LF Sorcer Build - No WF

[Flama]

Trying to find the best sorcer build but I dont have warforget , was thinking as human best option .

Any help ?

[Miow]

Yep if you don't have wf, human would be my next choice.

[Flama]

Now ... Wich savant ? Ill be my umd high enought for at leat 90% heal scrolls sucess ?

[Jsbeer]

Human is a good choice for the extra feat. A basic build for a Air Savant which does good DPS and is very survivable due to Air Dance (aka FvS Leap for the arcanes) and knock-down immunity is:


18 CHR
16+ CON
10 INT (to get 3 skills per level)

Anything else in STR or CON.



FEATS:

1 Human (Feat) Toughness
1 Sorcerer (Feat) Spell Focus: Evocation
3 Sorcerer (Feat) Maximize
6 Sorcerer (Feat) Empower
9 Sorcerer (Feat) Heighten
12 Sorcerer (Feat) Greater Spell Focus: Evocation
15 Sorcerer (Feat) Spell Penetration
18 Sorcerer (Feat) Greater Spell Penetration
21 Sorcerer (Feat) Epic Spell Focus: Evocation
24 Sorcerer (Feat) Epic Spell Penetration


7/5/5 Air enhancements
7/1/1 Cold enhancements
1/0/0 Force enhancements
1/0/0 Fire enhancements


SKILLS:
2 points in Tumble at level 1
Concentration
Balance (You have knock-down immunity but it doesn't work against everything and this is useful so you can easily sway to Cold Savant without a LR).
UMD (Almost compulsory for self-healing via wands, and eventually Heal scrolls)



Level 1 Spells: Jump, Expeditious Retreat, Nightshield, Niacs (-> Protection from Evil when you get Ice Storm)
Level 2 Spells: Web, Blur, Resist Elements, Scorching Ray
Level 3 Spells: Haste, Rage, Displacement, Protection from Elements
Level 4 Spells: Dimension Door, Solid Fog , Ice Storm, Firewall
Level 5 Spells: Cloudkill, Niac's Biting Cold, Eladar's Electric Surge, Ball Lightning
Level 6 Spells: (Greater Heroism -> Circle of Death when you can afford GH scrolls), Chain Lightning, Disintegrate
Level 7 Spells: Finger of Death, Otto's Sphere of Dancing, Waves of Exhaustion
Level 8 Spells: Polar Ray, Otto's Irresistable Dance, Power Word Stun
Level 9 Spells: Power Word Kill, Energy Drain, Wail of the Banshee


Scrolls

4 Fireshield (Guild),
5 Teleport (Guild)
6 Greater Heroism


Wands:

Stoneskin



Note that Cold Savant is another very good choice, with better damage but less survivability.

[Flama]

Seems very nice Ill try that out and to I dont need much end game playing as Ill be doing soc for past lifes . And why not earth to ? seems nice cc/dps or Im wrong ?

[Jsbeer]

Earth is fine too, but cold and lightning have better nukes, cold has better single target damage (Polar Ray), and lightning has better survivability with Air Dance and Knock-down immunity. Also Earth has Air as an opposing element so your 5th level electricity DOT spell (which is used against major bosses) is somewhat weaker.


Basically you can kill things faster with cold or lightning, and if you are an air savant are more survivable too.

[Flama]

Then how about a water with elec dot and some elec enchs ? Thats what I have on my PM Also Air dont have some think like ice storm , fire wall or acid rain ...

[Jsbeer]

Then how about a water with elec dot and some elec enchs ? Thats what I have on my PM Also Air dont have some think like ice storm , fire wall or acid rain ...

Actually, Air can use Ice Storm and Firewall without any penalty, same as Acid could. It is more that Air's SLA have better damage than Acid's and the boosted instant AOE DPS of Chain/Ball Lightning is considered more valuable than the boosted AOE Damage over time of an Acid Savant's Acid Rain.

Earth is of course very viable, but lacks the higher instant AOE punch and has a slightly weaker boss damage than Air. In addition, Air has much more survivability due to Air Dance and knock-down immunity.



Remember you can always try out both or indeed all four savants to see what you like the most.

To switch between the two you could either use an LR or use Blood of Dragons to change your spells and change your Spell Focus feats from Evocation (for Air/Cold/Fire) to conjuration (for Acid).