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    I believe this is the best PvE skillset all you Sorcerers should have. But everyone is entitled to their opinion of course.

    Skills:

    5/5 Fireball (The last upgrade is more useful than it seems, good for ranged enemies and Tindrin Levels etc.)

    3/5 Lightning Strike (No Electrical Discharge, and Shock)

    3/5 Frost Bolt ( No Ice Wielder, and Artic Shatter)

    The reason fot not using Ice Wielder: Their is a bug in the skill that already allows the charged Frost Bolt to freeze and damage enemies around target by default. Meaning this upgrade is currently useless and a waste of a Skill Point.

    5/5 Time Shift

    4/5 Arcane Shield (No Displacement Wave)

    Passives:

    5/5 Critical Shot

    5/5 Agility (DEX)

    5/5 Knowledge (INT)

    5/5 Might (STR)

    Why not Damage Passive? Because if you're using a Pet that provides atleast a 5% Damage Bonus, it will cancel out the Passive.

    Skills for Mobs:

    Fireball
    Frost Bolt
    Time Shift
    Arcane Shield

    -Always charge all Skills-

    Skills for Bosses:

    Fireball
    Frost Bolt
    Lightning Strike
    Arcane Shield

    -Only charge Arcane Shield-

    Switch out Time Shift for Lightning Strike when fighting Bosses, Vice Versa.


    Lifegiver Skill:

    Pretty much a worthless Skill. Good for leveling up, but worthless for Elite Maps. Also causes Aggro, you can use Potions like everyone else.

    Gale Force Skill:

    Good for Tombs, but i highly not recommend it for Elite Maps. You want the mobs in one place, not scattered.

    Curse Skill:

    Usually used for PvP purposes, having this skill in your PvE build isn't recommended either.

    I hope you all found this useful, please no negative comments
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    Good,but 5/5 time shift,wut? 4/5 is better without that exploding
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    Quote Originally Posted by radagan View Post
    Good,but 5/5 time shift,wut? 4/5 is better without that exploding
    The explode is useful, as a Sorcerer's job is to crowd control and deal as much damage as possible to Mobs.

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    Besides, there isn't really anything better to put that 1 Skill Point. But that Explode upgrade is very useful for Elite Maps.

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    maybe durability passive.....
    other than that looks great ill try it when respec kits are launched

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caabatric View Post
    maybe durability passive.....
    other than that looks great ill try it when respec kits are launched
    You can choose to do Durable Passive if you wish, and i believe they are called Respec Scrolls

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    Forgot to thank you guys above me, thanks haha.
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    It's a bad build ,IMO
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    Quote Originally Posted by Digitalclock View Post
    It's a bad build ,IMO
    Have you ever played a Sorcerer? If so, what else do you suggest?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ColdBlahd View Post
    Have you ever played a Sorcerer? If so, what else do you suggest?
    Check it out. There is a better build. But, anyway thanks for the build

    [Guide] Easiest and Efficient way to Farm in Elite Tindrin!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Digitalclock View Post
    Check it out. There is a better build. But, anyway thanks for the build

    [Guide] Easiest and Efficient way to Farm in Elite Tindrin!!!
    It's pretty much very similiar.

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    Except for the fact that he has Scorch on Fireball, No Explode on Time Shift, and the AOE on Lightning Strike, which really is a waste seeing how you usually use it for Boss. This also means 1 less point in a Passive, not very good IMO.

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    But your opinion i guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ColdBlahd View Post
    But your opinion i guess.
    Yes.
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    Just try ur build without arcane or mythic weapon that the best way to test wich build is betters..

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    Just opinions really, and seeing how i tried both builds. I do like mine alot better.

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    I think it's a good build, with most mages using a very similar build with minor differences as described above. A couple other points I have noticed:

    The aoe upgrade of frost is not very useful. If you charge frost without this upgrade one of two things will happen:
    1) When at a distance from a mob the main target will be frozen and mobs next to the target will be slowed. The main target takes impact damage and dot. The slowed mobs also take dot but not the impact damage.
    2) If right next to a mob, the whole mob will be frozen. Again the main target will take impact damage and dot. The other frozen mobs will again also take dot.
    So what does the aoe upgrade do? When it activates 20% of the all affected mobs take impact damage but importantly less so than the main target. Furthermore, the size of the aoe is relatively small. I am not really sure this upgrade is really that useful as the proc is low at 20% and the added damage is low. The best parts of frost in my opinion (high single target damage and aoe crowd control) are the same whether or not you get this still upgrade.


    Electrical Dischage... you may ask if I don't like the aoe upgrade of frost why would I like this seemingly useless upgrade. I too thought this upgrade was worthless until I tried it. It probably is pretty useless for elite runs, but it works great for tomb runs. For tomb runs switch to a fire, frost, light and time build and turn into a real mob killer. Against enemies with low health, lightening almost always kills them so the proc of this upgrade happens pretty often. Just make sure you charge it when fighting mobs to make sure it procs more often (I think 40% instead of 25%). When it does proc, it had a very large aoe and does massive damage pretty much killing a whole mob instantly. You won't believe it until you try it, because I know I didn't. I recommend you try it with the current free respec weekend!
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    Quote Originally Posted by drgrimmy View Post
    I think it's a good build, with most mages using a very similar build with minor differences as described above. A couple other points I have noticed:

    The aoe upgrade of frost is not very useful. If you charge frost without this upgrade one of two things will happen:
    1) When at a distance from a mob the main target will be frozen and mobs next to the target will be slowed. The main target takes impact damage and dot. The slowed mobs also take dot but not the impact damage.
    2) If right next to a mob, the whole mob will be frozen. Again the main target will take impact damage and dot. The other frozen mobs will again also take dot.
    So what does the aoe upgrade do? When it activates 20% of the all affected mobs take impact damage but importantly less so than the main target. Furthermore, the size of the aoe is relatively small. I am not really sure this upgrade is really that useful as the proc is low at 20% and the added damage is low. The best parts of frost in my opinion (high single target damage and aoe crowd control) are the same whether or not you get this still upgrade.


    Electrical Dischage... you may ask if I don't like the aoe upgrade of frost why would I like this seemingly useless upgrade. I too thought this upgrade was worthless until I tried it. It probably is pretty useless for elite runs, but it works great for tomb runs. For tomb runs switch to a fire, frost, light and time build and turn into a real mob killer. Against enemies with low health, lightening almost always kills them so the proc of this upgrade happens pretty often. Just make sure you charge it when fighting mobs to make sure it procs more often (I think 40% instead of 25%). When it does proc, it had a very large aoe and does massive damage pretty much killing a whole mob instantly. You won't believe it until you try it, because I know I didn't. I recommend you try it with the current free respec weekend!
    Thanks for the info on Frost Bolt, as for Lightning Strike: i know the AOE is good, i don't run tombs so that upgrade is pretty much useless to me seeing how i use it for Bosses, haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shinytoy View Post
    I think this is a great guide. I sure wish I saw a thread like this when I first started playing. It covers all the basics that a beginner mage needs to get started. Once a beginner is able to argue for something else (as you guys have done above) then he's no longer a beginner.
    Thanks!

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    Also made an Edit.

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