DraQ
Arcane
To be a powerful sorcerer you need to do what sorcerers do - develop your own spells, and put some thought in it - just trying to pile up different kinds of damage doesn't count as putting thought in it, you need to think about how effects interact and what can you accomplish by making them work in concert.What I wouldn't give to laugh my way through the combat scenes. I actually want to be a powerful sorcerer that can destroy everything in his path, but as of right now, I'm so pathetically weak it's kind of shameful. Having a lot of trouble leveling up, too.
As long as you have racial or sign magicka boost (altmer, breton, atronach, apprentice, mage) you can easily become extremely powerful as a wizard.
Most people don't however, because they cannot into spellmaker, instead preferring to whine about how mages are gimped.