1. yes it is hard~ specially kremp and mongi on "hard". Point on soul bind is, if the party fails for an attempt, should you be waiting for 50minutes to restart the run? every boss there needs battle res every other time, and a party with 4 resuer(2 pri 2 sor/1 pri 3 soc) with 50min cooldown each will make the raid slow and time consuming. well atleast for 32 minutes @ lvl 2(vigor applied) or a boost up 19 minute(with guardian), party can just clear mobs while waiting for resurrection CD.Thank you.
Is CoA really that hard? I mean if battle res is literally a necessity for downing a boss, then yea I'll have to reconsider both my Priest and Sorcerer skills.
Thing is, I'm going for healing as my main role and burst as second role because I want to be able to have strong healing output, enough to solo heal groups of 5 and later take a spot as a full healer. Or are healer sorcerers not wanted anywhere, anytime, ever?
2. You should not take over Priests Job, Us like what i am always saying is capable of doing 2 jobs thats why we are wanted in every raid, 2 sorcs mostly at a time. Sorcs shouldnt go Full Heal or Full DPS, if youre doing that consider yourselves a nerfed Ranger/Wiz or Nerfed Pri.
MAIN HEAL WITH WHAT? LOL.And nobody wants sorc as healers aside from LoR+DPS in raids.
Everybody loves a sorc who can heal and dps effectively
visit my video above, thats with colo gears.Hmm, okay. I'll re-evaluate my skills then.
It would help if you can provide some numbers, like how much magic attack I can expect to have at 50, people's HP, and damage intake.
1. cause id rather give my soul bind/deluge a boost than having crappy increase on damage by which it can be compensated by your x2 and x4 crits and other DPS classes.Why do you say that? I'm looking at this myself:
http://www.ro2base.c...1.1.1/0.0.0.0.0
The way I see it, every extra skillpoint in cold bolt gives diminishing returns.
lvl 1 to 2 increases your CB damage output by 11.5%
lvl 2 to 3 it's 10.3%
lvl 3 to 4 it's 9.4%
lvl 4 to 5 it's 8.6%
Of course, more is always better (disregarding any other skills you have to lower in order to do it of course), but I don't see why lvl 2 or 3 CB wouldn't be worth it.
As for getting to lvl 25, so far I'm impressed by how easily a magician kills. Most things are almost dead by the time the first FD wears off. I'm only lvl 10 though, having maxed FD and WA and left the rest at 1 so far. I'm not sure if it'll get tedious with only lvl 1 CB later on the way to 25. The only times I'm having trouble is against ranged mini bosses because my HP and SP tend to both run out and kiting doesn't really help. It'll probably be better after I mail some potions from my alchemist to him though.
2. more is better but a well planned skill tree is the best.
3. I leveled mine using lvl 1 CB FB LB a lvl 3 FD and a lvl 1 Water Arms till 25, saves a lot of pot while easily killing spawns with FD+LB
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1. you can achieve max damage by constantly bursting and that your job is to support heal while doing BURSTS.You should not plan a sorc around "burst damage". You should plan a sorc around max damage, as your job is to do DPS in raids- not to crit it 3 times and suddenly do damage.
Because of that, this is literally the only viable build out there if you want to maximize DPS. Any different than this and you are unnecessarially gimping yourself.
http://www.ro2base.c...1.1.1/0.0.0.0.0
Possible alterations is switching L4 Deluge to up to L1 deluge and taking Summon Aqua up to higher levels. However, this is completely up to how geared your raid is. Another, as mentioned above, is the possibility of only taking level 1 Earth Shield because you have another sorc in your raid. With this I would max out Jupital Thunder Mastery and possibly LoV.
An easy fix for if you want to pvp is to take the two points out of Cold Bolt and into Frost Diver. Frost Diver is actually very good for PVE in very niche situations (The entirety of Bapho Hard, All trash monsters, Xeno Spider Repair Drone, Bapho Normal Horong, and so on). This would turn the build into this
http://www.ro2base.c...1.1.1/0.0.0.0.0
However, keep in mind you are sacrificing 8% cold bolt, which should be ~3% of your DPS for PVP. It's a worthy trade off.
DO DPS sorc when you have a fix team, that way everyone knows their "main job".
2. your 2nd build is better cuz it has FD.
3. Summon Aqua is quite good, but considering the cooldown, id rather get my healing/resu capabilities up. MAN our Bursts is enough, let dps classes do their roles
4. sacrifice CB, in pvp all you need is FD JT and VS with a couple of LB for poking.
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what i love about ro2 mechanics is that it is simple and can be easily understood and manipulated, what i hate is that, when you maximized your utilites it becomes generic.