This is my first time playing rogue. I, generally speaking, ALWAYS prefer caster types but am doing Rogue just to step outside of my box a bit. It’s fun, effective, etc but I like my over-the-top graphics caster abilities. I’m at 95 currently, so not too much farther to go. Levelling is so fast now that I didn’t get to try tons of different things early on so I am trying them now in case I don’t do Rogue again.
-Itching to get back to Sorc though. I see Ball Lightning sorcs at legions and world bosses and it’s a challenge to do enough even as rogue to keep up!
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eats popcorn
If this was something they wanted to change, they would have done so with hotfix allready. If it is a wrong number put in (some people say 3000% instead of 300%, I do not know the source of this), they must know by now. It would be easily fixed if they wanted to.
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It’s a bug, but it was already confirmed that they don’t plan to nerf builds currently and it’s not like BL is the only thing performing atm. If anything they should buff BL and fix the bug. Then proceed to buff almost all other build of Sorc as well.
The only reason Arc Lash is working this season for example are the huge buffs it got from the season. It’s going to be dead again come next season. Flame based builds are just meh overall atm. Wall is great for leveling, but doesn’t scale hard enough. Incinerate remains a meme. Conjuration Sorc is extremely weak still.
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Yeah, I don’t think this was intended. My point was that if they wanted to fix it, they could easily have done so allready. Instead there is no official word on this specific issue, and the only thing said about related issues is Joe Shely’s Twitter-post about no nerfing in S2.
Oh well, I am enjoying it at the moment, but I will not be surprised if it is changed either.
Thats because of the Timault’s (sp?) pants unique tho. It gives max combo points instantly
Don’t despair!!
Like I said, they are aware of the bug and they will patch it along with the duplication glitch on the next update.
there’s is a bug on the damage multiplier and the arclash speed triggers this bug
soon it will be over and the sorcerer will be that crappy class we all know and love
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No need to keep emphasizing this. It hurts my feelings lol. Just kidding but yeah. Truth. I think you mean Burn based right? I have seen Fireball based builds doing great (though kinda slow at bossing).
Yep they could. If this happened back before the big outcry, they will do something about this. But at this moment it will drag them down really really really bad if they change this in S2. It’s gonna be a suicide for them.
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Its broken just like how hydra was. You will get frowned upon for using it but who gives a hoot Own up to using overpowered not intended specs and be done with it. I used hydra s1. It was fun and not even that insane (world bosses got nuked though).
Ball lightning just seems a little boring to me but it is neat seeing it roll by just killing stuff. It aint my playstyle. I like oculus spamming and killing. So thats what im a do.
Kinda interesting that Hydra from S1 and BL in S2 were giving players a fun time with Sorc.
I definitely had fun with Hydra and now enjoying BL (while I parked my Burn Sorc). Pretty sure it will feel like Hydra S2 now when we go to S3.
Kinda odd that Hydra S1 users were frowned upon which I don’t see how it’s different with BL when Hydra isn’t even that great outside NM 100.
Nope nothing about it in the patch notes
In fact… There is the risk that the build will not run well on ethernal beqcuae of missing of vamp powers. Sorc is still the most weak class in genral
While not nearly as strong as on the seasonal realm (or as the top builds other classes have) it does do well on eternal. From what I’ve seen it’s about as good as a Stormclaw Druid.
Everybody is using ball lightning builds. up to the point it’s annoying
that sends a message on devs that other builds like incinerate shall be buffed.
In this season I have not yet seen another build around other than ball lighting.
I use Fire wall+incinerate and maybe I’m the only one using this build in the whole community.
Whenever I play on Eternal I see non BL builds all the time, this seems to be 100% a seasonal realm “problem”.
Mfw im using chainlightning quad hydra 
It would be extremely dumb of them to nerf a class in such a major way in the middle of a season. Especially considering how difficult it is to re-gear. And especially since they are trying to get people back.
Enjoy the way it works in S2.
Ppppfff. Ball lightning would still be good if they tweaked what they messed up. It just wouldnt be a faceroll.
Respecing isnt hard either. Everyones wearing like 3 of the same uniques on every build. Crown, Tibs and Esu/Flicker.
A bit off topic, but as it is atm, Ball lightning should work in Eternal as well, there’s no ravenous but you can get the attack speed cap using Esu’s ferocity + Ancient flame. You’d lose the ultimate cooldown reduction as well but should be bearable with some tweaking, it’s not like the build is made great by vampiric powers like people said in the beginning
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It does but it’s nowhere near as good as it is on the seasonal realm. For Eternal, in its current state, it’s pretty much on par with the stormclaw druid.