What weapons for a Magicka Sorc?

Cazzy · January 2016

She's a VR16 and I want to rebuild her for more damage dealing. What weapon would you recommend?

jzholloway · January 2016

duel wield and destro - julianos and toruqs pact (julianos for 5 piece armor, toruqs for rest of armor and weapons)

Bfish22090 · January 2016

dual wield for overload spam then destroy staff for crushing shock/frags weave

jzholloway · January 2016

jzholloway wrote: »

duel wield and destro - julianos and toruqs pact (julianos for 5 piece armor, toruqs for rest of armor and weapons)

Forgot - use piercing attribute on weapons

Septimus_Magna · January 2016

5x Julianos
3x Willpower jewelry + 3x spell dmg enchants
2x Molag Kena
1x Maelstrom (destro) sharpened fire staff or nirnhoned fire staff
2x Torugs Pact (DW) nirnhoned swords

100CP into Elemental Expert

Thief mundus stone

mdylan2013 · January 2016

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

5x Julianos
3x Willpower jewelry + 3x spell dmg enchants
2x Molag Kena
1x Maelstrom (destro) sharpened fire staff or nirnhoned fire staff
2x Torugs Pact (DW) nirnhoned swords

100CP into Elemental Expert

Thief mundus stone

What's the reasoning for the Thief Mundas stone?

Septimus_Magna · January 2016

mdylan2013 wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

5x Julianos
3x Willpower jewelry + 3x spell dmg enchants
2x Molag Kena
1x Maelstrom (destro) sharpened fire staff or nirnhoned fire staff
2x Torugs Pact (DW) nirnhoned swords

100CP into Elemental Expert

Thief mundus stone

What's the reasoning for the Thief Mundas stone?

12% spell crit which roughly translates to 6% increased dmg.

MrDerrikk · January 2016

If you want to shake things up you can use a Lightning Destro instead of Fire because of those skill line passives, but fire does the most base damage.

Kammakazi · January 2016

Here's how I got Flawless Conqueror on my Sorc:

VR 16 Gold Heavy Infused Molag Kena Helmet - Gold Max Magicka
VR 16 Gold Light Infused Julianos Chest - Gold Max Magicka
VR 16 Gold Light Divines Molag Kena Shoulder - Gold Max Magicka
VR 16 Gold Light Divines Julianos Waist - Gold Max Magicka
VR 16 Gold Light Divines Julianos Hands - Gold Max Magicka
VR 16 Gold Light Infused Julianos Legs - Gold Max Magicka
VR 16 Gold Light Divines Julianos Feet - Gold Max Magicka

(Approximately 51% Crit on SnB and 55% Crit on Staff)

VR 16 Precise Maelstrom Ice Staff
VR 16 Precise Torug's Pact Sword
VR 16 Infused Torug's Pact Shield - Gold Max Magicka

VR 16 Arcane Willpower Jewelry - 2x Spell Damage, 1x Reduced Cost

Shadow Mundus Stone

Why shadow? Well 50% Base Crit Damage + Shadow (12% x .30 [4x Divines @ 7.5%]) + Elfborn (18.9% [67 points])
All additive btw, equals 84.5% Crit Damage.

My tooltip for SnB proc with Kena is: 16,701 but when I crit, it becomes 30,813.

Whereas if I didn't have Shadow my Crit Damage would be only 68.9% making the 16,701 do 28208 — A difference of 2,605, or a 8.45% loss in damage.

mdylan2013 · January 2016

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

mdylan2013 wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

5x Julianos
3x Willpower jewelry + 3x spell dmg enchants
2x Molag Kena
1x Maelstrom (destro) sharpened fire staff or nirnhoned fire staff
2x Torugs Pact (DW) nirnhoned swords

100CP into Elemental Expert

Thief mundus stone

What's the reasoning for the Thief Mundas stone?

12% spell crit which roughly translates to 6% increased dmg.

Ah I see, I may give that a go. Thanks

crowfl56 · January 2016

Well I'm using lite gear and its a magicka based, same with jewelry.

Mundus is magicka regen.

All purple with gold enchants.

So my stats at VR6 are.

Magicka 24k, Health 22k, Stam, 11k, Magicka regen 2800, Health regen 1400, Stam regen 300.

Spell dmg 1700, Spell crit 63%, Weapon dmg 1200, and Weapon crit 35%

Dest and Restro staffs, with gold enchants

This char never runs outa magicka in any fight.

MrDerrikk · January 2016

crowfl56 wrote: »

Well I'm using lite gear and its a magicka based, same with jewelry.

Mundus is magicka regen.

All purple with gold enchants.

So my stats at VR6 are.

Magicka 24k, Health 22k, Stam, 11k, Magicka regen 2800, Health regen 1400, Stam regen 300.

Spell dmg 1700, Spell crit 63%, Weapon dmg 1200, and Weapon crit 35%

Dest and Restro staffs, with gold enchants

This char never runs outa magicka in any fight.

Whoa...you have more regen than my healer, and I could literally stand there spamming Healing Ward and never run out of magicka. I'm thinking you need to shift some of that regen to damage

Nestor · January 2016

MrDerrikk wrote: »

Whoa...you have more regen than my healer, and I could literally stand there spamming Healing Ward and never run out of magicka. I'm thinking you need to shift some of that regen to damage

I have recently gone to more damage than regen. I am not sure if I like it for Boss Fights. Normal mobs, I can kill them long before I run out of resources. However in Boss Fights, even quaffing potions, I have times where I am just spamming Light or Heavy Attacks as I have no Magic left in the tank.

So, I am not sure what is best for Bosses yet, less dps no resource issues or more dps and having to accept that during parts of the fight I am not doing much damage.

Bfish22090 · January 2016

my flawless conquerer sorc setup
5pc julianos infused gold max magicka
2 pc kena infused max magicka
3 pc willpower spell damage enchant
1 maelstrom ice staff precise
2 dw torugs pact nirnhoned sword
thief mundus with 100 cp elemental expert and 67 cp into spell precision

Asayre · January 2016

@Kammakazi you'll be better of with the Thief Mundus for the following reason.

I have no idea what a SnB proc is but the average damage with Shadow is
16701 * ( 1 + 0.51 [Crit chance] * 0.845 [Crit Damage] ) = 23898

With the Thief your average damage is
16701 * ( 1 + (0.51 [Base Crit Chance] + 0.143 [Thief with 4 Divines] ) * 0.689 [Crit Damage] ) = 24215

Also you'll get better result with all divines and also due to rounding of crit damage 66 and 67 points in Elfborn works the same way so if you wish you can put 66 points in Elfborn and 1 point in Spell Erosion.

Lord_Wrath · January 2016

People use destro staffs and dual wield. Personally I use destro staff as abilities are used from a distance so I can get that extra damage in. Some people like dual wield because it boosts spell damage but I hardly notice a difference at all - you might as well get the extra damage from distance with destro as dual wield light/heavy attacks do nothing.