We’re forced to use one of two ultimates in PVP - negate, which is easy to step out of and doesn’t have much solo use, and meteor which is so telegraphed you pray for lag just to blindside them blocking. Atronach health is low, overload is awkward and the palpatine blast does about as much damage as a normal frag. We have no proper way to apply status effects that other classes have access to such as bleed, poison, burning, major breach or minor breach. The minor prophecy is pretty pointless both defensively and offensively. Seriously disappointed but, I have low expectations already.

Another thread with a bunch of well-thought-out criticisms about the state of Sorc, and suggestions for addressing those pain points. Can't wait for ZOS to buff ward another 3% instead.

I really wish they would make negate something similar to the warden tree ulti. In this case: If you walk out, you would still carry the debuff for a few more seconds. I suggested this a long time ago already, which would make negate much more viable vs. balls, tanks etc. so we have actually a window to burst them down (although the ulti would be consumed and not available for that burst).

Another point: The shields. The 10s nerf done in the past was just uneccessary. It make shields a pain to use, because in a combat scenario you are constantly busy re-applying the shields just in case to be ready for that night blade popping out of stealth, for example. Re-applying means one has difficult to get on the offensive and this is tough with cloth usually. On top of that, in the current laggy state of the game, the shields will drop often when you need them most and then fail to get re-applied. I am playing without shields since a long time already, because they are just useless in the end and inferior to heals (vigor).

Shattering prison is pretty much useless with all the CC-immunities around. Why hasn't there be an overwork?

Deadric Tomb, although its instant time would make it interesting for PvP just costs too much magicka to be useful, making it useless too.

The short range of streak is also annyoing, making it very tough to get away from opponents. Against competent opponents it is literally impossible. And concerning the morph ball lightning does not show up when you run immediately after streak, so it can not absorb any projectiles. I am not sure if that has been addressed in the meantime, but I doubt it.

I play magsorc since 2014 and I know what I am talking aobut.

As far as sorc shields are concerned. If upping the health cap is the route they really want to go, just remove the health cap altogether.

Damage against shields is wildly different than it was when the health cap was originally implemented. Just remove it for the sorc shield and have it only scale off max mag/stam, or max weapon/spell damage. Change hardened to increase the scaling amount by 10%.