CCs is the only way, unless your burst is high enough

As a very strong Magicka Sorc, I feel I can give you the tips you need

It's important to remember a few things when dealing with skilled MagSorcs. (Typical zerglings will die as easily as with any class):

- Roots. They can take a lot of damage but they cannot afford to roll dodge/CC Break a lot. Roots are devasting. If you can, position yourself in front of a wall, then root them. Bolt Escape travels forward, and you cannot turn the camera when rooted.

- Smart Reflect. I can't tell you how many times a DK flaps his Wings, or a 1H/Shield player uses Defensive Stance, only to have me easily counter them. If the Sorc is as smart as myself they will
1) Cast a frag the moment before your DK Wings run out, so it impacts you at the exact moment you aren't reflecting.
2) Use a quick Restoration Staff Light Attack to cancel your Defensive Posture before casting Crystal Frags
Make sure to anticipate these things!

- Shieldbreaker. It works. A 1vXer's nightmare.

- Harness Magicka means your magicka projectiles will help them regain magicka.

- If their shields get low, but they aren't recasting (or only have 1 shield up instead of two) unleash your burst and CC. Chances are they'll be dead. Sorcs have strong shield but squishy health!

- Snares. Makes it harder to escape.

- Gap Closer on every Bolt Escape. They will guaranteed NOT escape you if you do this.

- Snipe, Wrecking Blow, etc. Hard hitting attacks. A Sorc will need to recast Hardened ward on practically every hit.
When they are casting shields, they are spending time doing no damage and losing resources to survive. Those shields need to be recast super often. One well timed CC will get them with Full Health but no shields --> go for the kill

- A combination of Gap Closer, Root, and hard-hitting Stamina-based attacks will apply tons of pressure. Magicka classes may have slightly more difficulty in general.

Besides being zerged down, i have noticed these to be the most effective ways to pressure me. The survivability of the Sorc, like all classes, depends on the player's skill. If it's a typical player, you'll be fine. If the player is a known 1vXer, chances are you won't be winning very often.

Remember, good Magicka Sorcs will flee to better positions when they are under too much pressure/about to die. Bolt Escape makes this possible. Mess with their mobility and it's over!

Minalan wrote: »

Two back to back animation cancelled wrecking blows.

GG. The sorc is dead.

Lol. Tbh this will work on the majority of Magicka Sorcs.

Hardened Ward can only absorb a single hard-hitting Wrecking Blow. The second will knock out the remaining shield and some health. To kill you just need to make sure to include a Crit Rush or Heavy attack before using Executioner/ Ultimate+Executioner. That, or just another Wrecking Blow+Executioner...

Tormy wrote: »

Minalan wrote: »

Two back to back animation cancelled wrecking blows.

GG. The sorc is dead.

Doncellius wrote: »

Minalan wrote: »

Two back to back animation cancelled wrecking blows.

GG. The sorc is dead.

Lol. Tbh this will work on the majority of Magicka Sorcs.

Hardened Ward can only absorb a single hard-hitting Wrecking Blow. The second will knock out the remaining shield and some health. To kill you just need to make sure to include a Crit Rush or Heavy attack before using Executioner/ Ultimate+Executioner. That, or just another Wrecking Blow+Executioner...

Must be playing against some bad sorcs

Yup! And I'll say it again. The majority of Magicka Sorcs. So many players hear "OMG MAGICKA SORC SO OP". They'll re-roll and soon realize you need skill to be "OP". Hence, they are pretty much all bad sorcs.

The steps I listed in my first post give many of helpful tips on dealing with any skill level of Magicka Sorc.

Vangy wrote: »

Sad truth is,

A good sorc, running a non-VD proper PvP worthy build, is pretty impossible to kill in a 1 v 1. Especially as a magicka build. However, 90% of sorcs out there are running cheese glass cannon builds who rely on their mag pools and shields to survive. Just burn their stamina with constant CCs and roots. When their stam bar is 0, procced to pawn them in 2 hits.

A good sorc however, will run about 2k mag recovery and sizeable stam recovery with pots that replenish stamina and magicka. In this case, no amount of CC is going to stop them lol. They have enough regen to break free constantly and ignore your roots. Ie my sorc runs shuffle on overload bar. Ive got enough stam recovery to keep it up 24/7 and still break free from whatever CC you have. + I run immovable pots. I still have 37k mag pool and 2.5k spell power. You aint killing me easily unless I misplay.

Since you mentioned you are a DK, you can just use wings and make most sorcs have a really bad day. Most of them rely on frags way too much. A good sorc can still use curse>streak>(proper timed frags when wings down)>db of smiting to take down dk with wings. Basically CC the dk after the 3 second mark after they use wings so they cant wings again. Frag them during this winow.

So, so accurate. I can tell from what you said here and how you wrote it that you know what you're talking about. A truly good Magicka Sorc is tough to kill and requires lots of CCing and strategy Typical ones? Almost the easiest of any class to kill. Would rather face a magicka Sorc zergling than anything else tbh.