Lord-Otto wrote: »

@ak_pvp

Your balancing suggestions are surprisingly reasonable, well done.

I am disagreeing with your OP proclamation, though.
Sorcs were OP only in the first three months of TU until IC and Battle Spirit. And arguably, stacking CP (which were uncapped) was more deciding.
After Battle Spirit, mag Sorcs were never OP again.

They were screwed by CP for two patches. Remember how there was a reduce magic damage star, but no equivalent to reduce physical damage? Remember how there was a star for elemental and one for magical, so you had to split? Stamina didn't have to do this. I remember Sypher, Fengrush, LeftyLucy and King Richard agree that stamina was better back then. And that Dragon Leap was the best ultimate just because it was physical.

Then came TG and Vicious Death. While magicka was really strong then, too much even, the real winner were bombers. And unsurprisingly, every stamblade just switched to magblade and bombed to top leaderboard. Sorc OP? Far from it, magblade was.

Dark Brotherhood screwed sustain and a couple other things. It was the darkest time for magicka, but especially sorcs. I was one of five, FIVE mag sorcs on the top 100 leaderboard. Go figure.

Overall balancing improved afterwards, but guess what came to screw us again:
PROC SETS!
It didn't take ZOS long to nerf Infernal Guardian into uselessness, leaving sorcs with no good proc set.
But Velidreth, Selene, Widowmaker, Valkyn Skoria and !!!V I P E R!!! continued to wreak havoc and define the meta for a looong time. To give you a perspective: they had to turn Viper into a DoT and completely rework proc sets TWICE to get them under control.
Procblades instakilled for almost a year. Sorcs had thred months of fun with IG. And that set was far inferior to begin with.

After the Procapolypse, things started looking bright. Balancing was quite good, at last. And then ZOS did a really silly move:
They introduced a new class.
Instead of polishing the balancing, they threw a new variable in. I remember telling my friends how I thought ZOS overextended and created too much work, just when they were so close to true balance.
And look! How is the balancing for Warden, PvE and PvP now? And with every new balance patch, ZOS now have 25% more work to do. While, of course, balance updates are not delivered 1.25x as often. And now, there's yet another class on the horizon... Wanna take a guess how that is going to work out?

And here we are. We traded stam dominance, bomb dominance and proc dominance for Warden dominance.
On top of that, Wrobel insists on nerfing crucial sorc skills in succession to fit his scheme X, without caring about how it effects gameplay. He also refuses to go back on previous nerfs, what a great attitude!
Sorcs are now undisputably inferior to magblades in any way, shape or form. Not that this would have ever been any different. They have been UP several times, but never been top dog after IC. The middle ground has been their tier. With good performance against potatoes, but being absolutely outclassed by the meta builds. However, now that they received additional nerfs and even the biggest potatoes slap on defensive armor and sets, and spam snares all day, even that middle ground has given in.

We are not in a good state. At all.
And I cry this out loud here, to ZOS and
@ZOS_Wrobel

MORE FREQUENT BALANCING, MORE THAN TWICE PER YEAR, PLEASE!!!