Storm
20 Sorcerer
Neutral
Any Race

Stats:
16 Con
14 Int
18 Cha (+ levels)

Feats:
1 Maximize Spell
3 Empower Spell
6 Completionist
9 Enlarge Spell
12 Quicken Spell
15 Pastlife Wizard
18 Heighten Spell


Enhancements:

Air Savant: 42 AP
Cores 5/6
Shocking Grasp 3/3
Spell Critical: Electric 4/4 (8 AP)
Electrocution 3/3
Alternating Current 3/3
Spell Penetration (2 AP)
CHA +1
CHA +1
Electric Loop 3/3
Featherfalling (2AP)
Lightning Bolt 3/3
Wind Dance (2 AP)
Evocation Focus (2 AP)
Power of Frost (2 AP)

Water Savant: 25 AP
Cores 4/6
Hoarfrost 3/3
Spell Critical: Cold 4/4 (8AP)
One with the Waves 1/3
Absolute Zero 3/3
Spell Penetration (2AP)
CHA +1
CHA +1

13-25 points left over to split between Eldritch Knight and your racial tree

Spells:
9th:
Wail of the Banshee
Iceberg
Thunderstrike

8th:
Horrid Wilting
Polar Ray
Trap the Soul

7th:
Otto's Sphere of Dancing
Finger of Death
Symbol of Stunning

6th:
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
Chain Lightning
Disintegrate

5th:
Cone of Cold
Ball Lightning
Cyclonic Blast
Protection from Elements

4th:
Ice Storm
Dimension Door
Fire Shield
Shout

3rd:
Displacement
Lightning Bolt
Frost Lance
Haste

2nd:
Electric Loop
Invisibility
Web
Resist Energy

1st:
Jump
Hypnotism
Protection from Evil
Merfolk's Blessing (Use Niac's Cold Ray at low level)

(Also, SLA Mage Armor, SLA Shield, SLA Shocking Grasp, SLA Electric Loop, SLA Lightning Bolt)


Level 10 Gear:

Summoner's Spectacles
Hardened Hide -> Pansophic Circlet (ML 13)
Kindred Pendant
Symbol of the Slave Lords
Mantle of Fury
Thrummingspark Cord
Skulled Ring
Quiver of Alacrity
Blurfingered Gloves
Softsole Slippers
Spinneret
Crafted Bracers
Barovian Noble's Regalia/Regalia Docent
Wave

5-piece Adherent of the Mists set
3-piece Beacon of Magic set

Level 15 gear:

Order's Garb
Dusk Lenses
Arcsteel Crown
CC (Spell Saves/spellsight/Ins Con)
Litany of the Dead
Mantle of Fury
Thrummingspark Cord
Spinneret
Gauntlets of Innate Arcanum
Softsole Slippers
Cursebane Ring
Aetherband Bracers
Quiver of Alacrity
The Mistfallen
Lilting Song

5-piece Adherent of the Mists set
3-piece Esoteric Influence set

Charisma: 6 enhancement+2 insightful+2 artifact+1 profane+1 quality
Potency: 60 equipment+30 insightful+25 artifact+10 profane+10 exceptional+9 quality (+77 enhancement cold & elec)

I'm running an acid/fire assimar atm (lvl 15 I think so far). It's pretty fun. I would have done air but I ransacked lag hill 2-3 times without that dumb belt, but I have the other one.

I haven't taken quicken, and I don't think I need it almost ever. I decided to take enlarge at 15 as well. I have completionist instead of quicken. The nice part of doing acid is this guy has three cleric PLs, completionist, and wiz PL. So, conjur DCs are solid. Web hits like a baws. Also, the acid blast SLA is pretty nice.

Anyway, sorc is fun. I'm glad I did it over 'lock.

Technomage wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 11:23pm:


Good questions

Also, do those bonus types on Wave stack? I’m doing the double RL scepters. What am I missing?

I think I see that wave is just handy for slot consolidation. You get 11% lore for TWO spell types. At lvl 9 that’s solid. But you can get higher for ONE type on CC or loot gen. I think I have a 13% acid ring atm. The spell power is good for 9, but CC/loot gen surpasses at about lvl 11 or so. Plus the scepters get you insightful potency that stacks and insightful spell mastery.

Technomage wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 11:23pm:

Probably Endurance as there is not point going 3pc Sorcery with Bacon (5pc slavers is still my preferred option over mists though)

Technomage wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 11:23pm:


This is the harder question. If you just want to zerg for xp to level 30 on low or no skulls, you can keep doing what you've been doing, just add DI into the mix.

If you want to play high skulls, at cap or otherwise, then I think you need to make a hard pivot to maximize your DCs for CC and/or instakills.

Though it's been a long time since I played a capped sorc, so maybe the freezing wave thing will make a bigger difference than I would expect on 10 skulls.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 4:18pm:


Enlarge is fantastic, I don't know why so many people don't use it.

Technomage wrote on Feb 7^th, 2019 at 10:38am:


I know about the belts. I was wondering if wave was similar.

Speaking of belts.. ransacked wrath of earth two more times with no belt... until next week..

Thanks for posting this 5fs.

I was  mulling this over in my head when I saw Wave but couldn't be assed to work out the specifics.

My concern would be that while this is Fun, wouldn't a Fire/Acid mix that's basically the same but swaps Thrummingspark for Burnscar and Wave for Slave Lords Staff be basically the same thing and less hamstrung against the huge numbers of resistant trash mobs (ie. Skeletons and demons)?

I am having similar farming problems with gear... I have yet to see a single Kindred Pendant drop And I've farmed Oath aggressively since RL launched. But I have enough Garstone Lenses and TS Chords to open a dedicated shop... 

I prefer cc set

goggles evo/insightful necro/insightful spellpen
head pansophic
neck con/con/false life
trinket slaver spell focus mastery/quality cha/wizardry
cloak light res/inisght prr/natural armor
belt burnscar (prefer acid and fire, the fire SLAs are the best and DBF has the highest dice)
ring cha/cha/sheltering
ring spinneret
gloves spellpen/insightful combustion/saves
boots dex/dex/parrying
bracers insightful spellcraft/spellcraft/protection
armor eletric absorption/hamp/insight light res
hand combustion/fire lore/insightful evo Flaming Post
hand corrosion/acid lore

This is mostly because I had some of these pieces for when warlock was better for heroics, thus the AC stuff because on warlock I could get it usable, I used to have 5 piece slaver 10-12 and 3 piece 13+, trinket bracers and ring, because in that era we were dumb and liked to push skulls at heroics so the extra DCs were the goal. So a lv 10 set, 13 and 17. You get more cha and spellpower than raven set very soon, making up for the lack of full necro/ench, but if the intent is to zerg heroic/racial life, at R1 I care only about evo for damage, the necro and enchant usually work anyways. Still it would be easy to change the gloves and armor for beacon of magic, and maybe the boots with ghostly, but when I made most of the items there was not ravenloft so ghostly was hard to slot at heroics and the set didn't exist

i dont have Completionist or past life wizard. What do i replace those two big feats with.

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 6:04pm:

Then he gets 48?

Level 15 gear: (with Sharn)

Order's Garb
Dusk Lenses
Arcsteel Crown
CC (Spell Saves/spellsight/Ins Con)
Litany of the Dead
Mantle of Fury
Thrummingspark Cord
Spinneret
Gauntlets of Innate Arcanum
Softsole Slippers
Cursebane Ring
Aetherband Bracers
Quiver of Alacrity
The Mistfallen
Lilting Song

5-piece Adherent of the Mists set
3-piece Esoteric Influence set

Charisma: 6 enhancement+2 insightful+2 artifact+1 profanel+1 quality
Potency: 60 equipment+30 insightful+25 artifact+10 profane+10 exceptional+9 quality (+77 enhancement cold & elec)