I like playing mage characters in RPGs and ARPGs, and I must say, that D4 Sorc is a MASSIVE STEP DOWN as a mage.
Resist is broken so you gotta take 3-4 defensives watering down the gameplay variability.
Playing PoE elemental witch just feels so good even in early game running freezing pulse and vaal cold snap.
Feels like I can take any skill and make it work there and not be a One skill Andy.
No I don’t wanna spam ice shards like I’m a torbjorn turret from overwatch.
No I don’t wanna play a Melee mage in everyone’s face relying on my ULT to pop so I can so MEDIOCRE DAMAGE.
I just wanna play a mage the way it’s meant to be played,
Not this abomination Blizzard is calling a sorcerer/sorceress
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early game running freezing pulse and vaal cold snap.
Haven’t played in a while, but isn’t this kind of an oxymoron? I thought vaal skills weren’t obtained in the early game.
Anyway, comparing this game to PoE is not the way. They are 2 different games, and of course you can play both. If witch feels that good to play, then scratch your mage itch with that. If you want D4 to improve sorc, then give some actual feedback (that hasn’t been parroted a million times).
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You can get vaal cold snap in act 2 by doing the vaal side areas and having it drop
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Have to stack 75% resists and losing tons because of it is so much better said no one ever. Poe also has 10 years in dev time. POE is no different to get to 100 your going to play 5 builds or so. If you get to 100 as only like 3% do a season
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That’s what I plan on doing. I’ll scratch my mage itch with Poe, then come back during season 1 and see if they did any changes to Sorc.
She just feels really bad to play as a mage.
All these skills and you can only use 2-3 at max because defensives of course
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Don’t worry. supposedly resist will be fixed by s2. Maybe by S3 we can use fireball and with some lucky chain lightning by s5 or something
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At the same time PoE is the worst Melee experience ever in an ARPG.
The entire game is ranged and zoom based. I would hope it does that decent.
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Blizzard does the same thing.
They nerf res in higher tiers.
Only thing is, it doesn’t work here so there’s that LMAO
This is true. D4 has melee down much better than POE.
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I just mentioned torbjorn because that’s exactly what ice shards Sorc feels like.
All we missing is Sorc yelling…
“Come get yer armor!”
Flicker strike is so fun…
RNot true melee tank and spank which really doesnt exist in poe. Like D4 lotsa ruunning in circles
D4 still tends to hate melee. Lots more puddles and explosions to dodge but it’s still much better than current PoE. Melee is just a total handicap in the game at this point. I just had to ban myself from playing melee after a point.
PoE melee is a funny thing. Most “Melee” is casting medium range spells with your weapon =D
I like that Double Strike action. Get in there and Vvrrrr.
I can Sit and lunge strike standing in stuff that would rip you apart in POE
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Yea I’ve even seen a one skill gem build that was reckin stuff even in maps
Ah, mass degen puddles. The 2nd biggest middle finger to melee after the Fortify changes.
There’s no defensive perks to being melee in PoE and a total disadvantage in offense due to up-time.
…but yea, casters and bows are great.
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POE is just far more versatile in every way possible. You think Bliz would play POE and learn from it.Bliz got like 10 yrs to get D4 right, but they failed.
when an old, aged graphics game like POE is being compared to D4, you know D4 sucks lol
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For me, it’s actually how they’ve managed to make PoE much worse over the past year.
Melee used to be an upwards climb compared to ranged but it still worked fine. Poor Shadow over there with melee skills they can’t use cuz they can’t get Fortify. I’ve played the game since beta. It’s in it’s worst state ever currently thanks to putting the interns in charge while the dev team works on PoE2.
D4 has a lot of work to do if they want to compete with PoE but at the same time PoE is so scuffed right now they also have a lot of work do to in order to fix the awful conditions they’ve created.
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The whole point of Sorc spamming into int is to get double value from goin into int. Now they have to wait 5 Months from the official release of the game to even get full value from int.
That’s like me selling you half a car and saying you’ll get the full value in 5 Months.
Lmao
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