I made a magsorc recently and run this exact setup. Heavy attack weaving in between skills helped me to sustain quite a bit. Also I use energy overload in long fights to get back magica. Nonetheless I'd appreciate some input from vet sorcerers in this subject as I'm new to the class myself.

I have the same problem, and I was wondering if it'd be worth it to change spell damage jewellery enchants for magicka regen enchants, or use a set with regen bonuses, in the expense of damage. I was looking up builds online and I read in one guide (i believe it was one of Deltia's builds) that you can slot Dark Conversion in the Overload bar in order to top up magicka between fights, but that obviously requires to use Overload as one of your ultis, other than that I haven't found any other suggestions, so any advice would be very welcome.

I have a similar setup. A few things I do to help my sustain are, mix in a some heavy attacks, use potions, and ask if the healer can use ele drain or orbs.
Additionally I use short bursts of overload and I have dark conversion on the overload bar too.

OP if you're really having that much trouble, you could use a cost reduction glyph for now. Also stack points into tenacity. Time your pots well. The builds you are referring to are highly reliant on group support, so its fine to water those down for pugging.
I know that I wouldn't be able to perfectly sustain a 8 min long fight without ele drain or blue orbs. vMA is different obviously cause you kill stuff so you make use of the destro passive.

For more organized endgame PvE dps at least, magicka sustain comes from several sources, both from yourself and from healers.

For your own sustain, put all of your green CP into Magician and Arcanist. Make sure to have any class, light armor, destro staff, mage's guild, racial, and undaunted passives. I also run as a vampire on my mag sorc for that 10% extra regen. Level up alchemy to get medicinal use 3/3 and chug pots (I use spell power pots for major sorcery + restore max magicka + magicka regen). Weaving helps too.

However, even with all that by yourself, you're still going to run out of magicka. But for dungeons and trials, there's usually healers to help, and boy can they help! Worm armor, elemental drain, siphon spirit (or minor magickasteal next update), plus orbs, shards, and any other synergies can give you back lots of extra magicka.

But in cases (unorganized dungeons) where there isn't a healer that can offer that support, you can always use heavy attacks (especially with lightning staves in mobs), use overload, or you can switch to the Red Frothgar drink (max health + magicka regen) instead of a max health + max magicka food. You can also swap out a mundus for the Atronach, though I really like the extra crit from Thief.

But in decent groups, I only run with ~850 regen and that's plenty.

Dark Deal is all you need tbh, and still have all DPS and no sustain sets. If it's a trial the the Healers should be using Elemental Drain, Siphon, and Orbs.

hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »

The only time "Magicka Sorc" and "Sustain" should be in the same sentence is if they are separated by "does not have".

Magicka Dragonknights feel your pain.

EldritchPenguin wrote: »

hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »

The only time "Magicka Sorc" and "Sustain" should be in the same sentence is if they are separated by "does not have".

Magicka Dragonknights feel your pain.

Whaaa???DKS have regen via ulti which is OP

light/heavy attacks in between and use "Lusty Argonian Maid" gives 2hr regen on all, pugged VCOH1 in under 20 mins last nite

As others have mentioned... while the stuff like ele drain etc is really good, the single biggest impact will be from lightning staff heavy attacks.

There is hardly anything in the game that doesn't have a part of the fight where there are some adds to kill... so swap to a lightning staff bar and heavy attack them between dropping your DOTs.... your DPS goes up from the lightning heavies... and your sustain will be better from the magicka return (Just make sure you finish the heavy attack).

Win/Win