Return of Reckoning

Thank you all for your posts so far. The common thread I am seeing is that of not knowing sorc mechanics, and that may be it. My meager understanding is that dark magic works like a lot of the other class systems where as you use certain abilities your dark magic increases, increasing your dmg ...

Ok, so I rolled a sorcerer character the other day I like the lore and I really want to love the idea of a dark magic based offensive caster. However I have some problems (obviously)

Starting around lvl 5 I began to notice that my dmg output was extremely small compared to other classes I have ...