I don't/won't use shock enchant on the staff because I read it doesn't stack with something somewhere and if I remember correctly, it's a waste of enchantment. I will use the +spell damage glyph instead.
My armour is about half divines and half infused.
I did not put all the points in magicka because that would only get me killed a lot more often (I think I have 10-15 points in health).
I use crit trait on the staff.
CP distribution is questionable, there are numerous ways to do it. I am only CP209 so I have to be careful how many points I spend where.
I do not use pets and never will.

"1. Dont use that spider cultist or whatever set you are using."
Sorry this is not helpful at all.

The thing about enchants is that I repeatedly read that the +magic damage glyph results in more damage than +shock/flame/whatever.

I keep reading "use 5x this, 2x this, 2x that", but why? Why should I give up another 5 pieces bonus?

My rotation is something semi-random. I basically drop Haunting curse and Shock clench, followed by Liquid lighting and Blockade of storms, and spam Force pulse (and heavy attacks when I run out of magicka) until it's time ro refresh all the skills with a duration. Oh and obviously i try to keep Surge up all the time.


P.S. I don't understand any of the acronyms. I've been playing the game for less than two months.

For people telling you to start chasing this or that set, my advice (long time magic sorc) is ignore them all. If you are only pulling 6k DPS, all the gear in the world is not going to change that. You have a fundamental problem with your rotation. Now at some point, you certainly might want to chase this or that set, but you can easily hit 25-30k trial DPS in non-optimal purple gear, assuming your rotation is on point.

Some pieces of advice for gear. Necro is your best DPS set as a pet sorc. If not running a pet, necro is worthless (you should absolutely run a pet). As to what to mix it with, you have plenty of options. Willpower is great starting jewelry, but pairing with another 5 piece magic set is perfectly acceptable out of the gate. At some point you will want to get gold trial jewelry and a monster set like ilambris, but as that stuff generally comes from harder content, lets not put the cart before the horse.

Make sure your gear is purple, and if possible your weapons are gold. You want magic enchants on armor and spell damage enchants on jewelry (one regen enchant is okay, especially if you have lower CP). Armor traits should preferably be divines, and I am going to suggest the lover mundus stone unless you are in a really good raid (which you arent if you arent clearing AA). Your front bar should be an infused weapon enchant with a shock glyph, back bar doesnt matter as much. Infused, precise, nirn will all work. If you dont have undaunted passives (guessing you dont) go with 7 light armor). Once you get them, go with 5 light/1 medium/ 1heavy.

As to the Rotation:

This is the part you are definitely screwing up. Nothing personal, it is what it is. Magic sorcs have 2 basic rotations with a pet build. The first is a heavy attack build, the second is a force pulse build. The heavy attack build is ceratinly easier to master, but it doesnt pull quite as much damage.

DOTS: Sorcs have 4 damage over time abilities that need to be cast in the proper order. Order is highly important. They should always be cast in this order: Liquid Lighing, Elemental Blockade (destro skill), Volatile Familiar, Daedric Prey. This is the bread and butter of your rotation. Practice casting these in order, preferably with a light attack in between each. Count it out: LL,EB,VF,DP, - 1,2,3,4. Anybody that has read my sorc rantings knows I love to use a music analogy. Its simply an 8 count your dots make up the first 4.

HA vs. Force Pulse: This is your second 4 count. This comes in two forms. You can either cast 4 force pulses/frags, or you can do 2 heavy attacks. A heavy attack basically takes twice as much time to cast as a skill, so 2 heavy attacks equals a 4 count. The other option is your force pulse/ crystal frags weave. With this you just want to count 4. Crystal frags is a neat skill but you want to use it properly. You only use when it "procs" for an insta cast. Never do a full cast where you are channeling it. So sometimes you might do 4 Force pulses in a row because it doesnt proc, or sometimes it might proc twice and it goes FP>Frags>FP>Frags. Or it might only proc once FP>FP>Frags>FP. This is the only tricky thing about sorc, you just need to pay attention to when frags is ready for an instant cast. Some addons will give you different visual or audio signals to help with this.

The thing to remember is that you have to stick to the beat. 4 DOTS, 4 FP/Frags, and repeat. People get in trouble because they put their DOTS down, but spend way to much time spamming force pulse/frags or heavy attacks. Remeber you only get 4 FP/Frags or 2 Heavy attacks and then you must start your DOTs again.

Heavy Attack Rotation looks like this (put a light attack in front of every skill if possible): LL, EB, VF, DP, HA, HA, Repeat. You will have to barswap as well, but that depends on how you setup your bars. A very simple setup to break 20k with your eyes closed looks like this:

Front Bar (light staff): Mages Wrath, Inner Light, Volatile Familiar, Bound Aegis, Hardened Ward, Elemental Rage.
Back Bar (light or fire staff): Liquid Lighting, Elemental Blockade, Volatile Familiar, Daedric Prey, Bound Aegies, Meteor

Your rotation: LL, EB, VF, DP, Bar Swap, HA, HA, Bar Swap, Repeat. Cast ultimates and spell power potions on cooldown, when you get to 20%, stop the heavy attacks and replace them with 4 mages wraths. If you dont want to run potions, then replace mages wrath with power surge and keep that up, then continue your heavy attacks during execute like normal. You need to get your major sorcery buff from somewhere.

Until you can pull 20-25k with this, dont mess with anything else. Once you can get that down, then you can look to branch out a bit and go to a more complicated rotation. Practice your light weaving, as you should put LAs before every skill.

My personal trial rotation looks like this (not claiming original work as its what most of us do).

Front Bar (light staff): Force Pulse, Crystal Frags, Inner Light, Volatile Familiar, Daedric Prey, Meteor.
Back Bar (light or fire staff): Liquid Lighting, Elemental Blockade, Volatile Familiar, Hardened Ward, Mages Wrath, Elemental Rage

The rotation goes like this (LA =light attack, HA=Heavy Attack, BS = BS)

LA>Liquid Lighting, LA>Elemental Blockade,BS, LA>Volatile Familiar, LA>Daedric Prey, LA>FP/Fragsx4, BS, Repeat

With this rotation you will run out of magic. The HA rotation will sustain forever. Therefore, in order to sustain, you need to replace your 4FP/Frags with 2HAs about every other rotation or perhaps 1 out of 3 if you have good support. When you get to execute, you simply replace the FP/Fragsx4 with mages Wrath times 4. Again if you dont want to run potions, run power surge in place of your execute and dont alter your rotation at 20%.

You will notice I always make room for a shield. In group content, its mandatory. For target dummies, you can put ele drain there for more damage, but tank will normally give you that buff. You will also notice that i swapped the ultimates on those setups. Meteor is better on front bar for more magic, but in the pure HA build, we put elemental rage there because we need a destro staff skill for the passives.

My advice is to start with the HA build until you are very comfortable, then branch out to the other build. Gear will come with time. At 6kDPS, however, your rotation is the issue. You can break 20k naked with a proper rotation.