Burst for pvp or for pve?

I would use meteor/ice comet once i unlock it but till then i will make do with what i have. I do like curse, prox deto, frags setup. It is very very effective.

I use a similar set up OP. You n me work on a similar wave length, DPS bar and utility/buff bar.

DPS Bar: Dark Flare, Toppling Charge, Puncturing Sweep, Purifying Light, Struc. Entropy / Ult: Solar Disturbance

Buff Bar: Breath of Life, Extended Ritual, Purge, Repentance, Channeled Focus / Ult: Replenishing Barrier

About the ults: Barrier has saved my life in 1VX, and I choose Disturbance-- not as a means to do damage, but to continue my pressure game. I will drop a Nova next to my enemy just to force his hand and push him to move in a direction I want him to move in. In another example, I was on a tower in a keep and fired a siege weapon on 2 reds. They walk towards me, I nova the stairs, and take them out one by one by closing off the stairs and to disrupt their team.

My attack bar works like such; Opening Attack for CQC: Toppling, if they are knocked down>Sweeping continue pressure with Purify and Sweeping[occasionally Dark Flare on people with burst heals]. If they break Knock down from Toppling and roll dodge> chase with Toppling> sweeping/purify/sweeping. If I cant get close switch Long Range: Purify, Dark Flare + light heavy Restro mix up. Throw in entropy for more spell damage when situations permit. If I am dealing with a Zerg, I switch to buff bar, wait, then at the correct time will Toppling into the enemy zerg and drop a nova on them--this all assuming I have people behind me to support my efforts.

Buff Bar: Buff bar is the "Keep me/everyone alive" bar. Slap down Ritual and Rune and support with Purge/ Breaths/ Repentance and barrier.

Summary: These bars work to maintain my toons health and mana/stam regain, while also providing a very solid pressure game with meaty magic attacks + health regan from Sweeping. My CP/Gear/Nirn also buff my skills of choice btw.

I swapped out crushing shock for shattering prison, while the interrupt is nice its just far more easier to snare the guys coming after me.

Basically I spam light attacks, with mine field down if some comes at me its shattering prison and curse then frag.

If they get close its streak instead.

Dodge is so much more expensive that not many will opt to get out of it to risk burning resources.

I swapped harness magicka for dark exchange for resources if I can get breathing room. While the shield is nice against spell attacks I prefer to be able to get more health and magicka when I am behind something.

@Truewavesound i understand that this build is used by most sorcs. The point of posting it was to get input on what people found most effective with different skills. Most the skills sorcs use are out of necessity not by choice. I would like to have a little more of a unique build but still viable in pvp.