Tips into increasing DPS? Sort of new player, running a Stamina Sorcerer

ShonenTrash · November 2018

Hey, so I've lurked in these forums for a quite a long time now, ever since I got the game a few months ago, managing builds and planning before starting to play the game.
Anyways, I'm currently a CP 360 Imperial Stamina Sorcerer, running-
Purple Hunding's body pieces,
> Infused Chest, Divines Everything Else, All Stamina Enchants
Purple Automaton Daggers and Bow, Purple Necklace and 2 Blue Rings (still farming Vet Darkshade)
> Main Hand - Absorb Stamina Glyph, Nirnhoned
> Off Hand - Weapon Damage Glyph, Infused
> Bow - Poison Damage Glyph, Infused
and Light & Heavy Stormfist (not necessarily for Undaunted, RNG just gave me this)
My main bar - Shrouded Daggers, Rending Slashes, Hurricane, Rearming Trap, Bound Armaments. Ulti is Flawless Dawnbreaker
My bow bar - Razor Caltrops, Critical Surge, Endless Hail, Poison Injection, Bound Armaments (I slot Crit Surge for solo purposes, and... it's just that it looks sorta boring for me if I replace it with another trap) Ulti is Ballista
I've tested my build in both 3mil and 6mil skeletons, and it always ends up averaging 20k (this is with no exterior buffs/debuffs)
I use trash pots. I will, however, use my crafted potions after I max Medicinal Use.
My rotation is sort of dynamic..? I adapt depending on the fight. But I usually weave light attacks in between skills.
Roughly, it's [Crit Surge if I'm soloing] - LA - Caltrops - LA - Endless Hail - LA - Poison Injection - LA - [Ballista if available] - Bar Swap
LA - Hurricane - LA - Rearming Trap- LA - Rending Slashes - HA - Shrouded Daggers - HA - Shrouded Daggers - HA - Shrouded Daggers - Bar Swap and repeat back bar
My ping is.. well, bad. It averages in 250 and can go higher in worst case scenarios, but it can be stable around 250-300. I'm thinking this also contributes to DPS loss.
Now the problem is, I still feel like it's low, and I'm looking to improve the DPS of my build, that's why I ask the community.

Any tips or suggestions? I too, would like to hit 30k - 35k at least.

ShonenTrash · November 2018

(I just recently arrived here so I don't know how to edit lol)
I forgot to mention, I use blue Max Health & Max Stamina food.
My Stamina is sitting at 40k.
Weapon Damage unbuffed is at 2975 with 47.4 crit %
I use the Lover Mundus with 3646 Penetration.

That's all I could think of, I'll be posting more details if need be.

Joxer61 · November 2018

www.xynodegaming.com
lots of help!

Nevasca · November 2018

Try following this rotation. There's more details on the video description, Liko is one the best DPS players in the game, definitly a good source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kod_JZGM_U

Having medicinal use passive is crucial, even for trash pots since it will increase the duration on Major Endurance (+%regen stam), if you're using crafted pots with this passive it's up 100% of time (trash pots goes to 20ish seconds). Although you can certainly hit 30k single target with trash pots as well.

For gear: Farm Relequen ASAP. Normal Cloudrest is fairly easy and you should be fine with your current DPS. This will be a big boost in your DPS. After that, get vMA bow. Adding these two should give you 5k DPS boost at least. I wouldn't waste time farming Automaton, buy/farm Briarheart instead, and then farm normal HRC for Advanced Yokeda weapons/jewelry, and transmute the jewelry.

EDIT: About ping: You should be able to achieve your goals with your ping. I play in the same conditions are you, ESO is not as fast paced for the ping to hold you down from completing veteran content. Might hold you back from being the best, though.

raj72616a · November 2018

bow and staff and twohanded weapons count as 2 set pieces now, so you should be using monster set in addition to the two 5 piece sets.

Joxer61 · November 2018

I play with a steady 380-400 lat so I feel your pain!! As mentioned ESO is a bit forgiving in that department but I do find at times it takes 2-3 hit of the buttons to get skills to fire and bar swaps many times swap back and forth. Can suck if it happens at key times but you learn to adjust with it and adapt. And Liko has some great vids!! Might be a bit advanced for a new player but just watch to get a feel for what can be done!

shadowofnarsil · November 2018

This may be helpful...
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/5121001#Comment_5121001

El_Borracho · November 2018

What food are you running? You should be using at least Dubious Camoran Throne. Can get away with blue food outside of trials.

Also, what mundus stone? The Lover is the preferred for stam DPS builds.

Gong to echo the others saying "Get Relequen." Until then, keep the Hundlings body and farm Briarheart weapons and jewelry, or just buy it from guilds. Eventually, you will want to run Relequen body and Advancing Yokeda jewelry and daggers with a vMA bow, as mentioned, too. For monster set, Stormfist is pretty easy to get and will help with sustain. And when I say easy, its maybe a little harder than COA 1.

Good luck

ShonenTrash · November 2018

Sorry for the super, super late reply, whoops

I'm running blue max stat food, don't have access to Dubious but I'll get on farming that in the New Life Fest
And yes, i use Lover

I also use Stormfist albeit heavy and light.

I have plans to go vMA once I get a full set of Vicious Ophidian too, as well as getting my CP to 400-500
With Relequen, I already have the Jack and Guards, I just need more body pieces lmao.

Protossyder · November 2018

ShonenTrash wrote: »

Sorry for the super, super late reply, whoops

I'm running blue max stat food, don't have access to Dubious but I'll get on farming that in the New Life Fest
And yes, i use Lover

I also use Stormfist albeit heavy and light.

I have plans to go vMA once I get a full set of Vicious Ophidian too, as well as getting my CP to 400-500
With Relequen, I already have the Jack and Guards, I just need more body pieces lmao.

Don't wait until you find the recipe, just buy the food from a guild store. You will need the sustain, especially if you are not a Redguard. Also, better wear 6 - 1 (6 medium - 1 heavy) or even 7 medium.
For vMA, run VO(frontbar) and hundings.With crit surge, bloodcraze (you almost lose no dmg when you use it instead of rending), crushing weapon and dark deal (optional) you will have enough healing and don't even need vigor

Sparr0w · November 2018

Drop shrouded, just use rending slashes as your spammable.

Don't forget when solo parsing stamsorc dont have major fracture, minor beserk etc so the absolute top end solo is like 45k, most I know are between 40-45k but in a group hit the same as most stamblades I know.

My bar setup is

Leash is only there for the FG passives, swap it for anything else if needed, same with back bar trap.

Rotation at it's basics is:
Trap > la > Swap > Hail > la > Caltrops > la > PI > Swap > 7 skills

Skills consist of: Rending Slashes, Hurricane, Ultimate.

If you'd prefer to not monitor Hurricane, just apply it once every second rotation and only do 6x skills that rotation.

Sustain should be fine using rending as spammable over shrouded, but stormfist is a great alternative monster set if you do struggle. Gear wise 7 medium all divines is best in slot, 3x infused weapons is best, any mix between bloodthirsty and infused on jewellery, tho I prefer 1x blood 2x infused.

Example parse: https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/zr-sparrow/video/63496737

Protoavis73 · November 2018

While I'm still finding my way around ESO and slowly beginning to do more dungeons, trials etc I can really recommend getting Dubious Camoran Throne. I always have a package with me and it really helps with the sustains.