The Sorcerer's Handbook: A Guide to Building and Playing Sorcerers

[Swanic]

As a returning new player and 1st time Sorc i wanted to weigh on the elvis/asp schools of sorcery. (never played past 1st free month on launch, coming back for EU)

First i did the setup per Aspenor, Human..empower/force of personality..niacs/hypno

It was quite a struggle actually. I picked up charm/summon also to help me out, but the feats felt wasted. I couldnt use empower and maintain spellpoints. FoP didnt seem to do anything for me since not many caster mobs in harbor. Once i got through WW (elite w/ group) i decided it wasnt going to get any easier

Rerolled Human again, using the elvis model. Human, conj/greater conj. niacs/charm.

I was able to solo all of the korthos quests up to misery peak which was duo'd. I am now level 5 again, with web/scorch ray niac/BH/charm/summon. I felt like i was getting more bang for my SP due to less resists and my SP lasted a lot longer. I picked up empower as next feat and it is useable but still drains SP fast, where a few niacs kill everything anyways.

No one mentions that people expect you to have MM/energy resist for STK traps and end boss.

overall, the elvis model makes the first 5 levels easier. I wont be able to chime in through 10 on both since i wont be continuing the 1st sorc