- Crit Surge - Really nice HoT while dealing damage, unfortunately does very little if not dealing constant damage or not building for crit chance, which is very awkward on a class that lacks both sticky DoTs (pets don't proc this) and a source of Major Prophecy/Savagery in the class kit.
- Overload - Really nice pressure ultimate and the main source of sustained pressure sorcerer has, unfortunately plagued by bugs, lack of target tracking like other ranged attacks and doesn't interact with sets that work with ultimates such as balorgs. It also lost its unique 3rd bar many years ago that killed sorcs bar space, especially when running pets.
- Ball of Lightning - Not the worst skill, but has seen much better days, CC immunity only lasts half as long as other similar generic skills (RaT), generic passive speed is also very high currently too making its short range teleport not as effective as it used to be. Also currently bugged where it counts as a pet for things like expert summoner and other effects that do different things based on pets being active or not,
- Atronach (ultimate) - The best PvE ultimate Sorcerer has, group wide major berserk, stun, nice DoT + area denial. Gets better next patch due to not counting as a permanent pet for expert summoner and the class set beacon of oblivion, which helps no-pet sorcs a lot for PvE, but still counts for the sorcerer scribing class script which hurts no-pet sorc a lot in PvE due to the loss of a decent amount of cleave. It is also very limited when solo since it loses the berserk buff (requires an ally to use the synergy to get berserk and does not have a self synergy option) which is a lot of damage, and being a ground based AoE it's easy enough to move out of its reach in PvP where enemies will move out of dangerous areas.
- Vibrant Shroud - Nice AoE heal on par with blessings of protection, that provides some nice buff/debuff access, unfortunately it's AoE is very narrow and it is currently overshadowed by both hardened ward and heal soul (healing morph of scribing skill wield soul).
- Pets/deadric prey - Sorcs best PvE build, hard carrying the class in PvE content, especially for single target content to the detriment of non-pet builds that just cannot compete.

Non-ability aspects:
Class script:
- non-pet - really nice bonus cleave that sorcerer was severely lacking.
- pet - really nice heal over time on par with crit surge when pets are active.
- Overall ZOS did really well with the design of this class script, they just need to address the issue with atronach ultimate like they have done for expert summoner passive and beacon of oblivion class set in this patch.

- Mages Fury - outdated "execute" that has no scaling and the lowest starting threshold of any execute in the game (only active on targets below 20% health) that also suffers from a multitude of bugs. Only good for stealing already guaranteed kills in low tier PvP.
- Lightning Splash - Worst AoE DoT ability in the game, with the lowest damage and highest cost thanks to all of its damage being tied up in the synergy and providing zero secondary effects/buffs/debuffs. Special shout out to the long cast animation that actually delays the cast giving it an interruptible cast time despite the tooltip stating its an instant ability.
- Boundless Storm - remains at the old 5m melee radius even though the standard for melee attacks got updated to 7m, the tick rate also got reduced to 2 seconds despite it being a self cast DoT and the only good DoT that the class had access to that would proc things like crit surge.

Non-ability aspects:
Class sets:
- Monolith of Storms - One of the worst designed sets I have ever seen, that even giving it huge base damage cannot save it. Completely conflicts with the abilities required to proc it, where it wants to be a front bar proc set that works with a spammable ability, but the abilities on the skill line that would consistently proc the set and maintain its proc are back bar DoT abilities (like hurricane and lightning splash) or the execute that is only usable on targets under 20% health, or the ultimate (overload) that would require giving up the class's best ultimate (atro). It's also a ground based summon/AoE DoT/tether that does nothing when there is only 1 active so at minimum it requires 2 casts to do anything. On top of all this, it cannot be stacked by multiple wearers, so you can't even get around it's design issues by having multiple players wearing the set to make it easier to activate/maintain. Needs a complete redesign from the ground up.