Still using Crystal Shards

carljokl

I am realising from creating a new Sorcerer Alt that one of the first combat spells learned was Crystal Shards.
My original character is also a Sorcerer and I find the evolved version of Crystal Shards is still my go to attack.
Considering how much higher level (about CP 160 vs Level 5) one Sorcerer is than the other it made me think how I don't seem to have progressed to using spells unlocked at higher levels of experience. I certainly have tried using the other abilities but nothing seems to work as well for me at dispatching enemies either singular or groups as the Crystal Shards line.

I wonder if this is an unusual experience? Should I have progressed to another spell of choice by now? Is it lacking in style and imagination to keep face-rolling Crystal Shards all the time?

CasNation

What morph are you using the strongest easy single target combo is to use force pulse from the destruction staff line to proc the free cast of crystal fragments. Then you mix in Velocious curse and mages wrath to proc burst combos on a target.

To directly answer your question though, most sorcs use force pulse because it is instant and cheaper and procs elemental effects.

geonsocal

carljokl wrote: »

I am realising from creating a new Sorcerer Alt that one of the first combat spells learned was Crystal Shards.
My original character is also a Sorcerer and I find the evolved version of Crystal Shards is still my go to attack.
Considering how much higher level (about CP 160 vs Level 5) one Sorcerer is than the other it made me think how I don't seem to have progressed to using spells unlocked at higher levels of experience. I certainly have tried using the other abilities but nothing seems to work as well for me at dispatching enemies either singular or groups as the Crystal Shards line.

I wonder if this is an unusual experience? Should I have progressed to another spell of choice by now? Is it lacking in style and imagination to keep face-rolling Crystal Shards all the time?

after playing awhile and trying out just about every ability in every class (plus reading through a good bit of different forum input)...it seems some of the best and most effective abilities are some of the first abilities you can acquire...

CasNation

carljokl wrote: »

CasNation wrote: »

What morph are you using?

I normally morph to Crystal blast to have splash damage onto other targets.

While I respect the "play how you want" philosophy, I highly recommend swapping to crystal fragments. You can use other spells like impulse, liquid lightning and boundless storm for splash damage, and the single target damage potential of force pulse plus crystal fragments is much much higher than spamming crystal blast. There is a reason you don't see any end game sorc builds that use crystal blast.

psychotic13

carljokl wrote: »

CasNation wrote: »

What morph are you using?

I normally morph to Crystal blast to have splash damage onto other targets.

Crysral fragments is the superior morph

psychotic13

carljokl wrote: »

psychotic13 wrote: »

carljokl wrote: »

CasNation wrote: »

What morph are you using?

I normally morph to Crystal blast to have splash damage onto other targets.

Crysral fragments is the superior morph

This is a pain as I chose Crystal Blast on all my Sorcerers. I will have to pay to reallocated their skill points now.

There's an option to just reallocate the morphs and not every skill point, should be a lot cheaper.

With the fragments morph, you have a chance for it to 'proc' when casting any Magicka ability, once it 'procs' your hands will glow purple and you will be able to cast it without the 1 second cast time, it also costs less and does more damage.

Brrrofski

No, it's not strange.

A lot of classes use some of the first skills you unlock.

carljokl

CasNation wrote: »

What morph are you using?

I normally morph to Crystal blast to have splash damage onto other targets.

carljokl

psychotic13 wrote: »

carljokl wrote: »

CasNation wrote: »

What morph are you using?

I normally morph to Crystal blast to have splash damage onto other targets.

Crysral fragments is the superior morph

This is a pain as I chose Crystal Blast on all my Sorcerers. I will have to pay to reallocated their skill points now.

carljokl

This thread appears to be experiencing a strange temporal anomaly where posts and their replies are occurring out of sequence. I blame Molag Bal.

hrothbern

carljokl wrote: »

This thread appears to be experiencing a strange temporal anomaly where posts and their replies are occurring out of sequence. I blame Molag Bal.

You are the one causing that @carljokl

Every time you tick off a post as an answer, it moves up and goes chronological in all the answers

The posts not ticked off as an answer are sorted chronological below the answers.

carljokl

hrothbern wrote: »

carljokl wrote: »

This thread appears to be experiencing a strange temporal anomaly where posts and their replies are occurring out of sequence. I blame Molag Bal.

You are the one causing that @carljokl

Every time you tick off a post as an answer, it moves up and goes chronological in all the answers

The posts not ticked off as an answer are sorted chronological below the answers.

Ok it was my fault then. Not Molag Bal.

carljokl

I think it is worth asking. If I go to the trouble of changing my spell morphs, what are the prefered morphs for the rest of the sorcerer and staff / magic abilities?

psychotic13

carljokl wrote: »

I think it is worth asking. If I go to the trouble of changing my spell morphs, what are the prefered morphs for the rest of the sorcerer and staff / magic abilities?

Which ones are you speaking of in paticular?

Asardes

You have much better AoE skills:
- explosion from mages wrath (instant)
- explosion from velocious curse (instant)
- liquid lightning (DoT)
- elemental blockade (DoT)

So it's a bad idea to rely on crystals for it, especially because the other morphs gives you a huge cost reduction and damage increase. It should be a no brainer, in the way combat prayer or aggressive warhorn is.

Here's a pretty good guide for magicka sorcerer build:
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/2-3-the-yolo-wizard-v2-non-overload-pve-dps-build-vet-mol-approved/

carljokl

I have re-morphed my abilities based on the advised ones. Crystal Fragments has been able to be a one hit kill sometimes or more typically death in two blasts. I have noticed being able to unleash a lot more spells before my magica runs out but the sorcerer I am using is more focused on boosted magica than my first one was.
Now with the AoE effects, some seem like the Dragon Knight battle standard ultimate but being able to use it multiple times. The damage might not be as high.

I also discovered that using summons is frowned upon especially in group dungeons where they can be confused with the enemies and get in the way.

I have swapped out Overload from Storm Atronach. Now I can feel like Emperor Palpetine firing lightning from my hands. I haven't quite figured out what causes it to wear off. Sometimes it seems to last for ages. Other times I can loose it in a short time.

I even was able to do a couple of normal level dungeons yesterday in the role of the healer. I managed to do well enough to avoid being kicked. I was warned that many veteran groups may kick me unless I am a templar healer.

Minalan

The frags morph knockdown should probably be moved to blast. We have a situation where one morph is too good and the other useless.

Without the KD effect, we could cut the channel/cast time on frags by a half second.