Why will you not make sorc a viable class for the end game? Every other class got “balanced” to be able to do end game content. Why do you keep this class so bad? Sorc has been a staple and favorite in every diablo game except this one. This class is never viable end game unless the code is messed up (original ball lightning sorc season). even then you had to have a shako.
Can you please fix this class, stop with the bad skills, the ridiculous low % dmg boost to skills. Just look at next season for the barb, they get a 400-600% multiplier for a skill that is already used for a top tier end game barb build.
Lightening spear is viable with perfect gear to torment 3, but cant actually do anything in t3. why do you single this class out as the only unplayable class in the game yet EVERY SEASON, barb and necro are carries? Just make it freakin viable for end game. Ill take 3 minutes to kill duriel instead of 1 shot with barb or necro because I find the class for fun to play, but since sorc cannot even kill t4 duriel, I just end up doing a crap build for barb or necro or spiritborn and crushing endgame content. show some love for sorc.
p.s: firewall sucks, I dont want to play a build that is just even worse earthquake mechanic. Literally so much could be done with winterglas, that one item could open multiple builds for sorc. lightning spear is fun, but so is cascading cold orb. But cascading cold orb isnt viable because the dmg is so bad, so you end up just over stacking skill cooldown so you can spam cast lightning spear which has messed up code for its damage. Like does the passive ult and critical hit spillover rebound just not factor in? because by the math, it should spike into billion dmg hit range but does about 124mil as an overpower crit.
please fix this class.
I mean, Sorc is totally viable in T4. No, we are not one-shotting Duriel. Yes, our upper Pit bound is lower than the top builds for other classes (it’s worth noting that those are largely outliers even within their own class though).
That said, if you can’t cruise through T4 with a well-geared LS build (almost all Sorc builds, really), then I’m pretty sure you’re doing something wrong. While I’m not playing it myself, my understanding is that LS is one of the strongest builds we have this season.
None of this is to say we don’t need some love. I’ll even agree with you that it’s crazy what kind of multipliers they’re willing to give to Barbs, when they’ve never given us anything even remotely comparable (I dream of seeing three digit multipliers; the only one we get is Combustion, and it doesn’t even begin to make up for the fact that DoTs can’t crit or overpower). However I think the problem is more that they seem to go out of their way to break other classes on purpose (especially f#*%ing Barbs, someone at Blizzard has an erection for that class) rather than that we aren’t balanced. The Devs said outright in the last campfire that they see Sorcs as basically correctly balanced, and it’s other classes that have builds that are out of whack (though it doesn’t seem like they’re that interested in actually doing something about that).
It will be interesting to see how quick they are to bring out the nerf hammer in S8. They said they’d react early to unintentional outliers next season (as opposed to not touching them until the next season).
Cold skills are lame this season except frost nova. I ran 6 different builds this season and all can do 100 pit. LS fastest and powerful but CL is a close second. Could not do this last season or on eternal.
Was something about lightning spear adjusted in mid s7 or something?
I was getting 600m-billion damage hits from LS on eternal a couple months ago (no overpower, LS/CL/Hydra hybrid), but ive been away from this game for a bit and may have missed an update.
I’ve got my Fireball sorc running T4 so it’s not just lightning builds that can do it. Only pushing mid 70’s in the pits though… but I’m still not fully geared… need a couple of witch gems (Friend of the Bog in particular) and some ancestral gloves. Damn Beast in the Ice refuses to drop ancestral ones. Sigh…
But it’s a literal blast for farming… Incinerate followed by a stream of fireballs… rinse and repeat. Oh, and I’m doing that with no mythic items either. Just unique and ancestral.
In s7 I was killing everything in t4 pit lvl 105 bosses took about 15 seconds to kill for the tormented bosses,and that was with or with out witch powers. They really did nothing in my build, and I plan on copying that build for season 8 for end game but, to level always use incinerate build