If I want to take a break from melting faces as a sorc..

NEEDS:

-non-racial Self heals for low skull solos
-survivable
-aoe dmg



I was thinking thf pally. Is there a better option?

Just want to use Sharn/RL gear primarily

Barovian or Syrianna wep (or something else easy to get) I have an old lit2 falchion if that’s still worth anything

Rubbinns wrote on Jun 30^th, 2020 at 1:20pm:



Any extra special important gear/feat selections beyond normal?

Maybe emp heal, THF line, PA, IC, and stunning blow (not nec. in that order)?

Probably split APs in KoTC and SaD. Use t5 from KoTC. Which cores are better overall?


Is the vampirism on the macabre weps worth grabbing for situational use?

How bout daggers? Some people are using those. Worth anything?

Head-Meat wrote on Jun 30^th, 2020 at 3:46pm:


SoS or Tail are probably best heroic two-handers. KOTC t5, saD for stance.

You pretty much listed them ; THF feats, stunning blow, maybe some metas for self heals to push up your skulls.
bear is also really good. anything that lets you heal ( both ), have saves ( pally ), dps, defenses, and aoe tactics ( bear has a lot more but pallies have an aoe instakill that is also godlike in heroics ). Nothing tricky here.

An effective druid that can R4 post-wolf is pretty great!

Ulysses wrote on Jul 1^st, 2020 at 1:51pm:


That is nowhere near full speed jfyi

Rubbinns wrote on Jun 30^th, 2020 at 6:34pm:



Just started playing the pally today. Works! That AOE is pretty good. It's not meteorswarm good, but it's good. (mostly because the cooldown is longer)

Hey Meat, any tips on order to do the racials in? I knocked out dwarf and warforged the old fashioned way, am starting with halfling because it looked fun. I was thinking I would do Human next. The only one I know is I'm saving Tiefling for last/late in the course of this project.

Yeah I'm also just doing 17-20s.

For now I'm blasting through on a sorc life. I move pretty slow(took me a couple hours just to hit 18, probably going to spring for a sovereign potion next life), but the plan is to explore a lot of builds. 17-20 is where most builds really hit their stride, but by 17 I'm usually so burnt out and angry that I just want heroics to be over. Getting to take some time to really enjoy it will be nice.

Head-Meat wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2020 at 3:32pm:


Yes but sharn saga involves "Just Buisness" and "Best Laid Plans"; the latter of which I'd about rather cut off my fingers than solo on a high difficulty. When I do run it on epic characters for flagging, I usually turn on heroic casual because seriously fuck that quest.


Head-Meat wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2020 at 3:32pm:


Smash and Burn is hands down one of the worst quests in the game. Its tolerable on epics but in heroics on a caster it is just fucking fuck fuck fuck. That's the only way I can describe it. Everything saves against everything, it is full of tiny mobs spamming projectiles, and it has those god damn awful puzzles.

I'd honestly rather run LoD 142 times than have to play Smash and Burn even once. (Lod = ~7k XP, 7k X 142 = ~1,000,000. Maths!)

Anyway, not really having any trouble with what to run. I can just go run my favorite quests since most provide good XP in that level range. I ran the Lords chain last night; not optimal XP/min but its still one of my favorite chains.

I'm more interested in builds/order, gear and whatnot.

Also, if you’re going to do a Fire Sorc on some lives, Sunburst makes those fucking fire immune Shadows and Forgewraiths just vanish.  Mass Charm Monster + Sunburst makes a bunch of those quests way easier than they would be otherwise.

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jul 8^th, 2020 at 8:51am:


Now that is some solid advice. Why give more money to SSG?

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jul 8^th, 2020 at 8:51am:


Yep. Learned that. First life used 30% potion, ship shrine, voice, got me to 17. Wasn't bad and I had fun, but not as much fun as I could have had.

Second life, sov potion, got straight to 18, 3.2 million. Not bad at all, not great though. Still enjoying it.

Going to spring for the sub, that extra 10% suddenly seems worth it.

I do wonder: if I got into a party with 5 other people + all buffs, THEN ate the stone, d'you think I'd get the extra +5% buddy bonus?

Well I just managed my first-ever casual TR in a day. There's so many people I'd like to thank Head-Meat, Dupehero, DDOplayer98, and, of course, Heystack Ironhorse. Actually, on second thought, I'm not thanking you, Heystack. You stood there and watched me die. Fuck you, Heystack. Fuck you.

I did a little better than you, about 2.15 hours questing time(based on 45 minutes left on sov potion) but I also sprung for 2 months VIP and have the Master's Gift in an ML1 ring. Finishing up my third Halfling life right now(TR cache emptying as we speak). Second day in a row doing a life in a day. Very excited.

Up next I'm going to complete the last Warforged racial(since I did 2 the old fashioned way) as an Artificer. It'll be slow as balls but I need a break from melting faces, and that'll give me 9 finished racial PLs. Add in the 2 AP already and I'll have 5 extra AP to play around with. I'm doing Gnome after WF for the comedic value.

Anyone have any thoughts on what races have the best racial trees? I want to save those for much later when I'll have more RAP to spend on them(for example: doing tiefling dead last).