Yeah, I had no intention of playing Sorcerer season 1.
I had fun leveling with my Hydras/Firewall build, but it’s too situational (CC dependant) and when you’re caught in a room full of stunlocking or ranged monsters in a high NM dungeon, you’re pretty much a siting duck. Unless they really buff fire spells and burning as a whole and increase sorcerer survivability outside of running or cooldowns, I’m not leveling another Sorcerer and let’s face it, I’ll probably skip a few seasons before doing the same class and theme combo.l anyway to keep things a bit fresh.
Already played a druid, so it’s going to be Rogue, Necro or Barb for me.
Funny how non-sorc players won’t know that 100% of sorc damage is locked behind cc. And the op is probly a nub troll who can’t even win against a stationary object.
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The tower/sack is immune to cc. Highest lvl NM I cleared was 76 but it was quite stressfull. Not challenging in a Dark Souls kinda way due to all the clutter on the screen with 6 elites in a tiny room, making any meaninful decision making impossible, and just mashing buttons hoping for the best. Who knows what went on but somehow i won.
I tried to get all possible gear with mana stuff and damage reduction but the Helltides grind was awful.
Anywho, I hope the class will be fixed but I’m off to greener pastures.
No they can’t be frozen. Only vuln applies. These things take forever to kill because most of my kit is all based off CC. That dungeon with doors you have to break have the same problem.
These things alone show part of the sorc issues. We do nothing except when you can chill, freeze, stun. When you can do those things, things tend to melt or blowup. When you can’t you might as well not bother because you’ll be there an hour. There is no in between. The power curve is terrible. Especially when you make things intentionally not CC’able. You either do no damage or a ton of damage.
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While sorc problems with constructs are well known, sorc from video has suspiciously low values of many important stats (and no aspect of Frozen Memories, it seems)…
This is hilarious. I’m 76 and I am not looking forward to end-game.
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Your damage should be higher than that, im doing x4 damage compare to you on these structure @@
I can even carry 3 people in NM 60-70, the structure is like x3 more tanky than going solo and i can shoot them just fine
I played WOW 1.0 once and wanted to sling lightning bolts like Thor. My damage sucked but I’m also a completionlist so I respecced to resto and cleared Naxx. But I wanted to be Thor, not Freya.
Reading up on Diablo 4 I was very happy since there was supposed to be many “interesting choices”. Hell yeah! This time I’m going to be Thor goddammit even though the basic skill animation of arc lash looks like my blind granny trying to swat a fly.
The below video is evidence of my failure, not only of me being Thor but also of me playing the “interesting choice”. Critique my gameplay please.
That affixes, that flatout increase or decrease your dmg output exist in the first place is telling volumes about the quality of devs that worked on the game <.<
AND SO DOES THIS BLOODY THING. Bruh, whoever tested this and thought it was good, must have been fighting two mobs at a time all the time.
There are many variables to making a game, a complex task indeed, but NM 60+ feels contrived. There simply is no gear supporting it for sorcerer or the game logic is faulty. It feels like I cannot affect the outcome in any meningful way, even grinding perfect gear, and I have to rely on luck.
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I’m playing a lvl 67 Nightmare dungeon right now and was looking to see if anyone had builds to do these. I have the exact same problem. I’ve crafted like 5 top tier build and non of them work really at all… at lvl 65 it takes so long to do these that the game becomes not fun. Can someone from the dev team make a build that would work on this to show the community it’s actually possible… the only thing that will work is northwars blizzard build but the glacial aspect hasn’t dropped for me at a high tear… so like… I have to grind for that and get lucky to proceed at all with the Sorc?
For info, last NM dungeon I did was a tier 76, and I completed it. It took over 25 minutes though, but it was an anti CC map with mostly ranged mobs.
What happens is that even if a member lf the dev team came up with a video showing it’s possible to beat NM100 and that the class is fine (and it is judging by the fact that some sorcerer did manage to beat NM100), it would require an almost perfect maxed gear to get to NM100 and some sigil cherrypicking and a good lot of luck when it comes to having almost no ranged mobs in the map.
Devs can play with that gear without any effort, while we have to grind for it. In over 145 hours of play with my Sorcerer, I’m nowhere near BiS and only one of my item is maxed 4/4 affixes. All my others items are either 3/4 (obviously not maxed at all) or very low/mid roll 4/4. It’s that hard to get.
Some lucky players got their max roll gear by lvl 75, but that’s obviously not the norm.
I tried Diablo IV, I really did. I adjusted my build and got better gear to do end game content but it’s even worse than World of Warcraft 1.0. No matter what it’s unreasonable as a sorcerer (I wanted to be elemental shammy back then, no dice).
It’s unfatomable how the squishiness of the class hasn’t been fixed yet. There simply is no gameplay decisions that can reasonably avoid death in NM70+ and that is very very bad gameplay design. Playing Remnant 2 instead of Season 1 is now a very easy decision.
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He’s playing Shatter combo spec. To do damage he needs one of two things: CC stacked on top of each other or high mob density to trigger cascade of explosions. The only option he had, was to respec or leave xD
Random mound pillar>>>>>>>>>Uber Lilith
That sounds great paleniozord. So I need to git gud afterall and the class is fine. Can you please post more information, like a build and gear spec?
Did i say anything about state of the class? That’s just a giant wall for your build, Pyro/Lightning would not have this issue, but plenty of other problems. Some affixes are simply impossible for certain builds. And that’s to be expected.
Hitting a roadblock like this so early however, shows glaring design issues though.
you should see my Frozen Orb build 
Having now beat a lvl 88 NM dungeon I bring you a short video of what the experience is like most of the time. Fun!
https://youtu.be/MqHLIoc_pr
