Good points to be stated here. For now this is a leveling build. Plan on running to 30 reincarnation epic the. Reincarnation class/race there after.I’m interested in seeing a build as well, since I’m stumbling through a cold spec life on an ancient alt I recently dusted off, but it’s probably relevant to state your goals and parameters as well. Are you looking for a cold spec build to build up a lot of past lives, to stay at cap and run high skull reaper, park at cap to farm for other characters, something else? Do you have many past lives or racial APs, lots of/ very few reaper points?
Similar: my favorite cold Sorc is a 20 Alchemist cold nuker. I like having self healing and the fact that the self healing is so buggy that it often doesn’t land makes it extra exciting.my favorite cold sorc build is aasimar pure 20 monk fist monk
im interested in your gear/feat set up to compare where i am going. I am having trouble getting my DC's that highI'd say think about what your goal is with the build first. idk about others but at cap my sorc seems to perform less efficiently than other nuker class.
If you enjoy the fast, almighty, but also quite risky style which is sorc I can gif you my tuppence.
Best race is Dragonborn. If either you don't like it, or don't have it, or whatever reason you don't wanna play Dragonborn, imo the next best is Drow, followed by Aasimar and Human.
41 points in cold tree, 24 points in illusionist.
If you are Dragonborn: Get up to Tier 3 (Draconic Knowledge) or 4 (True Power)
If you are Drow: +2 Cha, then a) Eldritch knight up to spell power boost (3/3) b) Falconry cha+1 & sprint boost
If you are Aasimar: All cores, Divine Purpose, Divine Resolve (3/3), Heal Amp, Divine Charges (3/3)
I'm feeling lazy so here's the keypoint: DC
I like to run highest dc possible on my sorc - prior to Dino update my sorc (not a racial completionist) had 121 evo, 114 ench, 116 ish necro etc etc with 980ish cold spell power (no buff) and about 1050ish buffed. spell crit chance lacked a bit, at 64% (this can be fixed with better gear, at least up to 74% with pomura's ring or smth and by replacing a filigree) and crit dmg multiplier at 100. I reckon now with dino (haven't farmed yet) I could reach 125+ on evo (128 with reaper boost). if you have all the past lives it's like 127 standing and 130 boosted.
By focusing on dc you know your **** works, and most importantly you can freeze nearly everything (those plants in RL are pain in the arse but you will freeze them with this dc). By having decent dc all across the board you can instakill all the pesky archers and hold the muscle brutes, before nuking them with ice cold magik!!!
So to wrap up:
No.1 thing you should worry about is DC
No.2 is your knowledge of the map / monster spawn points
No.3 is your skill on targetting archers/muscles with the right spells. (finger, pk, circle, mass hold, glacial wrath, colour spray, ice storm, sunburst, prismatic spray, prismatic ray, etc)
No.4 is debuff items (double lgs set or smth) for boss. This helps a ton
No.5 is spellpower/crit chance / crit dmg / helpless dmg
if you follow this you will nuke the crap out of ddo (but you will also get nuked the crap out if misplayed)
Also if you're just running heroic / low reaper (1-4) you can ignore dc pretty much lol and prolly ignore all the things i said here.
I’ve been trying to incorporate the 5 piece vecna set as much as possible, but in the end I don’t think it’s worth the slots, because of the nature of set augments replacing preexisting set bonuses (I don’t even have a single set augment, but I like to theorise for the most optimal setup).im interested in your gear/feat set up to compare where i am going. I am having trouble getting my DC's that high
I’ve been trying to incorporate the 5 piece vecna set as much as possible, but in the end I don’t think it’s worth the slots, because of the nature of set augments replacing preexisting set bonuses (I don’t even have a single set augment, but I like to theorise for the most optimal setup).
In the end I think improvements from my previous setup is the way to go.
Here is the setup I came up with
Head: Elder’s (14 int, 2 sox, reaper +2)
Trinket: Elder’s / Huruvayah’s (+6 evo, ins. Glac., 1 soc)
Eye: Sharn raid set goggles (+3 ins. Spell foc. Mastery, 2 sox)
Neck: Huruvayah’s (+2 profane DC, 2 sox, +15% helpless dmg)
Chest: Order’s Garb (1 soc)
Back: dino spell crit dmg 35% (+2 sox)
Belt: dino artefact (+15 cha, hamp, 2 sacred DC, 3 sox) (tough shield)
Wrists: Order’s Garb (1 soc, spell pen)
Hands: vecna gloves / defiler gloves (+2 q.focus, 2sox) (tough shield)
Feet: sharn (+3 q.cha, q.potency) (1 soc) (tough shield)
Ring1: Elemental Ring (Fire)
Ring2: Elemental Ring (Ice)
Aug:
- +2 evo
- +2 Festiv. Cha
- +5 ins. Cha
- +14 con
- +5 ins. con
- +2 Profane (litany)
- +2 necro
- +2 enchant
- (+2 illu)
- +6 necro
- +6 enchant
- +6 conju
- Pomura’s whatever, the +5% ins. Spell crit chance aug
- Aug set: Tough Shield
- Deathblock
Weap1: dino staff (efficacy, glac, tic dmg of your choice, affirmation) (meridian) (devotion)
Weap swap 1: lgs vacuum & lgs mrr reduction
If you are in a party then
Lgs mrr&prr reduc / lgs mrr&hamp reduc or smth there’re 2 versions
Weap swap2 (healing): lgs hamp + lordsmarch heal stick
Filigrees:
15 cha (2* (+2 rare cha) + 11 cha) + 5% cold spell crit filigree
4 piece otto / beholder
Rest +1 cha’s
This will net in 123 evo dc in Reaper (3 racial points) and 124 on BOGW, and ~ 121 on others.
And cold spell crit dmg at 105 and spellpower around 1050, and 1150 buffed.
Epic tree:
Magus / draconic / primal
Draconic tier 5, magus up to spell focus and 3rd core for nullmagic shield, and rest primal. Pick up all the little spellpower as you can, and ignore efficiency stuff; you have a lot of sp for quests from gear.
Evo +3
Necro +3
Enchant +3
Enh tree:
Ice savant 41
Dragon racial 18 (20 for wings, this is very useful in combat)
Feydark 22 (24 for 1% crit chance if you have racial past lives)
If you’re racial completionist obvs get +1cha from harper tree
Good points to be stated here. For now this is a leveling build. Plan on running to 30 reincarnation epic the. Reincarnation class/race there after.
This is first life for now
Looks good. Any info on Feats? Thanks
Spell Specialty requires Epic Spell Focus, so don't forget that in your Epic feats.This is where opinions divide. Or I mean for my build/gear setup there's only one feat path, but there is a build for raids and stuff which involves ruin/greater ruin and I guess geared toward maximising crit chance/dmg. I like when my stun works.
Spell Speciality: Evo
Ah in that case forget that, guess that's why I don't have it. Get Evo I and II, and replace 31 feat with another spell powerSpell Specialty requires Epic Spell Focus, so don't forget that in your Epic feats.
Also, I use Ruin/GRuin in regular quests. They're generally too expensive to cast in raids unless I'm in charge of killing some specific trash IMO.
Why do you need ruin for trash mobs, when u can finger? Those are for raid bosses. Ppl go for ruin build on sorc cos the elemental dmg from dragborn tree works with caster level and it's massive dmg - more than ruin itself.Spell Specialty requires Epic Spell Focus, so don't forget that in your Epic feats.
Also, I use Ruin/GRuin in regular quests. They're generally too expensive to cast in raids unless I'm in charge of killing some specific trash IMO.