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Sorc identity
washbern
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Well, feels like a Sorc in PVE is a poor man's choice for other classes. Want to run grim focus only the one that's not as good? You got bound armaments. Want a psijic weapon spammable but don't care to do the quest line? Sorc got you covered. What about an extra AOE with barely any perks to that? Yep. Got one. Execute that you don't use for 75% of the fight? Nice! Now let's combine that with 4 lost spots that we use for horrible looking pets.
Literally most builds utilize crystal frags as a spammable just because there is no space on the bar. The curse, hurricane armor and crit surge I'd say are the most unique and interesting skills and two of them are situational.
Please, can we get some interesting skills on this class? Some unique things that we can't get from other classes or shared skill lines?
To elaborate, I'm not asking for a buff or a nerf. I'm asking for a way to make class abilities unique and useful.
Edited by washbern on July 23, 2022 11:55AM Literally most builds utilize crystal frags as a spammable just because there is no space on the bar. The curse, hurricane armor and crit surge I'd say are the most unique and interesting skills and two of them are situational.
Please, can we get some interesting skills on this class? Some unique things that we can't get from other classes or shared skill lines?
To elaborate, I'm not asking for a buff or a nerf. I'm asking for a way to make class abilities unique and useful.
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AndreNoir✭✭✭Ofc u can:- free target unblockable AoE stun with teleport and damage
- AoE silence that can not be cleansed
- 20k+ shields even in Cyro
- Unlimited resources
- Luxury to stack only one stat cuz resources comes from ^ so get boost for def/shields|heals at the same time
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Goldtistic✭✭I feel ya man. However, I gotta say that hurricane is also a pretty unique and nice ability that is pretty sorc-defining as you turn into lightning. The shield is basic, the mines are... pretty useless, and I'm not sure if anybody uses the immobilize. Streak is EXTREMELY cool, but other than that all of the skills are pretty dull and are either alternate choices or direct upgrades of other skills that act in the exact same manner. I really do wish they would revisit their class identity philospohies for every class, go down the list of skills and change the lesser used or less unique morphs into powerful choices that can fill the niche that the class would be "intended" to fit in to (no lightning spammable on sorc, yo?).
Instead of just going heavy handed and nerfing things all in one patch where many changes will either be brushed under the carpet or ignored in favor of other ones, I wish they would go through 1 or 2 classes every large patch and do a core class philosphy refresh so that classes don't end up losing their direction and variety, outside of their passives.1 -
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✭✭✭✭Ofc u can:- free target unblockable AoE stun with teleport and damage
- AoE silence that can not be cleansed
- 20k+ shields even in Cyro
- Unlimited resources
- Luxury to stack only one stat cuz resources comes from ^ so get boost for def/shields|heals at the same time
Streak and negate are both very good for PvP for sure.
Shield is dead these days though. Nobody is getting a 20k hardened ward in PvP.
Max mag stacking is pretty dead tbh. Shields aren't effective anymore. You need a lot more than max mag in a build these days.5 -
washbern✭✭✭✭I guess I should have elaborated that I was talking about PVE... I did mention armor. That's hurricane and boundless storm. I'll edit the post to reflect this.0