Don't get me wrong, I am having a blast with subclass (despite any class ID arguments that may exist), but I think my main gripe right now is that I'm seeing that I'm pretty much forced to subclass if I want to do competitive DPS, which is fine, but still sucks for folks wanting to run a pure class setup for class ID purposes or simply because they like their class.
Is there no pure magicka sorc builds that can do similar DPS to a typical subclass setup (like Herald / Stormcalling / Nightblade for example)? Right now I'm rocking Herald / Storm / Ardent and having a blast. I realize that I could probably do more damage with Herald / Dawn's setup, but I just don't care for Templar or being top of charts, I just want to be somewhat competitive at least, so I don't have people insulting me or kicking me. You know how it goes.
So my question is, can a pure Sorc (my base class) run a solo-friendly build that can do competitive DPS with any of the meta Sorc/beam builds? I was running this for the longest time back in the day and it did well, but I'm pretty sure this would be left in the dust when compared to other meta/solo builds:
https://alcasthq.com/eso-solo-magicka-sorcerer-build-pve/
Right now I'm running basically this build, but using Ardent instead of Nightblade for third line:
https://hyperioxes.com/eso/solo/strongest-subclass-build
Thoughts?