Pretty amazing - I instantly noticed my epeen was increased 100000fold and my ego was tearing my girly silk dress robe, asunder.
LOL soz, couldn't resist. In all serious though, I have actually made a mag sorc and I am absolutely rubbish. I guess it's normal to have 20k health? 36k magicka? Then I look at some build vids and I'm completely flummoxed as to where they are getting 26+k health and 40+k magicka. And what skills are they using and how the hell are they surviving? I mean on my back bar (survival bar - lol, yeah right) I have boundless thingy (a shield) the healing thingy (another shield) and empowered thingy (also a shield). By the time they are all cast I can just about fit casting that magicka steal thing into the available 0.0007 window thats available before I have to rescast the shields. What a load of donkey poo!
So - I need help, advice, steroids, taken out the back and shot dead
Dunmer
Shacklebreaker and Wizards Riposte (WR destro/resto) & 1 piece of Ilambris for some reason that I've forgotten. I can't even remember what it does.
Skills (or lack of):
front bar (Wizards Riposte Inferno staff, sharpened, flame enchant):
Elemental Drain
Crushing Shock
Flame Clench
Crystal Fragments
Structured Entropy
Eye of the Storm
back bar (Wizards Riposte Resto staff, defending, flame enchant):
Boudless Storm
Empowered Ward (because it lasts longer than 3 seconds)
Healing Ward
Endless Fury (absolutely pointless - never get a chance to use it. To busy messing about recasting shields)
Ball of Lightning (great for accidentally flying off cliffs and keep walls or into mobs of guards)
Absorption Field
Things to point out apart from my complete lack of ability at playing this daft class:
I have LOTS of sets available - Elegant, Sun, Elf Bane, Martial Knowledge, Julianos, Seducer, Kagrenacs, Lich etc etc all avaialble and legendary quality. All the gear, no idea. Currently wearing shacklebreaker and wizards riposte. Works Ok but disturbing lack of health.
Also - what about the skill bars? Am I doing it wrong or are they fine and I just need to practice. A lot. Like loads & loads?
All advice gratefully accepted. Quitting and playing a different class isn't option and will be ignored as a suggestion
Lichbourne90 wrote: »Altmer would have given u a bit more Magicka. Plus in my opinion mages guild and undaunted are must haves for mag sorc. Once u get those up your stats will look alot better.
usmguy1234 wrote: »Pretty amazing - I instantly noticed my epeen was increased 100000fold and my ego was tearing my girly silk dress robe, asunder.
LOL soz, couldn't resist. In all serious though, I have actually made a mag sorc and I am absolutely rubbish. I guess it's normal to have 20k health? 36k magicka? Then I look at some build vids and I'm completely flummoxed as to where they are getting 26+k health and 40+k magicka. And what skills are they using and how the hell are they surviving? I mean on my back bar (survival bar - lol, yeah right) I have boundless thingy (a shield) the healing thingy (another shield) and empowered thingy (also a shield). By the time they are all cast I can just about fit casting that magicka steal thing into the available 0.0007 window thats available before I have to rescast the shields. What a load of donkey poo!
So - I need help, advice, steroids, taken out the back and shot dead
Dunmer
Shacklebreaker and Wizards Riposte (WR destro/resto) & 1 piece of Ilambris for some reason that I've forgotten. I can't even remember what it does.
Skills (or lack of):
front bar (Wizards Riposte Inferno staff, sharpened, flame enchant):
Elemental Drain
Crushing Shock
Flame Clench
Crystal Fragments
Structured Entropy
Eye of the Storm
back bar (Wizards Riposte Resto staff, defending, flame enchant):
Boudless Storm
Empowered Ward (because it lasts longer than 3 seconds)
Healing Ward
Endless Fury (absolutely pointless - never get a chance to use it. To busy messing about recasting shields)
Ball of Lightning (great for accidentally flying off cliffs and keep walls or into mobs of guards)
Absorption Field
Things to point out apart from my complete lack of ability at playing this daft class:
I have LOTS of sets available - Elegant, Sun, Elf Bane, Martial Knowledge, Julianos, Seducer, Kagrenacs, Lich etc etc all avaialble and legendary quality. All the gear, no idea. Currently wearing shacklebreaker and wizards riposte. Works Ok but disturbing lack of health.
Also - what about the skill bars? Am I doing it wrong or are they fine and I just need to practice. A lot. Like loads & loads?
All advice gratefully accepted. Quitting and playing a different class isn't option and will be ignored as a suggestion
If you want to kite zergs for days a good setup is seducer, lich and engine guardian 5 light/1 heavy/1 medium. Destro/restro.
usmguy1234 wrote: »Pretty amazing - I instantly noticed my epeen was increased 100000fold and my ego was tearing my girly silk dress robe, asunder.
LOL soz, couldn't resist. In all serious though, I have actually made a mag sorc and I am absolutely rubbish. I guess it's normal to have 20k health? 36k magicka? Then I look at some build vids and I'm completely flummoxed as to where they are getting 26+k health and 40+k magicka. And what skills are they using and how the hell are they surviving? I mean on my back bar (survival bar - lol, yeah right) I have boundless thingy (a shield) the healing thingy (another shield) and empowered thingy (also a shield). By the time they are all cast I can just about fit casting that magicka steal thing into the available 0.0007 window thats available before I have to rescast the shields. What a load of donkey poo!
So - I need help, advice, steroids, taken out the back and shot dead
Dunmer
Shacklebreaker and Wizards Riposte (WR destro/resto) & 1 piece of Ilambris for some reason that I've forgotten. I can't even remember what it does.
Skills (or lack of):
front bar (Wizards Riposte Inferno staff, sharpened, flame enchant):
Elemental Drain
Crushing Shock
Flame Clench
Crystal Fragments
Structured Entropy
Eye of the Storm
back bar (Wizards Riposte Resto staff, defending, flame enchant):
Boudless Storm
Empowered Ward (because it lasts longer than 3 seconds)
Healing Ward
Endless Fury (absolutely pointless - never get a chance to use it. To busy messing about recasting shields)
Ball of Lightning (great for accidentally flying off cliffs and keep walls or into mobs of guards)
Absorption Field
Things to point out apart from my complete lack of ability at playing this daft class:
I have LOTS of sets available - Elegant, Sun, Elf Bane, Martial Knowledge, Julianos, Seducer, Kagrenacs, Lich etc etc all avaialble and legendary quality. All the gear, no idea. Currently wearing shacklebreaker and wizards riposte. Works Ok but disturbing lack of health.
Also - what about the skill bars? Am I doing it wrong or are they fine and I just need to practice. A lot. Like loads & loads?
All advice gratefully accepted. Quitting and playing a different class isn't option and will be ignored as a suggestion
If you want to kite zergs for days a good setup is seducer, lich and engine guardian 5 light/1 heavy/1 medium. Destro/restro.
Absolutely love Seducer set - easily one of my all-time favourite magicka sets -sooo versatile. I hope we'll be able to craft Seducer jewellery with the next update - that would be amazing .
usmguy1234 wrote: »If you want to kite zergs for days a good setup is seducer, lich and engine guardian 5 light/1 heavy/1 medium. Destro/restro.
Joy_Division wrote: »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_TUtXRVDs
Two choices.
- Not be intellectually lazy and spend 50 minutes learning from one of the best in the game what magicka sorcerer is all about
- Instead be lazy and spend a lot more time trying and dying while figuring it out yourself.
Lichbourne90 wrote: »Altmer would have given u a bit more Magicka. Plus in my opinion mages guild and undaunted are must haves for mag sorc. Once u get those up your stats will look alot better.
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Lichbourne90 wrote: »Altmer would have given u a bit more Magicka. Plus in my opinion mages guild and undaunted are must haves for mag sorc. Once u get those up your stats will look alot better.
Why undaunted? Dont you need an undaunted skill on a bar in order to get the benefit of the passives?
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Lichbourne90 wrote: »Altmer would have given u a bit more Magicka. Plus in my opinion mages guild and undaunted are must haves for mag sorc. Once u get those up your stats will look alot better.
Why undaunted? Dont you need an undaunted skill on a bar in order to get the benefit of the passives?
Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »usmguy1234 wrote: »If you want to kite zergs for days a good setup is seducer, lich and engine guardian 5 light/1 heavy/1 medium. Destro/restro.
This set up also works really well. MagSorc is one of those classes, that really does well with EG. Even if the zerglings you're kiting are messing with the Dwarven sphere, the distraction gives more chances to get the Frag proc.
Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »I would like to add one bit of advice. Don't be afraid to take off Meteor and slot Dawnbreaker of Smiting. Meteor, it does hit pretty hard with the right set ups, but if you keep running into situations where you can't seem to get the damage to count, I would advise running DBoS.
MagSorc has a design flaw with how the class fights. There is a 'blind spot' directly in front of your toon, the blind spot exists due to how all of the MagSorcs tools function-- in that, there is no way to score a knock down point blank. Flame Reach, yes it is there for KB purposes, but up close or right next to a StamNB or any other Stamina class or the MagMelee classes like MagDK or MagTemplar, there is more counter play for that ability up close versus far. Far away, Reach is a problem for a Stamina toon as they spend resources dealing with it. Up close, you'll be obliterated due to the other classes having better close range combat tools. The primary point of putting on DBoS, is a "GET OFF ME NOW" move while remaining stationary and putting the momentum of the fight back into the MagSorcs court. Using Streak/BoL isn't necessarily a button you want to press when you want to stay close(it also will give them CC immunity when they break it too). DBoS gives you an up close and personal response and tells melee attackers, 'Hey if you get too close, I can animation cancel DBoS, Fury, proc Frags kill you in under a few seconds'. Those ticks, still hurt a lot. Will also hurt more if the target is a WW or Vamp.
Also - question for any magsorcs who use runecage - do you find that it is bugged? Sometimes I find it is unusable. And thats with full mag. Other times it works perfect with minimal mag. Very odd
I spoke to Malcolm about wanting to make a "Fire mage" - a Dunmer infrnoe staff-using mag sorc. He very kindly got back in touch and made some great suggestions especially regarding gear. The build itself is based on the one that was posted above. Sooooo much more fun and the survivability/damage is amazing. Nerf sorcs! Just kidding - don't do that. But stop calling for 'nerf NBs too because magsorc melts them
I spoke to Malcolm about wanting to make a "Fire mage" - a Dunmer infrnoe staff-using mag sorc. He very kindly got back in touch and made some great suggestions especially regarding gear. The build itself is based on the one that was posted above. Sooooo much more fun and the survivability/damage is amazing. Nerf sorcs! Just kidding - don't do that. But stop calling for 'nerf NBs too because magsorc melts them
Honestly - I find Magsorcs are strongest vs Stamblades in open world.
Which is why all the nerf-sorc posts come from disgruntled stamblades who seem to think that just because they struggle most vs magsorcs, they don't seem to consider the fact that sorcs struggle vs other classes...
They only see part of the picture - hence 'Nerf Sorc'!
I spoke to Malcolm about wanting to make a "Fire mage" - a Dunmer infrnoe staff-using mag sorc. He very kindly got back in touch and made some great suggestions especially regarding gear. The build itself is based on the one that was posted above. Sooooo much more fun and the survivability/damage is amazing. Nerf sorcs! Just kidding - don't do that. But stop calling for 'nerf NBs too because magsorc melts them
Honestly - I find Magsorcs are strongest vs Stamblades in open world.
Which is why all the nerf-sorc posts come from disgruntled stamblades who seem to think that just because they struggle most vs magsorcs, they don't seem to consider the fact that sorcs struggle vs other classes...
They only see part of the picture - hence 'Nerf Sorc'!
I wasn't actually being serious. I don't want any classes to be nerfed - I'd rather underperforming classes be buffed. Stamblade and Magsorc both feel very strong to play and it also feels like there are many many builds available for both.