Linker wrote on Sep 25^th, 2021 at 6:31am:


More so than its already nerfed? Fucking fuck fuck. The last round of nerfs didn't hurt too bad, the max spell level was still there and the cooldown was enough that I just had to ad fireball into the spell rotation. I'm not R10ing or anything but it was nice not to be completely fucked over. Looks like thats on the way.


Linker wrote on Sep 25^th, 2021 at 6:31am:


The CD is like 30 seconds and likely to go up rather than down. Breath weapon will never be a useful thing. Sadly.

Linker wrote on Sep 26^th, 2021 at 3:54pm:


I doubt anything will ever truly "beat" fire nukers. Meteor Swarm + immunity stripper just makes things best.

As for what to run? I don't have a clue. I found Feywild so boring I wasn't able to farm much of the gear. For most of the quests simply getting to the entrance was so dull I lost interest.

Bobbicus wrote on Sep 27^th, 2021 at 11:24am:


What can I say? Sharn spoiled me. 1 quest entrance 10 steps from the quest givers? Now that's how you DnD!

Bobbicus wrote on Sep 27^th, 2021 at 12:49pm:


To be clear: I like the concept of explorer areas, doing explorers, and getting slayers. Fuck traipsing through them to get to quest entrances. That shit can go straight to hell. Its fun the first time, it stops being fun every single time after it.

Its very interesting to follow the way people feel about them. If you only pay attention to the loudest voices on the motherboards you're likely to get the impression everyone is "just fine" with that shit. Like so many things, any descending opinions are shouted down by the asshats.

The actual opinion, if you talk to more people and find out what the think instead of listening exclusively to the "everythings okers" is quite spread out. You get a lot of people on my side who fucking hate traipsing through them every single time they want to do a quest. Then you get a whole spread of people who range from dislike to mild annoyance.

And then there is a tiny, tiny, EXTREMELY LOUD minority of players who think dicking your way through explorer areas is just the bees fucking knees and every single quest should include a 20 minute pointless maze crawl before you're allowed to start having fun.

Hey, that's fair. Explorers have generally gone down in utility over the years. Fuckin' Vale was quite literally farmable for progression back in the day.

Why are you going with Bladeforged? Aasimar is much better.

You can't use the self-healing while in elemental-mode. Once you become a fire elemental you stop being warforged, as such Reconstruct stops working. I figured this out the hard way when I tried to build a BF lightning sorc.

Don't get me wrong, I love bladeforged a lot. But if you're theory-crafting a fire sorc you probably want Human or Aasimar. There's not actually an iconic sorc, now that I think about it...

You do to get the immunity striper. Is your plan to walk around guessing which mobs are and aren't immune to fire?

I guess you could turn it off, heal, turn it back on; but that sounds like even more of a pain in the ass than scroll-healing.


I was going to make a few more recommendations about gear sets but looking over mine I can see now it got nerfed all to shit and back. I know before the shit-soaked nerf-bat hit everything, holding 2 one-handed items was typically better than a single 2-handed item, but now I haven't a fucking clue. And of course even though they brought everything to the same power-level we can all assume the stuff from saltmarsh will be superior.

I'm guessing not. It seems the motherboard whiners crying to have fire sorcs nerfed have gotten there way, nerfing every other sorc along the way. But maybe DC caster is playable again.