Originally Posted by
Energizeric
I will say with this new damage nerf warriors are pretty much impossible to kill most of the time. I have had opportunities to fight warriors 1-on-1 and as an end game mage with full mythic gear, I run out of mana before killing them. Even with Ribbit as my pet, I can unload Fireball & Lightning, then spam my runic gun attack for 3 seconds until cool down, then repeat, and do this about 10-12 times, and the warrior still does not die.
In the end, it is basically a stalemate until he kills me. I am not able to cause enough damage fast enough to overcome his healing ability. I am able to stay alive until he manages to land a stun, and then he can kill me in 2-3 good hits.
I guess we all thought the damage nerf was a good thing since battles would last longer. But there are issues that it caused as well. In 1-on-1 battles, the only way a mage was able to win was to cause stuns and then take out the opponent before the stun wears off. Now because I can't cause enough damage, I can never kill the opponent before the stun wears off, so they are able to heal themselves. Because of the stun invulnerability, I can't repeat and stun again, so for the next few seconds I am at a disadvantage.
Before the damage nerf, I had a 5k/2k KDR in TDM. Since that change happened I am struggling to keep a 1/1 KDR. In CTF I am lower than 1/1, i.e. have more deaths than kills. Since I was one of the best PvP sorcerers, I've got to imagine that all sorcerers are having these issues. Or maybe I just need a major build change. Maybe Curse is the only way for sorcerers to win now. If that is the case then it's sad, because sorcerers are supposed to be damage dealers.
It seems that the only sorcerers who are doing well have switched to a mostly STR build, with curse, shield, and wind as their main skills. So their strategy is to stay alive and then have their opponent kill themselves by using curse. For that build, your gear becomes pretty unimportant, especially which weapon you have. The problem is that this build is useless for PvE, so I basically have to change builds twice a day depending on what I am doing.
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