MAGICKA SORCERER SUBCLASS SOLO GUIDE

• Crystal Fragments - a spammable which will heal you for 10% of Max HP thanks to the Blood Magic passive. Casting any ability has a 33% chance to make next Crystal Fragments cast stronger and cheaper
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Shock, Lingering Torment, Intellect and Endurance) - a 22 second DoT which also grants you Minor Intellect and Endurance, increasing your Stamina and Magicka Recoveries by 15%. It can also be used as an AoE spammable.
• Relentless Focus - an ability that will cause your Light Attacks to generate up to 10 stacks. You can spend 4 stacks to fire a powerful arrow that also heals you if you're in Melee range. It will also passively grant you Major Savagery and Prophecy.
• Barbed Trap - a DoT that will also apply Hemorrhage status effect at the start and grant you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. It will also passively grant you 3% Weapon and Spell Damage through the Slayer passive
• Traveling Knife (Physical, Lingering Torment, Berserk) - a 20 second DoT which grants you Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. This is the ultimate you should use in Single Target fights. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• 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 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 loaded 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% and it will also apply Minor Brittle for 4 seconds if you were on your Ice Staff bar while the Chilled effect procced, which is always going to happen at the beginning when you cast Elemental Susceptibility. Minor Brittle increase Critical Damage taken by 10%. The Chilled proc will also synergise with our Elemental Blockade
• Elemental Blockade - this ability will constantly apply your Weapon Damage enchantment. It will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled, and they’ll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Soul Burst (Shock, Lingering Torment, Courage) - an AoE DoT which grants you Minor Courage, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215
• Shooting Star - a powerful ultimate that deals damage in an AoE and grants you Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial blast, up to 6 enemies. Use it in AoE fights or when you start fights with high amount of Ultimate stored up

Soul Burst is the first skill that has to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else. If it has to be a frontbarred skill then the first skill that has to go is Ulfsild's Contingency

• Resolving Vigor - use it for more difficult fights where the pressure is constant and thus you need the Minor Resolve. It can also be used as your main source of healing in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order or Critical Surge
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Shock, Gladiator's Tenacity, Force) - a replacement for Barbed Trap in fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a delayed AoE damage that also grants you 8% damage reduction for 8 seconds and Minor Force for 22 seconds, which increases your Critical Damage by 10%. You should recast it every 8 seconds when under pressure and every 22 seconds otherwise
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach for trash fights or boss fights with lots of important adds
• 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

Priority List

I don't use a static rotation so this is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh

• Use Critical Surge
• Use Hurricane
• Use Elemental Susceptibility
• If you have Crystal Fragments proc, use it
• Use Elemental Blockade
• Use Barbed Trap
• Use Traveling Knife
• If you're at 9 stacks use Relentless Focus
• Use Soul Burst
• Use Ulfsild's Contingency
• If it's an AoE fight or you're starting at or close to 185 Ultimate, use Shooting Star
• If it's a Single Target fight, use Soul Harvest
• If you have at least 4 stacks use Relentless Focus
• Use Crystal Fragments

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Critical Surge
• Hurricane
• Soul Burst
• Ulfsild's Contingency