raistomen wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 3:36 pm
1. Deleting some classes, healers tend to be a lot harder because of wisdom...and that leaves me with not many targets other than non tank DPS. SHould i focus DPS first then since I am doing magic damage?
2. If white lion gets on me , I am dead. Considering they have leap, I am dead. Leap AND knockdown, oh you better believe I am dead. Root only lasts so long, disarm, best I can do is the detaunt. how can I not evaporate in front of the 500 white lions in every sc.
It depends somewhat on the play style as to what you do, i am not a scenario player, but for ORVR i find there's several useful things to do as a Sorc depending on the situation...Most fights are either 1 side pushing and overwhelming /chasing down, or it's a stand off until 1 side gets broken by numbers or flanking. If it's a stand off your role is to build dark magic off anyone close enough to get hit so you are ready to drop the Delete rotation when people get pulled or over extend, keep Word of Pain up for the willpower debuff and don't be afraid to abuse Pit of Shades/Infernal Wave as a push method if the WB starts to gain the upper hand. A well timed push from a sorc or 2 can easily turn the tide because we can put out so much AoE pressure.
Once i realised the most effective way to play sorc is to push with the MDPS/tanks and pressure both the front AND back lines, which forces the enemy healers to switch targets and use timered stuff rather than just keep a couple of tanks on target which they can usually do all day, my game got a lot more interesting and fun. I like to mix in Shattered shadows with Pit of Shades so that the damage is a lil more spiked, plus SS has the great feature of only being range checked on cast, not on completion, so if someone pulls back from front lines and you have started casting, 3s later when it ends they probably ran back to their healers and BAM, you drop 12-20k damage on a whole cluster of enemies, possible making healers refocus and perhaps forget for a few seconds about the tanks they were healing, who can then be quickly pressured with PoS and Infernal Wave.
Truth is you can play ANY DPS class and it'll melt just as fast when ganked, so just like every other DPS you kinda need Guard and potions, so realistically it's minimal difference if the enemies focus you Vs a Choppa/mara/Squig etc, your ideal position is about 25 range behind the tanks, so you just out of AoE range from taking damage from what's dropped on the tanks, but close enough so your own spells can easily hit all their tanks/MDPS and a lot of their back line also.
If you are defending/attacking at a keep then Pit of Shades is your bread and butter, you can cast it on top of ramparts, on some oil levels depending on the height of the gatehouse, this helps to keep the walls free of enemy ranged. If the oil is up and you can position to use Shattered Shadows then i would say that is the better option because whilst shades does more over-all damage, SS does more per hit, so you can potentially spike down some enemies, plus it will bring your dark magic up to max faster than Pit of Shades does.
Because i do so much ORVR i went heavily into AoE for my build, but i did grab Impending Doom from Agony tree, that thing has been an amazing kill stealer spell, i find with that spell i have been able to mostly drop Doombolt from my rotation and use faster casting single target options for dropping targets fast. In fact only time i really use Doombolt now is when the oil is too high or well defended for me to use PoS/SS on it and i need that extra range to stay alive, whilst still being able to drop the oil eventually.
Hope something in this wall of text helps
