How to Solo 5+ mobs as a sorc/ Daedric Maelstrom Build

bloodenragedb14_ESO

Now, this is how i solo as a sorc against large mobs. the following skillset can work against bosses too, but it is not reccomended. It is highly advised you do not use this build in pvp, it could work against inexperianced zergs, but again it is inadvised.

Firstly, im only giving the skill bars i use, any passives or gear sets are at your discretion, but its advised you take everything you can to increase your max magicka and reduce magicka cost.

That said, the Skills:

First bar is a destruction staff of your choice, i prefer fire

Slot one: Lightning Splash and morphs, i prefer liquid lightning

Slot two: Impulse and morphs, i prefer elemental ring

Slot Three: Conjured ward and morphs, i prefer empowered

Slot four and five: the summons, i prefer clanfear and twilight matriarch

Ultimate: i prefer overload, either morph is useful. This is incase you happen upon a strong boss and didnt have the good sense to change builds, otherwise you can equip bats if your a vamp, or negate magic if your not

Second bar is Restoration staff

Slot one: Regeneration and morphs, i prefer mutagen

Slot two: Lightning Form and morphs, i prefer Thundering presence

Slot three: Surge and morphs, i prefer power surge

Slot four and five: the summons, i prefer clanfear and twilight matriarch

Ultimate: I slot the atronach here, but for some that might not be best, use your own descretion.

Now you've seen the build, now lets go over proper usage

Feasibly, youll have a moment before you engage a large mob, in that moment you should switch to the second bar and apply the buffed skills, if you havent already summoned your daedra, do so.

After you have applyed buffs, switch to the first bar, apply your ward. You may have to apply the ward again during battle, so keep an eye on your health bar.

After your all buffed up, drop a lightning splash on the mob, rush to middle of mob, and spam the hell out of impulse, and like stated before, make sure to apply ward if you start losing health. While your ward is active, your regen and surge will repair what damage you took when you lost it. Its also advised you blockcast, as in block while spamming impulse, if you dont like that, then drink a unstoppable potion after your first impulse.

Ive named this build Daedric Maelstrom, reason being when using this build, you become a elemental terror on par with the greatest of storms.

With this build, ive found no challenge in any veteran zone, in truth i have to go to craglorn to even get some form of challenge, even then its easy to mow through even three wasp nests at once.

I discovered this build after 1.6 on my vr14, and wanting to test it on a lower level vet character, i leveled another sorc to test it. at vr14, or vr2, doesnt matter, craglorn mobs and pub dungeon mobs cower before my gary sue power. To a lesser degree bosses do too, but that takes a bit more skill, and a butt-ton more magicka.

Dixa

outside of the inclusion of pets this is sorta how sorcs have been handling large groups of mobs in vet content since launch

bloodenragedb14_ESO

at one point, i did not use the pets either, but that was during happier days, when the ult generation wasnt nerfed and surge actually did its job without regen.

Plus......i love summoning, so i wanted to find a near-all-purpose build that included them. Regardless, i wanted to put a name to the build, thus, named

RavenSworn

Wait, is block casting still working? I thought they took it out? As you will be hit whenever you actually cast the spell as opposed to the mob not hitting you at all.

I might be wrong but this is what happen to my sorc healer.

bloodenragedb14_ESO

blocking while using impulse still works, that i do know. you lose stamina and are cc immune so long as you have stamina, this might be the origin and cause of the bogus 'ward causes immunity' rumors. fear still hits you like this though, but really i havent run into many npc in pve that use fear often enough for it to be a issue

edit: i think the block casting im speaking of, and your speaking of, are two different things though