First Life Air Savant Sorcerer Seeks Advice

[Endarire]

Greetings, all!

I'm currently a first life Human Sorcerer16 (True Neutral) with the ability to jump to 18 pretty soon. (Waiting to finish Gianthold quests.) I'm enjoying blasting so far (because enemies, even if charmed, have a hard time killing themselves). I wish to plan ahead.

Once I'm done in Gianthold (and level 18), where do you advise I go for the best gear/XP for my level? I can farm a bit, but I'm presently in no mood to spend weeks or months farming Greensteel and ingredients. I'd like to explore the content I'm paying VIP status for.

For levels 21-28 (but especially for 21ish), what school should I emphasize as a Sorcerer? I like blasting (and am primarily an Air Savant with a minor as a Fire Savant for wall of fire); I chose Air Savant because of general utility (go, go Feather Fall!) and because few things resist electricity that much. However, I've heard Enchantment is the school to max the DC for in Epic. I want to be as useful as possible, preferably able to solo Epic Elites. (Soloing Epic Hards or Epic Normals is another goal.)

Also, what Epic Destiny should I pick? Magister and Dragon Incarnate each look spiffy. I'm not sure how Twists of Fate work, nor if I should try to mix Magister and Draconic Incarnate.

I probably also need lots of Epic gear to make my DCs high enough for things to be worthwhile for Epic Elite instances, and perhaps also for Epic Normal/Epic Hard. I've not spent my time farming gear; I have no Greensteel items to my name, and have mostly gotten by via random loot drops. (I figure Epic gear will be easier to get than trying to farm Necropolis or Shroud for spiffy items. If I'm farming, I may as well get the best stuff.)

Brief stats, not including ship buffs:
12 STR
20 DEX
22 CON
18 INT
20 WIS
36 CHA

(Some is from items. Some is from a +4 Supreme tome.)

Main Offensive Spells:
Ball Lightning
Electric Loop (SLA)
Wall of Fire

Feats (in no special order):
Empower Spell
Extend Spell (I like my displacement, rage, and haste)
Force of Personality
Heigthen Spell (taken just in case I need it)
Maximize Spell
Spell Focus: Evocation
Toughness

[Loromir]

Greetings, all!

I'm currently a first life Human Sorcerer16 (True Neutral) with the ability to jump to 18 pretty soon. (Waiting to finish Gianthold quests.) I'm enjoying blasting so far (because enemies, even if charmed, have a hard time killing themselves). I wish to plan ahead.

Once I'm done in Gianthold (and level 18), where do you advise I go for the best gear/XP for my level? I can farm a bit, but I'm presently in no mood to spend weeks or months farming Greensteel and ingredients. I'd like to explore the content I'm paying VIP status for.

For levels 21-28 (but especially for 21ish), what school should I emphasize as a Sorcerer? I like blasting (and am primarily an Air Savant with a minor as a Fire Savant for wall of fire); I chose Air Savant because of general utility (go, go Feather Fall!) and because few things resist electricity that much. However, I've heard Enchantment is the school to max the DC for in Epic. I want to be as useful as possible, preferably able to solo Epic Elites. (Soloing Epic Hards or Epic Normals is another goal.)

Also, what Epic Destiny should I pick? Magister and Dragon Incarnate each look spiffy. I'm not sure how Twists of Fate work, nor if I should try to mix Magister and Draconic Incarnate.

I probably also need lots of Epic gear to make my DCs high enough for things to be worthwhile for Epic Elite instances, and perhaps also for Epic Normal/Epic Hard. I've not spent my time farming gear; I have no Greensteel items to my name, and have mostly gotten by via random loot drops. (I figure Epic gear will be easier to get than trying to farm Necropolis or Shroud for spiffy items. If I'm farming, I may as well get the best stuff.)

Brief stats, not including ship buffs:
12 STR
20 DEX
22 CON
18 INT
20 WIS
36 CHA

(Some is from items. Some is from a +4 Supreme tome.)

Main Offensive Spells:
Ball Lightning
Electric Loop (SLA)
Wall of Fire

Feats (in no special order):
Empower Spell
Extend Spell (I like my displacement, rage, and haste)
Force of Personality
Heigthen Spell (taken just in case I need it)
Maximize Spell
Spell Focus: Evocation
Toughness

Its going to be tough for your sorc to get meaningful enchant DC's for epic. Air and fire are fine choices to stick with. Start out in Draconic and work you way over to Shiradi. Between Shiradi and Draconic, you will have two pretty good options to choose from when gearing up for specific quests.

As for the higher heroic levels, there is a decent set of goggles in one of the cannith manufactury chain for casters (Mageright spectacles). Also, the Cannith Challenges have some nice items you can make that are not too difficult to obtain.

But really....just try to get on to the epic levels as quick as you can. That's where your power will really start to grow.

[Lonnbeimnech]

Have a look at this thread.

http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread...e-EE-DPS-Build

[Endarire]

I've found the War Wizard set to be rather appealing. A concern is getting the 40 War Wizard Commendations for the full set (including the converted Spidersilk Robe).

1: Is it worth it to try farming the commendations for these, considering the availability of gear elsewhere?

2: If so, what's the best way to farm these War Wizard commendations, as well as the Spidersilk Robe? (C'mon, +3 Insight Charisma!)

[cru121]

The set is OK. However, if you're using the set, it prevents you to use the +4 Evocation Focus necklace. Which is great.
Extremely easy-to-get gear are the guaranteed end rewards for wheloon and stormhorns quests: http://ddowiki.com/page/Update_19_named_items#Wheloon_2
My sorc uses the following items (Heroic): Necklace (evocation focus), bracers (+4 saves), belt (40 hp), gloves (8 con), ring (prr), ring (8 cha)
The goggles (35 vitality) are also nice, but I'm using crafted ML16 Blindness Ward, Persuasion, Yellow: +1 Evocation, Colorless: +5 Str.

[Endarire]

In this day and age, how important is the Litany of the Dead item (trinket) from the Black Abbot raid? I'm attuned to the raid, but I never did it. I'd probably need a full party to compete.

Also, does the raid's difficulty affect the chance I'll get this trinket? If so, how?

Additionally, how important is spell resistance on my character? I have an item of SR 17 at level 18, which seems to have blocked some effects lately, but I'm unsure how important (and helpful) it'll be at this level. Going Drow seems the best way to have a relevant SR; my SR as a Drow (if I were one, which I'm not) would, at this level, be between 14 and 16+my level, or between 32 and 34.

How important is the 10% spell point discount from the War Wizard set or the Cormyrian Green Dragonscale Robe?