I get that the Sorc class is supposed to be a support class. Clearly Blizz had no intention of this class being a stand alone class for mid or late game. I’ve tried the arc and cold builds and they are just meh compared to Druid and Barb. Still fun for now as I am finally getting into the second paragon board.
However, explain to me why the damn blizzard skill is so damn small??? It should be at least 50% bigger radius!!! Maybe 100% bigger. The glyph that makes it 20% bigger is an absolute joke!!! Also, the damage over time never seems to work. Great for applying chill, but that is literally all it is good for. Alone, the blizzard will NOT kill anything. At one point I had dmg over time increased to about 40% and it made no difference. Barely dents a small minion. They just run through it and laugh at me for casting it.
Please do something with blizzard Blizzard!!!
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It not a damage over time spell
Then it must be bugged, as it doesn’t trigger the Fire Bolt enchantment.
firebolt enchantment only applys to direct damage blizzard is aoe damage
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It has nothing do with ‘aoe’, as there are plenty of direct damage AoE skills.
A skill being AoE and direct damage are not mutually exclusive traits.
None of Blizzard’s damage is direct damage, it’s all periodic judging by the functionality. Similar to how Firewall functions. It ticks periodically, but not direct hit is involved whatsoever. There’s no two ways about this it seems.
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nah blizz is freaking awesome for everything. boss and mob killer. make sure to utilize ice spikes, resource generation, and lucky hits 
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I think its damage even with ice spikes is inferior to ice shards pretty significantly compared to an optimized ice shards build, but I’m using a ice shards/blizzard combo since blizzard is fun. I have glacial aspect on at the moment, but I’m pretty sure it’s terrible compared to just getting another multiplier for ice shards. You also have to give up 3 total aspect slots if you want all the ice spike modifiers and the other two I don’t think improve the damage at all? I might try a full Blizzard ice spike focused build for the hell of it at some point, but I doubt it will compare in damage to ice shards.
I’m not sure if things that affect blizzard apply to the ice spikes from glacial aspect or not. IE: does crit for core/mastery aspect apply to ice spikes? Does avalanche multiplier affect ice spike damage?
I’ve read 2h are also better for both ice shards and blizzard damage, but I’m really used to having over 20% cdr on my offhand so I don’t really want to use a 2h. If I happen to find a really good 2h I might try putting aspect of control on it for even bigger burst, but I’ll probably be annoyed at the difference in cooldowns and go back to 1h+oh.
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Spent the whole way up to 65ish trying to make shatter blizz work and while it can hold it’s own in some large groups, machine gun build still absolutely blows it out of the water.
I feel like blizzard icespike relies heavily on paragon power especially the Adept glyph
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It did pick up especially once I got Adept function, more lucky, chance to chill/freeze, and shatter and cc spread aspects. Running in circles with the entire ground covered in blizzards and watching a chain reaction of ice explosions was the most satisfying thing I’ve done in the game so far, but it just lacks later on.
One interesting thing I noticed was since you have so much chance to chill and freeze, you’re an absolute stagger machine. Could be useful if they add harder group content.
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Ya i am 89 now and blizzard feels the most comfortable solo. I had to optimize my gear alot including my paragons to get decent damage. I feel like they could buff blizzard damage by 30% and it still would underperform compared to other specs and classes. Watching druid damage made me feel like I picked the wrong class. At this point im so close to 100 im just going to push thru by sheer stubbornness.
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it doesnt need to be big, stand inside it/ have it enchanted, cast it all over the place. if you are really good you know to cast it ahead of where you want to direct the mobs 
I’m just saying the skill doesn’t do squat for damage by itself. Cast it solo against any elite, boss or structure and see how long it takes to do damage. It may say its more damage, but it never seems to hit the target. Something is clearly broken with this skill.
As for the Ice Spikes aspect, I have no idea what this does besides look cool at the higher tiers. Have tried it on and off, and absolutely cannot tell a difference in chill time or kill time.
Honestly overall, I wish I had picked any other class to start on. Sorc is really falling on its face after level 80. All my friends (of the same level on druids, barbs and rogues) can easily handle 40 sigils dungeons, I can barely handle a 33.
i can handle low 40s but i just spam blizzard mostly off screen to kill things. I heavily invested in shatter and frozen/chilled damage modifiers. The icespike aspect i dont even notice tbh and feels like i have to cast 3-5 blizzards in one spot to do decent damage this being around 20k ticks that show up. Idk if its like a ramp thing so the numbers combine or something but casting one or 2 blizzards usually dont kill anything but freezes them so the iceshard enchantment procs. I also have frozen orb enchantment for another way to get vunlerability to be proc’d when im at range along with the aspect that has a chance of giving vulnerability when an enemy freezes. I will say that I can get a boss to stagger really quickly with blizzard and when there is alot of blizzards stacked up and the boss is staggered it ticks for like 150-200k
Im level 91 Blizzard only sorc. I freeze everything and it usually dies instantly. Even 10+ levels above me in nightmare dungeons. Spec avalanche to spam stronger blizzards on bosses and elites and everything melts (so to speak)
Blizzard in my opinion is the perfect skill that does just the right amount of damage that EVERY other skill on EVERY class should have. It is super strong but not overpowered like druids/barb/rogue right now. But blizz will never balance it that way 
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Just because it doesn’t work the way you want it to doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
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When you say blizzard only, its with ice shards and ice spikes from blizzard?
I would think so. Also assume running aspect that gives chance to proc vuln on freeze and maybe shared misery? Sounds like a fun build. Blizzard with ice spikes while leveling is actually pretty strong to freeze mobs. You don’t have the CDR while gearing up, so frost nova isn’t always up.
I’ve since dropped ice spikes, but I enjoyed it while I had it. Would love it if there was an A tier or S tier Blizzard sorc build. I really enjoy the spell.
What is the name of the glyph that makes Blizzard 20% larger?
Adept. You need to unlock 40 intelligence in the glyph area to activate.
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