kylewwefan wrote: »In lieu of last weeks Xynode appreciation thread, I was compelled to try out this easy Sorc build.
Simple put it’s Undaunted Infaltrator, Infallible Aether, Grothdar.
Xynode recommends an Undaunted Infaltrator Lightning stave...I spent much time trying to acquire with no success. So, I made some changes.
To complete the sets, I’m using 2 medium armor, 5 light, and an IA Lightning staff because I had a few of them lying around. I do indeed have more Maelstrom staves than could ever possibly need, but realize this build is likely designed to help someone acquire them.
Transmuted the jewelry to infused/ bloodthirsty. It’s purple with purple enchants. My IA staff is purple and precise. Grothdar is 2 light, Because I had them to make the sets line up.
My character is dark elf he recommends high elf.
How does it play?
It’s like old school pet Sorc, but with no pet. Massive AOE damage everywhere. lacks in the single target a little bit. That’s not such a bad thing when you got that much hard hitting AOE everywhere.
It feels stronger than Pet build....you can use pets too. It’s versatile. I like it. Had a lot of fun.
If you run out of resources, you’re doing something terribly wrong. I was skeptical using weapon damage enchant and shock enchant with no Absorb magic enchant, but the heavy attacks more than make up for recovery.
I’ve never been good with Sorc. So I left the Lightning form skill un morphed. It made me move too fast and couldn’t see the guy and lightning everywhere is makes it tuff for me to tell wth is going on. Did not need the speed buff too.
It’s very strange not having a real spammable on the front bar. Daedric tomb is kind of wonky, diddnt really like. Or clench. Pulsar though, fits the theme; adds utility, hits good. I like it.
I soloed the daily Undaunted pledges. Easily.
I had a much more difficult time doing them in Siroria/ Mother Sorrow/Zaan.
I ran Maelstrom one time with the setup. It was pretty good in there actually. MS Siroria Zaan would be laughable. Guarantee. I’m not the best Sorc ever, but this setup is solid. I’d recommend it to anyone wanting to try something different.
Some other things
Having the 2 medium body pieces and jewelry may not be %100 optimal, but it did insure the 5 piece Undaunted Infaltrator Buff was always on. Lost a little bit for no 511, but still right around 40k mag 3k Spell Damage buffed. Could be a little better if some things were golded out or wat not.
Undaunted Infiltrator is a weird freaking set. Medium armor. Has 2 add magic bonus. Weapon Crit, not spell Crit, then the light attack does 700 extra damage, heavys do 1100 extra damage. Because the Damage adds every tick of lightning staff heavy it makes it really good for lightning staff heavy attack.
In trial, you can throw in trap beast or Channeled Acceleration somewhere for the minor force.
What did I just read?Valkyn_Eltrys wrote: »kylewwefan wrote: »In lieu of last weeks Xynode appreciation thread, I was compelled to try out this easy Sorc build.
Simple put it’s Undaunted Infaltrator, Infallible Aether, Grothdar.
Xynode recommends an Undaunted Infaltrator Lightning stave...I spent much time trying to acquire with no success. So, I made some changes.
To complete the sets, I’m using 2 medium armor, 5 light, and an IA Lightning staff because I had a few of them lying around. I do indeed have more Maelstrom staves than could ever possibly need, but realize this build is likely designed to help someone acquire them.
Transmuted the jewelry to infused/ bloodthirsty. It’s purple with purple enchants. My IA staff is purple and precise. Grothdar is 2 light, Because I had them to make the sets line up.
My character is dark elf he recommends high elf.
How does it play?
It’s like old school pet Sorc, but with no pet. Massive AOE damage everywhere. lacks in the single target a little bit. That’s not such a bad thing when you got that much hard hitting AOE everywhere.
It feels stronger than Pet build....you can use pets too. It’s versatile. I like it. Had a lot of fun.
If you run out of resources, you’re doing something terribly wrong. I was skeptical using weapon damage enchant and shock enchant with no Absorb magic enchant, but the heavy attacks more than make up for recovery.
I’ve never been good with Sorc. So I left the Lightning form skill un morphed. It made me move too fast and couldn’t see the guy and lightning everywhere is makes it tuff for me to tell wth is going on. Did not need the speed buff too.
It’s very strange not having a real spammable on the front bar. Daedric tomb is kind of wonky, diddnt really like. Or clench. Pulsar though, fits the theme; adds utility, hits good. I like it.
I soloed the daily Undaunted pledges. Easily.
I had a much more difficult time doing them in Siroria/ Mother Sorrow/Zaan.
I ran Maelstrom one time with the setup. It was pretty good in there actually. MS Siroria Zaan would be laughable. Guarantee. I’m not the best Sorc ever, but this setup is solid. I’d recommend it to anyone wanting to try something different.
Some other things
Having the 2 medium body pieces and jewelry may not be %100 optimal, but it did insure the 5 piece Undaunted Infaltrator Buff was always on. Lost a little bit for no 511, but still right around 40k mag 3k Spell Damage buffed. Could be a little better if some things were golded out or wat not.
Undaunted Infiltrator is a weird freaking set. Medium armor. Has 2 add magic bonus. Weapon Crit, not spell Crit, then the light attack does 700 extra damage, heavys do 1100 extra damage. Because the Damage adds every tick of lightning staff heavy it makes it really good for lightning staff heavy attack.
In trial, you can throw in trap beast or Channeled Acceleration somewhere for the minor force.
Force Pulse. Elemental Weapon. Heavy attack build...... I mean how dumb is this build........
Undaunted Infiltrator:
(5 PIECES) When you use an ability that costs Magicka, your Light Attacks deal an additional 774 damage and Heavy Attacks deal an additional 1161 damage for 10 seconds.
Set is plain garbage. Queens Elegance is way better for a HA/LA spam. Idk this set up is gna give me a stroke.
Two people quoting the same post at almost the same time?
Sounds like someone called in the troops from discord...
Guess no one is allowed to voice their opinion any way since the forum warrior army rages at you. lul
Elegance looks good on paper. In practise it’s pretty bad thanks to some weird quirks about how the damage bonus is calculated.
How is that fixing it? He is 100% correct. Both are bad to use either way, but if going for a light attack spam queens elegance is better.
What I don't get is why some people have such a vendetta against Xy and his build philosophy. I've watched 10mns of one of his streams - seems like a nice guy. Let's all be adults here. If you don't like it, don't run it.
What I don't get is why some people have such a vendetta against Xy and his build philosophy. I've watched 10mns of one of his streams - seems like a nice guy. Let's all be adults here. If you don't like it, don't run it.
I dont have anything about his build philosophy, i have something against the farm for lightning staff and use of 200 transmute crystals (jewelry+weapon) for a set that doesn't preform better than what i already have in bank. I mean, even op said he didnt manage to complete the build because he didn't find the lightning stave, so he had to change it a bit. I dont think it is healthy for a build
What I don't get is why some people have such a vendetta against Xy and his build philosophy. I've watched 10mns of one of his streams - seems like a nice guy. Let's all be adults here. If you don't like it, don't run it.
I dont have anything about his build philosophy, i have something against the farm for lightning staff and use of 200 transmute crystals (jewelry+weapon) for a set that doesn't preform better than what i already have in bank. I mean, even op said he didnt manage to complete the build because he didn't find the lightning stave, so he had to change it a bit. I dont think it is healthy for a build
Edit: and thats btw what most people that advise against it have in mind while you know, advising against it.
starkerealm wrote: »What I don't get is why some people have such a vendetta against Xy and his build philosophy. I've watched 10mns of one of his streams - seems like a nice guy. Let's all be adults here. If you don't like it, don't run it.
I dont have anything about his build philosophy, i have something against the farm for lightning staff and use of 200 transmute crystals (jewelry+weapon) for a set that doesn't preform better than what i already have in bank. I mean, even op said he didnt manage to complete the build because he didn't find the lightning stave, so he had to change it a bit. I dont think it is healthy for a build
Edit: and thats btw what most people that advise against it have in mind while you know, advising against it.
Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
Valkyn_Eltrys wrote: »
Force Pulse. Elemental Weapon. Heavy attack build...... I mean how dumb is this build........
Undaunted Infiltrator:
(5 PIECES) When you use an ability that costs Magicka, your Light Attacks deal an additional 774 damage and Heavy Attacks deal an additional 1161 damage for 10 seconds.
Set is plain garbage. Queens Elegance is way better for a HA/LA spam. Idk this set up is gna give me a stroke.
starkerealm wrote: »Let's be honest, you were going to farm for a lightning staff anyway. Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
Grianasteri wrote: »starkerealm wrote: »Let's be honest, you were going to farm for a lightning staff anyway. Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
This very much depends on your definition of "easy".
I have run Arx Corinium what must be well over 100 times, perhaps closer to 200. I have never dropped the UI Lighting Staff. Fact.
Within a few runs of Hel Ra trial, I dropped a full set of IA, within a few more, I had a Lightning Staff.
Trials provide 11 additional chances to drop what you need, as opposed to only 3 other chances in a dungeon... this is significant. The dungeon may be quick and easy to complete, but clearly from experience this isnt counting for anything!
I run my own version of Easy Sorc, but the grind is anything but easy and that is my personal bug bare with the build, even though I like it. Simply not being able to actually run it to optimum with UI, has made me consider switching to a pet build or some other option.
Since UI became the bis for the build, I rarely run it and usually turn to my Magsorc or Magden instead.
Grianasteri wrote: »starkerealm wrote: »Let's be honest, you were going to farm for a lightning staff anyway. Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
This very much depends on your definition of "easy".
I have run Arx Corinium what must be well over 100 times, perhaps closer to 200. I have never dropped the UI Lighting Staff. Fact.
Within a few runs of Hel Ra trial, I dropped a full set of IA, within a few more, I had a Lightning Staff.
Trials provide 11 additional chances to drop what you need, as opposed to only 3 other chances in a dungeon... this is significant. The dungeon may be quick and easy to complete, but clearly from experience this isnt counting for anything!
I run my own version of Easy Sorc, but the grind is anything but easy and that is my personal bug bare with the build, even though I like it. Simply not being able to actually run it to optimum with UI, has made me consider switching to a pet build or some other option.
Since UI became the bis for the build, I rarely run it and usually turn to my Magsorc or Magden instead.
Err...I think the latest version of this build does have a pet, one of those annoying flappy things. Go back a few years this build was in a very special place, but changes to off balance uptime and splash damage etc have sadly taken away from this build. But this build is a good stepping stone for people who are learning the game or who don’t yet have the skill to run a light attack rotation as easily. I don’t think anyone is suggesting this build will be used by those looking to achieve Godslayer (albeit it might be used in a Godslayer run in the future), but that is not how it has been advertised either.
Nb, I’ve had the UI lightning drop twice without looking for it.
Grianasteri wrote: »Grianasteri wrote: »starkerealm wrote: »Let's be honest, you were going to farm for a lightning staff anyway. Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
This very much depends on your definition of "easy".
I have run Arx Corinium what must be well over 100 times, perhaps closer to 200. I have never dropped the UI Lighting Staff. Fact.
Within a few runs of Hel Ra trial, I dropped a full set of IA, within a few more, I had a Lightning Staff.
Trials provide 11 additional chances to drop what you need, as opposed to only 3 other chances in a dungeon... this is significant. The dungeon may be quick and easy to complete, but clearly from experience this isnt counting for anything!
I run my own version of Easy Sorc, but the grind is anything but easy and that is my personal bug bare with the build, even though I like it. Simply not being able to actually run it to optimum with UI, has made me consider switching to a pet build or some other option.
Since UI became the bis for the build, I rarely run it and usually turn to my Magsorc or Magden instead.
Err...I think the latest version of this build does have a pet, one of those annoying flappy things. Go back a few years this build was in a very special place, but changes to off balance uptime and splash damage etc have sadly taken away from this build. But this build is a good stepping stone for people who are learning the game or who don’t yet have the skill to run a light attack rotation as easily. I don’t think anyone is suggesting this build will be used by those looking to achieve Godslayer (albeit it might be used in a Godslayer run in the future), but that is not how it has been advertised either.
Nb, I’ve had the UI lightning drop twice without looking for it.
Yeah thats basically almost the final nail in the coffin for me, cos one of the reasons I liked the build, is that it did not run pets and the rotation was easy.
The only reason I have been considering a pet build, is more for sh*ts n giggles than actually wanting a pet build. I just know that the Easy Sorc is no longer a build I am so comfortable with, aesthetically or conceptually, even if it does still work (even without the pet, which I refuse to slot).
And thanks for letting me know you dropped 2 Lightning UI staffs, gee thanks! lol.
Just tank random dungeons when Arx is pledge, it will drop😉
starkerealm wrote: »
Let's be honest, you were going to farm for a lightning staff anyway. Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
starkerealm wrote: »
Let's be honest, you were going to farm for a lightning staff anyway. Difference is, it's easier to farm a UI zap stick than an IA one. Certainly cheaper than a MS one.
Wrong on all accounts. If i build a heavy attack build it would be a dk. If i build a sorc heavy attack build it would be pet sorc. If i build a non pet heavy attack sorc it would run new moon acolyte and julianos or mechanical acuity or a small chance of PFG. I would even consider lokestis before chosing UI.
Because you know. I am talking about a heavy attack Sorc. Heavy attacks. Same rotation. It is just that hmm, people like you that come here to dismiss opinions against the build scream that we dont talk about the same thing, well, we don't, since obviously i talked about heavy attack sorcs, while you talked about and i quote, "this high intensity FGD + MS build on my nightblade"
Edit: and if you think that my opinion doesn't matter, my over 70 days on heavy attack pet sorc while enjoying dlc dungeons would like to say hi.
starkerealm wrote: »If you're sitting there going, "yeah, but I can run this high intensity FGD + MS build on my nightblade that puts out a ton of damage," congrats. You're not the person this build was designed for.