I don't see any magicka Sorcerers anywhere. The only Sorcs are stam Sorcs (which are good now) and some of these Magicka Sorcs that you can just one shot because hardened ward is underpowered as hell and the only way for a Sorc to survive is shield stacking.
Magicka Sorcerer has no identity and no strenghts over other classes. It's a shame that nothing was changed or fixed.
I remember telling people a while ago that Stam Sorcs are super good now right before the new patch was coming out; and a bunch of Bad Sorcs telling me no they are super *** and I had no idea what i'm talking about.
Low and behold....now everyone is saying Magicka Sorcs are *** and Stam Sorcs are good (By the way...both are good)
Stam Sorcs are, Mag Sorcs not at allwent all the way from best Magicka class to the worst in just 1 year.
Well from a pvp perspective, Worst Magicka Class title still belongs to magicka DK. Magicka sorcs are still good guys jeez
Magicka DKs are only that bad in solo play, in duels, small groups and zergs they are viable and pretty good imo (well, which class isn't viable in zergs...). The only usefull thing a magicka sorc brings for groupplay is negate tho. And stam sorcs can also use negate and they have higher dmg output and better sustain. So even then stam sorc > magicka sorc this patch.
When you are talking from a purely solo perspective, then you're right.
ParaNostram wrote: »To everyone complaining about Sorcs being weak, allow me to offer unto you how I made my sorc so strong that, honestly, I get bored in PvP.
Gear - Maw of the Inferno, 5 piece HEAVY Julianos, with a Frost staff and a resto Staff.
Stats - 100% magicka, nothing else.
CP allocation - Warrior - 50/50 reduce physical/reduce magical damage.
Thief - Magicka regen, reduce spell cost.
Mage - 100% elemental, then drop the remainder in buffing your heals. This coupled with the heavy armor and the damage reduction will leave you in a state of just not dying if you use your pet heals right.
Bar 1 - Crystal Frag, Daedric Prey, Destructive Reach, Volatile Familiar (I want with this for some extra damage and CC) and Healer Winged Twilight with the Storm Atronach.
Bar 2 - Surge, Streak, Daedric Minefield, and the pets again. For your ult, anything's good but I would recommend something for survival or utility, such as Negate or Bats. It is fun to go Overload spamming still though.
Sounds like Templars a couple of years ago.no one wants them in trials or dungeon that they are dps lose or time lose...
Sounds like Templars a couple of years ago ("Soulshine").A class' Balance Should not be depending on 1-2 Sets.
IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »I don't see any magicka Sorcerers anywhere. The only Sorcs are stam Sorcs (which are good now) and some of these Magicka Sorcs that you can just one shot because hardened ward is underpowered as hell and the only way for a Sorc to survive is shield stacking.
Magicka Sorcerer has no identity and no strenghts over other classes. It's a shame that nothing was changed or fixed.
So have you played a stam sorc ? They are good now, are they ? Well... I guess. They are still one of the worst stamina classes but I guess if you say they are good enough then you're right. They've got mobility and good sustain. Damage dealing on the other hand is pretty limited. You see they've got no Poisonous Claw/Noxious Breath/Dragon Leap, they got no Biting Jabs/Javelin, they've got no Surprise Attack/Ambush/Incapacitating Strike/Relentless Focus/all the other stamina morphs for nightblades. So yeah tell me that stam sorc is good enough and doesn't need serious improvements.
Magicka sorcs have always lacked utility. Thats the only problem with the class. They can do crazy damage : my C-Frags when fully buffed can hit for around 35k on a crit with self buffs only, Meteor can hit for over 50k with a War Horn and TBS (aka in Trials). In PvP Frags would reach around 15k on the lucky hits and the average would still be around 12k. I'm not even at cappped CP.
Why would you want to get untied from a Destro Staff ? Are you gonna swing those swords when Dual Wielding or Spin-To-Win ? Obviously no, so why do you hate your inferno staff that much ? Crushing Shock/Force Pulse are good skills and if people won't use it then what's the point of that skill's existance ?
The Execute does start functioning a bit late though, 20% health is too low to be really useful. I like the explosion though because you can set up very nice bursts with it.
Surge heals are different, but still good. In PvE when you place your Liquid Lightning and your Elemental Blockade you will not have too much trouble staying at full health. In PvP your frags won't heal you to full health anymore, which does kinda suck but hey we gotta adapt right ?
Shields. Yeah 6 sec is very annoying. But then I got used to it. You can still shield stack if you absolutely need to. You can still take a 20k hit from Voriak Solkyn's skull attack and be at full health. Now tell me how often have your shields lasted in PvP. You used to be able to tank out 1 Wrecking Blow and still be untouched. Has that changed ? NO ! Shields are just as strong as they used to be. The duration is a pain but you get used to it.
Stop whining about insignificant stuff and adress real problems in the sorc class, aka toggles, pets, lack of utility. And maybe make a couple of threads for magicka DK's, they need a buff more than us sorcs do.
ParaNostram wrote: »To everyone complaining about Sorcs being weak, allow me to offer unto you how I made my sorc so strong that, honestly, I get bored in PvP.
Gear - Maw of the Inferno, 5 piece HEAVY Julianos, with a Frost staff and a resto Staff.
Stats - 100% magicka, nothing else.
CP allocation - Warrior - 50/50 reduce physical/reduce magical damage.
Thief - Magicka regen, reduce spell cost.
Mage - 100% elemental, then drop the remainder in buffing your heals. This coupled with the heavy armor and the damage reduction will leave you in a state of just not dying if you use your pet heals right.
Bar 1 - Crystal Frag, Daedric Prey, Destructive Reach, Volatile Familiar (I want with this for some extra damage and CC) and Healer Winged Twilight with the Storm Atronach.
Bar 2 - Surge, Streak, Daedric Minefield, and the pets again. For your ult, anything's good but I would recommend something for survival or utility, such as Negate or Bats. It is fun to go Overload spamming still though.
You have neither a ward nor heal once i kill your twilight... whereas you couldn't even scratch me with destructive reach, much less kill without the light armor penetration.
cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »
Confirming I don't see any sorcs at all in the game any more. Those negates in PvP were all coming from the Nightblades.
cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »When will you make sorcs good again, ZoS? They've been murdered ever since the dark brotherhood came and went on a killing spree against them.
cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »When will you make sorcs good again, ZoS? They've been murdered ever since the dark brotherhood came and went on a killing spree against them.
They will rework Magika Sorcerers whenever they make tokens for class changes.
when 90% of their efforts shifts to the crown sore and everything else suffers
americansteel wrote: »L2P
your class has rocket mobility, stupid OP DPS, incredible defense which still brings ubalanced gameplay to pvp btw updates need to be split for pvp and pve. the sorc class has its cake and eats it too unlike my templar and DK.
shield duration was reduced so you assume the class is bad, yeah ok dude.
l2p adapt.
cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »americansteel wrote: »L2P
your class has rocket mobility, stupid OP DPS, incredible defense which still brings ubalanced gameplay to pvp btw updates need to be split for pvp and pve. the sorc class has its cake and eats it too unlike my templar and DK.
shield duration was reduced so you assume the class is bad, yeah ok dude.
l2p adapt.
LOL, you've been bitching about your templar and DK forever when they're among the best in the game, DK's are by far the best dps and tanks in the game atm while templars are the best healers, stop whining if you can't do well with that. Sorcs need a buff, it's not their fault if you're a baddie that can't use a gap closer.
cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »americansteel wrote: »L2P
your class has rocket mobility, stupid OP DPS, incredible defense which still brings ubalanced gameplay to pvp btw updates need to be split for pvp and pve. the sorc class has its cake and eats it too unlike my templar and DK.
shield duration was reduced so you assume the class is bad, yeah ok dude.
l2p adapt.
LOL, you've been bitching about your templar and DK forever when they're among the best in the game, DK's are by far the best dps and tanks in the game atm while templars are the best healers, stop whining if you can't do well with that. Sorcs need a buff, it's not their fault if you're a baddie that can't use a gap closer.
True. DKs are the best DPS and Templars are pretty much the dominating race in pvp at the moment.
Baragorath wrote: »cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »americansteel wrote: »L2P
your class has rocket mobility, stupid OP DPS, incredible defense which still brings ubalanced gameplay to pvp btw updates need to be split for pvp and pve. the sorc class has its cake and eats it too unlike my templar and DK.
shield duration was reduced so you assume the class is bad, yeah ok dude.
l2p adapt.
LOL, you've been bitching about your templar and DK forever when they're among the best in the game, DK's are by far the best dps and tanks in the game atm while templars are the best healers, stop whining if you can't do well with that. Sorcs need a buff, it's not their fault if you're a baddie that can't use a gap closer.
True. DKs are the best DPS and Templars are pretty much the dominating race in pvp at the moment.
Said someone who is pi**ed off because not dps, tank and healer in one anymore.
Sorc is now most inline class in the game - not 3 in 1 as used to be year ago.
americansteel wrote: »L2P
your class has rocket mobility, stupid OP DPS, incredible defense which still brings ubalanced gameplay to pvp btw updates need to be split for pvp and pve. the sorc class has its cake and eats it too unlike my templar and DK.
shield duration was reduced so you assume the class is bad, yeah ok dude.
l2p adapt.
ParaNostram wrote: »To everyone complaining about Sorcs being weak, allow me to offer unto you how I made my sorc so strong that, honestly, I get bored in PvP.
Gear - Maw of the Inferno, 5 piece HEAVY Julianos, with a Frost staff and a resto Staff.
Stats - 100% magicka, nothing else.
CP allocation - Warrior - 50/50 reduce physical/reduce magical damage.
Thief - Magicka regen, reduce spell cost.
Mage - 100% elemental, then drop the remainder in buffing your heals. This coupled with the heavy armor and the damage reduction will leave you in a state of just not dying if you use your pet heals right.
Bar 1 - Crystal Frag, Daedric Prey, Destructive Reach, Volatile Familiar (I want with this for some extra damage and CC) and Healer Winged Twilight with the Storm Atronach.
Bar 2 - Surge, Streak, Daedric Minefield, and the pets again. For your ult, anything's good but I would recommend something for survival or utility, such as Negate or Bats. It is fun to go Overload spamming still though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIF5eKVgVM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI2iTLCZKJQ cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »
ParaNostram wrote: »To everyone complaining about Sorcs being weak, allow me to offer unto you how I made my sorc so strong that, honestly, I get bored in PvP.
Gear - Maw of the Inferno, 5 piece HEAVY Julianos, with a Frost staff and a resto Staff.
Stats - 100% magicka, nothing else.
CP allocation - Warrior - 50/50 reduce physical/reduce magical damage.
Thief - Magicka regen, reduce spell cost.
Mage - 100% elemental, then drop the remainder in buffing your heals. This coupled with the heavy armor and the damage reduction will leave you in a state of just not dying if you use your pet heals right.
Bar 1 - Crystal Frag, Daedric Prey, Destructive Reach, Volatile Familiar (I want with this for some extra damage and CC) and Healer Winged Twilight with the Storm Atronach.
Bar 2 - Surge, Streak, Daedric Minefield, and the pets again. For your ult, anything's good but I would recommend something for survival or utility, such as Negate or Bats. It is fun to go Overload spamming still though.
You have neither a ward nor heal once i kill your twilight... whereas you couldn't even scratch me with destructive reach, much less kill without the light armor penetration.
ParaNostram wrote: »ParaNostram wrote: »To everyone complaining about Sorcs being weak, allow me to offer unto you how I made my sorc so strong that, honestly, I get bored in PvP.
Gear - Maw of the Inferno, 5 piece HEAVY Julianos, with a Frost staff and a resto Staff.
Stats - 100% magicka, nothing else.
CP allocation - Warrior - 50/50 reduce physical/reduce magical damage.
Thief - Magicka regen, reduce spell cost.
Mage - 100% elemental, then drop the remainder in buffing your heals. This coupled with the heavy armor and the damage reduction will leave you in a state of just not dying if you use your pet heals right.
Bar 1 - Crystal Frag, Daedric Prey, Destructive Reach, Volatile Familiar (I want with this for some extra damage and CC) and Healer Winged Twilight with the Storm Atronach.
Bar 2 - Surge, Streak, Daedric Minefield, and the pets again. For your ult, anything's good but I would recommend something for survival or utility, such as Negate or Bats. It is fun to go Overload spamming still though.
You have neither a ward nor heal once i kill your twilight... whereas you couldn't even scratch me with destructive reach, much less kill without the light armor penetration.
Wards are pretty well worthless mana dumps anymore. Destructive Reach isn't meant to damage you, it's meant to snare and proc Crystal Frags. Let's not forget, unless you're up close when the Twilight dies, rather difficult kind of stand at different locations and with all of the snares and mobility I have, well you get the point, I'll have another one up before you can close the gap.
I wish it was that easy, honestly, I do, it would make PvP challenging but like I said, it's grown boring to me. Outside of an exceptional gank build with CC break being unresponsive or large numbers swarming over me, I don't die. Outside of very tanky builds, enemies don't survive (just becomes a sort of dull nobody dies moment if they are very tanky). It's usually not until at least 3 players show up to fight just me that it gets challenging and even then I win more than I lose.
tinythinker wrote: »ParaNostram wrote: »ParaNostram wrote: »To everyone complaining about Sorcs being weak, allow me to offer unto you how I made my sorc so strong that, honestly, I get bored in PvP.
Gear - Maw of the Inferno, 5 piece HEAVY Julianos, with a Frost staff and a resto Staff.
Stats - 100% magicka, nothing else.
CP allocation - Warrior - 50/50 reduce physical/reduce magical damage.
Thief - Magicka regen, reduce spell cost.
Mage - 100% elemental, then drop the remainder in buffing your heals. This coupled with the heavy armor and the damage reduction will leave you in a state of just not dying if you use your pet heals right.
Bar 1 - Crystal Frag, Daedric Prey, Destructive Reach, Volatile Familiar (I want with this for some extra damage and CC) and Healer Winged Twilight with the Storm Atronach.
Bar 2 - Surge, Streak, Daedric Minefield, and the pets again. For your ult, anything's good but I would recommend something for survival or utility, such as Negate or Bats. It is fun to go Overload spamming still though.
You have neither a ward nor heal once i kill your twilight... whereas you couldn't even scratch me with destructive reach, much less kill without the light armor penetration.
Wards are pretty well worthless mana dumps anymore. Destructive Reach isn't meant to damage you, it's meant to snare and proc Crystal Frags. Let's not forget, unless you're up close when the Twilight dies, rather difficult kind of stand at different locations and with all of the snares and mobility I have, well you get the point, I'll have another one up before you can close the gap.
I wish it was that easy, honestly, I do, it would make PvP challenging but like I said, it's grown boring to me. Outside of an exceptional gank build with CC break being unresponsive or large numbers swarming over me, I don't die. Outside of very tanky builds, enemies don't survive (just becomes a sort of dull nobody dies moment if they are very tanky). It's usually not until at least 3 players show up to fight just me that it gets challenging and even then I win more than I lose.
Would be interesting to see in action. Vids? Stream? I like off the wall ideas and am trying to update one of my Sorcs.
cosmic_niklas_93b16_ESO wrote: »
They're not an easy button anymore. All the bad sorcs went magplar since it's the new easy button class. Sorcs are just as strong, if not stronger this patch. Quit QQ'ing.
psychotic13 wrote: »In PvP sorcs are fine stop whining, and L2P your build.
In PvE I can't comment on that, as I rarely play it.