Looks fine. My only concern is what do you do against ranged opponents? You don't appear to have any gap closers (apart from the speed boost from Thundering Presence). You could use Stampede on Two-handed to fill this role, or Ball of Lightning on either bar. It's up to you if you think this is really necessary: the Major Expedition buff may be enough.

Otherwise, what Chad said.

I dont really think i need gap closer
And for sure i will not change Critical Surge with Rally. Why? Beacuse of Exper Mage passive(bonus weapon dmg and spell dmg for every Class skill) and both gives 20% bonus dmg. I will play around with Expert hunter and Bound Armaments and i will see how often i crit. I took Redguard for better Stamina menagment. It looks so perfect on paper you know, bonus dmg everywhere, passives to stamina regen and max stamina.
Anyway thanks.
Cheers!

I find it interesting that, as a solo PvE player, you don't want to use a shield (as in Hardened Ward) or Rally (self-heal + damage buff) and instead would depend solely on Critical healing from Critical Surge. It's definitely doable, but I like the added protection HW offers- but I also run Purple food to help boost my Magicka as well.

Granted, I've had a couple of successful solo Stamina Sorc builds... usually I have Bow on one bar for range and DW on the other for group dungeon mob situations.

2H: Brawler, Wrecking Blow, Executioner, Critical Rush, Rally
DW: Hardened Ward, Elude, Steel Tornado, Boundless Storm, Silver Shards
Ultimate: Energy Overload

I basically use my DW bar as a dungeon/delve mob "easy mode" option. I never found a need to keep both Critical Surge and Rally at the same time. With my Bow/DW loadout, I would use Critical Surge.

Bow: Silver Shards, Bombard, Focused Aim, Magnum Shot, Camouflaged Hunter
DW: Hardened Ward, Elude, Steel Tornado, Critical Surge, Camouflaged Hunter
Ultimate: Energy Overload

I also range 5pc Hunding's Rage and the rest Night Mother's Gaze along with using Thief Mundus... or if running Camo Hunter, would switch to Shadow if Crit rating was over 50% w/o Thief.

I was never lacking for weapon damage to be successful in solo content- in other words- I never died. I didn't feel a need for 'excess' damage above and beyond what I had- I'm not a min/maxer- especially considering we're talking about PvE solo content. Also, depending on how I wanted to play, on some loadouts I would keep Thief mundus and drop Camo Hunter in favor of Clannfear pet, as he is a great companion for drawing aggro away.

Hardened wade is virtually useless as a stam sorc as it scales off magicka. That being said you could use it as an oh *** button. I did at one point. Protects you long enough to get off a heal or a pot. Assuming you have either. If your relying on a Crit and don't get one your screwed hence my suggestion of rally. I use vigor personally.

I tried fengrush's build. It's great but didn't fit my play style. I find it's never benificial to copy a build but rather use what works for you from it and leave the rest. Play as you want as I've already said. But yes as you said a solo pve build needs much of the same things as a pvp build

At level 10 you can forget dawnbreaker for a bit then, try Storm Atronach at low level.
Personally I run a tank variation build with 2h and bow or DW (both work).
The skill that are a must for me are:

Boundless lightning - magicka dump giving armour and mobility
Bound armaments or Clannfear - Clannfear is actually very useful in solo pve even as a stam build
Rally or critical surge - either one gives some heals and a weapon power boost

Vigour - alliance war stamina healing

Brawler - damage shield that stacks with number of opponents hit = great for solo
Wrecking blow - decent damage, a little unwieldy on high mobility builds, but the best we have
Executioner - good for the passive execute and good single target execute
Stampede - auto-critical gap closer synergises well with crit surge + the mobility can be a life saver
[not all at the same time - never more than 3 of these]

Bombard - rooting multiple opponents can be very very useful
Werewolf - it is very effective as a damaging ultimate once you start levelling the skills - but it is also very skill point intensive

I flex in Evil Hunter, Steel Tornado, Shuffle, Defensive Stance and even Liquid Lightning on occassions.

I also use heavy armour (willows path + DK slayer) and Malubeth dungeon set. With this I can solo most Upper Craglorn Delves.

My advice would be to level all stamina weapon skills and all class skills - and even all morphs of both. Also level Fighters Guild, Mages Guild and Undaunted - in fact level everything you can... the flexibility is very useful - especially when skills get changed suddenly and unexpectedly.

Chadwikid wrote: »

2% doesn't amount to much. Do the math and see for yourself. Try without it and see how it goes. Unfortunately as a stam sorc we don't get to use many of our class skills. Play around and see what works. Bound armaments should be a definite...20% increased health and stam regen just for having it slotted (very unlikely there is another daedric ability you would have slotted. Not to mention the bonuses from the skill itself

That's 2% per skill. Crit Surge + Lightning Form + Bound Armaments + Sorc ultimate is 8%. (more if you use Flawless Dawnbreaker). Throw in the fact you get an 11% boost to heavy attacks. Slot a weapon skill like Crit Rush + Wrecking Blow. Its not a bad set up at all.

A lot of people mention "Vigor" but that requires PvP for quite some time to get up to rank... and if you're an exclusive PvE or solo PvE player, then that skill is out.

Hardened Ward is weak for stamina, which is why I tend to run Purple food which helps boost Magicka a bit and can be useful in certain situations- mainly for soloing Public Dungeons.

Also, @Jar_Ek Why run Storm Atronach versus Overload? I used to run Storm Atronach until I discovered how awesome Overload actually is. On the Overload bar I put all defensive skills- Clannfear, Bound Armor, Hardened Ward, Critical Surge, and Elude (Medium armor passive). With Energy Overload, I pretty much destroy anything within seconds. Granted, it's not one of those "oh crap" moves because it does require activating several abilities off the Overload bar, but, it's awesome for soloing Group Bosses- which is about the only time I've ever actually needed an Ultimate.

My stam sorc pve build is pretty well refined. It has a higher ramp time and higher dps than the normal build

Mainhand dw steel tornado, rapid strikes, blood craze, crit surge, bound armaments and flawless dawnbreaker

Backbar bow, arrow barrage, snipe (razor caltrops if you have it, instead.), poison injection, evil hunter, bound armaments and flawless db or ice comet (though I keep flawless for 90% of fights)

Using 2pc moleg kena, 5 hundings 3 agility and 2 night mother daggers

If you don't have moleg kena use more pieces of night mothers.

Start off with procing moleg kena if you have it, then razor caltrops, poison injection, arrow barrage-switch to main bar and put up blood craze then rapid strikes until you need to re apply the bow dots.

Proc moleg kena when it goes down, weave heavy attacks between rapid strikes.

This is both single target and aoe damage, make sure to ult on the dw bar.

Well storm atromach was really because at level 10 you won't have flawless dawnbreaker and at that level it can kinda act as a tank in pve. However as you get higher it tends to swapped out either for overload or a more stamina oriented ultimate.

As for crit rush, it has its uses in pve when synergised with surge but it's really more useful in spread out fights to zip about... However if you go bow on one bar it's not really needed generally. That said it does depend of you are pure dps or not, if kill speed is not fast enough then having some sure fire heals is a must.. or very good defensive skills. The latter are not built into the class for stamina though.

I'm not sure what your trying to say. I never mentions vigor other than to say I use that personally. Rally is 2h skill hence would have to be on that bar.

Maybe I or you is misunderstanding what it is either of us is trying to say.

@Dexter411 Well you were the one that said you are level 10! So I was providing a bit of levelling advice too.

As for soloing at vr levels it depends which way you go tbh. Glass cannon style with full DPS and high crit, at that point surge becomes more effective then rally generally. Or a more tanky style, in which case your crit may not be high enough to ensure you get enough critical heals... which is when rally and vigor shine, and Brawler for aoe is all soo good at helping you stay alive. Tbh the biggest problem you will find is with multiple simultaneous bosses where you just cannot keep up enough healing and you can't cc them... but they are thankfully fairly rare.

Yes precisely!

If its PVE, drop WB and get brawler.
Put surge on second bar and replace with critical charge.
Now you have a guaranteed self heal if surge is up, gap closer, and the means to take on 3-4 groups in public dungeons. With brawler the more mobs you fight the stronger your shield becomes + surge healing you behind that shield.
Its immortality(and probably will get nerfed because its ridiculous what brawler can do in PVE).