I’m legit having a fun time. They are nasty. Arc lash/Chain lightning with the right build is vicious.
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Sorc are fun to level. They even have more speedrun record then rogue.
The problem start once you reach tier3 wichbis early mid game only.
That’s not true. Even after the nerf patch, I leveled my sorc to 83 on eternal realm with no real problems. I could clear NM40 easily. Where it ACTUALLY got difficult for sorc was higher NMD pushing, like tier 70-100. But now that is no longer relevant because Blizzard is nerfing the crap out of NMDs.
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By problems I was talking about beeing pigeon holed into 3skills, crying for mana and getting 1 shot by anything meaningfull when cut out of barrier.
Soloing the 70 milestone is kinda harder on sorc.
Also being on eternal mean that you probably had all the requirement on renown wich give a big boost at lvl 50.
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I want for one day to play a lightning build that doesn’t include arc lash.
You can do that now but you are nerfing yourself.
I want the lightning skills to actually do damage like they did in the beta. Chain lightning, lightning spear, ball lightning, etc.
Also charged bolts needs to be deleted and replaced with another skill.
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What does this mean?
I’m running Spark, CL, Unstable Currents, Teleport, Flame Shield, and Ice Armor (Frozen Orb Enchant + glyph for Vulnerability)
Which skills am I pigeon holded into?
You can play the ball lightning build. I haven’t used it myself, but I’ve seen Northwar using it and it seems decent. He even said that the Blizzard build and Ball Lightning build were his favorites.
Here’s the guide that he wrote on ball lightning, in case you’re interested: Northwar Ball Lightning Build Guide
EDIT: the link doesn’t work, I just realized. You can find the build easily on maxroll though.
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The 3 that are in every other build lol.
What level are ya, talking Eternal or season?
Yeah link is not working.
Isn’t that the build that you need that aspect that ball lightning that revolves around you?
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Yeah, the Gravitational aspect.
Level 50, seasonal.
And yeah, I would think that the skills that all Sorcs are pigeonholed into would be moot when talking about Chain Lightning issues.
Edit:
Moot except for the fact that I will never run Frost Nova this season because I don’t have to
Hmm yeah, I am going to be there tomorrow. Now I am a tad worried. Ill report back 
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Would love to see some footage if youve got any, i just hit 48, but im running Bolts, AL, currents, and of course the pigeonhole 3.
I went from feeling really slow (mostly because i didnt want to do CL since it took nerfs from beta and hasnt felt the same)
To feeling extremely good at 45, equiped piercing bolts staff, started slapping 58 helltides
But jeeze doing NM 1 at level 42 was rough.
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Do you think swaping out ice armor for lightning spear would work nicely? Or would we miss to much survival? As we get close to 100% crit chance with aspect on amulet
There was zero problem with pre 1.1 chain lightning sorc. The only problems is my damage capped at around 300K per hit. Cant do over 70NM without being super slow.
For just playing the endgame content its fun and fast.
I’ve been running chain lightning (ignoring the metas) since launch lol. It was actually ok pre-nerf - wouldn’t nuke lilith like other specs, but I was doing ok. Post nerf was a definite shift, mostly in survivablility though
It’s hard to tell leveling now because I’m not 50 yet so I don’t have all of my abailities, never mind the paragons. It was always a decent leveling build, but I’m noticing the bosses take a LOT longer than they used to. Other than that it’s still fun. I’m not noticing the survivability yet because I haven’t shifted to T3 yet, I know it will come though 
I’ll carry on fiddling with it regardless because it’s the spec I find the most fun. Maybe we’ll have been buffed by the time I get to the point where it will matter xD
It was the extra nerf to lightning damage on top of everything else that I truly didn’t understand. This was far from the best sorc build, so why the extra nerf on top?
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So you think its okay? Pushing 40 lol? Rogue is pushing 40 on 75+ level.
And yet rogue push 80+ on 100, while for sorc 80+ is a “one hit - dead” game.
Idk yet about postnerf yestreday, because i stopped to play the game which doesnt give any satisfaction after hitting 100, but i dont think sorc became better after a few stupid gems and a few more armor.
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They just decided to nerf every primal additive damage without even thinking about it. We nerefed +dmg, lets nerf others and buff some crap like +shock damage.
Devs still dont understand the game, even during campfire they told they will rework sorc ASPECTS. Not the whole class, not the paragon boards, not the spells. Aspects.
So actually i am done with this game until season 3 or 4, will see.
If you’re running overflowing energy, that sounds good. Lightning spear still gives 3 seconds of shields with the buff to protection vs Ice Armor’s 6 seconds.
Also, play around with taking points out of convulsions and putting them into Invoked Lightning Spears. With high enough crit, you should see more stuns overall.
You forgot the part where they specifically stated that they are going to address Sorc Survivability. Damage and survivability are the top 2 on most Sorc’s wishlist.
You also forget to acknowledge that the devs are way far behind and in way over their heads. That’s the reality of the situation. I choose to think within the actual reality of the situation, rather than think within a world where the devs understand the coding of the game and have plenty of time to implement everything.
So for the sake of optimizing time, paragon boards and spells can wait.
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