I decided to try and roll an alt (leveling an alt is whole different discussion to be had) and I chose the Sorcerer. I always loved the D2 Sorc and D3 Wizard.
The sorc in this game is very underwhelming to play. Unless you are playing the meta, the damage is pityful. The visual impact of the skills is absolutely dull.
Two iconic skills SHOULD be:
Frozen Orb → why does D2’s F.O. look so cool and feel good to play, and this game’s F.O. looks like a broken disco ball that travels a whole 10 feet? The damage from it is nearly worthless. The mana drain is ludicrous.
Meteor → The Tal Rasha meteor in D3 was so awesome. Massive AOE with screen clearing damage. In this game - it’s literally like the turd ball that falls from an airplane in the movie Joe Dirt. You spend more than half your mana pool to drop a turd ball. The turd ball’s damage is about as impactful as a mosquito. You spend 60% of your mana pool to drop a turd ball that annoys the enemies. Then, if they are scattered (which of course they are in this game), it’s just pure frustration trying to use this skill to clear a room.
I really don’t want to spec into the Meta, I’m not necessarily asking for these skills to be S-Tier (but that would be nice). But, come on now, can we at least fix them up to be… good?
TL;DR sorc feelsbadman
Non nostalgia here - just a mechanics and effectiveness response:
D2 got both correct and set the standard.
FO and Meteor were both amazing in that game.
Both were end-game and both also had multi-layer mechanics to them.
D3 Failed incredibly hard until many years later with Meteor then they “Nth-TUPLED IT!” like everything else(So no, imo Meteor - Vanilla Meteor felt like a SKILL in D2 vs a Tactical Thermonuclear Barrage in D3… nothing special just bloat).
Frozen Orb was always a terrible skill and never used seriously or even implemented/addressed properly.
I had hoped to see justice done to those 2 skills and that they would rectify the skills in D4.
For the time being, in this current state/iteration: Nope.
Hopefully someone appreciates them but I feel… oh nevermind. too many opinions and speculations on this forum.
I would like to see 2 iconic skills respected and represented~designed properly and made viable.
I just want sorc to be viable for higher content in NMDs and not a 15 minute kill time on lilith.
I just want to use lightning and feel like palpatine lmao. Forced into ice shards for the vuln and synergies.
Dont even get me started on uniques… all built in. nerfs. every. single one.
Frozen Orb in D2 was amazing before it was nerfed. I’d like to see it upped in D4 along with hydra, and fireball.