Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Edit 22nd October - This is a showcase of a Magicka Sorcerer rotation, up to date for the Murkmire patch. This was recorded during PTS 4.2.2.

Which buffs/debuffs am I including and why? - In this parse I have Minor Vulnerability, Combat Prayer, Elemental Drain and Orbs present. As a Magicka Sorcerer, I have my own source of Minor Prophecy. This is to enable me to compare as fairly possible with other Magicka classes. Please see this text for the reasoning behind the buffs that are used here: textuploader.com/dv8g2

The DPS of this class should only be compared to other Magicka classes in my recent videos - and NOT the Stamina classes.

Thanks to @stileanima for the millionth time. Her youtube channel: youtube.com/channel/UC0ZrF6282tJGZboWa2IwCHg

Sustain on a Magicka Sorcerer is generally suspect without the use of Spell Symmetry (SS)/Balance or Dark Conversion (DC). In shorter fights, I do not need to, but in longer fights, I would be looking to use one of these skills, or heavy attack once in a while. I still prefer SS over the improved DC. Time-wise, one cast of DC is worth roughly 2 casts of SS. Both can restore 6k Magicka (DC over 20 seconds). However with SS, you can restore the Magicka instantly, you get two empowered procs, buffing your light attacks (and one extra light attack), you can reduce the cost of your next ability (save around 750 Magicka on a liquid lightning cast) so its better for your regen and you sacrifice health (instead of stamina), which is much easier to regain in a group setting when you have a healer.
Also, sustain is quite heavily linked to how often you can use a procced frag (~1700 Magicka cost vs 2200 cost of Elemental Weapon), so like other classes, you'd want to limit the time spent on your backbar to increase the chances of the procs.

Combat Metrics Parse from Video -- imgur.com/uBFpA2d

Build (as seen in Video) -- https://i.imgur.com/QwyK4yf.png

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There isn't really too much to it. Keep up Liquid Lightning and Blockade as much as possible, refresh Curse as soon as possible when it has run out. Use a procced frag when its up (prioritize this over recasting curse, since you have a chance of getting another proc this way). If there are clashes between Wall, Liquid and Curse, better to recast dots early than let them run out for a bit too long.

In execute, you can continue to use curse if you know you will get both curses off (12 seconds needed). Otherwise, keep up Liquid Lightning and Wall. Frag Proc's are fairly similar in strength to Endless Fury. If you need to keep up Minor Prophecy or sustain better, use Frags here once in a while when you can (~300 Magicka cheaper than Endless Fury). Otherwise, you can just spam Endless Fury and hope you get lucky too with bonus implosion procs.

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Proposed Changes from 4.2.0:

- Crystal Fragments:
- Increased the damage of the proc from this ability to 20% from 10%.
- This ability’s proc now has a very brief minimum travel time before it hits your target.
- You can no longer get a Crystal Fragment proc while you are not actively engaged in combat.

- Combat pets will now take 0 damage while in a Dungeon, Trial, or Group Arena.


From 4.2.1:

- Dark Exchange: Increased the initial resources restored by this ability and its morphs by 50%.

From 4.2.0 which may affect this:

- Crystal Fragments (morph):
- The icon on your action bar now changes when you have an instant-cast proc.
- Fixed an issue where using the instant-cast proc would cause you to stop blocking, and would prevent you from taking other actions for 0.2 seconds.

- Dark Exchange: This ability and its morphs now restore half their resources immediately, and the other half over 20 seconds. Total resources restored has been increased by approximately 2%. The Health restored remains unchanged.
- Dark Deal (morph): This morph now also has a cost reduction bonus as its morph effect.

- Bound Armor: Increased the bonus to block mitigation granted by this ability and its morphs to 36% from 20%.

- Mages’ Fury: Fixed an issue where using this ability was not counting towards the Expert Mage passive.

(For Pet-Sorcs):

- Daedric Curse
- Daedric Prey (morph): Decreased the cost of this morph by approximately 20%.
- Summon Unstable Familiar: Decreased the cost of the special attack from this ability and the Volatile Familiar morph by approximately 15%.
- Summon Unstable Clannfear (morph): Decreased the cost of the special attack from this morph by approximately 33%.
- Summon Winged Twilight - Summon Twilight Tormentor (morph): Decreased the cost of the special attack from this morph by approximately 15%.

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