Dual-wield Sorcerer, build and DPS

Habbal

Hi all,
I've played a DW sorcerer since early launch, and would like to ask you to share your experience if you have played this or similar build.
I'm VR7, Redguard, wielding a sword and an axe, and in full medium armor. I have all passives of DW, medium armor, storm calling, daedric summoning
Skill I use:
DW: Blood Craze, Rapid strikes
Storm calling:Thundering Presence, Power surge
Daedric Summoning: Clannfear (I'd like to replace this for Trials).

Rotation: Power Surge up, Thundering Presence (TP), Blood Craze (BC), repeat Rapid Strikes till either TP or BC expires.
In solo quest I do from 400-500+ dps (single target), I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
I'd appreciate any advise regarding my build, how to maximize my dps, what other skill you recommend to use.

Limitless

Use armor with set bonuses.
Easy enough to look up, easy enough to find one that fits your build, and easy enough to buy or have a fellow friend or guild member do you the favor of making it.

I don't really use DW, nor do I have much experience with my sorc (He's level 47) but I'd probably just get DW for the flying blade ability 'cause that ability is just so cool.

Habbal

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I use set items:
Hunding's Rage 5 pieces
and Torug's 3, just want to replace this one with Night Mother's Gaze.

Yusuf

Do you already have Flawless Dawnbreaker slotted? Increases your weapondamage passively by 13%

Gern_Verkheart

How do you deal with groups of mobs when soloing?

ishilb14_ESO

I play a sorc with DW and Sword and Shield. I would say, don't use the Hunding's Rage set for the 5 piece bonus because it's bugged and doesn't actually apply (if you don't believe me, put the set on, hit something with a weapon skill and record the damage, take the set off, and repeat and record). The Song of Lamae set is a good set to add survivability and it does work all the time.

Habbal

Gern_Verkheart wrote: »

How do you deal with groups of mobs when soloing?

I dot up every mob with Blood Craze, then kill them with rapid strikes. (Surge and Thundering presence is always up).

b_archaonpreeb18_ESO

I prefer a crit/heal-based build.

I begin with Critical Surge, then Shattering prison. It procs both Exploitation for 15% crit and Ruffian for 15% damage.

My main damage tool is Whirling Blades. The damage seems lackluster in theory, but it scales amazingly depending on how much health the targets are missing, plus it can apply Evil Hunter if needed.

I'm now trying Bound Armor instead of TP. It doesn't give MR but it's more reliable for armor.

serenity_painted

I useto use a similar build but used flying blade instead of rapid strikes, if you hit the button just as your light attack hits, it will stop the light attack animation instantly, using that combo you can do some pretty nice damage.
I also used Crystal Fragments instead of the daedra whenever it procced from lightening form, it's also a nice way to start a fight if you can't get a sneak attack in and you get 15% extra damage on any enemy you've knocked down.

Switched to a staff build using crushing shock not too long ago tho and haven't looked back, it's just so much better.

Hypertionb14_ESO

a mage DPS sorcerer can hold 500-600 with 50% crit rate just by spamming crystal fragments. Since a mage sorcerer can do this effectively infinitly thanks to Dark Exchange.

But ya its entirely possible to make a DPS melee sorcerer. But right now its a waste of stamina for that particular class since they can do much more damage overall with magicka.

Erock25

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

a mage DPS sorcerer can hold 500-600 with 50% crit rate just by spamming crystal fragments. Since a mage sorcerer can do this effectively infinitly thanks to Dark Exchange.

But ya its entirely possible to make a DPS melee sorcerer. But right now its a waste of stamina for that particular class since they can do much more damage overall with magicka.

Any sorc using dark exchange mid fight is a bad sorc.

I played a 2h bow sorc leveling 1-50, a 'traditional' caster sorc for a few VR levels, and a dual wield / resto sorc for a few more up until where I am now at VR7.

I roll with 20/29/0 magicka/hp/stam with all gear enchanted with stam. I use the set that reduces armor with crits and adds 5% melee crit. I have two daggers with precise and lightning enchants (for disintegration). I switch between all 7 medium armor and using 5 medium, 2 light with the two light pieces being magicka furnace and three accessories also magicka furnace.

Dual wield bar is blood craze, flying blade, whirlwind, thundering presence, bound armaments, and flawless dawnbreaker. Resto bar is crit surge, rune prison, quick siphon, streak, bound armament, and greater atronach. As a Khajit with all medium armor and some pvp buffs my crit is around 58%. I honestly don't see how you could play a melee sorc without crit surge.

For groups of three or less, I crit surge and sneak attack, followed by heavy attack weaved thundering presence, then heavy attack weave flying blade on whoever I sneak attacked, followed by heavy attack weaved whirlwind. Who I choose to attack is all based on how low their health is. I want to get the primary target low enough that whirlwind does a lot of damage and kills it, but not too low that it dies prematurely because I want all targets alive for extra stam regen from whirlwind.

If the pack of mobs is too large, I'll rune prison one or more of them. I can also kite with streak and flying blade. For bosses, quick siphon really helps.

This is all for solo pve by the way. My magicka build destroys this one in ease of use, the ability to solo dolmens and world bosses, and sadly also survivability... But this dual wield build is a lot more fun. Something important to note is that there is a timing mechanism where you can get a heavy into light attack combo that fires off very fast. Using this heavy -> light -> ability -> bash puts out a nice amount of burst.

Habbal

Does anybody have a nice dw sorc build for 2.0?