Your gear is just fine for most 4 man stuff. Spriggans is actually really nice for unorganized 4 man groups where you might not have all the typical debuffs running. In a trial where you have people running sets like Night Mothers, Alkosh, Sunderflame, then spriggans with sharpened weapons becomes overkill on penetration.

Your first goal for PVP should absolutely be to get Vicious Ophidian. In organized raids, You usually just run the Jewelry for the minor slayer. When solo (VMA) or if you dont have great support, the 5 piece is amazing. Basically, you want 3 jewelry pieces and 2 armor pieces in divines (preferably head and shoulder if you want to swap out monster pieces).

Next you need to get some monster sets. I think there are 3 obvious ones, and all have merits: Kraghs, Velidreth, Stormfist. Kraghs seems to be the meta for most group stuff, Velidreth is great in VMA and PVP, and Stormfist is kind of the wild card for a stam sorc. Fear Turbo has some really impressive parses on Stormfist on stam sorc. It was pulling 5-6k DPS on some fights, which is a lot for a monster piece. Stormfist is unique as it does both lightening and physical damage, which screams stam sorc.

For me, I essentially run 3 basic types of loadouts on my stam sorc PVE.

VMA: I dont actually run VMA weapons (other than bow back bar) because things die too fast. You want 5 VO and a strong Proc set for your head and shoulders. I run 5 VO, 5 Nightmothers, 2 Velidreth. To do this, you run 2 Nightmothers sharp daggers to complete the 5 piece on your front bar. This basic setup is also about as good as you can do without VMA weapons, but Velidreth is not the best on long sustained fights. In VMA, it destroys things.

Max DPS: Here you run 3 VO (jewelry), 2 Monster set (3 Mentioned above), and anther 5 piece. In a raid, you want to make sure you have Night Mothers, Alkosh, and Sunderflame going. Often the tank/off tank runs Alkosh and Sunderflame, but they can be worn by DPS. Ones those are covered, then TBS becomes the best option IMO.

Solid DPS in non-optimal Raid/4-man: Here I dont bother with a monster set. I opt for 5 VO (sustain)/5 Nightmothers (penetration) and VMA weapons (damage). Whether this is better than the VMA loadout above is a tough call. I seem to run this loadout less and less.

JerzeeDevil wrote: »

This is my 2nd Stam Sorc, I do run V.O. and Night Mothers on it...This is an idea I am trying out, and am appreciating tips and pointers. It's an experiment so far...

PLEASE keep the ideas coming!

Nothing Like a good experiment. haha.

My only pushback is that briarheart is pretty overrated IMO. When it first came out, it was one of the most ridiculous grinds in the game. Everyone thought it was going to be the next great thing. The few people that managed to get it back then seemed to confirm that it wasnt worth the effort. I ran it for a bit on a my stamblade. It certainly works, but you wont break any DPS records. It was really desirable for the heal back when VMA was considered much harder on a stam toon, and before we had VO in jewelry. On a stam sorc, you got more heals than you could possibly need, and it's hard to recommended not running 3-5 pieces of VO if you have it.

As I said before, Spriggans is excellent for solo or pug runs. I have actually considered getting a set together. You want to figure out a way to get to about 18k of armor penetration. A good group will do a lot of it for you, but without the help, this is pretty nice. It's also really good against all the heavy armor stam users in Cyrodiil. For a magic user with a shield, its pretty useless as shields dont have armor values.