Sorc update needed

[Magesty/Hawc/Scaredycat]

I think the last time the sorcerer class was updated by DDO was in the year 1854. I wonder when it will happen again? For those of you who follow this more closely than I is there any scuttlebutt?

 

[DBZ]

You think they are the best of the absolute worst

The others are much much worse

 

[Azasmokey]

Sorc is so easy to level. You want end-game research or find a more relaxed group

 

[Macenzie]

"1783 was a very good year. Mozart wrote his Great Mass. The Montgolfier brothers went up in the first hot-air balloon. And England recognized the independence of the United States"

Oh never mind, you said 1854, that one sucked sweaty badger fur.

 

[Honkin]

The great thing about playing casters in modern DDO is that you'll spend a year ransacking chests for rare gear so you can do less damage than a goth kid from hot topic with a funny knife and a pokey chain.

 

[woq]

Sorcs need no update. Okay maybe the Savant trees do, they do have a little beard lichen hanging off them.

Magic in general needs an update way, way more.

 

[Magesty/Hawc/Scaredycat]

Yes, I was thinking of the savant trees.

 

[droid327]

Savant trees are actually pretty good. Boring, but good...but they serve the needs of sorc, boosting their casting with relevant stats and especially caster levels. Sorc is a very basic class by design - just kill everything with fire (/acid/cold/electric) - so it doesn't need its trees to define its gameplay as much as other classes

The only thing they need a tweak on is improving their sla selection. And maybe the passive abilities outside of wind dance, but those are always going to be an afterthought anyway

 

[torkz]

Caster DPS in general needs an update in high reapers...but that horse has been beaten to death, resurrected, beaten to death again. It appears that as long it's great for leveling in R1, SSG (and a significant portion of the player base) doesn't think it's an issue.

 

[Ying]

No point updating trees while the reaper scaling nerf is still in place. Sorc works fine for R1 leveling all the way to cap.

 

[Balvix]

"1783 was a very good year. Mozart wrote his Great Mass. The Montgolfier brothers went up in the first hot-air balloon. And England recognized the independence of the United States"

Oh never mind, you said 1854, that one sucked sweaty badger fur.

Literally one of my favorite movies.

 

[Fhrek]

If you thing Sorc needs updates, try play a non sorc or druid caster... you will scream for a reborn!

 

[Magesty/Hawc/Scaredycat]

Ok. I guess I am mistaken! I don’t see those words too often in the forums

 

[Quartis]

y, the savants should get the T5 replaced that buffs other elemental dmg, makes no sense in modern ddo.

 

[seph1roth5]

Sorc design was lazy. They could've easily done ONE tree for savant and used the multiselectors, not 4 different trees.

 

[justin credible]

Sorc design was lazy. They could've easily done ONE tree for savant and used the multiselectors, not 4 different trees.

its good to have 2 elements, especially in heroics

 

[LurkingVeteran]

I think it used to be one subclass with multi selectors, before there were trees.

Anyway, some of their special abilities and SLAs are dated and need an update. There should probably also have a bit more CHA/Evo DC. Otherwise they are OK if you factor in the capstone.

As others said, the problem is the scaling of late-game spell DPS builds in general, and most of this is a systems and epics problem. Besides picking up a mantle, your DPS rotation will usually look very similar at L18 and L34. 90% of epic abilities, feats/spells etc really do not contribute much. They need to increase damage of all epics abilities by at least 30% across the board for them to be worth using.

 

[Quartis]

imo they should nerf the heavy dmg Spells of sorc/wizard/cleric Level 9, maybe just more cooldown (2 times as high). And then give out more spellpower, (max) caster levels or spell crit dmgfactor to make lower spells more impactful.

epic destines dont give that many new dmg spells anyway or they are epic strike, share cooldown and the destiny only buffs 1 epic strike.

 

[justin credible]

imo they should nerf the heavy dmg Spells of sorc/wizard/cleric Level 9, maybe just more cooldown (2 times as high). And then give out more spellpower, (max) caster levels or spell crit dmgfactor to make lower spells more impactful.

epic destines dont give that many new dmg spells anyway or they are epic strike, share cooldown and the destiny only buffs 1 epic strike.

yeah, doubling the cool down of the damage spells is a great idea... would really help them out

 

[Thumbed_Servant]

"1783 was a very good year. Mozart wrote his Great Mass. The Montgolfier brothers went up in the first hot-air balloon. And England recognized the independence of the United States"

Oh never mind, you said 1854, that one sucked sweaty badger fur.

LOVE the Highlander reference