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  masterlouppub18_ESO wrote: »

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  Hey there, i just returned to the game from a long break and leveled a necromancer but i cannot make up my mind whether i should play stamina necro or mag sorcerer, Would anyone please tell me some sort of pros and cons of both classes, i mostly pve with some casual pvp on the side. Thanks!

  
  Stamina necromancer hits harder in pve and is vastly better than magicka. Magicka still hits hard in pvp and has access to more heals but they're not used in pve much if at all as a dps. As such, I'd go stamina and I would suggest an orc for pve dps or redguard and if you go into pvp a nord is a good option too. I have a few videos on my channel that may help decide what race to play.
  
  Hope that helps.

  
  We are in a mag meta for pve.
  Just fyi.
  Though mag sorc really isn't in a great spot.

  
  Which class would you reccomend for a returning player who like soloing and eventually get into end game? Is anything changing in greymoor for the meta? I said necro and sorc in my op but I dont mind rerolling a new one if necessary.

  
  Sorcs are fantastic solo classes for stam and mag. They have a ton of passive/proactive self healing via crit surge. 1 skill covers most, if not all the solo self healing you will ever need while also providing a vital major brutality/sorcery buff for +20% weapon/spell damage.
  
  Other classes need to sometimes run more reactive healing skills. Necro as an example has a very weak self healing pet that lasts 16s and heals every 2s instead of every 1s, the nice part is it gives you -10% dmg reduction, but it scales on magicka/spell damage making it very unreliable for Stamina Necro. This pet in a group environment will actually heal the lowest health ally meaning you can sometimes miss out on the heal making it entirely unreliable. Stam Necro does have a cleave spammable skill for healing which is great for solo play, but once again, it's reactive healing instead of just proactively using 1 skill like crit surge and doing your regular rotations. I felt when playing Necro that the skill lost it's flavour over time because I was so use to the Sorc playstyle. I didn't like being shoehorned into a melee spammable for healing even if it was very strong burst healing.
  
  It's also worth mentioning, Mag Sorc has 2 permanent pets to take some of the blows for you, 2/4 morphs available can heal for large amounts and 1/4 morphs does aoe damage with an aoe stun, also valuable for solo defensive play.
  
  Just remember 1 thing, when you ask people, especially on the forums to compare classes in pve, most people will immediately jump to an end game perspective for DPS potential against other classes in the CURRENT meta. Things change, the DPS race patch to patch can and will sway, so I usually choose to ignore it, especially since most classes are capable of achieving dps within 1-5% of one another on average. It's pretty rare for a class to be extremely far behind like other MMO's have issues with. ESO does this well despite the comments on nerfs/buffs. 1-5% difference isn't going to make or break a class and is really only important to the 1% of people pushing for scores in optimized trial groups..
  
  For solo play, there is way more things to consider. Sorc is awesome at solo play. Period. I think fun factor is way more important in your decision making process. To me, sorc's are the funnest class in the game, nothing in the game comes close to the fun factor of streaking, but I've also always valued speed/evasion/lightning/air/wind themes in other games and media, so I definitely have a bias for Sorc's. If you've read my sig, I still like to play other classes, but not nearly as much. Sorc always pulls me back.

  Edited by MashmalloMan on May 17, 2020 8:17PM

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