[Sorc] Power Surge vs. Entropy

Noerknhar

To be honest, I have no clue what my DPS is because I'm playing on PS4. But I would love to have a sorcerer parse including entropy, just to be able to see what DPS entropy actually pulls in a real example.

Nevertheless, the 1.4k health are not worth a lot because you can just re-allocate your attributes to achieve the same. By the way: I have the buff on my primary bar as I don't play with bound aegis. I'm running with 3600 spell damage buffed and at 34k max magicka. Seems to be enough, even with that setup

Flaminir

@Noerknhar on a totally unrelated note.... with that amount of magicka... try bound Aegis for a bit..... increasing that amount of magicka by another 8% and that crazy high spell damage by another 2% should result in a decent DPS increase.

The higher your stats are, the better Aegis gets as it's a % increase.

Makkir

I stopped using it in PvP and swapped to Entrophy. Basically since everyone is using some sort of shield I just found the heal to be completely unreliable and invaluable next to the 5% health increase from entrophy and the small DOT.

FriedEggSandwich

As a sorc I would use degeneration over entropy anyway, as to make the most of the hp buff from entropy you would need it on both bars. I switch bars too much for the hp buff to be any use.

I dps by weaving destro fire medium attacks between every skill. I recently switched from using degeneration to power surge. My reasoning was that the major brutality would make my medium attacks hit harder. Another reason I switched to surge was shield breaker. I figured the extra healing from surge would be helpful to counter this set. I haven't tested my reasoning though.

The main thing I miss from degeneration was the ability to stack it on multiple enemies, providing a fairly decent hot while you 1vx. This requires a lot of setting up though and is fairly situational. For the time being I'm sticking with power surge.

Noerknhar

Flaminir wrote: »

@Noerknhar on a totally unrelated note.... with that amount of magicka... try bound Aegis for a bit..... increasing that amount of magicka by another 8% and that crazy high spell damage by another 2% should result in a decent DPS increase.

The higher your stats are, the better Aegis gets as it's a % increase.

Thanks for the note. I know that bound aegis would increase my DPS nicely, but I just don't have any free spaces on my bars to fit it into my playstyle. Dunno how others are able to place two toggle skills (inner light and aegis) on both bars without screwing EVERY utility out of their build.

My current loadout is designed for keeping the ability to move, react and survive. I could remove entropy/surge from my first bar, but I would have no idea where to put aegis on the 2nd bar...