Thoughtfull opinions on where I'm going with my 2h tanky stam sorcerer

DarkOne · January 2017

I recently got back into playing this. Had the game at launch and got back into it a week ago. Continued on with my character then even though I probably should of made a new character,as he was only level 5(I played on pc for a few months, bought it on console to play with my 2 bros but they didn't like it sadly). Anyways my build so far. He's an orc with all points into stam. Minus 7 hp and 2 mag, wasnt thoughtfully on my build till around lvl 15. I originally wanted to be a tank with him,and I have been so far on all the dungeons up to lvl 40 where I am now. Usually make sure ive run it once as dps so I understand the mechanics so I know what im tanking.

So my skills
Bar 1
Brawler
Lighting floos
Wrecking blow
Hurricane
Executioner
Summom storm atronach

My second bar is the same except two skills, I have surge and inner fire for when i need to pull agro.
I use a 2h for both bars, which in sure ill recieve flack for not using a staff of a sort for the second. So far its worked for me. I use 5 heavy and 2 medium pieces of armour.

I know my build is mostly all wrong im sure but ill explain why I like it and how ive made it work.

I start popping surge switching bars then using hurricane, i then use lighting flood to get agro. I then spam the *** out of brawler while using lighting flood and hurricane when needed. On trash mobs I dont concern myself with any taunt usage. They die fast and as long as the group lets me get in there first I will hold agro. Now brawler is nice as it makes them bleed and gives me a damage shield for each unit hit. Meaning im taking no actual damage to my health bar while I have stamina. Which usually lasts long enough. So with hurricane, lighting flood, brawler spam and its bleed, im hitting off 4 AEs. This seems to work so far. When it comes to bosses I pull with inner fire and spam wrecking blow and executioner when able. All the while keeping surge and hurricane up. As I dont plan on pvping much or at all. My main concern is pve. Now I haven't listed my passives but be assured I have essentially have them all that are unlocked so far.

So theres my thoughts. Im sure this isnt viable endgame cause who gets a viable build their first time around. Anyways, your thoughts on my build currently and any suggestions on where I should be going with my bar allotment are what im looking for. But ill take any thoughtfull ideas you may have. Thanks

Zanen · January 2017

The game encourages you to play like that early on, it's kind of a problem really. It doesn't scale well.

I'd drop lightning flood and slot bound armaments, switch to reverse slice for more AOE on the 2h bar.

Then I'd run sword and shield on the other bar.

Overload ult gives you a third bar.

Slot silver shards and lightweight trap, maybe just slot all the fighters guild skills on the overload bar, anything you want occasionally.

You'll want some of the pvp skills eventually too, and dual wield, and probably a bow.

Good luck, welcome back.

DarkOne · January 2017

Thats right i totally forgot about the overload extra bar. I was primarily using storm atronach as one of the passives is a bonus if you have a summon ability on. But now that im thinking on it, I can always put overload on the second bar. Going to have to start leveling up a lot more magica skills now that im to do that. Also gonna have to think of what other weapon I wanna go with, ive always been a tank in mmos so ill probly go that route. Also how is the damage of aoe on reverse slice? The way I look at it, Im using it when the boss is close to death usually not a ton of adds at that point, wouldnt i rather more damage to finish him off? As I currently already have an ae skill slotted.

Should have also mentioned my levels for the guilds. 7 fighter's, 4 undaunted, 2 mages. Now I dont have every skill for them unlocked, just a few I've used. But I am sitting on 10 skill points.
And as far as dark magic goes, I pushed that aside pretty early on as I was reading up that I primarily should be going storm. So I have some work to so as its at a measly 16.

Zanen · January 2017

Use bound armor for your summon passives, the stam morph is really good.

You've got to choose stamina or magicka, hybrids really don't work very well.

The thing about reverse slice is the splash damage scales with the execute on the target you hit with it, so if you pick out the low health mob it hits like a truck. Brawler works good solo but you don't really want to spam it, it's OK if you're just keeping the dot and shield up. Dual wield is generally better for PVE but 2h works good for a dps bar on a tank.

You really want a shield if you're going to tank, you give up way too much using something else.

DarkOne · January 2017

I see what your saying, I cant believe I totally missed bound armour. Shoulda been using that a long time ago

now that ive seen that. Gonna drop brawler for that and respec to reverse slice. Good advice, thanks. Work on some other weapons once I get this next one to 50. Going to take a bit and fully think my build through before I respec but itll happen pretty soon.