The Elder Scrolls Online's Sorcerer class has access to spells that primarily focus on dealing ranged combat damage. Its three skill trees, Dark Magic, Daedric Summoning, and Storm Calling, each of which is oriented around a different aspect of damage – whether that be through summoning Daedric minions or dealing devastating AoE attacks.

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The Elder Scrolls Online gives players a lot of customizability when it comes to classes and abilities. If players want to play a tanking or support Sorcerer, weapon choice becomes all the more important. One can likely correctly guess which weapons are best for DPS Sorcerers, but the best weapons for Support or Tanking are a bit more nuanced.

Two-Hand Weapons in The Elder Scrolls Online are comprised of Greatswords, Battle Axes, and Mauls. They are designed to deal huge damage numbers in close combat while giving access to a few unique debuffs through their skill tree. One thing to keep in mind when choosing a Two-Handed Weapon for a Sorcerer, though, is how it synergizes with the class's innate skills.

Sorcerer skill tree abilities are almost entirely ranged in nature, though there are a select few prime for close combat. The Dark Exchange ability and its two morphs are self-healing skills in the Dark Magic tree, which when paired with Daedric Mines can make for a decent Bruiser Sorcerer. Two-Handed weapons just aren't totally in line with the Sorcerer's typical playstyle, though.

Restoration Staffs are the go-to primary weapon for players in the Support role for their party. The staff comes with a skill tree based around party healing, including the Radiating Regeneration morph for cleave healing as well as the Combat Prayer ability, a great two-in-one buff and heal. The class' abilities related to Support are thin, though, such as the Twilight Matriarch summon.

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While The Elder Scrolls Online puts a lot of emphasis on players being able to do anything as any class, Support just doesn't come naturally to Sorcerers – unless the player has purposefully specced into the role. Restoration Staffs make for a good secondary weapon for Sorcerers though because they naturally engage in combat from a distance. They might not be the best choice for the group healer, but they can help out when needed with some of these skills in the back bar.

Similar to Restoration Staffs, Bows are not a first-choice primary weapon for Sorcerers, but they work well as a secondary weapon. The Bow skill tree gives access to a variety of ranged control abilities, such as Focused Aim, as well as some self-healing abilities such as Draining Shot.

One of the major benefits of using a Bow in the secondary weapon slot is the fact that most of the weapon's abilities use Stamina as a resource. Typically, Sorcerers will almost exclusively use Magicka for their spells, and Stamina stays full and unused in combat. With a Bow, Sorcerers can totally their Magicka bar with their spells and switch to a Bow to avoid losing any DPS while Magicka is being recharged.

Sorcerers who are intent on getting into close combat for their builds should spec into One-Handed and Shield over Two-Handed because it simply helps them stay alive better. The Two-Handed weapon skill tree gives almost exclusively DPS-oriented skills, while the One-Handed and Shield skill tree gives Sorcerers great defensive abilities it wouldn't otherwise have access to.

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Defensive Posture and its two morphs are fantastic self-buffs that also come with a self-heal, while Shield Charge gives access to a reliable stun (improved through the morph Invasion). Sorcerers thrive on the outside of combat, but with this skill tree and its abilities, a player can become a potent close-combat battlemage.

One-Handed and Shield weapons work well in the back bar for Sorcerers, too, for the same reason the Bows work so well; One-Handed and Shield abilities tend to use Stamina, while other Sorcerer abilities tend to use Magicka.

Players new to The Elder Scrolls Online tend to make a lot of assumptions about the game, but one obvious assumption rings true: the best weapons, and thus the best weapon skill tree, for Sorcerers to use is the Destruction Staff skill tree. This skill tree is iconic of damage-dealing spellcasters, and it pairs extremely well with the Sorcerer's innate class skills.

It grants access to debuffing skills like Pulsar, which reduces enemy max health, as well as passive abilities like Tri Focus which gives different abilities based on the type of staff equipped. These abilities are among the highest-damage abilities in The Elder Scrolls Online, and abilities like Wall of Elements can even give Sorcerers some Support utility.

The one downside of the skill tree, though, is that Sorcerers will have to make some tough choices on which abilities to include from the Destruction Staff skill tree and which to include from the Sorcerer skill tree.

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