I appreciate all the feedback. I've learned a lot and hope to continue to learn more. Note this build is purely for solo purposes in craglorn. This is not meant to be a competitive pvp build.
Here's a video, had some input lag so I made a lot of mistakes, but it gets the point across
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3en166q5ZA&feature=youtu.beHotbar
-inner light
-blazing shield
-puncturing sweep
-blazing spear
-repentance
U- Empowering sweep
Some other important build info
-max points in health (for blazing shield)
-create a light armor seducer set with +health enchantments w/ traits and use mana reduction jewelry.
-use a restoration staff as your main weapon
-max out your racial passives of course.
-max out all the fighters guild passives
-max out light armor tree passives
-max out restoration staff passives
-in the aedric spear tree max out all the passives
-in the dawn wrath tree max out the restoring spirit passive
-in the restoring light tree max out master ritualist
Play style is simple.
-Turn inner light on for +20% spell crit chance.
-Round everything up, using corners and basic logic.
-Keep blazing shield up all the time.
-Use blazing spear every 6 seconds.
-Use puncturing strikes regularly, sometimes you will have to spam it.
-If you get low on mana, restore it with your heavy restoration attacks.
-Use your ult whenever you can.
-Use repentance every once in a while to collect health & stamina from corpses
-When fighting a boss, sometimes the best approach is to cast only your shield and use heavy attacks for mana in-between shield bursts.
All my testing has come brought me to FOUR conclusions:
1. Even though puncturing sweep and empowering sweep both use weapon crit and don't benefit from inner light, Inner light does effect blazing shield and blazing spear (and the ticks) This alone makes it worth keeping.
2. max health or max mana both can work. With max health my shield damage makes up for the lack of spell power. With max mana my puncturing sweep, blazing spear and empowering sweep makes up for the loss of shield damage. Shield damage does seem to be more important in those situations against hard hitting mobs and bosses though, because all you have time to do is keep your shield up and it's the only source of damage at that point. Health has a slight advantage because of this.
3. Blazing spear adds about 300dps to the build. I throw it down every 6 seconds because the ticks trigger the burning light passive. It's not a spam skill, and can't replace puncturing sweeps survivability, but It's still worth using.
4. I did have werewolf transformation as my mainbar ult. The reason was simply because the blood rage passive generates massive bonus ultimate points with this builds play-style. I would then switch to my other bar and use another more useful ultimate with the points it generated. I thought I had stumbled upon something great thinking of that, but it turned out switching bars is still too clunky to depend on in combat. I also found myself not being able to keep up with the amount of ultimate generated and it was overkill when using a cheap ultimate like empowering sweep. I may revisit this combination later if weapon switching is ever reliable.