exiars10 wrote: »

Big.

You need on the back bar:
Endless Hail (Bow) - Poison Injection (Bow) - Rearming Trap (Fighters Guild) - Razor Caltrops (Support)

This is standard stamina DD setup among all classes. You'll have to grind a bit in Cyrodiil for Caltrops but it's actually very easy.

As Sorcerer you also have Bound Armaments on both bars, I guess.

For gear, you really need Strength of the Automaton. It involves grinding, but Darkshade Caverns dungeon is one of the easier and I talk about veteran version. For started, even blue jewelry from normal dungeon is all right until you have more CPs.
Every other set is your personal choice depending of various factors but Automaton is a must as Sorcerer damage is all physical except Poison Injection.

Agree with half of that. You are currently playing with an incomplete build, so its not surprising your damage is very low. Until you get both your DW and Bow to 50 (balista is a strong ulti, and Hail is your best damage skill), and level fighters guild (dawnbreaker/trap) and alliance rank (caltrops), you are going to struggle to pull good damage.

The automaton bit is just plain false. It is the best raw damage set for a stam sorc, so certainly you can work on it, but as priorities go, that is very low. Plenty of good substitutes, and the only people that are going to notice the difference between say Automaton and Hundings rage are people that are pulling a LOT of DPS. I have every set imaginable, and the only time I run Automatons is when I am in a 12 man trial group and asked to go full damage. I almost never run it in 4 man content.

Rotation is always more important than gear, and rotation requires having skills at your disposal.

As to gear, I think the best way to setup your gear is to pair a damage set with a penetration set and then throw in a monster set.

Viable Damage Set's: Hundings, Automaton, Vicious Ophidian, Briarheart, (there are certainly others).
Penetration sets: Spriggans, Nightmothers, Sunderflame, Alkosh, TFS (some are selfish, TFS and spriggans, some give group pen, the other three).
Monster sets: Velidreth, Stormfist, Kraghs , Selenes. I personally like Stormfist. The only one thats tough to get is velidreth.

Dont worry about gear until your bars and rotation are in order. Most important thing for gear is gold CP 160 weapons, but purple can get you over 20k.

A super cheap way to setup a gear out of the gate is a combo of spriggans (buy/farm) and hundings (crafted). Purple spriggan jewelry and 2 armor pieces just isnt that expensive (you could even go blue on the jewelry). You can then make hundings daggers in CP 160, and farm the helm and shoulder.

If you want to go even easier, dont have any monster sets, and want to stick to your agility jewelry (which is actually pretty strong), Use your hundings armor you already made and fill in the gaps with 4 pieces of Nightmother. Giving 5 hundings, 3 agility, 4 NM. At some point, you will probably want some NM weapons anyway. You can easily break 20k with that setup assuming your rotation/skills are in order. Your stats will be good, but your pen will be a touch low. You can compensate in the meantime with CP and the Lover mundus stone.

Your DPS is low because you’re not at endgame yet and your gear isn’t right. Welcome to the grind!

Automaton is great set for StamSorc. Comes from Darkshade I think.