Haven't run a sorc since the release of epic levels and i'm planning on tr'ing into one to finish off arcane sphere.

was planning on going drow pure focusing on maxing my enchantment dc first and then go for evo dc after that

hold+sense weakness seems alot better than maxing evo dc

air savant primary and fire savant secondary

any tips/ tricks an experienced endgame caster could give would be appreciated

btw does anyone know this 'infinite-mana' trick?
http://youtu.be/7NglmBb-Lu8

obviously going in draconic, i dont see how anything in the harper tree would be usefull

edit: oops didnt look at cores

at level 28 i am going to be wearing heavy armor, 15 percent from drow tree 15 percent augment and 5 percent ek for spell failure, im kinda puzzled as to why more people dont do this, i see alot of sorc's at 28 running around in robes, perhaps the ap investment?

Why go half assed on the fire tree?

For 25 pts in harper you can get +2 cha, +10 hp, +120 sp, and 20 universal spellpower.

Also, if you go bladeforged you can still get 0% ASF heavy armor and enjoy the ultimate unkillability of dual reconstruct.

AtomicMew wrote on Feb 1^st, 2015 at 3:14am:


i thought that i would just need to take heavy armor proficiency? is that not the case? i havent played a caster in a while

im going to go into the harper tree for 1 more to the dc of spells, if i determine later that it is not needed i may go into fire tree, i do not fell that immolation would be too strong with this build since i will be holding everything and with sense weaknes an energy burst metoer swarm should take care of any mobs, i havent tr'd into this yet and i will be playing around with the enhancments

im not going to go bladeforged because i dont want to eat a heart, i may eventually try that out but id rather go drow more more enchantment dc


if i followed your advice and didnt go in harper tree and went bladeforged i would lose 4 enchantment dc and 3 evo dc

nicetrybutimjesus wrote on Feb 1^st, 2015 at 3:57am:


The major weakness of casters is boss DPS, not trash mobs.  Immolation helps significantly. 

For armor proficiency, you need to take all have all three feats since they are pre-reqs of each other.

yea was thinking of skipping the feat, totally blanked on capstone too thanks

You are not supposed to get the PRR unless you are proficient. Is that not WAI?

http://ddowiki.com/page/Heavy_Armor_Proficiency

Also, the capstone pretty much blows, so you might as well go bladeforged and keep 2 pally levels.

Munkenmo wrote on Feb 1^st, 2015 at 4:52am:


Charisma to damage swashbuckler?

5 Foot Step wrote on Feb 1^st, 2015 at 4:49am:


Without proficiency, you get "only" the 45 PRR/MRR introduced with the Armor Up update. You don't get the BAB+6.

Capstone is not ideal, but does offer PRR, extra fort, and some immunities that really help pure fleshy sorcs with abysmal saves.

AtomicMew wrote on Feb 1^st, 2015 at 3:14am:

Agreed. BF is def. the way to go. Also agree on staying out of Harper.

Munkenmo wrote on Feb 1^st, 2015 at 10:02am:


Esos, max Cha, divine crusader, Enchantment focus. Major problems is crappy greatsword thunderforged and no means of helpless damage. I reccomend 2 barbarian to fix that. There's a lot of good low hanging fruit. (ear smash, imp. power attack, etc) .You'll be able to twist soundburst from EA for quest where mobs have low fort saves.

I would not play this at cap, but leveling it is ok.

If you want pdk cha-to-damage at cap, then Swashbuckler pure bard, with enchantment focus in divine crusader is the way to go. For leveling---it is equal to a sorc build but at cap their thunderforged crit range makes them great in EE mod and other places.

YMMV crap off the top of my head. Ya.

- Tesrali