exploytoften wrote on Mar 31
st, 2018 at 5:01pm:
Instakill. PK,Finger,Wail, Circle of death,Wail, PWK undeath to death or flesh to stone and leave it if deathwarded. mass hold then nuke for additional damage.
In other words, roll a Wizard Pale Master.
Edrein wrote on Apr 1
st, 2018 at 11:13am:
Not that earth savant is bad. It just happens to shine a bit more useful in fights where it's DoT-Cloud playstyle shines.
Pretty much this.
Edrein wrote on Apr 1
st, 2018 at 11:13am:
So I doubt you have the DCs to make the breath actually land in heroics, same for your acid spells since they are conjuration DCs not evocation like the other savants. Combined with the fact that acid is usually fort saves and most higher level mobs have 'decent' fort saves around/above 40+ at 18+ elites, you're probably not making the cut.
The DCs won't land for any of the Spell Schools. 40+ by 18 is the New Black or GTFO ur bild is giomp.
This all but rules out Warforged, since the CHA penalty and gimped self-heals in Reaper mode are non-starters. The body armour feats for Warforged are too expensive on a feat starved class as well.
Arganthonius wrote on Apr 1
st, 2018 at 12:50pm:
So, get carried to lvl 20 and tr into a warlock for epic past life grinding?
Yes. Sorc and Cleric past lives are what you suffer through so your Warlock lives are better.
Digimonk wrote on Apr 1
st, 2018 at 1:19pm:
Or, spend some time working those brain cells overtime, read up on the various aspects of casters in DDO until you have a good working knowledge of how DCs, spellpower, spell crit and crit multis, and the game in general work, then run whatever caster you want and likely have more fun than a borelock.
Or... He likely has done all of the above and reached the conclusion that perversely wasting a massive amount of time to play a class that is (like most classes) always going to be woefully inferior to the broken Warlock is pointless.
Reyes. wrote on Apr 1
st, 2018 at 3:30pm:
Wind dance is your friend at lvl 12, that + displacement + stoneskin+ dodge will keep you up with a ocasional heal scroll.
Its not hard dude, did 3 sorc lives with that basic frame and was a brezee. Hell i did eeven got bored (not as bored as warlock tough).
I think some dude in the forums has a detailed build like the one i used. Fairwind or something and works neat.
Fairwind was heavily gear and Past Life dependent to have full effect.
It also predates Reaper mode.
I know because I used it as a base on my Air Savant and it wasn't working "as advertised".
Go ahead and take a non-optimized Air Savant into Tethyamar on Elite sometime. Hell, go ahead and take an optimized Air Savant in. Prepare for disappointment.
CR:24 Drow Rangers with big SR and huge saves in every sat with Evasion mean you're gonna have a really bad time.
Strategies that involve insta-kills or CC with Hold (X) spells will fail with depressing frequency.
Sorc doesn't have the feats (even if you go Human) for the Spell Penetration + Evocation to break the SR consistently, and that's before the massively inflated saves are rolled.
I mean, it's POSSIBLE to squeeze in those feats, but you're giving up something you'd probably prefer to not give up, like Force of Personality, Mental Toughness, Expand, or Quicken.
Old School casters with a blue bar to manage won't be able to mitigate the attrition, even with almost 3000 SP and spamming super-efficient-ulta-maximized SLAs.
And we're not even discussing Reaper mode, at any skull level.
Content designed post-Warlock will stymie even the most well built Sorcs, unless they're just Uber-players with every conceivable caster PL, BiS Gear, and a truly perverse masochistic streak.
Tethyamar is a more extreme example, but there will simply be content you cannot run solo, or will have to let a group carry you while you pike.
Edrein wrote on Apr 1
st, 2018 at 4:15pm:
Once the druid pass comes around; half elf lightning sorc will be the best due to the Call Lightning Storm racial.
I wish this were true, but SSG and the existing shit class balance almost guarantees that this will manage to suck and blow at the same time.
The above criticisms are not directed towards the forum, they are directed towards SSG who introduced a broken Warlock class into the game and we've all been paying for it since.