Personally, I think it’s a design flaw if most/all people can point at one build and say “that one is the most optimal”.
Keep buffing/adjusting all kinds of builds until there is no accepted consensus on what is best. Do this for every class.
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Carries your group in what content? What builds are the rest of you playing if the arc lash sorc is carrying?
NM T45++
Well, I was a poorly optimised WW Barb but have since repseced to Hota. Lvl 92 hitting 5mil plus crits atm without BiS gear. WW Barb traaaash.
We also have a Bone Spear Necro with us thats been hitting 5mil+ crits since level 60. He’s currently 88 off the top of my head.
We also have a level 74 Twisting blades rogue that’s kind of lost his love for the game so isn’t running any kind of meta build.
Arc Lash sorc been carrying for a while. I’ve seen it first hand, which is why I said check your build. No malice behind it.
Teleport into pack, Frost Nova freeze em all together, Flame Shield for invuln in a pinch, Blizzard, Arc Lash with a million lightning balls all popping off, Deep Freeze Ult for in a pinch as well.
As for gear and the class specific talents and such, I have no idea, I haven’t played sorc yet.
Try playing arclash in NM70+
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lol no thaniks!
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Sounds like your sorc is doing an amazing job at providing utility, not damage. In higher nightmares sorc gets 1 shot by everything and arc lash build is doing like 150k crits, nothing close to the millions the rest of you were putting out.
When I do legion events and I’m on those towers, my full might with ultimate running - peak dps - I can barely see the health bar move. Then some other class (ANY other class) comes along and 1-2 shots it down as they run by. The difference is huge.
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How do you use two ultimate’s?
Happens in every ARPG POE has top 5 Builds most people play to kill Uber bosses. Then poe nerfs them and over buffs others rinse and repeat. And sure you can play anybuild in POE just like but just like hear you aint killing uber anything
I tried an arclash variant with all damage reduction nodes in Paragon boards (incl. chill), 100% uptime on Blizzard for 40% damage reduction, 25% damage reduction from CCed mobs (counts chilled mobs from Blizzard), maxed out aspects of disobedience and might, maxed out damage reduction rolls and %armor on 820 chest and pants + armor potion. Still got 1-shot.
I have 2 more theorycrafted builds lined up that might be able to survive a NM100 and Uber Lilith but one needs the Shako and the other needs Selig. So LOL.
Elaborate? Where are the 2 Ults?
your sorc friend is cheating… there is no way possible to have that many abilities on your skill bar.
if they are playing arc lash, they will not have deep freeze as an ultimate muchless have a blizzard ability and there are no way a “million” balls are popping off… I have sometimes 18 (but I do not have the teleport chest)…
Your friend is probably carrying you since they run 4 shields and group the mobs up via teleport and dont die with the 4 shields and allow you guys to one shot the pack and if you guys die, your sorc friend rezzes you… this is how “i carry” my team mates… i do poop damage but dont take damage and just am there for a rez clicker
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Try the endgame blizzard build. It’s much better than arc lash which was nerfed a ton, and better than ice shards as well. There is a neat ball lightning build on Youtube which is great at endgame as well, though I personally couldn’t get that one to work well.
- Teleport
- Frost Nova
- Flame Shield
- Blizzard
- Arc Lash
- Deep Freeze
Last I checked, there were 6 skill slots…
Running Deep Freeze instead of Unstable Currents as Arclash sorc is some next level gigabrain move
You know that sorc is one of the best classes in the game right? It has disgusting damage for both aoe and single target, it’s incredibly tanky, it has game-breaking CC and has great mobility and a avoid death skill which is incredibly overpowered.
If you are having issues then I would suggest respeccing and making your build again, perhaps you took skills and passives without really understanding them? or you missed some incredibly powerful skills?
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meanwhile necro, rogue, druid and barb effortlessly dish out millions of damage per attack without needing to meet 5 different temporary conditions.
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lets take about “flame shield” as the OP skll… it does NOT work in hardcore mode. i made a hard core sorc yesterday only to test this out, i got to level 15 and did the enchancement unlock quest. I slapped flame shield in and went to a mob (low level single mob) that only melee’d me… I let him “kill” me (no aoe or other mobs hitting me) and when he delivered the killing blow, flame shield did not “save” me, it said, you die… fallen heros blah blah blah…
So yes, on paper you think it is OP but in game, its just a gimmick skill that people read it that it actually saves you from death but it does not proc (at least in hardcore)
Lol joke’s on you, sorc doesn’t have any incredibly powerful skills. Troll detected. Maybe play a sorc before making claims like this, it just hurts the sorc community when people spout false information.
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flame shield has to be off cd for it to work and it 100% works. Myself and so many others use it in HC. Saved just about every sorc on HC thousands of times I’m sure.
I re-rolled to necro and it’s, ironically, way closer to the glass cannon caster architype I was hoping for