| Ultimate Skills |
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Summon Storm Atronach
 | Summon an immobile storm atronach at the target location. Its arrival deals 2249Shock Damageand stuns enemies for 3 seconds. The atronach zaps the closest enemy, dealing 1124Shock Damageevery 1 second. An ally near the atronach can activate the Charged Lightning synergy, granting the ally and the atronachMajor Berserk, increasing their damage done by 10% for 8 seconds. Usage: this is the base morph of an ultra powerful damage ultimate. Consider one of the strongest single target in the game with great group utility this is a must have skill in PvE. |
Greater Storm Atronach
| Summon an immobile storm atronach at the target location. Its arrival deals 2249Shock Damageand stuns enemies for 3 seconds. The atronach zaps the closest enemy, dealing 1124Shock Damageevery 1 second. An ally near the atronach can activate the Charged Lightning synergy, granting the ally and the atronachMajor Berserk, increasing their damage done by 10% for 8 seconds. Usage: this is one of the top single target DPS ultimate in the game and great as a starting player or later on in end game. Major Berserk means great group utility and the duration being so long that it’s nearly constantly up with the low cost of this. I swap in and out destruction staff ultimate depending on boss fights or situation. Keep in mind in PvP this is insane for dueling and hard to counter in a 1 on 1. |
Summon Charged Atronach
| Summon an immobile storm atronach at the target location. Its arrival deals 2323Shock Damageand stuns enemies for 3 seconds. The atronach zaps the closest enemy, dealing 1124Shock Damageevery 1 second, and periodically deals 2323Shock Damageto enemies around it. An ally near the atronach can activate the Charged Lightning synergy, granting the ally and the atronachMajor Berserk, increasing their damage done by 10% for 8 seconds. Usage: this morph doesn’t really make sense to me and I honestly never select it. |
| Active Skills |
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Summon Unstable Familiar
| Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric familiar to fight at your side. The familiar’s attacks deal 347Shock Damage. Once summoned, you can activate the familiar’s special ability for 3510 Magicka, dealing 580Shock Damageevery 2 seconds for 10 seconds to enemies near him. The familiar remains until killed or unsummoned. Usage: the skills base morph is awesome damage and distraction for running a pet. I’d suggest using this right away as stamina or magicka user because the morph choices are strong right from the start as a sorc. In ESO make sure to double bar the pet so it doesn’t turn on and off and keep in mind they do die and you’ll need to recast them. |
Summon Unstable Clannfear
| Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric clannfear to fight at your side. The clannfear’s headbutt deals 358Physical Damage, while its tail spike hits nearby enemies for 358Physical Damageafter 1 second. Once summoned, you can activate the clannfear’s special ability for 4500 Magicka, healing you for 5121 and the clannfear for 2560. The clannfear remains until killed or unsummoned. Usage: this thing not only does damage but heals you! Consider this the stamina based morph but it’s great starting the game when you have limited healing. Just recast and boom burst heal. As a stamina sorc running this and critical surge you’ll be as sturdy as a tank. |
Summon Volatile Familiar
| Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric familiar to fight at your side. The familiar’s attacks deal 358Shock Damage. Once summoned, you can activate the familiar’s special ability for 3510 Magicka, dealing 599Shock Damageevery 2 seconds for 10 seconds to enemies near him. The final pulse will stun all enemies hit for 3 seconds. The familiar remains until killed or unsummoned. Usage: this is your typical magicka morph. If you have good healing, you can use this out the gate for good damage, distraction and a stun! |
Daedric Curse
| Curse an enemy with a destructive rune, dealing 2904Magic Damageto the target and 1335Magic Damageto all other nearby enemies after 6 seconds. You can have only one Daedric Curse active at a time. Usage: this is your hard hitting damage over time that explodes. |
Daedric Prey
| Curse an enemy with a destructive rune, dealing 2904Magic Damageto the target and 1335Magic Damageto all other nearby enemies after 6 seconds. While the curse is active, your pets deal an additional 20% damage to the target. You can have only one Daedric Prey active at a time. Usage: this morph is for the double pet loadout in PvE or PvP. It strengthens your pets damage by 20% but you have to recast more frequently every 6 seconds. Most folks drop a main spammable, slot two pets and use crystal fragments as a main spammable and keep this up most of the time. It works well, but I consider it a dull playstyle and avoid it. |
Haunting Curse
| Curse an enemy with a destructive rune, dealing 2999Magic Damageto the target and 1379Magic Damageto all other nearby enemies after 3.5 seconds. The curse will continue to haunt the enemy and explode a second time, dealing 2999Magic Damageto the target and 1379Magic Damageto all other nearby enemies after an additional 8.5 seconds. You can have only one Haunting Curse active at a time. Usage: This is the 1 pet or no pet DoT in PvE and PvP. This does great damage and explodes twice. It’s much easier to maintain and in PvP you can center your burst around the time this blows up for huge damage in a small window. |
Summon Winged Twilight
| Call on Azura to send a winged twilight to fight at your side. The winged twilight’s zaps deal 347Shock Damageand its kicks deal 347Shock Damage. Once summoned, you can activate the winged twilight’s special ability for 4590 Magicka, causing it to heal a friendly target for 3486 and itself for 1742. The winged twilight remains until killed or unsummoned. Usage: here’s the second pet which does a lot of damage just having it slotted. The base morph is insane strong because you can recast for magicka and heal your or a target. It scales off highest offensive stats thus even as a damage dealer you can get massive burst healing with it in PvE or PvP. |
Summon Twilight Tormentor
| Call on Azura to send a twilight tormentor to fight at your side. The twilight tormentor’s zaps deal 718Shock Damageand its kicks deal 718Shock Damage. Once summoned, you can activate the twilight tormentor’s special ability for 2970 Magicka, causing it to deal 53% more damage to enemies above 50% Health for 15 seconds. The twilight tormentor remains until killed or unsummoned. Usage: this morph is the damage dealing morph. It’s great in PvE because even just double baring this will give you massive amounts of damage. Cast above 50% health for even more damage so consider this another DoT or something to keep in your rotation until bosses near 50% HP. |
Summon Twilight Matriarch
| Call on Azura to send a twilight matriarch to fight at your side. The twilight matriarch’s zaps deal 347Shock Damageand its kicks deal 347Shock Damage. Once summoned, you can activate the twilight matriarch’s special ability for 4590 Magicka, causing it to heal 2 friendly targets for 3600 and itself for 1799. The twilight matriarch remains until killed or unsummoned. Usage: I prefer this morph in PvE outside of a trial and PvP due to the utility. You can literally carry you team EVEN as a DPS using this ability. Healer goes down, no worries bird spam. Tank goes down, no worries I got it, dodge roll bird spam. Everyone near death in PvP, no worries bird spam. One of the most powerful abilities in the game for utility because it scales so well even as an offensive build. |
Conjured Ward
| Conjure globes of Daedric energy for protection, granting a damage shield for you and your pets that absorbs 3718 damage for 6 seconds. Damage shield strength capped at 50% of yourMaximum Health. Usage: this is your survival tool as a mag sorc. These shield scale in effectiveness off max magicka. Thus maintaining high max magicka pool is your survivability mechanism in PvP primarily. This is why most mag sorcs get 45,000 to 50,000 shields and if you constantly cast them, you’ll never touch their health. However, it takes a high amount of skill to constantly keep up a 6 second shield so if it doesn’t come natural, that’s the case with everyone. |
Hardened Ward
| Conjure globes of Daedric energy for protection, granting a damage shield for you and your pets that absorbs 5121 damage for 6 seconds. Damage shield strength capped at 60% of yourMaximum Health. Usage: this morph is the tankier of the two giving you 10% more shield strength. If you’re good at bar swapping and maintaining shields, this is it! |
Empowered Ward
| Conjure globes of Daedric energy for protection, granting a damage shield for you and your pets that absorbs 3718 damage for 10 seconds. Damage shield strength capped at 50% of yourMaximum Health. Also grantsMinor Intellectto you and nearby allies, increasing yourMagicka Recoveryby 15% for 10 seconds. Usage: this is the group utility morph and one I select in solo or group PvE outside of trials. Because your group with get 15% magicka recovery and that extra 10% doesn’t matter than much in PvE. |
Bound Armor
| Protect yourself with the power of Oblivion, creating a suit of Daedric mail that increases your block mitigation by 36% for 3 seconds. While slotted, yourMaximum Magickais increased by 5% Usage: this base morph is a bit odd, but consider this skill a good set and forget skill. It increases magicka so starting its great and doesn’t require mages guild. You can cast it for block mitigation but with 3 second window, I never use it in PvE tanking. |
Bound Armaments
| Arm yourself with the power of Oblivion for 40 seconds, causing your Light and Heavy Attacks to summon a Bound weapon for 10 seconds, up to 4 times. You can reactivate the ability for half cost to arm the weapons, causing them to strike your target for 972Physical Damageevery 0.3 seconds. While slotted, yourMaximum Staminais increased by 8% and your Light Attacks deal 10% more damage. Usage: this is the stamina based morph that builds up stacks for a massive attack. At 4 stacks your icon will change color similar to C Frags and you’ll fire it off for big time damage. Slotting gives you massive benefit increasing stamina and light attack damage. Thus you can see how powerful slotting this along with Crystal Fragment is for a light attack nuke. You can even use the psijic order skill elemental weapons too and get similar results. |
Bound Aegis
| Protect yourself with the power of Oblivion, creating a suit of Daedric mail that increases your block mitigation by 40% for 3 seconds. While slotted, yourMaximum Magickais increased by 8% and you gainMinor Resolve, increasing yourPhysical ResistanceandSpell Resistanceby 2974. Usage: consider this the magicka users choice and with a whooping 8% magicka it’s the go to front bar slot for PvE and PvP. It also increases mitigation for slotting making a great all around skill. |
| Passive Skills |
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Rebate
| You restore 300 Magicka or Stamina when one of your non-Ultimate Daedric Summoning abilities end. The resource returned is dictated by the ability’s cost. |
Power Stone
| Reduces the cost of your Ultimate abilities by 15%. Note: Sorcs don’t have an ulty generation passive, this is what you get. Dirt cheap ultimates instead. |
Daedric Protection
| Increases your Health andStamina Recoveryby 20% while you have a Daedric Summoning ability slotted. Note: this is important to note and why there’s a big benefit in double baring a pet or summoning skill. |
Expert Summoner
| Increases yourMaximum Healthby 8% while you have a Daedric Summoning ability active on yourself. Note: same thing here, maintaining ability = huge health pool. |
