Solo Magicka Sorcerer Build - ESO Guide

• Traveling Knife (Magic, Assassin's Misery, Berserk) - a spammable which increases chance to apply Status Effects on affected enemies by 100% for 10 seconds, and grants you Minor Berserk for 20 seconds, increasing your damage done by 5%.
• Liquid Lightning - a 15 second ground DoT which grants you the Conduit synergy which deals damage around you.
• Bound Armaments - passively gives you Major Savagery and Major Prophecy , increasing your Critical Chance by 12%. Your Light and Heavy Attacks build stacks, and at 4 stacks you can cast it to send 4 blades at your target. The tooltip doesn't say it, but these blades have an increased chance to proc Status Effects, and since this is basically 4 hits in one ability, it procs a lot of Sundered .
• Crystal Fragments - is an ability that has 33% chance to become empowered whenever you use an ability with a cost. Use it whenever it procs. This ability will proc the Exploitation passive, increasing your Critical Chance by 6%.
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Shock Damage, Lingering Torment, Resolve) - deals damage in an AoE, applies a 22 second DoT and grants you Minor Resolve , increasing your armor by 2974. It is delayed until the next ability with a cost.
• Power Overload - an ultimate we won't be using most of the time, but we'll keep slotted on frontbar for the passive 108 Weapon and Spell Damage from Expert Mage passive.
• Hurricane - your source of Major Resolve which is a crucial defensive buff, and it also deals decent damage.
• Critical Surge - your source of Major Brutality and Major Sorcery that will also heal you for 3300 whenever you deal critical damage, up to once every second. The heal itself can also be a critical heal
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely strong ability that does a multitude of things. It's completely free to cast so it'll help you sustain. It applies Major Breach , which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 which is a massive damage increase. It also applies Burning , Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these Status Effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies' damage done by 5%
• Elemental Blockade - a 15 second ground DoT which constantly applies your Weapon Damage enchantment and deals more damage thanks to Crushing Wall .
• Barbed Trap - a DoT that applies Hemorrhaging and grants you Minor Force , increasing your Critical Damage by 10%.
• Summon Charged Atronach - the most powerful ultimate Sorcerer has access to. It will also keep proccing Concussion status effect which will keep up the Minor Vulnerability debuff, which increases enemies' damage taken by 5%

Liquid Lightning is the first skill that has to go if you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else

• Resolving Vigor - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from Resolving Vigor is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics. It replaces Ulfsild's Contingency since both apply Minor Resolve .
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach which can be used instead of Elemental Susceptibility in AoE fights
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Shock Damage, Gladiator's Tenacity, Resolve) - a different script combination which trades the DoT from Lingering Torment for the mitigation from Gladiator's Tenacity. Use it in fights where you need more damage mitigation.
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection , reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%.
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight
• Ball of Lightning - an ability that teleports you forward. Use it in fights where you need more mobility or in fights where this teleport allows you to invalidate some mechanic

Pre-buff

• Critical Surge
• Hurricane
• Ulfsild's Contingency