I am pretty much a beginner to the game, hit CP160 a few days back on my Altmer Pet Sorc. I have been mostly following Alcast's build and managed to get 5 pieces of light Necropotence, and using jewelry and staff of Mother's sorrow right now (3 armour pieces in divines, have to transmute the rest). I still have to get the right monster sets for my build.
With this setup though, my character has barely 12K healthpool at the moment and while soloing most content I find myself on the defense spamming shield all the time and unable to switch to offense mostly. How do you all manage the lack of a bigger healthpool on this build? Are you guys running food buffs all the time? I have not invested into provisioning yet, but I need to start asap if its going to be really important to be able to use this playstyle.