Max your CP in cost reduction, then regen I found, as I have a lol regen sat. Run potion's constantly (20% more) weave. 2 x AOE down while you heavy, deeps still happening.

If stuck switch the jewellery enchants ti SD. But using above I survive pve with 850 regen

Thanks for the help guys. Yeah, I'm playing on PS4. How does the Templar gain easy access to magicka steal with this patch? Channeled focus helps a bit, but definitely not enough to sustain me the way siphoning attacks does. I'll swap reflective light out for elemental drain in the meantime and see how I get on with that. Already using spell damage enchants.

Will the problem with the other sets not be that I'm still swapping a lot of DPS for the sustain? If so, I'll still have the problem of sustain vs dps I was referring to above.

My CP distribution is based on a deltia build, so everything is going into regen and cost reduction already. As for potions I'm already using spell power on cooldown, as I'm used to using weapon power with my stam build.

Is there a jewellery similar to VO that gives damage with ridiculous magicka sustain?

its tough, i run ele drain if in an non optimized group and nobody is using it. it helps a bit but still run low, also use a pot when resource pool is at 80% ish so that you get the 20% regen going right away.

As you know, there are 3 ways to preserve your resources.

1. Cost Reduction
2. Regen
3. Light/Heavy Attack Weaving
4. Spell Power

The last is is more of a burn them down before I run out kind of approach, and does not work all that well on Bosses as you know. Build up as much spell power as you can from the sets your using, and your pretty much there, so don't worry about that.

Weaving light or medium/heavy attacks with your staff can really help you maintain resources. It also helps to put 30 to 40 points into Staff in the CP Tree. The Min/Maxers would disagree, but think about it, your using the staff to maintain resources, not maximize your DPS, so get more out of it.

So, lets assume your weaving medium/heavy attacks in between skills and your still depleting your pool. What to do next? This really depends on playstyle, but I personally find Spell Cost Reduction to be better than Regen at preserving resources simply because most of the time you can spam attacks faster than you get regen ticks. Also, Regen does not seem to help me all that much unless i get it up near 1800 to 2000 or more. Getting it that high can gimp your DPS.

So, try using Spell Cost Reduction Glyphs on at least two pieces of jewelry. Also, a 5 Piece Seducer set is nice as when I ran that, I never ran out of magic. My DPS was not as high, but it did not suck either. However, if you have 0 Magic, your DPS is going to suck no matter how much spell power you have. If your playstyle can work with just 2 pieces with Cost Reduction, then put a Spell Power on the third.

Cool, I'll swap in elemental drain and try switching to withered hand jewellery for sustain. I'll medium attack weave rather than light, and although that wont return any magicka, the slightly increased cast time should aid my regen. If that isn't enough I guess I'll need to downgrade from weapon damage to a couple of pieces with reduce cost.

Still makes me wonder how the people pulling the huge numbers in dps don't run out of magicka. I guess they just coordinate skills so they keep buffing each others magicka? Maybe they're all high elves?

Cheers for the help guys, I'll try it when I get online.

Run 5 Lich 5 Magica Furnace if your melee on a back bar setup.

Next Patch or his patch if your on PC Magplars have the best access to into magica steal with cleaning rulitual and morphs.

Are you max CP?
What's your Magicka and Recovery at?
Do you have Mage's Guild passives?
Undaunted passives?

I have no issue in 5 Julianos, 3 WP (All SD) and 2 Grothdarr running sub 800 recovery with 100 points into cost reduction and 50 into magicka recovery.
I find I'll only start to run out if I'm doing the wrong rotation, forgetting to refresh chanelled focus (your body has an animation to watch for on console as we don't have buff timers), refreshing dots too early or casting spells that I shouldn't need to like heals.

The potions you want to use are made up of:

• Corn Flower
• Lady Smock
• Water Hyacinth

SD(20%) - Spell Crit (10%) - Magicka return - Recovery (20%)
Or take out water hyacinth if the bug hasn't been addressed on PC / You run IL on both bars.

Besides inner light and meteor I'm not using any mages skills, so didn't bother with the Mages passives as I don't cast any Mages abilities. I'm currently cp402, but can't check my recovery as I'm at work just now. My max magicka is currently 32000, but as it's a new character it's all purple glyphs at the moment. Also think I'm going to change from julianos to TBS for the Templar, as it seems that most arguments indicate this is a better dps set for a templar and will boost my magicka a little further.

Those potions sound awesome, I'll make some when I get online.

RADIANT AURA...memorize that skill Templars. One more time, repeat after me...RADIANT AURA.

Another small tip -

Potions - use them liberally. Trash pots are fine for regular stuff, but for vet trials/ vma use the best spellpower pots you can get your hands on.

Just simply using potions at the right time intervals literally changed the way I play my magsorc. I used to feel like I NEEDED dark conversion somewhere on my bars because I was always out of magix ... which is troublesome with my build and it's amazing 700-800 recovery

DON'T WAIT to use the potion until you're down to 25% of a mag bar - use it when you're down to 75-80% magicka, it'll top you off and buff the crap out your recovery, use it again when the cooldown is up, and again, and again.

Potions are a godsend for sustain. It can get pricey - for sure... it pays to be a master alchemist. But it's a HUGE buff to your character.

Use a light or medium destro attack to kill enemies instead of executes or weaves. Restores like 3k magic. It's amazing lol