[magsorc] no idea what skills to pick for a good PvP build, need your help!

itzgeez · July 2018

I have looked at some builds online but they have a range of items I can't get at the moment. what are the best skills for pvp (cyrodill mainly)? I want to do a lot of damage but be able to survive too.

WrathOfInnos · July 2018

Haunting curse and mages wrath/endless fury are important for setting up burst. You’ll need a spammable, so use force pulse, elemental weapon, or destructive reach. If you are not using reach then you will need another CC, most are using rune prison. You will need at least one shield: hardened ward, annulment, and/or healing ward. Power surge and boundless storm can add more survivability if you can fit them on your bar (some Sorcs use the overload 3rd skill bar for long buffs like these). For Cyrodiil, streak or bolt of lightning are extremely valuable for positioning. Your ultimates will likely be: Negate for strategic area denial, eye of the storm for AoE, or Shooting Star for single target.

itzgeez · July 2018

bump

technohic · July 2018

Apparently rune cage and OP. No rune cage UP. Just slot runecage and you’re golden?

Lloydmp · July 2018

This is pretty much the copy and paste sorc set up.

Shackle breaker x 5
Lich Resto (back bar) + jewellery
Monster set of choice.
(I mix for more max stats)

Fire Destro
1. Mages wrath (execute)
2. Force pulse
3. Crystal frags
4. Hardened ward
5. Rune cage
6. Metoer

Resto staff
1. Power surge
2. Haunting curse
3. Streak
4. Healing ward
5. Boundless storm
6. Life giver (Resto ultimate).

happyhughes2001 · August 2018

Hi,

Would you put Impen traits on the armour or would you get impen from cp? Is there a impen cap?

What would your recommended cp breakdown be for pvp.

Thanks

K1NGPALM3R1 · August 2018

This has been my night for the past 2 weeks. I have pretty much the skills listed above. I have 5x shackle 2x infernal guardian 5 ebon Jewellry and resto backbar. Wasn't sure what to put as my front bar for Fire staff so just slotted VMA fire. I need alooooooooot Of skyshards now tho to fill the passives in most.

Does anyone have an idea on CP distribution? im CP620

leepalmer95 · August 2018

2x shadow rend
5x necro
3x lich jewellery and lich resto
Nirn willpower inferno

Congrats you now have 50k magicka.

MalagenR · August 2018

What's shield size on 50k Mag?

s7732425ub17_ESO · August 2018

Lloydmp wrote: »

This is pretty much the copy and paste sorc set up.

Shackle breaker x 5
Lich Resto (back bar) + jewellery
Monster set of choice.
(I mix for more max stats)

Fire Destro
1. Mages wrath (execute)
2. Force pulse
3. Crystal frags
4. Hardened ward
5. Rune cage
6. Metoer

Resto staff
1. Power surge
2. Haunting curse
3. Streak
4. Healing ward
5. Boundless storm
6. Life giver (Resto ultimate).

Here are better skill morph choices:

- Mages Wrath -> Endless Fury. You want the magicka back on execute kill for PVP.
- Force Pulse -> Crushing Shock. Only noobs use FP in PVP. You definitely want Crushing Shock for its ranged interrupt power.
- Life Giver -> Light's Champion. The reason you use this Ultimate is for the 5 seconds of 30% damage reduction which is ridiculously more powerful than whatever Life Giver does.

Lylith · August 2018

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

Lloydmp wrote: »

This is pretty much the copy and paste sorc set up.

Shackle breaker x 5
Lich Resto (back bar) + jewellery
Monster set of choice.
(I mix for more max stats)

Fire Destro
1. Mages wrath (execute)
2. Force pulse
3. Crystal frags
4. Hardened ward
5. Rune cage
6. Metoer

Resto staff
1. Power surge
2. Haunting curse
3. Streak
4. Healing ward
5. Boundless storm
6. Life giver (Resto ultimate).

Here are better skill morph choices:

- Mages Wrath -> Endless Fury. You want the magicka back on execute kill for PVP.
- Force Pulse -> Crushing Shock. Only noobs use FP in PVP. You definitely want Crushing Shock for its ranged interrupt power.
- Life Giver -> Light's Champion. The reason you use this Ultimate is for the 5 seconds of 30% damage reduction which is ridiculously more powerful than whatever Life Giver does.

good advice.

can also run overload on your backbar which will give you another bar's worth of skills and buffs to work with. rapids, defensive rune (if you don't go with rune cage), dark conversion, magelight, flares, another shield, etc etc.

Expert · August 2018

the best set right now on the market for sorc is zaans, sload, and heavy armor impreg. get 30k hp and go duel ppl in stormhaven

thank me later

K1NGPALM3R1 · August 2018

Should I be 5 light 1 heavy 1 medium ?

Thestephenmcraeub17_ESO · August 2018

K1NGPALM3R1 wrote: »

Should I be 5 light 1 heavy 1 medium ?

If you have the undaunted passives. Otherwise I'd go 5 light 2 heavy, or 6 light 1 heavy, or maybe even 7 light. It's whatever balance of damage output to damage mitigation you feel comfortable with.

K1NGPALM3R1 · August 2018

If you have the undaunted passives. Otherwise I'd go 5 light 2 heavy, or 6 light 1 heavy, or maybe even 7 light. It's whatever balance of damage output to damage mitigation you feel comfortable with.[/quote]

Yeah normally run 5 light 1 medium 1 heavy, I have all armour at 50 so shouldn't be to bad to switch stuff around

s7732425ub17_ESO · August 2018

5 1 1 is decent if you have max undaunted passives. You'll have the highest max stats, but you aren't really getting anything useful out of the medium armor passives, though. Going from 5 light to 6 light adds a pretty decent sustain boost from the light armor passives. I usually go 6 light 1 heavy to keep a little bit of health boost from both Undaunted and heavy armor passives. But if you are shield stacking, health is less important, so 7 light is probably the best.

Expert · August 2018

Good skills are Streak, Mines, Exchange, and Shields. That's enough to make Cyrodil mad at you, so be sure to carry them!

Thlepse · August 2018

use 5x A M B E R P L A S M as a base set its just sooo gooooood

then you add 5x ______ set depending on what u want (more dmg more sustain more max resources more rage whispers etc) like spinners/lich/shackle/riposte/sloadz...you get the point

skillwise they covered most things already but always use Ball of Lightning (the other streak morph) you have enough CC with either rune cage or reach slotted

try to run builds without power surge and inner light, while they have their uses I think those 2 are wasted skillslots

EDIT: try to also run with atro ulti backbar instead of resto ulti

Septimus_Magna · August 2018

leepalmer95 wrote: »

2x shadow rend
5x necro
3x lich jewellery and lich resto
Nirn willpower inferno

Congrats you now have 50k magicka.

I can confirm this build works really well. With tri-stat food and tri-glyph enchants on big pieces I get around 22k health, 46k magicka and 16k stamina. Infused on big pieces, impen on small pieces.

With Lich proc and potion up to 3.3k mag regen so its actually hard to run out of magicka (without streaking too much).

Spell dmg isnt very high but all you need to do it time your burst and most players just melt.