Full aoe PVP magicka sorcerer build

Chelister

So, I have been running this build mainly for PVE but when tried in PVP enjoyed it really a lot
I am looking for suggestions to what I should change and whether you think if it’s possible to make the build viable given that it is all around aoe

Here is the set up:
5 Necropetence
2 Valkyn Skoria
3 Willpower

Frontbar:
Blockade of Storms
Lightening Flood
Mage's Warth
Volatile pet
Crystal Fragments

Back Bar:
Hardened Ward
Dampen Magic
Healing Ward
Structured entropy
Volatile pet

I am running Lightening staff and so Blockade of Storms trigger the Exploiter passive (increase damage on set off balance enemies by 10%).
Given that I am mostly running BGS, which is often chaotic due to nature of BS being a cluster of players, the aoes seem cool
So, it’s like aoe PVP build

I would like to hear any suggestions; do you think it might work in PVP. The only downside is that there is not much burts and people can avoid the aoes. But the 4x4x4 fights are just so messy with all players gathered in one in one location so aoes are fun there

If there are any other similar builds around aoe, please let me know, would be interesting to look at

leepalmer95

I'd change one of your aoes for daedric prey to boost your pets aoe dmg. It hits pretty hard and curse is such a good skill in pvp, its hard to pass up.

Im not sure how you sustain with that? Do you heavy lightning staff a lot?

Honestly all you need to do is basically buff up, start pet special, put down aoe and destro ult with eye of the storm to melt everything.

Chelister

leepalmer95 wrote: »

I'd change one of your aoes for daedric prey to boost your pets aoe dmg. It hits pretty hard and curse is such a good skill in pvp, its hard to pass up.

Im not sure how you sustain with that? Do you heavy lightning staff a lot?

Honestly all you need to do is basically buff up, start pet special, put down aoe and destro ult with eye of the storm to melt everything.

Ok, cool, I'll think about where to put the curse! What are your suggestions?

Sustain is average, BGs are so fast pace so it always ends up with u going out there giving ur best and dying

I wish they could all gather in circle and melt, but the problem is that they don't). In that sense aoes are quite easily avoidable(

MisterBigglesworth

"Full AOE" and yet you've neglected to use the Crystal Blast morph.

leepalmer95

Chelister wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

I'd change one of your aoes for daedric prey to boost your pets aoe dmg. It hits pretty hard and curse is such a good skill in pvp, its hard to pass up.

Im not sure how you sustain with that? Do you heavy lightning staff a lot?

Honestly all you need to do is basically buff up, start pet special, put down aoe and destro ult with eye of the storm to melt everything.

Ok, cool, I'll think about where to put the curse! What are your suggestions?

Sustain is average, BGs are so fast pace so it always ends up with u going out there giving ur best and dying

I wish they could all gather in circle and melt, but the problem is that they don't). In that sense aoes are quite easily avoidable(

Hence why i suggested curse, im not sure an aoe pve pet build will work. Your missing a spammable as well unless you hard cast frags?

Chelister

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Chelister wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

I'd change one of your aoes for daedric prey to boost your pets aoe dmg. It hits pretty hard and curse is such a good skill in pvp, its hard to pass up.

Im not sure how you sustain with that? Do you heavy lightning staff a lot?

Honestly all you need to do is basically buff up, start pet special, put down aoe and destro ult with eye of the storm to melt everything.

Ok, cool, I'll think about where to put the curse! What are your suggestions?

Sustain is average, BGs are so fast pace so it always ends up with u going out there giving ur best and dying

I wish they could all gather in circle and melt, but the problem is that they don't). In that sense aoes are quite easily avoidable(

Hence why i suggested curse, im not sure an aoe pve pet build will work. Your missing a spammable as well unless you hard cast frags?

Your are right, it's an issues that I didn't mention. Since I don't run crushing shock I lack spammable as u said, so my fragment procs rarely, which might induce me to replace it

dpencil1

It's true that there are plenty of times when the other teams will clump up for a while, but there are two big problems with specing specifically for aoe:
1. Players move all the time, you may land 2-3 tics of ground aoe dot damage at most on any one target, so it's unlikely you will kill anyone.
2. To actually kill players who know what they are doing, you have to burst them hard. That means Curse, Fury/Wrath, Cfrag and constant focused preassure with Fpulse/Cshock. You just don't have the bar space for all the fluff aoe skills that will end up costing way too much maticka for the damage they actually inflict.

What I would suggest if you really want to bring an aoe component to a more traditional sorc setup, I would use Shooting Star or the Eye of Storms ultimate, Mage's Wrath, and Lightning heavy attacks in big clumped up situations. Maybe equip Grothdarr if you wanna get in close. Or use Infernal Guardian. You could run the Familiar pet too if you can afford the bar space. Thay should be all you really need for aoe. Besides, you can't benefit from the Exploiter passive in BGs anyway, since it's no-CP, so Wall of Elements doesn't help that much.

As Lee mentioned, your sustain is going to suck with that gear set. If you wanna go out there, blow all your magicka and then get killed because you ran out, that's up to you. You will be more useful to your group if you actually stay alive, though. Get away from situations you can't win. See a full 4-man team running to you while you're capping a point alone? Streak away, los, regroup with your team. That's better than watching a death recap screen for 15 seconds. But you can't do that if you just burned all your magicka on the guy who was on the point before you. If you want to keep Necro, drop the monster set and Willpower and get Lich or Amberplasm. Otherwise running Shacklebreaker with one of those sets will help with running out of stamina from CC, and with 2 sustain orented sets you I'll basically never run out of magicka and still be able to burst people down.

Just my 2 cents.