I gave up on Sorc and I’m definitely NOT going to play this class in season 1 no matter what Blizzard do because in order to fix all this mess they need a massive overhaul.
However, I’m now playing a tornado druid and I can easily say it pretty much destroys every current Sorc build in every aspect. So pathetic
My biggest issue is survivability and the crutch that is Ice Barrier and Frost Nova…damage can be resolved.
For anyone that wants to play a pure Fire or Lightning builds its a real uphill battle. If you then concede and add Ice Barrier and Frost Nova then you are simply compromising on how you want to play the game.
I’m there with you. I might use my sorc to go for a Lilith kill using stagger, but outside of that I’m done with her and will not pickup in season 1. I been enjoying rogue as pen shot, not druid level strong but fun and so much better than sorc. It is crazy that I’m level 85 clearing 60 NMD tiers without issue while my sorc was struggling in 40s.
Survivability is the biggest difference between Sorc and Necro.
Why would you put yourself through all that nuance and item swapping + min-maxing?
Just play a bone spear necro or a poison imbue rogue where you don’t need to change items mid fight
You’re goofy if you believe that was an honest boss fight. It’s obviously broken and you can bet that’s going to be adjusted. Not to mention how he had to juggle a wand and a staff between stagger windows. The whole thing was a circus act.
But try taking that build anywhere else in the game and it falls short. Even the guy who downed Lilith with it said it doesn’t work in ND’s late game.
So we have two options:
Pretty much this. Bone Spear is all of Sorcerer’s damage modifiers, vulnerability, and critical damage wrapped up into a single skill. It’s a laser with reflecting shotgun shells on impact.
Same, I’m not rolling Sorcerer in S1. Especially when resistances have their math wrong.
Sorcerers were supposed to be what Barbarians are to Strength and Armor, the Intelligence would have scaled all resistances nicely, if the math was right.
Don’t even get started on cosmetics.
The whole class just feels like it was rushed.
Hmm I clear super fast as arc lash. 44% CDR 50% crit and your cooldowns just reset over and over from attacking and you zoom across the map. Crits for a million at times. It’s fun! Very little downtime on teleport, frost nova and ultimate ability.
I do wish resistances weren’t reduced by 50% and then 40% on top of that though. Definitely hurts survivability
We all wanted to be astronauts when we were kids because of the stars and planets and because we could do basic math/arithmetic. How many grow up and actually do it considering the difficulty, time investment, and challenge? Your comments express that of leveling and low to mid game. If the game ended at 70 you’d be 100% correct and in alignment with other’s comments.
I’m 97, no issues keeping up with rogues I’ve grouped with. Being able to infinitely teleport from group to group makes it nice. Not sure if you can do that on ice shards.
Doing what NMD tier 30? I’ve got an arc last sorc as well at 90 and near bis gear. Sorry, but if I wanted to blast around in a helltide or low tier dungeon then you are spot on, but if I want to push high NMD tiers or do Lilith rofl…
Why would I be doing 30s? Doing 47-50.
T50 is usually done by anyone to speedrun glyph EXP
40-50 are doable with almost everyone…
Yep, that is the disconnect a lot of people do not understand. All classes can blaze through on average specs in NMD 40-50 range with decent gear. It is classes other than sorc that do this same speed clearing at 60-70 range and can “push” to 100.
wait until they go into T75 and get 1 hit by an offscreen skeleton archer… or those hedgehogs, damn I hate that
Eh I’ll see when I get there. Not really anything to do at level 100 besides Uber Lilith. Higher keys don’t get you anything. Glyphs are maxed out by then. I doubt I’ll continue to play beyond trying to see as high as my build goes. And when it ends at 70 or 72, I don’t really care. There isn’t a timer on dungeons, so speed doesn’t really matter. I had a lot of fun leveling my character as arc lash and it’s been great
And you lose over 300% damage, because they are unstoable 
I will recommend you try bone spear necro or tornado druid next if you plan to play more, you will know how bad Sorc is when you do that