Sorcerer class is very strong in PvP, maybe stam sorc isn’t BiS in BGs, but that changes over time and according to one post I read in the PvP forum, stam sorc is BiS in IC or at least the sewers. I love my mag sorc in Cyrodiil. I’m rather confused as to what your complaint is tbh. Sure, some builds of warden and necro are strong, but not all, and I don’t think mag warden has been that great in PvP for a while and now Dragonknights are popular. In any MMO the meta changes over time, no? You can chase it or you can play what you like to the best of your abilities. Just my two cents.

"Why do I need to know how my opponent fights in the boxing ring? I just want to be able to punch them in the face for free! That's more fair than them having an advantage because of the extra hours in the boxing gym that they put in!"

Does sound pretty ridiculous doesn't it? Why would it be different for any other form of pvp? See how ridiculous you sound?

I'm not sure where you've been the last year, but people have been very clear that they like to have options. Plus playing the same character over and over again can start feeling repetitive and stagnant. Sometimes it's nice to switch to something else for a bit to get a different play style. And as people have mentioned before, the meta switches so much that one day it's the necro apocalypse, to 2 hit nb gangkers, to nothing but streaking sorcs everywhere, etc. So people end up creating toons of various classes to stay on trend and to compete. I remember not too long ago that stamsorc was the meta and was very strong in PVP. It still is very strong I believe.

vms11934 wrote: »

ThePedge wrote: »

Stam sorc is OP anyway.

Getting off-topic, I know, but why do you think this?

Conversion is infinite sustain engine, in extreme builds I went with 3stat food and no stam recovery anywhere.
Streak is streak.
Probably the best damage passives.
Best ultimates in the game.
Crystal weapon is delayed damage that goes off whenever you feel like it should.

TheEndBringer wrote: »

You don't need to play other classes to learn their strengths and weaknesses but it's certainly easier.

^ This

It certainly helps but maining a class means you know the ins and outs of it, and if you're paying attention you can learn what counters you, what counters others, and if you ask questions you'll find out how things are done. I've not played all the classes and main a magDK, but that's not stopped me over the years I've had this character from competing with the best of them.

Stam sorc is a very strong class, one of the best in BGs. And yes, you need to play well, pay attention and learn if you want to succeed in life, in anything.

You don't have to but it can certainly help. It isn't even always about analyzing specifics about the classes for strategies to use against them. As others have said you'll get that just fine from playing against them. But just like in real life when struggling with a problem, sometimes the best thing you can do is take a break and focus on something else for a little while. You often come back with a fresh perspective and can have a breakthrough. Jumping on a different class from your main can have the same effect.

My main is and always has been stamblade through all it's ups and downs over the past 4 years. But I do have builds of every class, and sometimes when I fall into a string of bad luck (or being honest bad habits), I'll focus on one of my other classes for a day or two, and when I return to my stamblade I always come back feeling improved and more confident.

When I'm on these other builds I'm never thinking about how I'm going use anything I'm doing or learning against them the next time I face them. My focus is always and only ever on winning and improving on whatever character I'm on at the moment. But your habits and tendencies have a way of carrying over between classes. So when I'm starting to play too agressive and jumping into the fray too soon I can hop on my bowbowden who isn't your typical tanky stamden but instead built more like a speedy frail Nightblades who needs to maintain distance to survive. If I'm letting my buffs drop too much or forgetting that block is a thing I can hop on one of my brawler tank type builds who rely on those things to survive. If I'm focusing too much on landing my burst combos and not enough on creating pressure to create an opening for those combos I can hop on my magdk who's bread and butter is pressure. If I'm getting sloppy about balancing my mag and Stam consumption, usually from either over cloaking or over rolling, I hop on my magblade who's built very similar to my stamblade but who's mag and Stam pools are reversed, which changes my approach just enough to check myself.

PvP in this game is largely about understanding the basics and maintaining good habits. You don't need to chase the meta to be successful, in fact generally I avoid the hot new thing because I know it's likely to get nerfed. So I wait until it does and assess from there how useful it might be long term because I prefer to put together lasting builds. My stamblade (again my main) currently wears stuhn's with assassin's guile, wild hunt ring and either one piece slimeclaw or one piece krag depending on a couple variations I do. Far from meta, but I've been wearing it a while now, at least a couple patches because it's flexible and I have fun standing at the alchemy table coming up with different poison variations, and I get a lot of kills with few deaths, and really that's what it's all about, it doesn't matter how you get there.