I preferred magblade up until last patch but now Stamplar's where it's at IMO. Almost permanent Minor Protection AND Major Protection via Empowering Sweeps, infinite sustain via Repentence, and great AOE damage.
MagDK is lowkey OP in the arena too, if you use wings and a ranged spammable.
I did 5 shareplay runs for individuals (via shareplay ps4).
It's 100% changed from what it was. Harder for sure.
I then was interested re-downloaded 100GB and found the following:
IMO.
Easiest to Hardest.
It goes like this for difficulty for me. Stam Sorc / Mage Sorc / Stam DK / Stam NB / Magicka Temp /(what I currently have with gear).
This was with trash potions and no modification to stat points/gear for the last 2 yrs.