Need suggestions with build

[Jackal912]

Okay, so I recently rejoined DDO after a long hiatus. This sorcerer in question was made months/a yearish ago as a result, and was sort of made on-the-fly without any real planning. He was left at 8, and I've gotten him to 11 in the meantime, and have swapped a few spells, and realized that investing so many skill points in Haggle was a terrible idea. All in all though, I've been pretty happy with him. However, as I gained the Cone of Cold spell, I'm beginning to notice.. /everything/ is saving almost always vs my Reflex saves - Fireball was working fine at 8-9ish, but as I hit 10-11 and head to gianthold and similarly leveled missions, I can fire a cone of cold at a massive group of enemies and have them all, or all but 1-2, make the save. This leaves me with some pretty massively reduced damage, and I'm finding myself relying increasingly on searing rays, or even magic missile for the fire-immune, instead of cone of cold. Is there anything I'm doing wrong with this character? Here's the build.

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Atrophied 
Level 12 Lawful Good Warforged Male
(12 Sorcerer) 
Hit Points: 104
Spell Points: 1131 
BAB: 6\6\11
Fortitude: 7
Reflex: 4
Will: 6

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Stats          Modified Stats
Abilities        (Level 1)             (Level 12)
Strength             10                    10
Dexterity            10                    10
Constitution         16                    16
Intelligence         10                    10
Wisdom                6                     6
Charisma             16                    22

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Charisma used at level 1

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 12)
Balance               0                     1.5
Bluff                 3                     6
Concentration         7                    18
Diplomacy             3                     6
Disable Device        n/a                   n/a
Haggle                5                    12
Heal                 -2                    -2
Hide                  0                     0
Intimidate            3                     6
Jump                  0                     0
Listen               -2                    -2
Move Silently         0                     0
Open Lock             n/a                   n/a
Perform               n/a                   n/a
Repair                0                     0
Search                0                     0
Spot                 -2                    -2
Swim                  0                     0
Tumble                n/a                   n/a
Use Magic Device      n/a                   n/a

Level 1 (Sorcerer)
Feat: (Selected) Mental Toughness
Spell (1): Burning Hands
Spell (1): Repair Light Damage


Level 2 (Sorcerer)
Spell (1): Nightshield


Level 3 (Sorcerer)
Feat: (Selected) Empower Spell
Spell (1): Charm Person


Level 4 (Sorcerer)
Ability Raise: CHA
Spell (2): Scorching Ray


Level 5 (Sorcerer)
Spell (2): Web


Level 6 (Sorcerer)
Feat: (Selected) Maximize Spell
Spell (3): Fireball


Level 7 (Sorcerer)
Spell (2): Repair Moderate Damage
Spell (3): Displacement


Level 8 (Sorcerer)
Ability Raise: CHA
Spell (4): Wall of Fire


Level 9 (Sorcerer)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell
Spell (2): Resist Energy
Spell (3): Haste
Spell (4): Repair Critical Damage


Level 10 (Sorcerer)
Spell (5): Cloudkill


Level 11 (Sorcerer)
Spell (3): Halt Undead
Spell (4): Solid Fog
Spell (5): Cone of Cold
Enhancement: Sorcerer Improved Empowering I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Improved Empowering II
Enhancement: Sorcerer Improved Empowering III
Enhancement: Sorcerer Lineage of Elements I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Lineage of Elements II
Enhancement: Sorcerer Elemental Manipulation I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Elemental Manipulation II
Enhancement: Sorcerer Elemental Manipulation III
Enhancement: Sorcerer Elemental Manipulation IV
Enhancement: Sorcerer Force Manipulation I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Force Manipulation II
Enhancement: Sorcerer Force Manipulation III
Enhancement: Sorcerer Energy of the Dragonblooded I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Energy of the Dragonblooded II
Enhancement: Sorcerer Charisma I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Charisma II
Enhancement: Sorcerer Wand Mastery I
Enhancement: Sorcerer Wand Mastery II
Enhancement: Warforged Inscribed Armor I


Level 12 (Sorcerer)
Ability Raise: CHA
Feat: (Selected) Spell Focus: Evocation
Spell (6): Disintegrate

EDIT: Sorry, spell list didn't export properly, and I hit 12, got spell focus : evoc, and used a Siberys shard to change imp mental toughness to Maximize.

[sigtrent]

No outright mistakes.

You could actually min max a bit more. there is no reason for you to have 10 str or 10 dex or 10 int on this character. You aren't doing anything with those stats on this build. You can channel that into maximizing charisma or bumping up your constitution. Or if you like fighting at lower levels you could bump str to 14 dropping dex and int.

Mental toughness and improved mental toughness are probably a bit wasted. Sorcerers generally aren't hurting for SP. I'd at least drop the improved feat. To handle your saving throw problem, spell focus evocation and heighten spell could help. At higher levels you would also want maximize and likely quicken spell.

Improved empower 3 may not be all that effective for the points it costs.

[spifflove]

You could play a wizard wf or you could pt points into str, grab the greatax feat, and heighten, both spell pen feats, and both spell focus feats, and extend, maximize.

[VKhaun]

All of your elemental attack save DC's are going to be reflex except for disintegrate. Some enemies will always be nearly immune, and some may actually BE immune if they have evasion and good reflex saves. Elemental attacks are a tool, not a class specialty. Your options to improve elemental nuking are going to get less and less noticeable, and your enemies will more and more be resistant to it. They usually say not to do MT because they expect you to have heighten and spell penetration for using other spell types against enemies that save or are resistant to elemental attacks.

If you've got one feat swap, I'd actually say switch empower for maximize for a quick boost. Empower is very inefficient on spell points. 15, for 50%, means that meta magic doesn't even begin to just barely break even with regular casting until lv5 spells. It's contradictive to have nothing but empower and MT+IMT. Maximize is more efficient to actually increase what you can put out before running out of ammo, and is better at what both are for. Converting SP's to damage faster.

What's your spell list right now?

[Jackal912]

The feat builder is showing my current spells - not the original order I got them in. I don't even remember that, any more.
Edit : Er, wow. I'm stupid - somehow the spell list didn't get exported properly

I have..

Repair Light Wounds, Magic Missile, Charm Person, Nightshield
Repair Moderate Wounds, Scorching Ray, Web, Resist Energy
Fireball, Displacement, Halt Undead, Haste
Firewall, Solid Fog, Repair Critical
Cloudkill, Cone of Cold
Disintegrate

[Kalundan]

I have a few capped Sorcerers including a WF, I'd recommend the following...

Feats:
1st Max
3th Emp
6th Ext
9th Hgtn
12th Force of Personality (33 will save is nice/I don't enjoy being greater commanded - milage will vary you may want Greater Spell Pen)
15th Spell Pen

I would definitely drop evocation focus. Heighten will more than compensate for any losses you might see. You need heighten if you want your webs and other spells with saves to land. With Heighten spells are raised to the highest spell level your character can cast, making them more difficult to resist.

You can drop fireball whenever possible and pick up something useful like rage in it's place. Your primary damage is going to come from Firewall; your alternative fire attack will be scorching ray, which has no save and really nukes down anything weak to fire.

CoC is situational and without heighten will be about half useless for almost anything with a decent reflex save. Once heightened you can nuke down almost anything with it, again I like small passages and webbed doors in combination with this spell. Polar ray will fill the gap for an expensive no save cold attack ray.

The most reliable way to work DPS in GH and maximize your SP usage and DPS output is to FW Web a door or small passage way and have your team fight in it. By this level I always leave on all of my metamagic feats and began casting less but more efficiently. Extend is toggled the most to not waste SP on buffs or in places like Madstone where you don't need an extended firewall/web just a regular will do; as your group tends to move often. However max/emp/heighten are never turned off by this stage for my sorcerers.

I would recommend picking up PK temporarily until you are able to get Finger of Death. PK is great to use casters/mephits/fire ele's or ranged mobs that might not find their way into your firewall like most melee mobs tend too. Some people swear by PK and Finger both, but on all of my sorcerers I tend to drop it as soon as FoD becomes available and opt for enervate for my 4th lvl spot. The double save can be irritating, but the value of an instant kill spell is high. Personally I would have FW/Enervate/PK as my fourths by this lvl. You'll be able to take on almost anything in GH with those three spells. Swap CK for Ball Lightning and you'll be soloing the boss of Madstone while the melee's overbuff; rotating Ball and Disin for the quick kill.

In the end I think my spell list at your level would look something like this...

Jump, Magic Missile, Ray of Enfeebling, Nightshield
Ooze Puppet/Knock, Scorching Ray, Web, Resist Energy
Rage, Displacement, Suggestion, Haste
Firewall, Enervate, PK
Ball Lightning, Cone of Cold
Disintegrate

You can pick up Repair Critical on your last 4th slot spell and stop there with repair spells or you can opt to go all the way to reconstruct; which I don't find necessary. Even end game healing a WF tank in VoD I do just fine with scrolls and RC. Soloing or grouping the repair crit spell is usually more than enough to get the job done for about 150-160 heal (My WF Sorc sits at about 350HP buffed) I tend to use scrolls at your level and put everything into my versatility until I get a little slack in a few levels; where I can comfortably afford to fit in a good repair spell.

[Shade]

You could actually min max a bit more. there is no reason for you to have 10 str or 10 dex or 10 int on this character. You aren't doing anything with those stats on this build. You can channel that into maximizing charisma or bumping up your constitution.

His Charisma is maxxed. 16 is max for a WF.

10 int is fine. UMD is an important skill and sorcs only get 2 points per level. He actaully needs a +2 int tome to cap both umd and concentration each level. For now he'd have to only get half ranks in UMD per lvl and keep up concentration.

10 str is also fine, its nice to have a bit more str to melee in some cases, and carry more gear.

10 dex probably isnt needed but isnt hurting anything. If he went 8, he could only put con to 17, not that big of a deal.