In Blizzard’s infinite wisdom, they decided to NOT give Sorcerer’s the Glyph Exploit perk that other classes have (vulnerability procs for 3 seconds after doing damage to an enemy).
With this, they effectively pigeon holed every viable sorcerer build into relying heavily on Frost Nova, as it’s the only guaranteed Vulnerability proc Sorcerers have (and given the dmg bucket multipliers, you simply can’t not vulnerability and have good DPS.
Either fix vulnerability so Sorcerers can not be utter trash compared to other late game characters or give us access to the same Exploit glyph mechanics.
This isn’t something that can wait months; after weeks of being frustrated we will quit this game and never come back.
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The exploit glyph needs completely eliminated and vulnerable needs it’s bonus damages across the board heavily nerfed. It’s no longer a debuff, it’s the main damage stat for the game.
The game should be about creating builds that use all of these various conditional modifiers, which is why there are so many affixes, but that’s all pretty pointless when this one condition trumps literally everything.
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Just noticed this coating glyphs with a friend. This is utter BS. Yes, it makes Frogs the only choice.
They are going to restructure vuln i imagine. Its a bs mechanic that tethers every build into a madatory stat collection and some classes proc it effortlessly compared to others.
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I’ve been leveling a Sorc and was really looking forward to getting the Exploit glyph. Just found out that it doesn’t do the same thing that it does for every other class. Lame as hell.
Yup, super bummed as well… literally just got exploit glyph and found out. Super lame.
they gotta do something about Sorc paragon boards too. apart from the Icefall perk, every single legendary node feels useless/underwhelming imo, so the only thing I’m currently getting out of my paragon board is just flat stat increases. Nice but also pretty boring.
Does anyone have a paragon build for frost sorc? I think my setup is decent but I’m sure there’s a min-maxed version out there that I haven’t seen yet
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Yeah I really really don’t like how glyphs do different things per class. Cheesy way to balance. And makes things more convoluted.
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On top of this, I agree with you op, why the heck does everything only affect vulnerable targets? Why is there a gem that specifically gives crit damage to vuln targets only? Why is there a leggo that only works while you have barrier AND the enemy is vulnerable. Vulnerable is too stacked as it is.
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I’m all about Vulnerable being strong, but they need to make it more accessible. For Sorc, not having the Exploit glyph work the way it should, you’re basically forced to play Frost Nova. If you don’t play Frost Nova, your build is gimped. That’s not how it’s supposed to be.
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Yup I’m a sorc main. I quit. This was one of the reasons I did (the inability to keep up vuln). I had assumed they just nerfed exploit for everyone before this post. Didn’t realized they gutted it for the already worst 2 classes. Vuln without all the other conditionals attached to it though it’s too stacked. Let me breath and care about other damage types and conditionals. Alkaizerx called it from beta, nothing matters but crit and vuln. Everything else is a waste.
Making vulnerable a separate multiplier was a pants on head move to start with. It should just be a flat % debuff, not something every class is forced to spec into just to complete content above lvl 70.
Along with resistances being completely useless, this is one of the few decisions I can’t make any sense of.
The more I learn and read about technicalities of diablo 4 the more I am in awe of how much it sucks, lmao.
Crit %, crit damage, vuln and main stat. Maybe some cooldown reduction, resource generation or resource cost reduction depending on your build.
That’s all you need. Every other stat is basically meaningless for DPS. Just get those stats and stack damage reduction.
Just found out about this. No wonder the build diversity for sorcs sucks. Hopefully blizzard will update the exploit glyph for sorc and necro in the upcoming patch.