I thought maining a minion necro.
But Sorc looks pretty fun. what is more beginner friendly.
Do you have a solid build for the launch.
I saw freeze source - but people say it wont hold for the long run
I saw combination of freeze and lightning - seems pretty dope
I saw Fireball - firewall - hydra build - people say the will main it.
Any build that you suggest, that it is fun and vailable.
Pick what you enjoy and make changes if you need. I wouldn’t worry too much about how good some unknown might or might not be. I think some skills will require more itemization to make certain builds work fully. Like firewall seems low entry and safe but some other skills look like it’ll take a few aspects to really shine
As for sorc builds, I don’t know too much. I built mine with lightning while levelling and then switched to a single target fire build for ashava. I tried Frost but didn’t like it at all. I’ll have to try one as a seasonal character and experiment.
Yeah this is a big part of the fun, IMO. I don’t really plan on looking at build guides unless I start struggling with something, which I’m doubtful will happen.
Usually once I go into “copy the meta” mode in a game the boredom sets in pretty quickly.
Nah sorc is full dead, received extremely heavy nerf to all her skills and passives. Play something else.
Rogue soloed Ashava at 4 mins on WT2 and he will one shot anyone in pvp with strongest single target skill in the game and he has dash. Play rogue and be happy. Everyone should forget about sorc, been once good now is trash.
Try the Stun-Gun Build. All Shock and Stun effects, all the time. Stacking skills that cause Stun and care about that, with some side of crackling energy if you can fit it in.
Basic
Arc Lash (speced for stun)
Spark (for enchant)
Core
Chain Lightning
Charged Bolts (for enchant)
Defensive
Teleport
Fire Shield
Conjuration
Lightning Spear (if going crackling)
Mastery
Ball Lightning
Ultimate
Unstable Currents
*passive Convulsions x3 (for max stun rate)
Passive
Vyr’s Mastery or Overflowing Energy (if you go crackling)
The goal of this build is to stun enemies thru using shock abilities constantly and by burning cooldowns, hopefully reducing teleport cooldown to an absolute minimum at end game.
You need to run the Arc Lash enchant for this one as a primary for free stuns. Spark Enchantment is needed if you go Crackling as your sub theme. Otherwise I’d go with the Ball Lightning or Charged Bolts enchant for increased DPS and work on crit stacking as well.
Your Paragon Board will focus on all the stun effect synergies in the Static Surge Board. If you go sub-theme Crackling you will want to focus on the Ceaseless Conduit board as well otherwise focus on the Enchant board.
I think it’s definitely possible to make a good Fire build too, I just couldn’t find a setup I really liked that didn’t require a unique item. And a summoning build will be very strong if they unnerf iceblades a bit so you can actually sustain blades.
EDIT: Had some inspiration for an Incinerate build: (https://d4builds.gg/builds/6156711a-dad6-4855-922a-3aa5686c40c0/)
Teleport is required regardless of your other choices.
If you go fire it is a little more kiting.
Ice is pretty solid, I just did not use ice blades as I found them too slow to conjure and they did not really impact too much. There is a nice synergy for barriers and building off effects on frozen, when you can just freeze with frost nova. This was my favorite.
Lightning… chained lightning was pretty strong…but I only started this route and switched over to ice…not sure how strong the synergy is later in the tree. Teleport is a must have ability for all of the builds though. Don’t underestimate mobility.
Take glass cannon passive. A lot of the passives are good in this tree, but glass cannon was the only one I thought was required,
I really want Frozen Orb to be good in endgame, it was rather meh in the betas. That’s what my first sorc is going to be. But Necro will be my first class probably. I’ll probably make 3 different necro builds. Necro to me seems the most fun, but that’s due to the fact that there’s more builds I like, and corpse explosion which is just a blast…
Necro and sorc were both super strong even after the nerfs so either one will be a good starter.
If you look at the builds I used for the first set of Beta’s and the Server Slam, they might as well been from these sites, even though I only used them for reference the final outcome looks pretty similar.