Sorcden 96K Permanent Pet Build For Update 46
Season of the Worm Cult
Introduction
Welcome to the latest Pet Sorc build for ESO. This pet sorcerer utilises subclassing to include the Warden's Bear Ultimate, so it has three permanent pets. My goal was not to fill the screen with pets, of which around seven is possible, but to create a build with permanent pets (ie no summoned by procs or skills) that could travel Tamriel with you and yet still do the maximum possible damage. I am certain that the damage of this build cannot as yet be bettered but if you think you know a way to improve it please do let me know.
Here is the Superstar layout for the build showing everything you need to know to make this very fun Sorcden work for you in ESO. (Ignore the back bar skills, I just hadn't bothered taking them off).
Build Discussion
Sets
I have drawn on the previous work here from Alex and confirmed that Noble Dualist does indeed give the maximum possible damage for this build. It does require you to stay within melee range (7 metres) one LA or HA every 15 seconds but that is very easy to accomplish. Let's look at the sets.
Noble Dualist
Light Set from Blessed Crucible Dungeon
Providing you are within melee range (7 metres) once every 15 seconds you can massively increase your heavy attack damage by over 2000 per attack with Noble Dualist. The other lines in this set are ok although the first bonus for increased stamina is mostly useless to us as a magicka sorcden sadly, if a similar set is introduced in the future with another magicka line or even better a crit line that would be a no brainer swap-out. A very easy set to farm and I bet most of you have it already.
Sergeant's Mail
Heavy Set from Wayrest Sewers
This is standard fare for all HA sorcs for years, giving up to 2580 damage to your heavy attack builds, only one other bonus is of much use to us and the downside is this set is a heavy set, so it's best to use this set on jewellery and weapons as we want to maintain our penetration and crit damage from the light and medium sets. Again another very easy set to farm if you don't already have it.
Slimecraw One Piece
Also from Wayrest sewers is the Slimecraw mask, medium weight will give slightly more crit damage. This used to be the #1 choice as before update 46 it had the highest crit of any one piece, it has been nerfed somewhat but is still a good choice.
Oakensoul Ring
This mythic is absolutely vital for this build. If I take off the Oakensoul ring and run another parse the damage will be around 30K less! The amount of buffs it provides is amazing and nothing comes close. It does restrict you to one bar but that doesn't matter in this case as in order to have 3 pets out all the time you need to utilise 6 of your two-bar skills, this doesn't leave enough skills to make up for this missing buffs from oakensoul, even with the new HA mythic from update 46, Rakkhat's Voidmantle. This is the most tedious item to farm for the build, but again I bet many of you already have this mythic as it's so damn useful and is usually top of every player's mythic list.
Conclusion
If you follow this build as laid out in the superstar infographic above you will be able to achieve 96K possibly more (I am overseas right now and my ping is not brilliant), the rotation is easy, the build is easy to use being one bar, it has great survivability and can be used in any content at any level (bar one fight in cloudrest which may see you die because you can't swap bars when required).
Here is the Combat Metrics parse for the 96K run I did.
