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There are many many builds posted online for people who don't want to think for themselves. Good luck using them.

Just thought I would chime in on how I run my sorc. While I am not a vampire nor am I as experienced as some players, it shouldn't matter too much. Although vamps get the luxury of Mist Form which, in my opinion, is very nicely combined with streak/ BOL for an escape or a "poke the zurg" tactic.

I run with 4 pieces of Martial Knowledge(non-crafted), 4 pieces of Magnus(crafted), two rings of Cyrodiils light (changed the enchantment from magika recover to spell harm) and an amulet with reduce cost and max magic. On my head, chest and legs I have the infused trait and on my shoulders, gloves, sash and feet I have the divines trait and everything enchanted with maximum magika enchantments (purple). I use the Atronach stone for recovery, but you could use the Mage or even the one that boosts spell penetration. I should also mention that I run with one piece of medium armor and one piece of heavy armor to take advantage of the undaunted skill line passives.

I also use a destro and resto staff, although duel wielding swords or daggers in place of a destro staff will offer heaps more spell damage I think it makes playing the class less fun. Staffs are awesome for offering constant DPS on a target because of the ability to weave in heavy attacks with something like crushing shock or destructive reach. The trait on my destro staff is nirnhoned and the one on my resto staff is defending.

My front bar (destro) changes, but most of the time it looks like this:

Crystal Fragments - Velocious Curse - Crushing Shock - Streak - inevitable detonation - Ice comet or dawnbreaker (you could use bat swarm here though)

My back bar (resto) looks like this most of the time:

Healing Ward - Structured Entropy - Daderic Minefield - Harden Ward - Harness Magika - Greater Storm Atro



I use Meteor from the mages guild most of the time because I think it is cool to call down a giant rock from the sky but Dks will just throw that crap back in your face so be careful of those dudes. Also nightblades will just stealth out of the blast, an experienced player behind the wheel of a Dk or nightblade will just kinda rip your face off as a sorc if you are not very mindful of what you use on them. Storm atro, on the other hand, should never leave your bar. The storm atro has saved me soooo many times in outnumbered situations, you can call that thing down and line of sight your enemies to gain some resources or to just even the playing field a little when outnumbered.

anyway, I know this build seems pretty cookie cutter and not super amazing but it has allowed me to reach top ten several times, or maybe everyone else sucks and I just play too much =/.

Also I should mention on last thing, Hardened ward is a great skill and so is healing ward, harness magika is just icing on the cake. You could easily replace HM with anything you see fit.

If you find yourself completely outnumbered in PvP and there is no escape, Don't spam Hardened ward, just graciously accept defeat.

Well i Will not say that my build is amazing but it keeps me going on 1v2 1v1
I prowl the target and chose the one that is unaware
I have atm just 4 pieces of martial knowladge all gold
50 points in magic and 12 in health

Bar 1 destro staff
Force puls ( start with this attack )
Cf ( want until it procs then use )
Hardned ward ( keep it on at ALL time)
Endles fury ( use when health is under 20% on the enemy)
Inner light
Ultimate Devoring swarm ( if u get stuck in a zerg pop it and if u can escape run other wise kill as many as u can )

Bar 2 Resto staff
Healing springs
Mist form ( purely for escaping)
Streak (for escaping as well use to stun enemy while you try to slip away)
Velocius curse ( to *** the follower off)
Inner light
Ulti devoring swarm

But in the end it all Comes down to experieance so practice up your tactic

I am a vamp sorc and id like to think that im pretty decent at pvp, although im not VR yet i can hold my own in vet campaigns. Heres a rough overview of my build:

Main weapon: Warchiefs firebrand (any fire or frost staff will do)
Main bar: flame clench, crystal frags, force pulse, inv drain, mist form, devouring swarm

Alt weapon: spellbreaker staff
Alt bar: conjured ward, annulment, frost clench, crystal frags, rapid maneuver

Basic strategy is to make sure conjured ward and annulment are cast before any engagement. Switch to main weapon and pepper enrmies with a combo of light/heavy attacks, force pulse, and flame clench (use crystal frags whenever it procs). Mist form and bat swarm are great ways to survive when overwhelmed. Drain is useful, but only in 1v1 or 1v2 fights. I usually like to play the "in your face" role bc i can wreck faces and still have excellent survivability when things go south

The ones that streak around -_^

BatterStick wrote: »

Does anyone know what those duel wield Sorcerers have? I'd like to have that build.

the sorcs using dual wield are only doing it to boost their spell damage. If you use the last passive from dual wield and two swords you get a boost to your magic damage, as well as the extra 200 or so spell damage from the swords (v14 purple)

The set up would be something like:

Crystal fragments - entropy - endless fury - streak - curse

You would pop entropy on a target and proc frags off of endless fury.