What skills/rotation are you using?

If you are only going for max dps go ilambris, burning spellweave and infallible 3 piece. Maelstrom lightning on back and custom or infallible inferno on front. Have the staffs sharpened and use spell damage glyphs on jewelry. Use damage glyph on inferno staff also.

Make sure u have surge on your rotation to keep it on all the time, you need the 20% damage buff. Other than that liquid lightning, blockade and force pulse with proc frags should do the job.

U can also try the petbuild, but thats something I'm not familiar with.

but is bsw really a must? is there anything else i can replace it with? currently my bar set up is as follows:

bar 1 (lightning): hardened ward, blockade, liquid, bound aegis, inner light
bar 2: (fire) surge, frags, pulse, aegis and light

if i were to use bsw id have to swap blockade over to bar 2 and id have to bar swap to refresh my ground aoes. then theres also the 8% that actually comes from lightning staves.

plus as an altmer sorc i have more passives into shock damage.. yes the proc for bsw is good but is there anything else i can use that is as good ?

i havent gotten my ilambris yet but i doubt its going to make much of a huge difference..
in any case currently im using 5 pc spinners, 4 pc magnus and planning for 2 piece ilambris.

So how do I double it in my case? Through more cp?

but i kind of find shields important. my main attacking skills take out 4 out of 10 slots. pets will take 2 more slots. + 1 slot for prey. im left with 3.. i should be using inner light for more crit.. plus theres also bound aegis to consider.. its so annoying that using these skills take up so many slots.

Much in the same setting except not pulling 20k self buffed, gold nerco+juliaonos purple outside of gold sharpened staffs lightning front and fire back.
Is spinner an PvE set, thinking that tank and healer should debuff? In PvP and the insane resistances you want battleship killers.
Yes, I should update armor to medium+ heavy one or two pieces of monster set, two will loose the 5 bonus on julianos.
Not so much rotation, has an naga mouse who helps a lot but tend to overshoot frag proc with one pulse.
Has inner light and pet on both bars,
Surge before fight swap, scamp, daeric prey, swap, LL, wall of element swap, swap pulse with frag on proc.
scamp , curse, swap, LL and wall, surge if needed, swap and repeat.

dpencil1 wrote: »

@botanist92
- You put Ele Drain on for a skeleton parse, but you usually use a shield on that slot when fighting real enemies.
- If you're using lightning/fire with force pulse, you should get good uptime with BSW and Ilambris. If doing double lightning and/or using a heavy attack build then thsee won't be as optimal.
- Necropotence and Grothdarr actually work better for consistent damage with a pet heavy attack double lightning build.
- Using Julianos with Necropotence (which I think is preferable to Spinner's since you can craft the pieces you need to get 5/1/1) would work fine too if you don't want a monster set. Just need one monster helm or shoulder.

not that i dont want a monster set but i find my proc chances very very low.. you would think that having liquid lightning + blockade of storms down weaving lights and force pulse would at least give a decent uptime on ilambris but i barely even see it. so i was thinking if this proc is worth the loss of another 5th piece bonus?

anyways ive decided to farm for necropotence but its probably gonna be hell. though morrowind is coming and im a little skeptical about necro + julianos/bsw..

any input on my stam dk tank?