We do 1-2M per hit as Arc Lash, but only as long as the stun/nova last. After that it’s like a wet noodle.
Not nearly enough, and I would even argue that none of what they did even begins to address the core issue with this skill. It moves through most enemies so fast that they barely get hit by it and those that got “grazed” immediately start moving into your direction / away from where the explosion is going to be. What they should do is something like decreasing the travel speed of the orb by about 33% and increasing its travel time by about 50% while also increasing its general radius by about 66%. That would actually make the skill more viable to use.
I agree. They still have not touched the minions for Necros to improve a class that is based on summoning… it is like they live in a vacuum or something it seems. But, they did say in the dev notes that they are looking into minions… can’t wait for the 2% damage and health increase to come (based on this patch at least).
I felt a bit stronger today, but I did some gear optimizing before bed yesterday, so I honestly can’t say how much was optimization and how much was the patch. Vulnerable uptime on non-frozen enemies does feel better.
The Ice Shards enchant is still actually doing most of my damage, through, and hitpoint sponges that can’t be frozen still feel awful.
It’s also important to note that I’m still very much mid-game (low 60s) so I can’t speak to anything beyond that.
I bet all my items sorc will b the least class played for season 1. Mark my words dude
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Same. Really can’t stand the “wait for all cooldowns to refresh before moving again” playstyle in the really high tier NM dungeons. Outside of those dungeons, the class is in a decent spot with two builds, but that’s not really what I’d call “end game” content.
Made it up to NM78, and it’s just not worth continuing, even though I know it’s possible to clear 100, I just hate the gameplay. Feels too much like I’m back in my mid 50 character levels having to wait on Frost Nova to deal any damage. But now it’s even worse than that.
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My jaw dropped when I saw they didn’t buff hydra back even a little. Total dog crap update for sorc.
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this sent me hahaha
The little copium I have left is holding out for major changes coming in Season 2… maybe then Incinerate might do damage… maybe then I would be able to put some new spells on my bar instead of 4 defensives…
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83.7%. Those are the odds!
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I had a dream of turning a Sorc into a permanent walking conduit but Blizzard has killed this. I knew the Ice Sorc build would show higher damage per hit but I had hopes that the Lightning Sorc I aimed to build would hit faster negating the damage difference. I am disheartened by Blizzard’s blatant disrespect towards their community.
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Good luck, we keep the door open for your return
Our crime? Too many people rolled the character you decided to roll.
Who at Blizzard came up with arbitrary rule of “we need equal player distribution across all classes.” If people like to throw fire and lightning and crap, just let them. Don’t suck at balance so bad we quit 1 month in (which is what im doing)
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I just don’t want to play the game anymore. Feels like the Sorc is completely misunderstood and dismissed. I was hoping for something better today. So many ways to improve the gameplay. Third enchantment slot, turning resistance to barrier generation and time thus allowing us to keep less defensives on the hotbar, changing vulnerable damage or adding more ways to get it etc. What did we get instead? Slight improvements to skills nobody cares about because their fundamental use is flawed and buffs to the items that use said fundamentally flawed skills.
Yay?
I think the below change alone makes the patch notes so funny. Charged Bolt was already not a strong spell by itself, buffing 2% wouldn’t make any differences at all and also, the charged bolts only fly out for a short distance and disappear unlike the charged bolt in D2. They should at least make it such that the bolt will fly for 2-3x the distance as it is now.
Charged Bolt
- Base damage increased from 28% to 30%.
Stop baiting people, Frozen orb mechanic didn’t changed at all still no dmg on the shards, they share same total damage, only explosion deals like around 400k with vulnerable, every Ice shard for me obviously deals around 900k to 1mio right now (x5). Not even comparable in any way
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You are a clown, seriously!
Not only you spread false information you also baiting people for no reason.
He is lying! Don’t give him more attention. Spell mechanic is the same as before
dmg is slightly higher but not even close to Ice shards.
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I think this is a missunderstanding. I also switched out of Ice Shards, because I was done being a melee Sorc and switched to Glacial with Orb. If he is doing Blizzard/Glacial with Frozen Orb for Vuln procs, I can understand where the confusion is comming from. Blizzard/Glacial Orb is a legit build… well as legit as Sorc can be 
. But if he is speaking about pure Frozen Orb build, yeah… that’s clowning 
. There are no mechanics that can make pure Frozen Orb build viable. It costs too much mana, it chills for too little and doesn’t have sustain damage output. It’s great for supporting Glacial, but on it’s own, it falls flat.
Ye but why would you switch out the most strongest spell for sorc right now? I get the variety people want. But the truth is, there is no variety. Ice shards out perform any other spell on dmg due to his 5x shards each hitting for around 900k or even more depends on gear and crit stats obviously and vunerable. But nvm play as you like ofc if you having fun with it.
Because it isn’t. Glacial outscales Ice Shards and doesn’t lock you into Wand/Offhand or constantly being in melee to cast Frost Nova. Another benefit is that you don’t need to stack CDR, as you don’t rely on Nova to freeze. Blizzard and Frozen Orb do that on much larger area. You can play with a Staff and actually feel you are doing damage . It’s still just an illusion, because outside of CC, it hits for 300k, but still.
You should try it, if you have a good Glacial aspect lying around. Also upgrade the item before extracting it!!! I wish I knew that before switching .
Well… technically you are correct, as Glacial is an aspect and not a Sorc skill .