Are Sorc weapons worth it ??

[drachine]

well now i melee in shroud part 1 simply because fingering everything is generally not possible. what i do is i zone in an melee like all the other tanks do. but after everyone is on the portal and i'm soloing THEN i finger of death and phantasmal killer everything until there is only one melee opponent left (always finger the casters) and then i just beat him down with wounders, fire shield, (was using hold person for a while, but i find even with extend it might be long enough), and usually they go down quick.

[Propane]

I currently run a 12 sor/4 ranger and it is a blast - high dex is good for ac (with bracers and good robe) and hitting with finess weapons, plus not to bad with a bow... as for the DP clicky - I have 4 boots with 5 charges... SS of cure, wounding, etc are not too hard to come by... when the cap goes to 20, I wil go 16/6 - many shot and improved 2 weapon!

I went drow - but am considering try this build again with elf (more bow stuff). May go 2 rang/2fighter for many shot at lower level...

[Mindspat]

I extensively use Rapiers and Daggers for debuffing purposes only and love it.




p.s. I did not mean to repost in this thread.

[Varr]

Coming in late to the ball here.......but as a drow, even without finess.............at level 4 you can be standing in +3 mith chain shirt and have a +3 mith light shield and a +1 holy rapier..........and get to it. There are plenty of times you can off tank a caster at lower levels...........and a round of blur.......some timely hastes eats into your mana pool best saved for bosses. At level 8 or so your buffable ac is no longer of much use and your sp will swell enough that combat is totally for your entertainment........ya got firewall now.........but from level 1-7 and 13+ you can be non totally useless if ya are swinging something if ya choose.

As with all points in the game, the gear and will is far more important than the character arch type and build.

[Solmage]

It can be amusing to use puncturing picks (or, for that matter, high burst picks if you'd rather not kill stuff as quickly) and then use debuffs like touch of idiocy to make the creatures get auto critted from your picks. I used to do this and then charge into melee (with displacement) and have everyone shake their heads in disbelief as I tore the poor duergar apart

(Obviously, it works well with flesh to stone and hold monster too)

Another good weapon to carry is a returning weapon for when you need to shoot switches and such. I like to carry a curse spewer since I can also use it to curse stone statues that I need to keep as stone to stop re-spawns. On that note, the dream spitter (drains levels on crit) from the reaver also comes in handy.

Other than that, the only other weapons I have an use for with my caster are holy or anarchic (burst) picks of greater construct bane for the shroud portals. They work rather well.