It’s currently so hard to make a viable Conjurations build. Ophidian Iris and Fractured Winterglass are BOTH Amulets yet NONE can be turned into a unique charm so what is even the point!? Found out the hard way that not all Ancestrals uniques can be turned into charms despite Blizzard giving no heads up or releasing a list.
The devs really need to review the way all skills work. Like Lightning Spears Enchantment effect. If you want to make a fire spear build, you can’t rely on picking up Crackling Energy and Unstable Current to spawn them.
Please update Enchantment effects to make them actually useful, like make Lightning Spear spawn after every 150 mana spent.
Make Fractured Winterglass Spawn a Summon regardless of whether the spell casted is a “Core” spell.
Builds are just soooo damn limited and everyone has to go Unstable Current at the moment. The devs need to hire some autistic people to redesign our base skills because its absolutely infuriating to me who wants to make different builds but it’s impossible to have viable diversity because the devs couldn’t think it through beforehand.
I leveled up using a Conjuration build and charm set, tried multiple combinations of items and glyphs and items but it couldn’t take me past T10 or 11 even at near max paragon and glyphs as far as I remember.
The damage was just not enough.
Conjuration passives are most of the time broken or redundant as the number on conjuration is hard capped.
It requires heavy cdr investment if you want to hit the cap anyway.
And everything that’s not a Conjuration becomes totally useless as it’s not buffed.
Maybe in 5 or 6 more patches of changes and new supporting items like all the Shock skill damage increase.
You’d think that they would have figured it out by now. But instead of fixing classes at their source, they’re too busy introducing even more randomized stats on gear which is going to make every Unique drop feel like crap.
D2 drops felt great because a unique was a unique. A set piece was a set piece. All the various rune words had reliable stats that rolled withing certain parameters.
D4 is just raining gear that you spend 80% of your time sorting through instead of actually playing. Nobody asked D4 to be like this… It’s so easy to fix.
They could make most drops, including legendary power upgrades, automatic pick ups by your pets. Including Boss Trophies and keys.
Have gear drop significantly more rarely while giving better gear drops overall and instead dropping Obols and such from ordinary mobs. Remove the Cap on Obols entirely.
Make Uniques “UNIQUE” make them strong, with reliable stats, and actually have a plan for how they would work in a build for once…
Finally. Redesign the majority of Skills from the ground up to fit the philosophy of “Can I actually make a build with this?” Because with sorcerer the answer is almost always “no”.
Anyway, sort of got off topic with the itemization there, but it’s incredibly frustrating that these issues persist after I gave this game a second chance. The storyline of Lord a Hatred was great. But unfortunately, the class designers still fundamentally do not understand builds and synergy…
Shock conjuration builds are fine, i made it to pit 142 w/o gem strength Staff.
The problem is different elements. Winterglass for example is pretty weak on its own for spawning conjurations, only the combination with uc makes it strong.
Also conjuration caps limit other conjuration builds that are not shock, even more then Shock conjurations.
I think the caps on somke spells need to go, like on ice blades, since the cdr for other spells is removed from them, capping them at 3(6) is completely dumb.
Hydras now only have one viable route, the middle. The other Hydras dont hold a candle to the middle node.
Caps need to go, there needs to be other limiting factors that players need to overcome with clever build making.
Maybe uncouple LS from UC(its the only thing that is really abusable) and give us other means to get more Spears.
I think there could be a cool old school Iceblades/fire blades build if the caps are changed/removed/rised
i tried that already, In s13 this is a massive dmg loose. And makes uc not always be up, i still get the cd relatively low with shock familiars, but there is a small downtime unless you invest a bit more into cdr.
On s14 when the dmg part of boundless uc is gone, it remains to be seen if 40% doublecast or the cdr+crackle spawn will be the go to upgrade. Ramping provides more hits for overwhelming, so im assuming that will be better then if u can have good uptime of uc even w/o boundless.
the combo is having a big mana cost for the hydra enchant, its doable with meteor(mana burn node) or with 100% AS Bl does 5-6 Bl casts per second.
Ofcourse you wont have 11 Hydras all the time, since you are porting around alot too, but on bosses its nearly guranteed unless u need to move.
i would say its more that lightning gets these massive multiplier aspects for no real reason, while fire and frost does just get “normal” aspects.
Then you have the issue that everything lightning gets a massive boost from uc, while fire and frost provide almost nothing for their elements.
Whoever designed the new sorc, wasnt clearly finished, to me sorc still looks like an unfinished mess of a class, that still only has very few builds that you can scale properly for endgame.
Fire Conjurations build… need buff and fix and the burning damge from that skill in end game is a joke….. at Lee’s bring back the way it was and buff it
Hard to tell which neck to go for. Want frost hydra, but need inferno for 5th hydra head.
Want both necks, but can only use one.
Can’t change the element of lightning spear to frost, while lightning familiar got the nice cooldown reduction to fuel Inferno.
actually it was very strong in s13, a bit too weak in s14. and fine in s15 ptr.
I made Shock LS in every season.
Frozen Orb + LS is long gone, but if you put BL there instead, the build works, and its also pretty smooth since BL is castable on the move again in s15.
That’s exactly how I feel about the class. I just don’t enjoy it anymore, unfortunately. Looking forward to playing Spiritborn or Warlock next season, but my heart is with Sorc.
Its pretty strong. Im already at pit 105 with frost conjuration build. Has much more room to go. I made a video specifically for this thread lol https://youtu.be/309RT9hFBXo?si=q2nOOETgebZyuIPn
even the orb/spear lightning build is not good anymore, yeah, bye until the next rework of literally everything, including development philosophy.