Magicka management is not soo much a problem for me on a sorc because critical charge nets me HP on crits and Spell Symmetry nets me Magicka off that..or on my second bar for solo boss fights ball of lightning and dark exchange keep me topped off..but then it never hurts to have too much magicka!! I was more curious about spell cost redux vs magicka increases..I will try and test it both ways...with the spell cost redux and magicka furnace sets

f0rgiv3n27b14_ESO wrote: »

Personally as any caster, the Warlock set is invaluable.

Just my opinion though. Currently, I run 3 Piece Warlock (helm, ring, neck), 3 Piece magicka Furnace (chest, shoulders, ring), and 4 Piece Convenant Set (pvp set).

OP was asking about the crafted items.

im using 3xwarlock, 3x pact(pvp +10% critchance) or 3x seducer , 5x arena

Start with Willow's Path three piece. The crit bonus is great for all specs.

For the other five, you have several good choices, depending on what you wish to optimize:

- Seducer will give you 3% savings on spells, and also 15 magicka recovery. Excellent for general use
- Magnus is a 5% chance to negate the cost of a spell, and also bonus magicka. Also excellent for general use
- Twilight's Embrace is 10% incoming healing, and another 5% crit. More boom for your buck
- Spectre's Eye is bonus magicka and a procced dodge bonus. This is great for PvP (note, this is a eight-trait set, so very few people can make it yet)

There are other worthy sets, but those are probably best.

As for Warlock, I am not a fan. As a VR12 sorc in PvE or PvP, magicka management is not so difficult as to require using all your accessory slots for that set. I prefer +spell harm in PvP and Magicka Cost Reduction in PvE.

Some other notes:

- You have seven armor slots, and you can grab three bonuses with them. For example, three piece Willow, three piece Twilight and Five Piece Twilight. That takes eight items total
- That means you're using crafted staves, too. Make them all from the same set so weapon swap doesn't mess you up
- For the three big pieces of armor (Head, Chest, Legs), get the Infused trait. For the smaller pieces, Infused is less benefit. People tend to pick Divines for PvE or Impenetrable for PvP, but almost anything can work there, depending on your desire
- For sorcs, staves should almost always be Precise, whether resto or destro

It's not usually worthwhile to make purples, much less yellows, prior to V12. You can go from V1 to V12 in crafted greens if you update them every two or three levels.

I don't think the Warlock set can be re-enchanted.

bathrobe temp 5 pieces of Twilight's Embrace, 3 pieces Willow Path (two armor two sticks reso/destro), and the three Warlock sets ring and necklace. Infused on Head, Legs and Chest with Magicka glyps and the rest divine for munuds boost to The Thief. With Inner Light I am at 51.9 % crits. So far I have been able to handle VR6 mobs while still at VR 5 as well as quest bosses. I learned this from a Sorc actually and it has helped me so much in leveling. Being a dark elf the fire dmg is nice and I use solar barrage and reflective light with elemental ring to burn through mobs. I am leveling up balance from mages guild - which will pretty much end any magicka issues I might have.

Which makes me more jealous of sorcs lol - with critical surge and dark conversion you guys must never have hp or magicka issues