So! I hit VR14 this weekend and have very little idea of what I'm doing.

Thus far - attributes are - 12/26/11
I have a DPS, Heal and tank set.

DPS is 5set Seducer, 3 set Twilight's Embrace. All Divines, all magicka enchants. Inferno/resto staves. Will be changing chest/legs/head to infused.

Tank is 5 set Hist Bark, 4 set Orgnum's Scales. Infused on the 'big' pieces, reinforced on the rest. All health enchants.

Heal is 5set Eyes of Mara, then the 3 set from Twilight's Embrace from my DPS set. Infused on big pieces, divines on the rest. All magicka enchants.

I also made a PvP set with full impenetrable - 5set Spectre's Eye, 3 set Song of Lamae. All health enchants.


DPS questions
This is the most annoying one. I made my DPS set all blue, with a purple staff. I manage ~600 DPS in a controlled environment just weaving light attacks with Force Shock, and using Crystal Fragments whenever it procs. However, when I got into AA last night, it dropped to 300-400 (so said FTC). I had looked up some builds before hand, and one of them used the Winged Twilight. But the poor thing kept getting ripped apart by AoE, so I dropped the pet. The single target skills I generally ran with were, weaving in light attacks,

Daedric Curse
Force Shock
Crystal Fragments
Critical Surge
Greater Storm Atronach

All other skills are healing/AoE (Liquid Lightning, Elemental Ring, etc. Don't really have a problem with AoE)

Magelight (20% crit version) was always up. I have just over 50% crit in my DPS setup.

I switched in Weakness to Elements to see if it did anything, but I didn't really see my damage to go up (though maybe the combat text was just scrolling too fast, I didn't see, etc).

So, the question is -what am I doing wrong, how do I get better DPS? Is Ancient Knowledge (Heavy attacks charge 10% faster) worth using for destro staff?


Healing questions
As a sorc, am I even going to be able to do this in a group? Seemed like all everyone wanted was a Templar.


Tank questions
Am I even going to be able to do this in a group? Sounds like Dragonknight's are vastly preferred. For this, I use

Bar1
Undaunted's taunt skill, morphed to range/smaller cost
Lightning Form (Going to be morphed for Duration)
Hardened Ward
Defensive Posture (going to be morphed to heal on absorb)
Bound Armor

Bar2
Entropy - does the morph that has a 15% chance to heal on hit even work?
Regen (Going to be morphed to rapid)
Critical Surge
Healing Ward
Bound Armor

My specific question is - I (tried) tanking the 3rd(?) boss in AA. Wisp-mother-lookin thing with the DPS check. Is it just me or is blocking somewhat useless on this fight? I never saw my stamina go down except for randomly pressing defensive posture because someone mentioned she might have a reflect-able spell.

I'm also pondering switching in Magelight for bound armor, and just using Lightning Form for armor (spell res is already at soft cap) for the spell crits, then switching in possibly Daedric Curse or Liquid Lightning to crit and heal me.

Mundus
Worth switching for each role - Thief/Shadow for dps, same for heal, then -maybe- lord for tanking? I was told Shadow effected healing crits as well. Is that correct?

I use 283 magicka/health food for dps, and I intend to use purple 257 mag/hp/stam food for tanking.


Also, to note - I am googling, and this is just me trying to snag as much information/links as possible.

Second edit: My soul to anyone on the AD side who is willing to craft me some green magic damage jewelry glyphs >.> I have some of the stuff. Which leads into another question, light attack weaving/force shocking benefit from spell damage or weapon best? Looked up some stuff and am slightly confused on the subject.


Thanks all in advance!