You can't think that purposefully avoiding DOTs so they don't eat up your Surge healing is a good mechanic, can you? I understand the internal cooldown because AOE builds would have some insane heali
Richards stamina sorc is really powerful and matchs up to stamina NB but isnt exactly better but still on equal footing when player skill comes into play.
Plus the ability scales from Max health and stamina so gear doesn't improve the value versus live where it scales from total magicka and total max stamina.
LOL you have probably never tried a stamina sorc, unlike most of the other players on this thread who have given multiple rounds of feedback since the start of the game.
I didn't mention the stamina in bound armour because it was under the defence category. I was just listing the things that will help keep you alive, like armour buffs.