So i’ve been playing the blizzard build since the season start, and i’m as max dps as i can get.
But… the damage output is a big disappointment. And i’m writing this post because lot’s of people have claimed that it’s the best for this season, and that you can get crits as high as two million.
And all i can say is that is just not realistic, the best i have seen is anything from 400k to the very occasional 1 mill.
What do we think?
I think that the different classes have very different strengths at the moment, which unfortunately means that if you want very high dps, play barbarian. Sorc has other strengths, which primarily lie in and around teleport and cc, in my opinion.
Blizzard is, to my knowlege, still the highest damage build on sorc; i havent exploring pushing blizzard builds lately, however.
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The strongest build, in a universal sense, will continue to change. Fact is, we do not know what it is at this moment, and that definition will change greatly in s4. Not sure why anyone would spend their time updating to s3 at this point…gauntlet-tailored builds will need to have their survivability updated…so one needs to be more specific than simply saying…‘stronk’.
There are other sorc builds that can get as high as 10M dps this season (in eternal), but DPS shouldn’t be your only metric for ‘strength’ or s tier.
Blizzard is great because of it’s CC, mob control. The mechanics are also very easy to use: click on enemy, large area splash, the end. You also avoid a lot of annoying one-shots and explody things with this build. The mechanics of this build also can be a disadvantage because they make the build borring.
The best build is probably one that is the most fun to play with (very subjective) and can reasonably carry you through NMDs. If your use case is PVP, we can infer you are super competitive and your build should be one where your win to loss ratio against every class (and most class permutations) is above 50%.
Oh come on…
I don’t want to sound rude, but there is no such build that can hit that hard.
If you can link to a video showing that, it would be a miracle.
I dont have a video of me on a test dummy but i can get up to 10m with a staff. In all transparency, 4m of the 10M comes from Engulphing Aspect which I believe is a 130x multiplier at a certain point. There are 3 other aspects i have that give 30+ to 40 multiplicative damage each. My rings give 40+ multiplicative damage each. Then there is a lot of paragon nodes / glyphs that give a lot of multiplicative damage. For example, one node gives me 30x multiplicative damage by itself.
Btw: 10M damage is still weak sauce compared to barb hota damage. Isnt Hota damage in the billions?
Bonus: the 10M number is a vanity metric. Remember that firewall skill, especially on a staff, is super slow casting. So by the time your half way through the cast, Macro’s Necromancer has poop-waved you twice. There is no greater humiliation in PVP than to get poop-waved by Macro.
Soulbrand is like a 950k base dps by itself, we know this as fact
Soulbrand also scales 3x with Temerity
You have to say…‘Soulbrand with 2 Topaz in the chest is BiS’…then, it will pick up on the meta.
Sir that is … brilliant
It’s a big difference between ten thousand and ten million…
And we’re talking about single crit numbers here, not loads of little ones that might but certainly don’t add up to tens of millions.