SwashbucklerHater wrote on Oct 18
th, 2014 at 5:02am:
Ok... then you shouldn't take the 14sorc/4pal/2fvs split. Because the split itself just looks like a variation of a famours shiradi sorc split to make use of the u23 changes.
Or is a famous split ok if the build itself is different?
And regarding the ability to solo EEs... not sure if a pure sorc is able to heal well enough for that, even if you have displace always on. It's at least far away from easy button reconstruct or heal.
But... my 18sorc/2fvs fire savant is really fun to play, even if he is not in shiradi. Although I am not sure how well he would do in EE without beeing in shiradi. And it's too famous anyways + a shiradi build, but just wanted to say that a fire sorc is really fun in heroics and epics(is more fun for me than my lightning sorc atm and I was a big fan of chain lightning and ball lightning in the last 2-3 years).
Only in vale and gh tor it's not fun to be fire savant, or anything else where you find many fire immune mobs.
So yeah... as already mentioned pure sorc is fun, you just have to deal with no easy button recontruct if you use the elemental forms. And depending on your gear and player skill it might be difficult to survive in EE, especially compared to the famous builds.
You can selfheal quite nicely as pure human/drow sorc.
You dont need to seflheal to be precise since you rely on your enchant/conju dc to control the field and on terms of zerg capability a dc focused sorc can complete any content faster in the hands of a player of equall skill.
Issue that comes from dc sorc that people dont like is sp insufficiency and efectivness but combine card pots eross bauble new embers and the issue solved itself.
Yes i know those things are hard to get, but a dc caster was always more work to begin with and it pays off in the end.
I played a shira/regular sorc on my main and i was impressed by dc way more then shira since i could control my dps and i would outdamage any shira on the long run /only when they proc queen tea they will be superb but its simple 1 time use have luck ability vs constant reliable dps.
Imo the popular fsoul splash abusing archon and throwers are best shiradi builds, i would never do it on a wizz or sorc and esp on sorc since it looses to much by going shiradi.
On a palemaster maybe, since you can now build hybrid /dc focused pure pm in shiradi with enough dcs for any content.
Simply put trash control and clearing from draconic sorc is better and dps from increased caster levels /extra spp burst breath draconic clickie with dots is just brutally good.
(also you can get to impressive defense stats now, as drow i did some funny setups, dodge was 3 pl 3 racial 3 feat 3 air ele form and 10 item aka 22, now 23 with new belt + i got bard bot that can raise that number by 4 more, prr was 20 form 10 shield 30 item 15 shield mastery 30 plife, aka 105 now more since i have all prr plifes + you could maybe go harmor and put some points into eldritch since you dont need max dcs due to helm from new raid)