Steel_Brightblade wrote: »

A stamina sorc will already be using critical surge so has major brutality and an awesome heal, personally for stam sorc 2 hander is good for a couple of things, a crit of wrecking blow fits huge single target damage and will heal you for most of your hps, critical charge will heal you for a bit less but gives a gap closer and a guaranteed heal on hit. You can go rally for a heal but I'd go vigour if you have it available.

Dual wield is awesome for aoe damage but not much else on a stamina sorcerer (as flurry does not proc critical surge) which is why 2h and dual wield compliment each other well.

For arena and vet in the future which do you think would be more beneficial for my aoe? Dual wield or bow on the back bar? Will obviously be my buff bar with steel tornado or the bow aoe (can't remember the skill name atm) steel tornado crits very often but watching and learning the arena, the arrow skill combined with caltrops seems like the go to for many players.

You don't need 2h to play a stam sorc, that's just bologna.

I switched off of 2h (I have a sharpened vma maul) for DW (not using vma weapons) and I did pulled almost the same damage on DW as I did with 2H on my Blood Spawn tests. I'm fairly confident that the discrepancy can be narrowed simply by being more familiar with the rotation, as I did the BS test right after switching, and hadn't practiced it much.

I found it to be far more convenient for setting up my bars (and for buff management as well) to get Major Savagery and Endurance from potions. If you have max alchemy passives, you can use vr10 potions and still get like 99% up-time on your buffs. The expiration on the buffs themselves is a fraction of a second shorter than the cooldown on potions. For all intents and purposes, it's basically 100% up-time.

You lose an execute this way, but so far I've not found that to be an issue. DW is by far easier to sustain than 2H, has better AoE, and still benefits from extra damage vs. low health targets. Rending Slashes is also a better DoT than the 2H vMA DoT applied after a crit rush.