Sorc gear

[mikarddo]

I am trying to figure out what to wear at cap as a fire sorc DC/Nuker once the raid comes (U55.2). Sofar I have made this gear set with Dragon armor, Elders, Magewright, Dino artifact weapon and Dino minor artifact.

I like going the evasion route with light armor so Flamecleansed wont work for me.

Obiously quite a lot of effects need to come in the form of augments. I havent sorted the details on those yet.

Comments and ideas are most welcome.

[Sythe777]

Could run the castigators which would give mrr as well as reduce the need for the alchemical weapon; you do lose a blue slot though. I don't know how good fire attunement is or what it does (the wiki isn't clear), but as ugly as it sounds, run a dino qstaff for the 2 exceptional DCs? Squeaks out an extra DC over the charisma.

[mikarddo]

Could run the castigators which would give mrr as well as reduce the need for the alchemical weapon; you do lose a blue slot though. I don't know how good fire attunement is or what it does (the wiki isn't clear), but as ugly as it sounds, run a dino qstaff for the 2 exceptional DCs? Squeaks out an extra DC over the charisma.

Castigators is a decent idea - I would need to find insightful spell pen elsewhere though.

For the offhand I am thinking another Dino weapon for vulnerability rather than the achemical. That does lower DC by 1 though but I reckon it would be worth it. As a swap in item for max DC a Dino Q-staff does seem very worthwhile though.

I may just change Impulse to Cha on the trinket and add 149 impulse, 102 potency, Flamefang? and Vulnerability to an off-hand Dino weapon while keeping the Mountain bracer for insightful spell pen (and ins prr). If I get a +14 cha augment I might change cha to devotion on the trinket and potency to +2 exc con on the offhand weapon.

Picture in first post edited to reflect this change.

So many options

[Brandall]

I am trying to figure out what to wear at cap as a fire sorc DC/Nuker once the raid comes (U55.2). Sofar I have made this gear set with Dragon armor, Elders, Magewright, Dino artifact weapon and Dino minor artifact.

I like going the evasion route with light armor so Flamecleansed wont work for me.

Obiously quite a lot of effects need to come in the form of augments. I havent sorted the details on those yet.

Comments and ideas are most welcome.

Currently running ice, but fire used a similar setup:
Magewrights goggles and cloak
I used Slavelords staff as a weapon as I ran tiefling and wanted to pump other spell powers but Hunt raid sickles are probably best for pure fire
ring set from MA/LoB
Sands Trinket/belt
Charisma necklace artifact
Slavelords crafted wrists for quality Cha and to fill a few other stat gaps
2 piece winter (helm and boots)
2 piece Autumn (Armor, gloves)
This setup was by no means perfect, but my build wasn't pure. It was very effective. I swapped to Ice because the damage is far superior, crits 95% of the time, and synergizes really well with Magus ED
EDIT:
this is from memory so might not be completely accurate
I made a litany augment to free up a slot and the Autumn robe + gloves combo is superior to clouded dreams

[mikarddo]

Currently running ice, but fire used a similar setup:
Magewrights goggles and cloak
I used Slavelords staff as a weapon as I ran tiefling and wanted to pump other spell powers but Hunt raid sickles are probably best for pure fire
ring set from MA/LoB
Sands Trinket/belt
Charisma necklace artifact
Slavelords crafted wrists for quality Cha and to fill a few other stat gaps
2 piece winter (helm and boots)
2 piece Autumn (Armor, gloves)
This setup was by no means perfect, but my build wasn't pure. It was very effective. I swapped to Ice because the damage is far superior and crits 95% of the time

Thank you for the reply. A couple of questions.

Where are you getting +spell crit damage? I see neither a LGS/Dino 35% nor an item with 15% legendary spell crit damage.

How do you get 95% spell crit chance?

Where are you getting +2 Profane DC?

No LGS Ash debuff?

[Brandall]

Thank you for the reply. A couple of questions.

Where are you getting +spell crit damage? I see neither a LGS/Dino 35% nor an item with 15% legendary spell crit damage.

How do you get 95% spell crit chance?

Where are you getting +2 Profane DC?

No LGS Ash debuff?

Profane bonus from Autumn gloves (deadringers)
My 95% crit chance is on ice, I've got 77% base crit + 18% universal crit
I had a source of +spell crit damage but i can't recall where it was at the moment and I didn't use an Ash debuff item (it was before Isle came out) so I was lacking in that area.
I was running a fire/ice build so there were definitely some gaps in my gear but i spent a decent amount of time farming and reworking gear to optimize for the build

EDIT: looking into swapping out slavelords bracers with Dino ones if i can find an alternate source of quality Cha

[mr420247]

Do you have the mcls gear in there far as i know thats only on the red dragon hat or alchemical off hand

[mikarddo]

Profane bonus from Autumn gloves (deadringers)
My 95% crit chance is on ice, I've got 77% base crit + 18% universal crit
I had a source of +spell crit damage but i can't recall where it was at the moment and I didn't use an Ash debuff item (it was before Isle came out) so I was lacking in that area.
I was running a fire/ice build so there were definitely some gaps in my gear but i spent a decent amount of time farming and reworking gear to optimize for the build

EDIT: looking into swapping out slavelords bracers with Dino ones if i can find an alternate source of quality Cha

Could you make a breakdown of the 95% crit chance? I cannot seem to get that high.

[mikarddo]

Do you have the mcls gear in there far as i know thats only on the red dragon hat or alchemical off hand

I will admit not being certain what does or does not add mcl. I do have the arcane augmentation on the gloves.

Are you saying the red dragon helm and the alchemical shield adds both CL and MCL while the gloves and other items only add CL? By the description I assumed they all only added CL.

[mr420247]

The alchemical tier 3 should get you 3 more mcls Improved fire augmentation 9 i think its called

[Brandall]

Could you make a breakdown of the 95% crit chance? I cannot seem to get that high.

6% from some base source (naked at 27%)
9% from energy criticals EPLs
12 from enhancements
27% from Reflection of Wave
16% from Autumn armor and set bonus
6% from ring set

19% universal

[mikarddo]

The alchemical tier 3 should get you 3 more mcls Improved fire augmentation 9 i think its called

The description is: This item increases your caster level when casting ninth level or lower spells that produce fire effects by three.

From that its is unclear to me if it is only +cl or also +mcl. Do you know for a fact that it also adds +mcl?

It is pretty much the same text on the Gauntlets I am using except those are not restricted to fire spells but only add two levels. Still not certain if that is +cl or +mcl or both either.

[mikarddo]

6% from some base source (naked at 27%)
9% from energy criticals EPLs
12 from enhancements
27% from Reflection of Wave
16% from Autumn armor and set bonus
6% from ring set

19% universal

I am ä bit confused here.

Reflection seems to be 21% based on the wiki.
Autumn armor + set is 11%.
Are the numbers you have listed old numbers before all stats were reduced?

Not sure what you mean by 19% universal.

95% sounded right months ago before the stat reductions. Now your numbers confuse med.