So a lot of us can agree that stamsorc is in a good place this patch... and so I've finally settled on using my stamsorc as my main for the foreseeable future.
I'm a Dark Elf, Warrior Mundus, Eternal Vigor and Warrior's Fury gear, 5 heavy 1 medium, Sugar Skulls food, Band of Malacath. 1pc Velidreth shoulder.
Eternal Vigor is amaaaazing. The Band of Malacath I'm not so sure about yet. In no CP my recoveries are like 1200, 1500, 1900. Sorcs have a lot of passives that really make Eternal Vigor good. Obviously, as I get transmute crystals, I'm starting to infuse some of the jewelry with weapon damage.
Right now, with some changes still yet to be made, I'm at like 3500 weapon damage. Which depending on my weapon glyph, continuous attack, and Fury, that miiiight get up to 4500 but probably more like 4k average.
It's really not feeling like enough. I'm using 2H and Bow right now. Nobody can really catch me. Nobody can really kill me. But I'm also struggling to catch and kill people-- which shouldn't be happening on a stamsorc.
Problem as I see it? I'm wearing heavy because I'm not using crit surge and am using the band of malacath so I don't want any crit. I'm a Dark Elf not an Orc or Wood Elf. I'm used to playing a stamDK which has greater range to melee attacks so when I'm standing roughly 7m away from an enemy that is in execute but my character just keeps pump faking I am raaather annoyed.
Solution as I see it? Give up on Malacath because not wearing a monster set is lame. And/or switch to medium armor.
Question: Even though it would be a waste of crit does the Band of Malacath work well on medium armor builds?
Question: If I use 1 Endurance Necklace, 1 Agility Ring, make my 2H weapon an Agility Maul or whatever... and make my Bow an Endurance bow... does that sound like a smart way to use a Mythic item AND a monster set? So then, depending on my bar, I'd have a 5 piece always active, a monster set always active, a mythic always active, and I'd have 1 strong 3 piece active on each bar. One for offense and one for defense (Endurance does health recovery right? Not bad defense for a heavy armor stamsorc who, on his bow bar, is roll dodging and streaking.
Honestly I'm going to play him the way he is for a couple of days to see what I can do when I get more comfortable with it. He feels VERY strong, just not the over powered killer I'm more used to playing as.
Tanky Stam Sorc Bonus Facts: So healing recently got nerfed, right? A problem we all have. And sorcs are always trying to get that Daedric Summoning skill on their bar for the amazing passives, right? Which, if you are not a tanky stamsorc, normally means using the Atronoch Ulti on one bar (even if you never cast it,) and running Bound Armaments on the other bar. I'VE GOT A SOLUTION. Use the clannfear pet. The one that scales with max stam stats. You have to double bar it-- but you were already halfway forced into double barring things anyway-- and the way it synergizes with your stam/health recovery is insaaane. Especially if you're also wearing Eternal Vigor. You can now run Dawnbreaker as an Ulti and backbar something a little more useful like Temporal Guard. You also get +5% HP so, needless to say, my HP is very high on this guy. Vigor, Rally, and Pet Heal are VERY strong. And with my magic recovery I can, within reason, streak dark deal and heal as much as I want.
Does anybody know if the clannfear heal scales off of weapon damage or max health? In no CP it has a tooltip of like 10k. Which seems high since my WD is a bit on the low side.