hello there!
can you hand out some more information, pls!

what mundus
what food
how you set your cp

my magusers run something like julianos 5 pcs, 5 necropotence or warmaiden
monsterset varying, but sure not maw of infernal
and though just around 40k magicka they hit like truck

perhaps you can also say something about your skills and your rotattion?

Ah, think I know what's up.


Thief has been nerfed and is now in almost all scenarios inferior to the simple damage mundus (Apprentice/Warrior). Pick Apprentice in group play.
If you're alone, kicking the target skeleton, for example, you'll be missing penetration. Use the Lover then. Mind you, all debuffs included, you wanna have 18.2k penetration. No less, no more.

You also need a lot more CP into Elfborn, should be around 51. You can use points from Staff Expert for that. Really don't need that CP.

I would also recommend more magicka sustain so you don't have to heavy attack so often. Pull points from Warlord, Tumbling and Shadow Ward. Just a few. And put them into Arcanist and Tenacity.
Since you're a pet build, you can afford Witchmother's Potent Brew, without dipping too low on health. I personally find this better than bistat food and heavy attacking all the time. You will have to heavy far less often.

For your skills, that's solid, but you should really include Crystal Frags for the damage and the Minor Prophecy buff. You can replace Bound Aegis with Inner Light on the front and backbar Mage's Wrath.

The common rotation is
Liquid - Blockade - Barswap - Pet - Prey - Pulse x3 - Barswap - Restart.
With light attack between each skill and Frag instead of Pulse when it's procced. Wrath instead of Pulse/Frag/Prey when executing. Heavy lightning attack instead of Pulse/Frag/Prey against trash mobs. And Heavy fire attack instead of Pulse if you need resources.

You mentioned Meteor, sorcs don't use that too often anymore. Lightning Rage synergizes better with passives and CP, and is therefore typically preferred over Meteor, even in single-target fights.
Shooting Star can hit harder with a Mag DK in group and points into Master-at-Arms. Maybe you've seen videos of that. This is, however, typically a more complicated and less preferred setup, so don't worry!

Yeah, Witchmother's gives quite a bit less max magicka than tristat food. But the magicka recovery more than makes up for that!

Regarding your gear, as said above, inferno on front bar maximizes single-target damage.
It also helps proccing Ilambris. Maw of the Infernal is really strong, but very unreliable and can make your tank's life very hard. So Ilambris is typically preferred.

What about your traits?
Infused on backbar with damage enchant gives maximum single-target damage. Nirnhoned for maximum AoE against mobs.
Front should always be infused. Either with shock or fire enchant, depending on how much Concussion you have already.

Armor should be five light, one medium, one heavy. All max magicka enchants, all divines. Nothing new here. Infused on big pieces is okay if you have it already golded out.

You wanna use a lightning staff on your backbar, to get the Concussion from Lightning Blockade. Since you only have a lightning IA, I would recommend using that on your front until you have an inferno.

Spell-/Weapon damage enchant (Okori) on backbar. Transmute to Infused if you want more single-target damage. Or to Nirnhoned if you want more damage against mobs with heavy lightning attack. Your choice. Maelstrom is best, but you can just use any lightning staff for now (your Torug works), as your IA staff is occupied. Should you get an inferno IA before a lightning Maelstrom, put the lightning IA on the back.


Front should be an inferno staff, especially with Ilambris (Iceheart is meh, btw). Always infused.
If you play a lot with a group with many sources if lightning damage, you want a fire enchant for the strong Burning DoT (Rakeipa).

If your group lacks lightning, or you're alone and Concussion won't be up enough, you want the shock enchant (Meip). Keep in mind that doing a heavy attack consumes the off-balance effect from Lightning Blockade. So the more you heavy attack, the more valuable that shock glyph can become to you.

It's difficult to really give you a definitive answer here - you might wanna test it yourself a couple times. But since you only have a lightning IA, for now I would lean to using the fire enchant, to proc Ilambris.