Stam or Mag Sorc?

Cirantille

Knightpanther wrote: »

My opinion as someone who has mained a Sorcerer since release.

Firstly I do both PVE (daily's and overland content not group dungeons) and spend the rest of my time as a casual soloer in Cyrodiil.
I started with Stamina as pretty much every game I play a sword and board character (EQ/EQ2/WOW etc) but over the years have played both styles in order to learn the strengths/weaknesses of the class.

I am not a meta chaser, I don't give a toss (to quote Mr Boycott) about YouTube muppets, I honestly play how I want to so if your looking for comparisons down to a 00000000.00001% dps - jog on.

Soooo I used to do a Cyrodiil campaign stamina then switch to Magic just for the fun but there are big differences in play style.
I'm not the worlds best PvPer, I do it for fun so my load outs tend to be flexible and based on support, my views on both styles:

Stamina
You will find with this style that you wont be using many class ability's, only Hurricane, Dark Deal and Bound Armour may be of any use. If your using a two hander (afterall stamina is an 'in your face' spec I suggest you do) you will be torn between Rally and Crit Surge.
You will feel generic, all your other skills will be taken up with weapon slots.
For range the Bow will be your choice and whilst its probably the only way now we have an effective stun, it doesn't feel the same as a destruction staff.
Don't underestimate the new Vigor with a stamina build, its amazing but lack of magic will *** up your cleanse if you use it.
If you like sneaking around stamina is amazing with Dark Deal as it doesn't break sneak.

Magic
Every time I play Stamina I wish I was magic, why? because of the utility.
Sorcerer's were designed to be a magic class, look at all the passives in the skill lines, then look at all the different utility skills we get from mines to shields/dots/AOE/unblockable stuns (rune/streak) then add in all the utility the destruction staff adds!
Yes we get a bonus to physical and shock damage but we have way more shock skills.
You will find that you are now using more of your class skills and benefitting more from the skill line passives.
Add Innate Axiom and Netch's Touch and you can have some fun.

Overall I just prefer to have fun and Magic enables me to change the way I play (I even run pets once in a while for solo dungeon runs) and adapt to situations better, I'm sure stamina is the stronger PvP build up close but with a *** load of dots magic is a great support class and I can melt you from distance.

Be safe

I agree with you.

It is also a matter of preference but magicka classes/elves are not favored much in all TES community, I dont know why

The other day, my friend I were going after world bosses and she is doing amazing job with her stamina warden and bow. She wanted to change to her magicka sorcerer and died like 4 times in 5 mins lol then she gave up.
It is the other way for me because I totally fail at using bow, even small mobs kill me, but I melt people with my magicka sorcerer.

Can I say that stamina warden sucks then? Absolutely not.
It is because I did not invest in that build...

Vapirko

FearlessOne_2014 wrote: »

If you play ESO and the question is which one is more powerful magicka or Stamina? That answer is the same no matter the class, Stamina! ZOS also announced that they are going to be nerfing DoTs. So Stamina will go back to it previously oppressive state. Unless of course you are fighting from within a zerg.

Just look at what all the famous streamers plays. None of them stream themselves playing Magicka while 1 v Xing, it's always a stamina spec. There is a distinct reason for that. That I feel no need to bring up.

Please don’t listen to this guy, he’s extremely biased and knows very little about the game. Magicka Templar is currently one of the best specs in PvP even without the new dots. Mag DK is also very good and Mag Sorc while not as powerful as it once was can still be quite good. There are several very good mag streamers including Dotz Gaming, Nirnstorm and Kristopher ESO. Plenty of magicka 1vX there.

Actually stam sorc is in a very tough spot. It’s bottom tier right now because it lacks so much. However ZOS will be looking at the sorcerer class next patch so you might want to wait? But essentially do you like melee or ranged play more?