I have all classes in all resources, and maybe can help. It’s a tough choice...I love both Stam Sorc and magblade. My main is a stamblade, though, and that’s my favorite.

General tips

By all means roll a new character. But I’d also mention that under the new One Tamriel system, the 40’s are the hardest levels in the game. You get handicaps the lower level you are. These slowly come off as you level, and you’re expected to replace the power with gear and abilities. This might be where you’re seeing some issues with squishiness / dullness on your toons.

What I can say is that playing as a vet with champion points slowly adding up is a TOTALLY different experience. And because you get those CPs on your lower level toons too, it changes the game for new characters. My advice would be to take your stamblade, use the New Life 2x xp buff, maybe use some psijic for more xp, and grind him to vet. Then play with him a little each day and use your enlightenment xp to start accumulating CPs. In a few weeks as a vet playing a few dailies each day, you’ll have enough CPs to boost damage by 10%, resistance by 10%, and recovery by 10% on EVERY character on your account.

The grind to vet will only take a couple of hours at 250% xp. Go close dolmens you haven’t got yet, maybe public dungeons you’re missing, find some dailies you like. Or for total easy mode, run with the Alikr dolmen Zerg. Equip shrouded daggers and/or power extract and hit everything. Trust me...a few hours grinding then investing in your vet will save you hundreds of hours playing low level toons without CPs.

Also, there’s a really tedious learning curve from level 20 to c160 on characters now. You’re playing this over and over, which is probably part of the problem. If you get a toon to level 20-25 and know you like the class, the game is way more fun to push them to vet, get them in c160 gear, then go quest and solo play. They play better, skills level 20x faster, it’s just more fun.


Stam Sorc vs Magblade

Like I said, I love both. If I only had four characters, I’d have one of each. (With a stamblade and Magplar.) It’s New Life xp time...maybe roll one of each and see which fits.


The magblade will play a lot like your stamblade. It’ll have more aoe, and more heals. But it’d be a little less powerful and squishier than your stamblade. You still need to stealth and pick your battles, but there are a couple of skills that can make up for the issues you’re probably having with your stamblade. For me personally, the weapon skills are a drawback to magblade. This is just because I absolutely love the physical weapon skills, and find the staves a bit lackluster.

Magblades are FAST. Cloak plus concealed weapon plus retreating maneuvers, and you will FLY through areas. A magblade can do an entire delve and never pick a fight. Of your two choices, the magblade has more range options. It’s also more versatile...there are 3-4 approaches one can viably use on Them.


Stam Sorc is one of the last classes I rolled, and I’m sad about that because I love my Stam Sorc and wish I’d had him earlier, lol. This is a really interesting class. You only have 3-4 class abilities that work on them...but man are they good abilities. Hurricane is obviously their killer skill...the aoe dps is off the charts. But here’s something a lot of people miss at first - stam sorcs have power surge, which is better than the 2h rally. This means they can get major brutality and heals off any weapon type...they can run dw and bow and not suffer like other stam classes. As if that’s not enough, dark exchange endlessly converts magic to stam and health...WOW. (To be honest, all sorcs are a little OP, lol)

Stam sorcs put out great dps and play up close and personal. You can open with bow, but they shine when you proc hurricane and maybe blade cloak and move in to slice up enemies with dual wield insanity. In choosing this over magblade, you’re getting a little less dps, way less stealth, and less speed in exchange for way more tankiness, way better resource management, and better survivability.

Note - Redguard is usually recommended for Stam Sorc because of the resource return on melee attacks. HOWEVER, I prefer Khajiit by a mile. Why? Stam sorcs have amazing resource management already. Where they need a bit of help is dps, and the Khajiit bring so much more crit. Plus I play stealthy, and I like the reduce detect radius and sneak damage.


Good luck choosing. Let us know what you pick!