Cant do any damage

Sorcerer
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Guys, i dont understand how damage works on this game. i have 92 seasonal sorc with maxed out crit damage and vulnerable glyphs, i got 820 item power weapon with crit damage core skill damage lightning crit damage and damage to chilled, both my rings gives critical/vulnerable/lightning, gloves 10 as/ 9 crit/ 17 crit damage/ 3 chain lightning. i got all aspects i can think of and tried so many builds, whatever i try maximum i can crit to vulnerable burning stuned chilled close target is 70k. when i watch guides on youtube, other guys with same gear/paragon and very slightly different rolls of stats on gear can crit 15-35 millions. when i hit 70 i could do up to NM 50, now i am lvl 92 with all this paragon and glyphs and fancy uniques and still cant progress any further. I am actually farming nm40 trying to lvlup other glyphs which i am not even using now. please advise

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I can’t get past 50.

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if you pay attention you should notice that everyone in those videos is using the barber, and that’s the only mechanic that’s making them do any kind of damage.

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Outside of seasonal hearts, CL should hit for much more. I am more attuned to cold. With similar setup, I hit 300-400k per shard, on my level 100 eternal realm sorc.

I cannot tell what exactly needs improvement on your side. The part that can easily get messes up is the paragon board, particularly the glyphs. Even though there are many glyphs, there are only a few that should ever be used. On top of my head: Exploit, Destruction and Elementalist. Also, you should have vulnerable damage 150%+ and CD 200% plus.

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There must be something wrong with your build or whatever you are doing if your claim is your build is similar with streamers where the difference is minor.

  1. Are you sure it’s a minor difference?
  2. Is your play style similar to those streamers?
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at lvl 90 I can barely do NM45 so kudos to u.

Maybe vul did not proc so vul dmg bucket isn’t used? What’s ur build? U seem to mix all 3 elements, do u inflict all 3 effects?

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15-35 millions is not possible anymore since the latest big patch and really wasn’t possible before with chain lighting. Those must be very old guides. I was top tier before patch with chain lightning and hit around 1.5 million on Vuln crits. Highest I hit going full dmg was 7.4 million but that was due to a buggy aspect that’s fixed currently. After the patch I started hitting around 400-500k. Currently you should aim for anywhere between 250/500k. Which will dish out a couple of million with barber in 2 seconds if you’re setup the right way.

If you wanna clear high tier content you should first go for Damage reduction, Cooldown reduction and Crowd Control duration, Resource regen, around 40% base crit chance, movement speed. Don’t focus to much on dmg or burst dmg. You can’t do dmg when you’re dead. As I see it the sorcerers strongest feature over other classes is the ability to control the fight. When you’re able to you’ll get further and then you can focus on how to dish out more dmg.

Must have aspects:

Disobedience
Shared misery!
Elementalist
Smiting (if you have strong survivability issues)

As for glyphs I use these:

Exploit
Destruction
Control (very strong and often overlooked)
Enchanter (same as above)
Imbiber

Legendary nodes:
Static surge

I used enchanter before but I didn’t feel it being optimal due to the must have fire bolt. Switched it out for atk speed on the burning instinct board.

I can clear tier 100s in anywhere between 5 and 15 minutes depending on the type of dungeon.

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thanks for answer, that was helpful. my panic was just because i saw that even when i max everything out there is no way i can even hit for a milion without barber and thought that needs to be 16-30 million to clear NM100 because i saw those videos on youtube. i know that i can still push my damage with paragon and glyphs and also need to push for some stats to get maximum bonuses from paragon board, i can see that i will be short on dex and willpower by the time i hit 100. i already found gloves replacement just need to find aspect now:) i found gloves with with 9 as, 16 lightning crit 12% resource and need to enchant str stat to get crit chance and with those i should be able to stay full mana without keeping any points on +4mana from crackling energy sparks so i will spend 2 more skill points and will get some x damage passive skill. with some changes i could do up to NM57 but now i changed to this super fast non stop tp and full time unstable currents and should start getting +life on gear and armor on helm. at least now i know that 250 k is enough for NM100, that target i can reach. but lol nowhere close to a million:)
thanks again

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