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Help me save my Sorcerer

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Nira
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Posted On: 04/19/2014 at 03:07 AM

Played one in beta.  Basic game play was two pets, nuke twice, and lighting for the kill.  Rinse and repeat. 

On live I’m trying to play PVE like I would in PVP: I only have the basic first pet because it seems a necessity but to kill mobs it’s still “nuke twice, and lighting for the kill”.  Even with lots of other abilities that I did not have in beta.

I’m level 27 the thought of “nuke twice, and lighting for the kill” to 50 let alone veteran levels is not something I want to do.  I’m board

I have always played a wizard in MMO’s and this is the first time I’m thinking of changing classes.

Am I missing something?  Does anyone have suggestions on specing my sorcerer so game play is a bit more varied?

Thank in advance.

Robert

 

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Charlatan
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Replied On: 04/19/2014 at 04:16 AM PDT
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I know it's sort of a lame answer, but in reality your Sorcerer can be whatever you want it to be. And there's no reason a Sorcerer has to nuke twice and throw out a lightning spell to kill mobs.

I'm playing a Sorcerer, and he wears medium armor, wields a 2-H weapon, and uses lightning spells to kill stuff. Since any class can use any weapon and armor, you are only limited by the fact that you're locked into the Sorcerer skill lines versus having, say, Templar or Nightblade skills.

Assuming you don't want to start over with another class, how can you mix it up? Well, there's all of the Destruction staff skills (which it doesn't sound like you use). There's Resto staff skills, there's the Mage's Guild abilities. You can swap in a Bow, move towards being a Battlemage with 1-hand and shield, you can get Silver Bolts from the Fighter's Guild.

Tamriel Foundry is a good resource for ideas, especially in their class theorycrafting section. They have posts (just from looking at the first page) on a Mage's Guild build, on a Storm Knight build, on a melee skirmisher build and more - so really, there are options, and the only limit is on whatever crazy idea you can come up with.

 



» Edited on: 2014-04-19 04:16:44

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Ridire de na Fhiaigh Donn
Nira
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Replied On: 04/19/2014 at 04:31 AM PDT

Thank you Charlatan.  

You are right.  I guess I rolled the what I think is the standard "wizard" toon.  No thinking outside the box. :(

 

 I'll go check out Tamriel Foundry for ideas and I'm low level enough a respec would not break the bank.

 

 

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Dirkdaring
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Replied On: 04/19/2014 at 03:10 PM PDT
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One of the fun builds I ran during the betas was basicly i made my Sorc a DAOC thane , ie  lighting caster and melee damage dps ,  i wore heavy chest, legs, and shoulders , rest light armor for regen etc. then used a shield + 1h or 2 h  .

didn`t take a pet , and used the lighting attacks, and CC etc along with melee dps  was great fun and pretty effective .

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Replied On: 04/19/2014 at 05:02 PM PDT

My main is a sorcerer using 2 handers and a bow, wearing all heavy armour. Initially, I was using 2 pets for solo content so they can draw some agro and keep me more 1 on 1. Around lvl 18 i dropped both pets and now i throw a ranged spell, buff, then jump straight in with the 2 hander. A bit of sorcery for finishers. I feel a little more squishy than a conventional tank, but the build seems very viable. In pvp i have on more than one occasion been able to take out pure tanks 1 on 1. The way i see it, i can be anything with this build, from pure spellcaster to ranger to tank, with just a little bit of tweaking.

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Replied On: 04/20/2014 at 03:04 AM PDT

I can really only echo what the others have stated - except adding - that any class can be played a number of ways - so change it up!  There really is no reason to be bored with your existing class.  Doing something repetitively can be boring no matter how well it is working. 

I play my sorc like a NB and my NB as a caster.  My Sorc is mostly Storm Calling with Bow and Dual Wield.  Wears mostly medium armor for Stam regen on the bow - most of the time mobs don't even make it to me between the Lightning splash and bow attacks but when they do I switch to the dual wield which gets me weapon attacks and lightning form.  To change it up I will stealth in on a mob and begin with Surge, dagger attacks, and lightning form.   It is a very versatile class - as others have noted with all their weapons that they listed.  I've seen a couple in full heavy armor with a big two hander using surge and lightning form to just demolish mobs.   OK - have to go play my Sorc some more... :)

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Replied On: 04/20/2014 at 12:30 PM PDT
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One of the interesting builds for leveling is to get the Crystal cone cc that stops things moving, and run with other aoes.  Basically, you run a snare kite build using a ton of aoe to kill groups quickly.  Obviously this requires using a weapon with aoe, and a second setup for single target... but it does give a break in feeling like you have 2 abilities.
Sadly, the damage potential for class abilities is almost all in 5 spells, 2 of which are tier 5 abilities.  Also, sadly, the tier 5 abilities are not as effective single target as your tier 1 setup, excepting perhaps all the daedric mines hitting.  BTW, daedric mines works wonders with a melee build, for those running one.

Basically, you are looking at using weapon abilities more, and class abilities less for more variety.



» Edited on: 2014-04-20 12:33:11

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Replied On: 04/20/2014 at 04:26 PM PDT
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yup, to echo what was stated above, my sorc uses a mix of light, heavy, and medium armors with passives in each, dual weild and lightning for one weapon set and resto staff and dark/summoning as the other. there's a lot you can do with the class, actually some of the best tanks I've had in this game have been sorc's.

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Replied On: 04/20/2014 at 06:58 PM PDT

My build goal is to test this build in Tamriel Foundry: http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/mages-guild-sorcerer-high-single-target-dps-aoe-backup/

But I also raise some melee and other armor skills for me to play around later on, in case i want to try something different.

There are lots of combination you can try and play around if you have enough skill points to invest in.

Check other build ideas and see which one interest you: http://tamrielfoundry.com/forum/classes/sorcerer-class/



» Edited on: 2014-04-20 18:59:24

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