Worst Sorceress leveling experience by far.

edit2: 0.4 update. Cold is strong for leveling, lightning is strong but squishy. I guess fire is just a bad leveling spec. Which is fine because having certain specs be strong for campaign is expected.

Cold = ice nova + snap (frost darts single target still a bit low)
Lightning = oos + spark/ember (ember for single target early)

edit3: This is simulating league starts btw, not with leveling or traded gear.

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Worse than 0.2

Act 1 is easy with the tools you are given.
Frost Bomb + Flame Wall + Spark
Orb of Storms + Ember Fusillade

Act 2 scaling of enemy hp vs Spells is way off.
I now have to cast like a 5 button combo just to kill white monsters.

If you go lightning, you have no single target ability.
Spark on a 2 link falls off. Arc is terrible for single target.

Now it's Flame Wall + Spark x5 for white mobs, can't kills magic mobs.
Frost Bomb + Orb of Storms + Ember Fusillade(useless lightning infusion) for rares and bosses. On top of having to keep up exposure(Frost Bomb), ele weakness, to do crap damage.

You have to go multi-element with no pay-off. Infusions should have added flat damage by default on top of their mechanic.

Can't comment on cold.

I swapped to pure fire with Living Bomb + Fireball + Ember Fusillade.

I needed to BUY

Staff
+3 Fire Skills
+110 Spell Damage
+60% Ignite Magnitude

TO DO WORSE DAMAGE THAN AN ED/C WITCH.

ALSO INCENTIVIZING MULTI ELEMENT WHEN IT'S NOT VIABLE FOR LEVELING.

Devs must be play-testing with like +5 all spell skills by default.

edit: Also ailment threshold in a2 jumps by a lot so any type of early damage increases after inflicting ailments are kind of bad.

Don't worry. I play ED/C Witch and I hate my life just as much.

I feel like the delevopers, the balancing team both working in separate buildings. And someone does not even playing the game.
Sometime I feel that WE are the testing team, but not the devs. Which always make me questioning their balancing design choices.

Get Orb of Storms for example. New changes sounds only good on paper. But in reality...
The skill itself never catching stars from the sky but it was something. Right now it just dead. Like dead dead. Unusable.

I guess we stuck with such balancing for another 4 months. And they gonna watch with pikachu face why even Sorceress is playing Bows

Cold only is absolute horseshit.

UNPLAYABLE DEAD class.
worse then in 0.2

Most sorc spell combos are ok till viper, then it's just complete rubbish heh.

You're playing an Elemental caster Sorcerer. That's one of the problems =D

Both Blood Mage and Infernalist are superior for damage output and sustain. Blood Mage you pretty much just go. Infernalist you have to sit on Demon Form till you can handle Grinning Immolation.

Jokes aside Varashta is 'fine' but I think even Oracle beats the other options.

I spoke out against the Infusion system week one. The mini-game of picking them up was even worse than now and if I'm not mistake Firestorm is the only skill with all 3 infusion options.

Everything else is very limited. Probably on purpose.

Yeah I hate the sorc.

Not sure why we are necroing a 2025 build and skill issue thread but here we are

If youre struggling back then with sorc elemental skills in the campaign you really just did not build correctly simple as.



With the recent changes to staves you would have to just not know how to play the game to struggle with any spell damage in the game now.

Sorc is full OP. show your build and gems.

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Mashgesture#2912 schrieb:

Not sure why we are necroing a 2025 build and skill issue thread but here we are

If youre struggling back then with sorc elemental skills in the campaign you really just did not build correctly simple as.



With the recent changes to staves you would have to just not know how to play the game to struggle with any spell damage in the game now.

Yeah, I bumped it after editing it so hopefully it provides some good feedback.

I definitely didn't build correctly in 0.3 and was trying to make a pure fire sorc work for the campaign.

After some more campaigns, I think cold and lightning are in a decent spot.