What will you do with your Sorc after update 13?

Father_X_Zombie

With the changes coming to Sorc for the most part being negative and almost certainly not being reverted , what do you plan on doing with your Sorc after update 13?

CyrusArya

Try to adapt to the changes

Throw curse on my back bar, put ele drain on my front bar, and move boundless storm from back bar to overload bar.

Father_X_Zombie

Other

I personally havent decided, im not sure the curse change is going to work and i hope they revert it. Ill try it out but if its as bad as it looks im ether playing a new class or a new game.

Sandman929

Try to adapt to the changes

I'll have to try it to know for sure, but even on a pet sorc I'm not excited by any of the changes. If I can make Daedric Prey work, which is possible since I use a staff and I'm not completely boned like DW sorcs, I'll just adapt to the new timing.

Waffennacht

Try to adapt to the changes

Im already working on it:
x5 heavy x1 la x1 medium

Wyrd Tree
Bloodthorn
Troll/Tremor

Frost staff

Familiar + Prey (prey back bar) + Atro
Clench
Pulse
Encase

A pet cryomancer

Horowonnoe

Other

From what i have seen so far, sorc is actually going to become a better dps class than it is now. With the changes to the curse, there will be more potential for reaching higher damage point because of how the timing works out.

• When life gives you lemons, make a vodka drink.
• When ZOS gives you nerfs, turn it around on them and do even more damage

Yes?

Minalan

Star in a hit reality TV show starring You, Joe Biden and Jennifer Lawrence about different cheeses

Jennifer Lawrence? Hells yes!

NordSwordnBoard

Try to adapt to the changes

As a DW Sorc, I'm afraid that whatever I replace Curse with in PvP will be significantly less effective.

I'm not worried about PvE; and I'm willing to try the new curse if it is in fact better for overall DPS.

Does anybody use trapping webs these days? I used to use it in PvP as a Sorc, when it was a single target spammable. Revert that back to a magicka instant cast skill and maybe it can help fill the curse void on the burst bar.

Since I do both PvE & PvP, I can't help feeling this seems like the cost outweighs the benefits to my overall gameplay, but we will see.

I get more damage I wasn't asking for at the cost of a core skill I was totally happy with. I just think it would be more practical to change a skill that hardly gets used and make it relevant, instead of changing a core skill that works well now.

Jaronking

Continue to play as it is

I am going to continue trying to play my stam sorc as well as my stamblade and stamDK.

ToRelax

Uhm, just wondering what changes we are talking about here... ? Only nerfs I can think of are Velocious Curse and Hurricane, only one of which will effect most players.

edit: typo

oTheTownDrunk

Try to adapt to the changes

What are they doing with the frost staff again?

I will be using proximity det, volcanic rune, and deadric mines as a main factor in my burst damage with a proced frag. Will just have to stay steady with pressure on people who decide they dont want to rush me. Structured Entropy will be going on my front bar for empowered spells, heals, and keep that 20% spell damage bonus up 100%.

Vaoh

Continue to play as it is

Waffennacht wrote: »

Im already working on it:
x5 heavy x1 la x1 medium

Wyrd Tree
Bloodthorn
Troll/Tremor

Frost staff

Familiar + Prey (prey back bar) + Atro
Clench
Pulse
Encase

A pet cryomancer

What a mess PvP has become when Magicka Sorcerers are even thinking about running Heavy Armor over Light Armor. The imbalances of PvP are irreversible at this point.

And with Tremorscale (stam) too! Like wth is ZOS doing.

Vaoh

Continue to play as it is

I have mained Magicka Sorcerer since launch. I'll stick to my Magicka Sorcerer. We could become the worst class spec (which we aren't) and I'd still play it.

I'll do fine no matter what ZOS messes with tbh.

Also there is a pretty good chance Velocious Curse will be brought back and Haunting Curse's effects added to Daedric Prey. It's a unanimously terrible change even for bad players, their current focus on buffing.

Father_X_Zombie

Other

ToRelax wrote: »

Uhm, just wondering what changes we are talking about here... ? Only nerfs I can think of are Velocious Curse and Hurricane, only of which will effect most players.

Overload is getting hit too. The ultimate cap is getting cut in half which means VMA for magicka sorc is going to be very difficult as it is more then nessisary to burn bosses. At the very least mag Sorcs will be kicked out of the top 20 VMA scores for sorcerers

Sigtric

Continue to play as it is

I will keep killing stuff

ToRelax

Father_X_Zombie wrote: »

ToRelax wrote: »

Uhm, just wondering what changes we are talking about here... ? Only nerfs I can think of are Velocious Curse and Hurricane, only of which will effect most players.

Overload is getting hit too. The ultimate cap is getting cut in half which means VMA for magicka sorc is going to be very difficult as it is more then nessisary to burn bosses. At the very least mag Sorcs will be kicked out of the top 20 VMA scores for sorcerers

Ah, right. I wanted that to happen for a long time though.

Waffennacht

Try to adapt to the changes

Vaoh wrote: »

I have mained Magicka Sorcerer since launch. I'll stick to my Magicka Sorcerer. We could become the worst class spec (which we aren't) and I'd still play it.

I'll do fine no matter what ZOS messes with tbh.

Also there is a pretty good chance Velocious Curse will be brought back and Haunting Curse's effects added to Daedric Prey. It's a unanimously terrible change even for bad players, their current focus on buffing.

That'd make me happy.

@ToRelax the nerfs in totality are:

Curse becomes Haunt 3.5 sec to 6 sec
Ult Max goes from 1000 to 500 (half as much Overload)
Familiar goes from 4 secs to 8 secs (PvE mobs get stunned less often, no dps change mostly PvE)

Other nerfs that can be said:
Destro ult reduced by 5%
DW damage bonus reduced (or penalty increased as they put it)

Buff:
Atro does 25% more damage
Prey buffs Familiar AoE

Pulse unreflectable

Undecided : Magicka steal thingy

Frost staff:
Heavy attack taunts
Maim!
Uses magicka for blocking, stops magicka regen (if you put the points in)

Fire staff 8% more single target damage
Lightning 8% more AoE dmg

ToRelax

Waffennacht wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

I have mained Magicka Sorcerer since launch. I'll stick to my Magicka Sorcerer. We could become the worst class spec (which we aren't) and I'd still play it.

I'll do fine no matter what ZOS messes with tbh.

Also there is a pretty good chance Velocious Curse will be brought back and Haunting Curse's effects added to Daedric Prey. It's a unanimously terrible change even for bad players, their current focus on buffing.

That'd make me happy.

ToRelax the nerfs in totality are:

Curse becomes Haunt 3.5 sec to 6 sec
Ult Max goes from 1000 to 500 (half as much Overload)
Familiar goes from 4 secs to 8 secs (PvE mobs get stunned less often, no dps change mostly PvE)

Other nerfs that can be said:
Destro ult reduced by 5%
DW damage bonus reduced (or penalty increased as they put it)

Buff:
Atro does 25% more damage
Prey buffs Familiar AoE

Pulse unreflectable

Undecided : Magicka steal thingy

Frost staff:
Heavy attack taunts
Maim!
Uses magicka for blocking, stops magicka regen (if you put the points in)

Fire staff 8% more single target damage
Lightning 8% more AoE dmg

Yeah, I just counted the nerfs compared to other classes that have an impact on PvP. x)

Jsmalls

Try to adapt to the changes

Probably make some cancerous perma tank Frost staff build, and troll players until I no longer feel the need to log onto this game.

Curse hasn't left my bar since I made my first character at console release. (PvP)

I've been using that same skill for the past (almost 2 years?) Why they decided it now needs a change after 2 years of being virtually untouched (goes through block, but if that's too much revert that idc) I'll never understand. (Simplicity... Then change prey the one no one uses and keep velicious for those that don't need simplicity).

I don't always have 6 (let alone 12) seconds to dedicate to one player at all times in PvP. It's suppose to be a fast paced environment, stop trying to dumb down the mSorc...

And fix the damn sword and board ultimate, so tired of getting stuck in a heavy staff attack.

ilander

Try to adapt to the changes

Magicka in general, let alone sorc has been underperforming for a good while now in PvP. My main (mag sorc) has /played of about 185 days and 95% of that has been in Cyrodiil. It has been hard enough to burst someone down as it is with about 3k spell damage let alone having to wait twice as long for the burst potential to happen. Even a remotely experienced player knows that a curse is coming in about 3 seconds and has time to react, let alone almost twice that long, which is long enough in PvP terms to go off and make a cup of coffee and drink it before the curse hits.

I'm guessing there are Three Toed Sloths and lethargists out there who will even be able to react to this eternity of a difference, bearing in mind that 0.2 seconds is a long time in a fight in Cyrodiil, something i'm sure hasn't been even remotely thought about by the people who decided to make this change.

Sure, its going to be fun for all of those PVE players because the AI of 99.9% of the NPCs are coded to act like they've had a full frontal lobotomy (not too sure what happened there seeing as there's better AI on monsters/mobs in even Playstation 3 games) but, the fact that i've already been reduced to a negate/EOTS monkey already makes this an even bigger kick in the proverbials.

The chances of this being reverted are most likely round about 0% because i think ZOS makes business decisions around what their business based staff thinks/believes, rather than what EXPERIENCED players know (note the use of the words believe and know DEVS.) Most businesses have already made a business decision and have made their final decision on it long long long before they've even bothered to let the general public know and end up basically just trying to "sell" the new concept to the public whether they want it or not but i'm seeing 0 positives in this change.

FloppyTouch

Star in a hit reality TV show starring You, Joe Biden and Jennifer Lawrence about different cheeses

This is my dream. I don't play sorc btw

Biro123

I honestly don't know yet..

I play a DW magsorc - if the curse changes go ahead, I'll have to rebuild it. I can't possibly see how my current setup can be changed to a destro/resto setup without a total re-build. I expect I'll take the prey morph since I'm using the daedric shepherd build for PVE - that's only gonna be stronger.

But for PVP..? thinking.. thinking hard. Perhaps BSW/Lich/Infernal or VD/Lich/Infernal? Or Spinners/Lich/Infernal? But its just Soo cookie-cutter! (and lacks stam) I want to come up with my own setup and see how it performs - that's half the fun.

Thinking about blackrose - mostly for the stam return - as the cookie-cutter builds lose quite a bit of stam over what I have now.. In the words of the Late Great Freddie Mercury 'I want to Break Free'!

I've looked at the pet passives from the beginning and thought - tanking.. and always toyed with the idea of a magsorc tank with pet. Maybe I'll dust off my retired stamsorc and and try some off-the-wall stuff.. Perhaps blackrose/trainee/trollking... (20% health regen buffs for a pet) or blackrose/beekeeper/trollking for a full on regen setup.. combined with power-surge heals - that's a LOT of passive healing/recov to get through. In theory, these could focus on either stam or mag for the dmg part..

Still gonna play it - definitely.

Draxys

Star in a hit reality TV show starring You, Joe Biden and Jennifer Lawrence about different cheeses

Also still gonna do tons of aoe damage in pvp

Derra

Other

I think the overall changes coming in the next update are going to benefit any competent magica sorc greatly in pvp and are going to make the class better than they already are.

Tyrion87

Did I actually ported back to the times when DB was about to hit live and many sorcs (including me) were worried about the dmg shields duration nerf? Well, back then the worries and such polls were quite justified since many of us were dependant on (or even addicted to) shields. But in time we have learned to live with their shorter duration.

But now? Yeah, I don't like the overload or curse nerf but I don't think these changes would make me quit playing the game or reroll. But I still hope they will somehow buff/adjust the haunting curse by e.g. reducing its time to 5 sec, amounting to 10 sec for two explosions (instead of 12). I don't think they will totally reverse the changes though.

Methariorn

Try to adapt to the changes

I'll change my build to take advantage of frost staff, maybe giving a try to winterborn.

bebynnag

Other

Ill do what i do every update spend 3 months grinding for the gear i need, then come to the forums read the next set of patch notes, realise the last 3 months were a waste of time and start grinding for my next set!

Berenhir

Sadly there is no "Gonna aoe you all into Oblivion and block cast my shields for lolz" option. Poll is biased!

Pallio

Play a new class

They only reason mag sorc still exists is because he is my 9 trait crafter, guess he will be able to live in my new house now, crafting as usual.

Beardimus

Try to adapt to the changes

Looking forward to pet changes on my Alt, very worried about my main, its killing Overload thus my gold elegance set, curse burst for pvp etc. It's a massive Nerf. Undefended.

Nerf stam, Nerf heavy armour, Need proc armour we all know the problems. It wasn't overload

Father_X_Zombie

Other

Berenhir wrote: »

Sadly there is no "Gonna aoe you all into Oblivion and block cast my shields for lolz" option. Poll is biased!

That would go along with the continue option lol