Firebolt still the best. Impossible to gear, squishy AF, shid to play. STILL no single target damage. Sorc sucks, d4 sucks. Rip s7, already. Im not playing another season watching everyone blow past me with ease while I try hard the whole time. nope nope nope. byeeee
Sorc needs a full redesign at this point.
Honestly I never play meta builds, I make my own builds. I am really hurt by the firebolt change. I need a source of burn damage, and I just dont have it. I cant fit warmth or fiery surge into a build, that would be significantly better with them.
Before I could use unstable to produce fire familiars, now they are useless lightning familiars only. no burn.
Firebolt. no burn.
Even using the familar talent to produce differant versions using “any skill” ( its worded that way in the description ) only lightning familiars from unstable, no burn
The class has zero friggin elemental synergies, nothing no skill works for anything but the ONE element its for.
We are not masters of magic, we are blue sorc, red sorc, and slightly differant blue sorc, thats it.
This is just depressing.
I’m still on an Incinerate Sorc. Feel no difference to last season, yet. Ok, leveling was even faster. And I skipped over T2 without any Tempers. But T3 is my wall right now. All this shields are so annoying for Sorcs.
Actually I should do Pits. :DD
I usually do a firewall + hydra build to level a sorc every season, and it’s just kind of crap this time around. I feel like I almost have no skills left to take since nothing does anything to benefit the build anymore lol.
Why do you need Burn? As I understand it, the S7 changes largely removed the need for it. Paragon nodes with DR from Burning were changed to “while healthy”. Devouring Blaze only works with Pyromancy spells now (which provide their own burns).
I’m not playing eternal so haven’t seen how the changes impact S6 characters. What are you missing out on now?
Like the other poster said, burn is not needed as much now - but I spam cycling/“roaring” familiars to proc enlightenment/tal rasha. I had already been doing this for months, having familiars on my bar instead of flame shield. Each time you cast it’ll cycle a different element, so you can start with fire familiar to proc tal rasha, then just keep spamming it and fire familiars will consistently appear as long as your cooldowns are low enough.
This also helped out with getting a higher amount of conjurations for conjuration mastery when used in conjunction with lightning spear, but alas, no longer.
Tested my Charged Bolts build on eternal and it is better now than in S6. Cleared Pit 100, which it couldn’t do in S6. Just had to make some adjustments, but keeping the same mechanics as before.
MIssing out on health regen mana regen for a very hungry mana build, for one.
I am going pretty well with chain lighting + Lighting Spear + Unstable Currents boost.
LS is hitting 400 millions and occasionally 820 millions
Things that are must have in S7:
Runes:
POC /THUL - To apply Frost Nova (15%x damage increase here and keep everything frozen 70% of the time)
TAM / GAR - To increase critical chance close to 100%
Currently I am doing PIT 80 with relative easy in less than 8 minutes. No Mythic yet, all my unique are Legendary and my glyphs are at level 52.
This build have all sort of CC. Chill, Daze, Stun and freeze.
The combination of Frost bolt in the enchantment + the THUL rune + % Chance to freeze mobs wherever possible is staggering the PIT bosses every 10 seconds.
Its performing much better than season 6 and you guys should not compare sorcerer builds with the necro broken build. Its broken and It will be fixed next season.;
Just in case you want to take a look, this is my current build. not final yet
https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/ys1nz0qp
PS. Not using the staff yet. No Ga drops till now.
Thanks for the info. Will definitely check it out.
Last season I took a rank 43 Fireball build (all glyphs at 82 without SB carries) to a Pit 95 clear. Probably could have grinded to 100 but didn’t play the last 2 days of the season.
Trying sometime new in S7… and CL is it. Will hit 60 tonight.
My axial chain lighting/lightning spear sorc in eternal gained two pit levels from 101 to 103 after the update. Main changes were switching to an inner flames amulet, and swapping in the static surge and ceaseless conduit boards which have been significantly buffed. I fully expected my build to turn to dust after conjuration mastery was made irrelevant, but it wasn’t the case.
Yeah… After full upgrade splintering aspect LS is hitting 1 billion occasionally.
The problem is that its not consistent as necro blood wave.
Looking at your post - what’s the deal with apogeic furor and unstable currents? I thought it didn’t benefit from ultimate damage. Has that changed?
As per my tests it works and melt mobs much faster. But the best thing here is the cooldowns reset. Sometimes I get triple LS cast in a row because it seems to fill up the 10 stacks very fast. Test it and tell me back how it works for you.
That’s what I’m doing on the Eternal server. Thank you for this information, very helpful.
you should go to POE2 instead.
Use “growth” witchpower
You will get GIANT congerations\summons… They ALL work even the rune wolves…
Even the enchantment incinerate 1 headed hydra (for those using incenerate)
You get huge dmgx as well…
Also hydra crit works now… Way better than burn now.
So do all crit congerations
Im using as much crit dmg and vulnerable where i can
Pretty insane and fun.
Meteors work well here as well