the dark magic skill rune cage morphed from rune prison, removing one of the mobs for about 25 seconds in the morphed version. Just make sure to position yourself so you don't break the spell as you are fighting the other mobs.

World bosses are mostly about tactics, some things work better than others you just have to experiment and try different things sometimes.

When fighting I use spellpower pots to restore magika and get a short boost to spell damage and spell crit. I would recommend switching mundus to the mage for added magika until you are leveled up and geared. For PVE I use gear that has infused on head chest and pants and divines on the rest. I put magika enchants on everything until I can hit softcap with food and then health on the rest. I use 5 twighlights embrace 3 willows path and 3 soulshine for the spellcrit and spellpower but there are lots of other options depending on what is available to you and what you want to do.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the help guys. I will try all the advice. I have a vr12 NB who has 8 traits in medium and heavy as well as nearly 6 in light so I can craft my own gear.
I started playing a sorc as I had seen so many just face stomping through areas and everyone said that sorc was easy mode so I didnt think I would be struggling like I have been there is only so many times u want to do the quests Im pretty sure its just me and not the class haha. I really appreciate people taking there time to reply thanks.

Impulse is over rated in my opinion.....it's ok in a group fight, but I never use it solo. I use inner light for the crit, surge for the heal, and spam endless fury for magic regin. I also use crushing shock and crystal fragments........both very powerful if used correctly.

On my other bar I use 2 handed sword.......except I replace crushing shock with the 2 handed charge skill which always crits.

I also mix in many of the other skills here and there as needed.......nothing works 100% all the time.

I have a vet 12 sorcerer and a vet 12 dragon knight.

like1tiger wrote: »

and it seems alot of things just ignore my pet and kill me.

If you want mobs to aggro your pet try to open you attack with daedric curse and wait while yor clanfear attacks.

Here is my set up and I feel like a master at PvE. These are all morphed so you may have to research the name for the original skill. As for attribute points, ive been balancing them in health and magicka.

Attack - Destruction Staff
1 - Crystal Fragments - your big hitter
2 - Restraining Prison - crowd control, stop large groups together
3 - Lightning Flood - AoE spell that works perfectly with Restraining Prison.
4 - Endless Fury - Instantly kill low health targets and regain some magicka. Also splashes damage to nearby enemies.
5 - I normally leave open to experiment other skills. Currently I like Elemental Blockade (Wall of Elements?) in destruction staff for extra AoE damage. I did use a summoned pet for extra support at a low level.

Support/Boss - Healing Staff
1 - Crystal Fragments - Cant go without it
2 - Bolt Escape - Because you will need a get away plan
3 - Dark Deal - A life saver regenerating health and magick for stamina.
4 - Rapid Regeneration - Heals yourself and 2 others instantly over a period of time.
5. Combat Prayer - Instantly heals anyone infront of you for a good chunk. Also heals yourself of course.

You probably dont need two healing spells though.

like1tiger wrote: »

Ok all you sorcs out there. What am I missing?
Im have now hit lvl 37. Feeling like im under preforming, I die alot I thought I would be much stronger than my NB but im not seeing it so im guessing im doing it wrong. Anything over 2 mobs and im doomed. Most World Bosses kick my arse..
Running fire destruction staff. Just got impulse.
Skills crystal fragments, endless fury, impulse. Mage rune (trying to lvl for pvp) and my pet clanfear. Im always running out of mana. I have mana enchants on my gear 26 magika 10 health. Wearing 5 peices of magnas set... 5 light 1 med 1 heavy. My other set is duel weld daggers that I have been trying to lvl for an aoe spec and I only switch when handing in quests. I im so squishy and it seems alot of things just ignore my pet and kill me. I can do a bit with my storm ulti but hopless without it. I have theif mundas stone..

Maybe its just how it is at my level but I owned easy up to 30 now struggling so im guessing its just me and not the class as I had huge hopes for stomping faces haha

As i remember, at 37 till vr1 the better way is using Daedric pets.
So i may looks like this:
1 Endless Fury for mana return and for coup de grace.
2 Restraining Prison for crowd control.
3 Cannfear.
4 Twilight.
5 Crystal Fragment.
ult - Absorption Field or aoe Atronach.
Then you need to use 7 pieces of light armor. It would give you mana regen and reduce mana cost. You can enchant them as you want, but it must be mana+++:). And don't forget about Resto staff with mana return enchantment.
All points, at least 39 you need spent to health, for better survival.

Another thing about Impulse. In large group fights constant spamming of impulse by more than one person makes it very hard for the outside players in the group (bows, sorcerers, ect) to find a target and really puts a damper on overall group dps.

As a sorcerer (and I know bows may do this also).... I can lay down fairly constant dps (800-1500dps) from a distance.....but not when I'm nearly blinded by impulse spam. I spend more time searching than killing (-:

I use a fire staff with precise trait and a magika return glyph as well as a resto staff with precise trait and a shock glyph.
Don't forget to weave in light attacks with your casts for extra damage.

Im going to craft some sets and see if it makes a big difference... I was toying with trying another element on the destro staffs. Maybe frost to cc mobs? I dropped crush and went back to clanfear
He is very squishy though. Ran into a sorc running 2 pets with resto staff soloing dolmens but he was vr1 in lvl 38 zone so that would explain that.

Has anypne tested a frost staff in pve and had any success?

like1tiger wrote: »

Has anypne tested a frost staff in pve and had any success?

In most cases, when you're leveling, just use the staff that has the higher damage. Fire staves will certainly give you an advantage, but can fall short to a much better or higher level frost or lightning staff

I don't recall at what level I got heavy and medium armor to 50, but after that you should go 7/7 light armor. Restoration staff for single target and destruction for AoE builds. If you need more protection in single target spec, maybe you could try sword and board. Restoration staff is only for that 10% damage buff and to get mana back with heavy attacks. If you die a lot, then sword and shield could be better idea. If you can increase spellpower with equipment and magicka with enchants, that should be the ideal situation. If possible, I'd say try to keep magicka at soft cap as much as you can. Makes grinding much faster and easier.

My single target bar was usually enough to handle most encounters. Start fight by using Rune Cage to CC at least one mob. That alone should be enough to hold one mob down while you handle 1 or 2 mobs still attacking you. Rune Cage used to work for most normal level and some world bosses too, so when you get pushed too much, just Rune Cage them. There's couple of nasty mobs that are CC immune, and in those I usually used that tanking pet. In DPS department I had Velocious Curse, Endless Fury and Crystal Fragments. Start with curse, then spam fury until you get fragments proc and then use that. Rinse and repeat. Final spot was for Inner Light for more crit change.

In AoE spec I had Critical Surge, Pulsar, Inner Light and Immovable. You can place anything you want for the last spot, but maybe Bound Aegis to get still more protection. So build your gear for spell crit and make sure you have surge and Immovable up all the time. With immovable and bound aegis you should hit way over soft cap in armor, so critical surge should keep your health up without any problems. Other way to increase crit chance is to use restraining prison, but that root seemed too expensive to me, so I didn't really use it much.

Like you, it seemed that I was lacking mana at first all the time too, but with better equipment and passives it slowly got better.

I'm wondering how people setup their mouse and keyboard. I've been using a G600 mouse for a few years and that's how I trigger all my skills. The ring finger button took me some time to learn (long before this game though), it's my weapon swap button. There was a time the ring finger button was disabled heh. Now it's sooo valuable.

The reason I point this out is that I have had tough fights that it looked like I shouldn't win except I was constantly dodging and weaving around mobs. Like soloing dolmens (at my level or higher) and even soloed some group dungeons. This constant moving around, dodging and sometimes kiting mobs, has worked for all my characters, I've done it on all 4 professions.

Updating: my fights look like yoda fights. Except maybe where interrupts are absolute necessity for a particular mob. Don't forget blocking, this is an important part of any combat, at least in pve.

I'm just a noob at VR8 but I've found that just spamming crystal blast with the AOE morph is MORE than enough and I never run out of magicka, it also kills faster than impulse and is safer because you are far away, and 1 mob is always knocked down. I run warlock gear for magicka regen and otherwise try to raise up critical and damage %, healing staff, magelight etc. Groups of 3 or 4 just melt, I send my pet in first then 4 or 5 crystal blasts and entire group is dead and I'm at 1/4 to 1/2 magicka. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but I always feel much less safer with impulse, even using it with block and I usually run out of magicka before the group is dead. I've tried several variations, using crit surge, etc and I'm just not that impressed.