Creeping dust conduit looks good enough to try Ice primary for a life shame it doesn't synergise with any of the RL belts though

I have a dumb/noob question.
what's the strategy for zerging low levels?
seems to take for ever with only spell

I know about just trying to melee things with master's touch but not sure if I'm missing something else

Yeah, I'm just going earth savant with acid spray and the acid spray sla until I get better electric/cold spells.

bob the builder wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2019 at 8:52am:


It does take a while to pick up speed so I stick to 1 skull reaper some time. I use accumulated daily dice to go directly to level 2 or 3 right off the boat

So you can start with Niac's Cold Ray, SLA Niac's Cold Ray, Shocking Bolt, SLA Shocking Grasp, and one other spell.

Cold Ray is usually a one-shot kill at that level. The electric spells are less impressive, but they are good enough for finishing stuff off or pummeling skellies.

At level 4 you take Electric Loop: mini chain lightning with CC.
With 3rd level spells you get Lightning Bolt and Frost Lance as well as enough AP to take SLA Electric Loop and it's off to the races.

If you can't zerg with Ball Lightning and Cone of Cold then I don't know what to say.

Maybe you're holding back because the meta'd up spells burn through your SP too quick?

If you want to avoid drinking SP pots, only use the metamagics vs bosses. Spamming 2-3 spells gets the job done for less than a maxed-out spell.

Sorcerer=spell spammer.

bob the builder wrote on Jun 28^th, 2019 at 8:52am:

Don’t use max/emp for trash, better off throwing multiple spells instead. You hit hard enough without them. No point spending double the SP if half of your spell damage is beyond the mob’s HP.

Any gearset ideas for this through the epics? Figured I'd double dip on racial/epic lives since I never finished epics before quitting.

Thinking I'll just cannith craft 2-3 sets up to 29 but there are surely better options.

Caught up on heroic stuff but still 2 years behind on anything related to epic content/gear at this point.

If you're lacking SP, do you have wizardry items?  Runic Trinket at level 2 -> Vibrant Purple Ioun Stone at level 5, HGS 150 SP item accessory at level 11.  Can also augment that by Cannith Crafting a large guild slot item for +65 SP (base) over the guild amenity.  Sorc+FvS past lives are another 120 SP base.  As a half-elf this life, with all that I mentioned, I had 861 SP at level 3 and 1568 SP at level 7.  I don't turn off Empower and Maximize, and at level 15 I've only had to drink 8 pots for a few R6/R7 quests we were challenging ourselves with.

Not a fan of air/water over fire/EK.  Other elements don't have the early zergy equivalents of Scorch+Fireball.  Acidball is fine, but you have to suffer through to level 6 with just Acid Spray.  Electric Loop is ok.  Lightning Bolt isn't the powerhouse that Fireball is.  Chain Lightning is amazing, but suffering until level 12 to get that -- no thanks.  Ice sorcs sit on their hands until Cone at 10.

For element immune mobs, bring a friend or do a different quest until you hit level 12.  As a fire sorc, that includes Fire Caves p2, Blackbone skeletons (House J), Hellhounds and some oozes.  No big deal.  Lean on Suggestion/Command Undead/Halt Undead.

I find EK to be more desirable than a second element if you're doing mid skulls.  And if you're playing a sorc, you can be doing mid skulls.  Scroll Mastery at level 9 when you can use Heal scrolls allows you to push skulls higher.  I usually do R2 until level 4 (reaper points), R3 until level 9 (Heal scrolls), then R4+ until cap.  Net 90k RXP per heroic life that way with 18 hours of 20% XP pots. 

Fire also gives you the option of using Flamecleansed Fury over Esoteric at 15.  It's 1 less DC compared to Esoteric, but more PRR and slightly higher crit dmg.  Also works out if your HGS item are goggles which I've had forever.

Even if you don't do fire, there's plenty of goodness in EK to consider as a nuker: +10 PRR, +10 MRR, +40 USP, +50 HP, Arcane Barrier, Scroll Mastery.

Carpone wrote on Jun 30^th, 2019 at 9:09am:


my problem with spell points was having maximize/empower on full time.  hadn't played non-warlock caster and wasnt' sure how it would do in reaper 1.
i learned.

Not better than my sorc

+1 enlarge
I tend to take extend as my first feat for QOL
for heroic low reapers I dont feel a need for quicken. on higher skulls or epic I would take it
by lvl 18 i start to fail the odd save and if I head to epic on a life i will pick up force of personality

goldgolem wrote on Jul 30^th, 2019 at 7:02pm:

I agree.  The QoL benefits from Extend are nice in lower Heroics. 

In upper heroics and epics, a pure sorc's regular buffs last plenty long enough without Extend so I swap it out for Quicken or one of the other metamagics.  Displacement and Haste are the only exceptions, but given a decently geared sorc's spell point pool, Extend's benefit is still somewhat minimal.