I have a VR1 sorcerer with a rather strange build, but it seems to work well for me. My sorcerer is in full plate with traits such as "Impenetrable" and "Reinforced").
I am using two axes with frost enchants and the weapon speed trait (weighted).
My points are set as: 15 - 19 - 15. They seem a bit off right now, and I do plan to adjust them later.
My primary action bar is set up as melee. I use Silver Bolts, Blood Craze, Rapid Strike, Twilight Matriarch IV (for support and healing), and Thundering Presence. I also use Charged Atonarch IV for when things get crazy. I did not morph the Silver Bolts.
For my second action bar I use a staff and all the typical sorcerer abilities. This gives me the ability to switch from caster to melee (or back) if needed. For example if I run low on stamina I can switch and fight with a full bar of magicka. Of if I am fighting as a caster and something charges at me I can switch to melee.
I gave both action bars an ability to attack from a distance or up close.

Rune Prison, if CC affects the mob it's a 17 second time out. Use it as your opener to disable one of the mobs. Remember, you can't hit them or they become unstuck. So Rune Prison... other mobs start running at you. Also I will agree a little more balancing towards health would be good. A sorc's bread and butter is that a lot of what they have is CC or survivability (unfortunately usually takes up a slot for an active though). But there are several options for CC so there is a little something that can fit into any build.

I'm only VR2 right now so a lot on my bars are trash until I can morp them. I respec'ed away from destroy staff so still building other weapon levels up.

I'm just a noob with a low level Dual Wield sorc, but I've had success with Lightning Form. I use a class ranged attack to pull an enemy, then I hit Lightning Form and stab stab stab. I don't know how well this will work at higher levels.

I've been using DW as a VR1 sorc, here is my set up.

7/7 Medium 5 stam 1 health 1 magika, stam cost reduction jewelry, Thief stone, Mag/Stam food, Dual Daggers, Balanced attributes.

Flying Blade, Blood Craze, Whirling Blades, Hardened Ward, Critical Surge, Ulti is Absorbtion Field. Swap in Heated Blades for certain situations, like undead (blood craze immune) or very tough melee mobs.

I really like hardened ward over bound armor because the shield gives me the ability to stay in combat even at low health to proc surge and recover my health. It is cheap enough to use multiple times in a fight while keeping surge up and it is a fairly large shield mine is ~700 I think. I can take mixed groups of 3 and bosses just fine. Anything more I use Absorbtion Field.

Absorbtion field is fantastic for when things go bad or just great for wiping large groups or stopping a tough mob for 10 seconds to recover. It turns on both ruffian and exploitation.


EDIT
I thought I would add that Flying Blade is your main dps attack, even in melee range though it feels weird, if have the stamina you want to throw blades at them. The damage to stamina ratio is excellent and the snare allows you to kite when needed and the range helps kill an archer/caster with out having to run to them while taking more damage.

Keep Surge up, keep Blood Craze up, spam Flying Blade, use ward as needed, finish with Whirling Blades, switch to heavy attack clipping with light attacks when conserving stamina. To clip, when you start the second grunt while using heavy attack spam light attack, you can then clip the light attack with an ability and clip that with bash if you wish.

feniks31_ESO wrote: »

Niminion wrote: »

I thought I would add that Flying Blade is your main dps attack, even in melee range though it feels weird, if have the stamina you want to throw blades at them. The damage to stamina ratio is excellent

Nope. Best dps ability is Flurry and best dmg/stama ability is Twin Slash. There is no a single reason to use Hidden Blade

LOL, you must be trolling.

Flying blade is just a ranged snare with some damage, it isn't meant to be spammed so you can do ranged damage with daggers it's meant to close gaps. Twin slash is the best DMG:Stamina ratio if you calculate it out, also if you want to be in people's faces then why roll with such low health? You have to be up close to deal your best damage so if you can't take some hits you're not doing damage. Either need crowd control or better healing at that kind of health (Health is almost as low as my level 37 templar who's full cloth and max magicka, barely any points into it.) That's just common sense.. unless you've someone taking the damage for you it would never work.

You attack the enemy, with your swords and magic.



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Didnt they just nerf hidden blade's stamina cost? I'd have to go read patch notes again.

Just a question. Do you play your magic builds in the same medium armor or do you have a separate armor setup for that. Spend more ability points in health and regulate mag/sta with different gear setups.

kelebra wrote: »

Flurry has already been tested and proven to be the same dps of spamming light attacks. Do to the heavy attack animation cancel exploit it's better dps to not use flurry.

I know "it has been tested" but i also play the game and blinding flurry does much more damage than spamming light attacks.

Pretty much what crescent said.

I'm having fun on my melee Sorcorer /shrug

If it's not viable by the time I reach end game, and if I even care about that, then I'll just respec to a caster build.

Does anybody have a nice dw sorc build for 2.0?

I have actually been playing a hybrid that I tested on PTS with and then began leveling for my sorceror. I started out as sword and shield but I've have since moves it to dual wield.

Stats are 21 mag, 20 health, 21 stam. As you get more CP you can slowly move points out of health if you want. Mundus stone is the Atronach so you don't run out of mana combined with absorb magicka glyphs.

Skills seen here:
http://www.esohead.com/calculator/skills#1.mMMXtv0VMIkI08w2lm8Niqz8AIP18w2Ct8A4hI8NUod8hesE8heaf8AISW8AIPq8A4hI8NUod8t7GrsgW6rsg16LsgY8v7CranW6LanS8H7mLzwM8J7XLziD8K7xrzuj6rzuI6rzun8O7MrdeF8zV7zzeCp48zf7zzNbo8zu7zzHfYE6zHfZd8zG7zzHQ3F8zI7zzJIoX6zJIkL8zN7zzJZcY8zA7zzKpUN8zL7zzK4EX

For open world pve and pvp I would use encase to give all my dual wield attacks 15% extra damage for 6 seconds. For dungeons runs I would swap out encase for daedric curse or deadly cloak.

The first bar is the attack bar. All damage abilties need to be here so that you do the most damage from having 2 weapon bonuses. The second bar is the utility bar that the switch to buff and heal and then switch back. Heals are bigger when you switch back as well. Flurry is the main single target although you can combine it with daedric curse for more damage. Always combine these with liquid lightning. Aoe is whirlwind + liquid lightning which go very well together. Encase boost dual wiled damage by 15% for up to 6 seconds because of ruffian.

Quick siphon + rapid regen go great together and supply a multitude of heals. At VR 1 I can already heal for 600+ a non crit regen and siphon. AT VR 14 this should be more like 1k+ healing per second + 1k+siphons. Because the build has so many hits going off at once quick siphon procs multiple times per second. These 2 heals + surge heal make for a nice 20 second window of large healing.

Gear set up looks like this:

Ashen grip :
Med - Boots – health - nirncrux
Med - Waist – health - nirncrux
Med - Shoulders – health – nirncrux
Med - Gloves – health - nirncfrux
Torug pact:
Weapon – powered – absorb magicka
Weapon – powered – shock
Med - Legs – health - reinforced
Heavy - Helm – health - reinforced
Heavy - Chest – health - reinforced
Light of cyrodil:
Ring
Ring
Basic piece:
Neck – magic – magic regen

supplies 2800 health, 4% critical, and 358 weapon and spell power in legendary gear. With powered weapons you can proc each weapon glyph once per second. So basically 200-300 extra magicka and 900 damage a second from glyphs. If your magicka regen is high enough as is you can swpa them out for fire+ poison or irresistible for even more damage.

If nirncrux is to pricey just make it all reinforced.
After more CP is gained you can start using divines and switch the mundus stone to the mage. You could also swap out the health for 3 stamina on big pieces and 4 magicka on small pieces.

Final stats on a Vet 14 with with all legendary gear and food buff should be 18-20k maigcka. 18-20k stamina. 22-23k health. 2000 spell power(2400+ with surge). 2000 weapon power (2400+ with surge). 20000-22000(thundering presence) armor / spell resist. 20% spell crit. 20% weapon crit. 800 stam regen. 700 health regen. 950-1000 magicka regen.

CP just makes things better at that point with an overall power spike for the build happening around 180 cp invested.
I'm still testing things but I'll do a bigger write up when i hit vr 14 and get geared in atleast blue crafted gear.