So am I missing something, or are sorc getting crapped on again?
Still waiting for chain lightning to not be trash, would love an incinerate build that’s viable. A frozen orb build that doesn’t require LS to not be garbage. Blizzard, and meteor builds would also be nice.
I truly am blown away by the notes I read, every class getting large buffs to core skills and other abilities, sorc, getting next to nothing. I don’t get it.
It is more to come. Seems the approach was to have even better in class balance. So all the classic classes can enjoy more A to B Tier Builds.
Axial Conduit should just get the Overheat aspect treatment. A damage scaling with + Ranks to Chain Lightning would be good.
With the slight buff to combustion, a Hybrid build with meteor and fireball could be a fun build to play. Of course, unless all you want to do is one shot everything. If so i wouldn’t play Sorc in the first place. It just isn’t set up for that.
I just want my favorite Diablo skill of all time since Diablo 1, chain lightning, to not be trash.
It’s only been good for one season, and even then it wasn’t the best. They need to refine axial, and buff the core skill.
Basically I want to be able to play more than just LS all over again and again.
I’ve been playing a LS/Chain combo that’s pretty good this season, but i agree 100%
Incininerate will now run 7-9 Tiers higher than before. Actually I’m a little underwhelmed, cause my expactation was that Sorc gets the most buffs. Instead Sorc got the least buffs.
But Sorc is even better now at leveling 1-60.
How high was incinerate running? 70-80?
The highest recorded clear was 85, but most people struggled with 65-75.
I guess it’s still all about that clunky fire bolt build then.
Finally got a decent buff to meteor and Starfall Coronet. Still seems lacking, like a meteor build still needs another filler, but it is moving in the right direction for me. Maybe they will add something else next season that synergizes better.
I am also disappointed in chain lightnings interactions with axial conduit. I hate that I cant spam my primary ability (applies to starfall coronet too).
So that hydra buff tho.
A fireball meteor combo could be fun…with hydra.
Pyro and torch glyphs got some help too. Just crafting in my head.
Afterwards, you drop the sorc into the effing garbage and pick a serious class. This patch is kinda insulting especially since these asses claimed they wanted to preserve the fun for the people that invested hours into the game. Screw sorc players I guess.
If you are lucky and get a Starfall Coronet with 3 seconds, then you can add a ton of attackspeed to your meteor setup to literally spam Meteor.
I usually stop meta chasing at the halfway mark of the season and then try other builds for fun. Meteor is pretty easy to gear for, and could be a fun build with the rune. I defiantly wouldn’t expect it to pit push tho.
I mean it’s nice they’re listening. People have been complaining about Fire builds (outside of Fireball) for a while now, and those are some major buffs.
Might even be fun to try Meteor or Hydra again, but not this season.
No changes to passives means that the only way to scale damage is still with an amulet with GA devouring blaze and conjuration mastery affixes (good luck getting one).
Buffs are pretty meh to say the least. The list goes on for other classes and seems sorc gets half the treatment.
I’m honestly OK with these notes. You always want to see more but considering we were mega-buffed last season, I will interpret these as a statement that the Devs think we are largely in a good place, which I happen to think is mostly true. I’m playing Ice Shards which is pretty close to the bottom of the meta in theory, and it’s really not that bad. And, because of that perception, it’s getting buffed, as are the non-Fireball Fire builds and Charged Bolts (the other contenders for worst Sorc build).
Do we still have problems? Heck yes, starting with enchantments and the mandatory inclusion of Tal’Rasha’s in all our builds, but those aren’t issues that are going to get fixed in a mid season patch.
If you were expecting to be buffed to SB levels then you had unreasonable expectations going in.
They need to do a lot of buffs 1. core cdr conjuration needs to be 4.5 percent for winterglass. 2. Starfall coronet needs to be a boot, glove, or focus period 2 uber helms u always use. 3. Incinerate, familar, shards, meteor, firewall buff again. 4. We need boss dmg for example ice shards, chain lightning, meteor it is a single target hello. Finally fix the stupid shatter bug been in the game for over a year and a half my god. Sorry we can’t do above a 106 pit unless using shatter fireball sorry to say we are the weakest class goodbye.