myskyrim26 wrote: »

@Oreyn_Bearclaw,
Thank you for such a detailed explanation. The goal? To do all Alliances and DLC quests, but also to be able to do dolmens and public dungeons solo. Maybe some group dungeons solo (in case of a sorc).
I don't care about PVP much now. Maybe I'll try some day.
As for playstyle, I love melee combat. But you pointed to an important thing for me: rotation. This is always my weak point. The easier the rotation, the better is a game for me... So, it seems that I want to be Legolas, but have to be Gandalf...

I will give you another very solid option. Re-roll or race change your Sorc to stamina (redguard is absolutely the best race, Khajiit is in second, but there is a gap). A stam sorc will not beat a Stamina NB in pure single target damage, but their AOE damage is actually better. The rotation is MUCH easier to perform. They have good resistances, the best raw stats, and if you run Crit Surge, some of the best passive heals in the game. They also have skills like Dark Deal that come in really handy when soling stuff because your resources are not an issue. There is not a better stamina solo class than Stam Sorc.

If someone came to me and said, I want to play stamina melee in PVE and complete every piece of content at vet level, but I want the easiest possible way to do it, Stam Sorc all day by a mile. The hardest designed solo content in the game is VMA, and stam sorc is hands down the easiest stamina clear you will find.

I love my stam sorc. I can pull a bit higher single target on my DK and NB, but I play stam sorc most of the time when I am asked to be a melee DPS in a raid. You can easily break 50k single target on static trial fights and the AOE damage is beyond nuts. I have seen 110K 6-minute parses on the Mage Hardmode. Its of course all AOE but the numbers are fun nonetheless. During the event, you can have a stam sorc up to level 23 in about 90 minutes. I leveled a backup magic nightblade last Saturday to 50 in one sitting.

TLDR: YOU WANT TO PLAY STAM SORC!!!!

Edit: Only other thing I will note, magic is always going to feel stronger at low levels. Level 23 is nothing in this game. I would at least get a few hundred champion points under your belt before you get too concerned about soloing harder stuff.

You got some good advice here. I wouldn’t pay to change your mag sorcs race, but I would roll and level a new stam sorc. They’re awesome! (I still like Khajiit better).

Stamblade is my favorite class. I don’t like mag sorc as much...I don’t know, the rotation just feels so dang repetitive. Frag, curse, frag, light, curse, light, blah, blah. It gets boring to me, even if they’re powerful. And the staff skills are boring to me. I’ll play my mag sorc every once in a while, and he’s better if I’m playing with a friend, but I get bored fast.

You will be able to solo most content with either the stamblade or mag sorc. Either (and any class, really) can solo any public dungeon or dolmen. Any can solo most normal level undaunted dungeons. I personally find my stamblade easier to solo most stuff with. Where he gets into trouble is VMA...the magic shields are just too essential. It’s hard for me to take 50k damage and maintain resources and deal damage with my Blade.

My favorite three characters might be my stamblade, my stam sorc and my stam warden...in that order. I really love the dw and bow skills, so they all three tend to play these similarly, then bring in class skills that make them really unique to one another. Once I got each set up well and learned their strengths and weaknesses, all three just shred their way through anything. And I’m like you...I don’t want to be locked into complicated, annoying rotations. So I have all three set up so I can play them pretty versatile and get along fine. That’s probably part of why I like them...I don’t feel I have to do the same sequence five thousand times in a row.