CosmicCharlie wrote on Nov 1
st, 2014 at 9:41am:
So you don't take Meteor Swarm? I'm assuming you're 18 sorc, with 2 splash Pally or whatever. Energy Burst cooldown isn't very good if you only get 1 level 9 spell and use it on Mass Hold....no MS.
Nah i play pure sorc, prefer drow since i can take dodge fear get racial 3 dodge air form 3 and with 11 item and 3 plifes/haste viola your set.
Evocation is a weird thing, it doesnt work out on most build that arent fully specialized for it.
Thing is, it takes time for people to adapt to play a pure evoking in general class as enchanter.
Met swarm is useless and a to costy spell when you take into account that there are better spells, its a shiradi spell and otherwise its a useless to inscribe in spelbook /if you plan to play draconic.
Wail/power word kill/mass hold monster are my personal top 3.
While etrign i have enough necro dc for content like druids.
For aoe air savant is purely the best.
Once you get to 24 and your 150 spp thforged you gain imortallity since the fact that you can spam chain light ball light on mass held monsters will stay that they will die really fast.
Its simple how to look at enchanter sorc vs evoker.
Evoker has evocation and doesnt get a huge ammount of it to matter for high end content, some mobs will just make their check no matter what you do since there is no way to debuff properly as sorc.
Take into comparison druid, whose kit is full of reflex debuffs and its dc can reach considerably high numbers for equake.
Sorc sadly does not have that possibility.
So yo are left with several choices, play shiradi, play a evoker and get acustomed to the evade sign or a enchnater.
Enchanter makes trash helpless, thats 50% more damage, you twist in sense and that is 30% more.
A direct increase vs trash mobs with super high wave clearing capability is way better then 3 feats that do apsolutely nothing to speed up the process of etring.
I had a hard time to get used to the whole enchanter thing, i tried it purely for fun and thought it would be super gimp, but after playing it for 9 etrs i am pretty confident it beats evoker in any possible scenario.
Try it out and trust me you will like it.
Even a gimp spell will do wonders on a helpless target ampified by sense combined with high caster level spells you are able to cast