"Sorceress is the most played class btw"

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How does it come then, that this class is still in alpha state?

  • Lightning got nerfed in BETA (no reverts) and right before the official launch (again) = Dead

  • Fire is literally straight up bugged and trashly coded, combustion is not working it also says “NOT LEARNED YET”, if you well… “learn” it, then we have the “BURNING INSTINCTS” Legendary Paragon node which says “Stack CRIT DAMAGE on your gear to increase your BURNING DAMAGE THEN every 20 INT it gets increased more”, would sound pretty good if BURNING DAMAGE COULD CRIT (spoiler it can’t) and since Fireball, Meteor (as enchantment is okayish) and Hydra (BETA nerfed also not reverted) completly suck, the only fire ability you can play is fire wall, which doesn’t make any sense with Combustion not working.

  • Frost Ice Shards. Every other (DMG) frost skill is cosmetic.

1 build with only 1 viable skill and 2 nerfed, useless and bugged other elements.

HOW?!

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Because the general player base do not care about meta and just play what they want to play.

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I would agree with you ( I hate “META” too), IF other things would at least be viable/functioning, but they aren’t. With an Ice Shards sorc you can go T4 and be ok with lvl 60+ something, with fire and light you can forgot that. And I better not start talking about rogue/druid who can go T4 with lvl 58 and destroying everything without dying on repeat. #BalancingIsFine

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I would say all classes are still in a testing state. This is why there is no ladder in the game yet. With the recent campfire chat I have some hope for some nice improvements in the coming seasons.

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The vast majority of the population is not even level 60 yet. That is how.

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Go to the Sorc forum. It has been on fire for the past week. People finally are level high enough to realize how broken and underpowered the class is.

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I just find it hilarious, that Sorc is (according to blizz’s stats) the most played class, yet the only one where you really feel like you’re playing a class being in Alpha state. You have 1 ability/build and that’s Ice Shards, every other frost skill is cosmetic (the ult is good utility like frost nova but that’s it), light got nerfed in BETA (not reverted) AND again b4 the official launch and Fire got Hydra nerfed in BETA (also not reverted), fireball and meteor (enchantment is good) are trash, fire wall is okayish, if Combustion would not be bugged and the legendary paragon node “burning instinct” wouldn’t want you to stack CRIT DAMAGE on your gear to increase you BURNING DAMAGE, which (SPOILER) CAN’T CRIT.

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there is legit only the Ice Shards build you can play, kinda getting bored of it. can’t wait until season 1 so I can play a different class, maybe I’ll play minion-less necro or something

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Yeah I am thinking too the bonezone storm blight shadow dot thing looks cool and doesn’t seem to be bugged like Combustion where it says “NOT LEARNED YET” after you learned it lol…

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Agreed, I also tried a fire build after playing ice shards and it was just bad even with unique items to accompany it. And all sorc summons need a major rework, they are all pretty useless.

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Yep Light was straight up just BETA and b4 launch nerfed to death (like Hydra) and the “ICE BLADE” is basicially a useless single target vulnerable bot, which you just apply with frost nova as AoE lol…

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This isn’t a sorc issue solely it’s an overall balance issue. As you said Rogue and Druid rn have multiple builds that are so far ahead of everybody else. Barbarian is shoe horned into HOTA end game, necromancer legit can’t do end game and do damage at the same time.

The disparity between classes is huge at max level full BiS.

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I recommend you to look up the shadow dot build inklink and I were talking about, it’s very strong.

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Literally doesn’t do damage. Necro is literally shoe horned into a shadowmist build that takes forever to kill things high level after being jebaited into bonespear for 100 levels. The entire build is also based on stacking defenses and CDr for immunity. So it may take 2-3 minutes to kill 1 difficult elite, but the entire premise of the build is basically exploiting god mode.

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This doesn’t look like “no damage” too me

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I see more Druids than sorcs. All bears too.
Druid>sorc>necro>rogue.

At least from what I’ve observed in WT3. An insane amount of Bears.

Rogue’s meta is twisting bl;ades + flurry + poison? (not sure about which imbu is bis), but I play Rapid Fire /w Combo points specialization & shadow imb+shadow trap.

I’m unable to find a single rapid fire buil;d online. It’s all about melee. Pretty sure thats the real off-meta.

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Don’t link me that trash can player ever again. We’re talking end game lmao.

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the builds in this game in general feel really suffocating, I don’t want to play druid or whirlwind barb so I’m out of luck, everything else is just so much worse. poison rogue seems insane too but it’s lacking aoe damage, which makes it kinda bad for normal gameplay

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Running in PvP every Sorc uses the exact same ice shard build. It’s pretty OP there.

Same thing with rogues. I think they use a trap build or something.

There just aren’t enough good choices in the skill trees right now for anyone.

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I think wudijo recently has made a very decent barage build don’t know about rapid fire tho.