So my sorcerer is lvl 33 and it was fine when I started but now I cant seem to survive any encounter at all unless I keep running away and kill individual trash mobs one by one.
I mean I feel like the skill tree is pretty basic, Ive been using lightning skills and it seems pretty straight forward, put points into the same elements as they seem to complement each other.
I mean even if my skill points aren’t “perfectly” allocated shouldn’t I at least be able to handle single trash mobs?
I started the game with a barbarian but that was even worse.
This just isn’t fun, every single fight I have to keep running away.
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are you maxing your skills?
Arc lash should have 5 points in it and 1 in each upgrade.
Same with your core skill (i prefer charged bolts)
Also make sure you are keeping your weapon upgraded.
Use defensive skills like frost nova & Ice Armor (or the fire skill don’t remember the name) They only need 1 point for now (or if you have a piece of gear with +skills you don’t need any points in them)
There are many really good defensive aspects you can add to your gear, plus don’t forget to have items with damage reduction on them.
Time to drop the difficulty to wt1.
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Anything below level 50 at world tier 1 should be easy enough that any build works. I ran with a Spark and Chain Lightning build all the way to 45 before switching to Ice Shards. Some basic kiting (hit and run tactics) is still required for elites and groups of even white mobs.
Most important is keeping your gear up to date in terms of item level. At that level, a weapon with higher baseline damage would almost always be better than a weaker one with good affixes or even with a legendary aspect. I didn’t need to bother with imprinting legendary aspects after the campaign.
Your skill points aren’t the issue.
Your defense is.
How much of your equipment has defensive stats on it?
Had the same issue until I went for Freeze. Sorcerer is basically chained to Ice Armor and more defensive skills at the moment because the balance isn’t right yet.
Defensive stats roll really low in the early levels but you can become very tanky even as a Sorc against same level mobs (even Butcher). I think Sorc is lacking defensively compared to other classes pushing far past your level or into really high level content, but you can build towards face tanking equal or +3 level mobs pretty easily.
Focus on defensive stats. Resists are trash currently. Get armor and armor % on slots you can get it on, flat damage reduction or damage reduction under circumstances that are common for your build like from burning targets or close enemies if you’re a build that stays close to things or whatever (using fire bolt enchant so things are burning from that). My chest has flat DR, armor % and DR from burning targets I believe. Upgrade your armor pieces to improve their stats and armor.
If you use a basic in your build, put the defensive aspect for 20% DR from basic on something. Many sorc builds try to build mana management stats to not need a basic though (obviously Arc Lash builds being a big exception). DR from CCed or vulnerable enemies aspect is a decent defensive aspect for many Sorc builds.
The best one can be the armor stacking defensive aspect as many builds attack fast enough that you’ll stack it to 100 fairly easily when fighting a group. With even a mid ranged roll of this aspect and stacking armor and armor % elsewhere, you can easily hit high 90s % damage reduction from physical attacks. It actually will display as 100% when you get it high enough as it doesn’t show the decimals and rounds up currently (but you’re not actually immune to physical damage).
Put the highest level skulls you can use into jewelry.
Have some form of frequent barrier creation like the passive that procs on cooldowns. That was unfortunately nerfed to 2 second duration because they overnerfed frost blades, hopefully they’ll buff it back up at some point. You can get high CDR later on, particularly if you use 1h+oh as OH can have a CDR roll as part of the item + a separate roll as an affix on the item. My OH has over 20% CDR for example.
If you’re a frost Sorc a lot of trash mobs will just be frozen most of the time. I like keeping Blizzard in my Ice Shards build for now because of all the CC.
Fire Sorcs can get decent self-healing as well I think, but I haven’t played fire.
Don’t put points in glass cannon if you’re feeling too squishy.
I wish I had a choice in equipment! There are no drops, I am still wearing mostly blues!
Obol gambling gives you the option of gear slots.
If you haven’t found a decent choice for a slot, do events for Obols, then gamble that slot.
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At level 33 you really should not have mostly blues. I’m pretty sure I had the full rare achievement by that point. Are you not picking up drops?
Lowering the difficulty is a totally fine thing to do, and don’t let any rEaL gAmErS tell you otherwise. I struggled for a while too, and lowering the difficulty let me relax a little and gave me time to get used to the game.
As others have said, use more defensive skills, too. Running does 0 DPS, you need to be able to tank hits. All 4 Sorc defensive skills are solid and allow you to facetank mobs that much longer. Depending on your exact build you can and should use between 2 and 4 of them. Experiment, and don’t fall into the trap of picking 5 mana spenders.
I pick everything up, but there is just nothing dropping! The volume of loot is tiny!
weird. I have all yellows by my early 20’s on 4 different characters now. I played those in WT1 as there is no point to WT2.
If you are new to these types of games and/or MMOs, because they have the same type of combat skill c/d.
You need to map your abilities and develop a plan of attack, for how you approach every combat encounter.
Using a controller with these types of games will give you a more comfortable reaction over time, and reduce finger fatigue to almost zero.
You can look up some old school halo training videos about how to react to input (damage) etc
If you insist on using mouse and keyboard, I know a lot of pc keyboard players actually click each ability, but you need to stop doing this and map your keys like a MOBA around WASD.
Smite is a good game to get aiming and key mapping tips from.