Return of Reckoning

Hi im quite new to the game and need some advises from experienced sorc players. in a 1v1 situation, what would be your best openin sequence. is there any class(beside mirrowmatch) that i can beat? and if yes: how? i was mostly solo from 16-23 and had many duels( ok much more masses that roll over me) but not a single one i feel i got a chance to win. WH opens: im stuned, before i can press a button im dead. same as RP: they stun from100m away, im nearly dead and can make maybe 1 spell. tanks? i deal 0 damage, even if i cast all insta dd, dots, doombolt on him his HP Bar rarely moves down. as soon he is on me he kills me in a handfull seconds. AM just dot you down while moving around and heal themself up without any chance to pressure them. DDs simply outdamage me before i can do relevant damage. they best result i can hope for is an escape atm with root/detaunt/snarenuke. works rarely. my stats are bolstered to around 8k life, wou, int are orange, half decent points in tou and ini. my rr abilities are purely defensiv. any advice s to beat at least 1 or 2 classes solo?

Coar wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 11:04 am Hi im quite new to the game and need some advises from experienced sorc players. in a 1v1 situation, what would be your best openin sequence. is there any class(beside mirrowmatch) that i can beat? and if yes: how? i was mostly solo from 16-23 and had many duels( ok much more masses that roll over me) but not a single one i feel i got a chance to win. WH opens: im stuned, before i can press a button im dead. same as RP: they stun from100m away, im nearly dead and can make maybe 1 spell. tanks? i deal 0 damage, even if i cast all insta dd, dots, doombolt on him his HP Bar rarely moves down. as soon he is on me he kills me in a handfull seconds. AM just dot you down while moving around and heal themself up without any chance to pressure them. DDs simply outdamage me before i can do relevant damage. they best result i can hope for is an escape atm with root/detaunt/snarenuke. works rarely. my stats are bolstered to around 8k life, wou, int are orange, half decent points in tou and ini. my rr abilities are purely defensiv. any advice s to beat at least 1 or 2 classes solo?

I have to be honest.

Right now you dont have chance aganist same gear same skill players.

But rdps rebalance otw.

You can kill lower gear and/or lower skill players.

Go BIS and and the lower geared enemy pop encrease relative to you.
Use potions all the potions, 2 heal absorb ap pots use flee keep the distance.

Use detaunt.

But and i didnt think about it too much i think in 1v1 rn the sorc is the weakest in the game.

Usually 1v1 based around who can survive longer. And the sorc is dmging herself when everybody else heal himself.

You can go full burst but you have to pick the fight and the distance very well.

And again dont worry keep going rdps rebalance otw maybe the sorc will be a beast.

Have to spec regen defftard on Sorc if you wanna 1vs1 or solo the lakes.

RoR.builders - Sorcerer

You can try this spec, or similar with Disastrous Cascade in place of Impending Doom
Tried solo on full dps build with max crit, did few kills on slayer/sw/2h tanks
Goal is to kite while having your dots hit like crazy
However, you often end up blowing yourself, tank walking away with 500hp :')

My nooby strat for 1v1 kamikaze :
Never use root > always punt with m1 or a lucky triumphant blasting tactic
Never let a mdps reach you, use flee+ap pot and cheap regen/s pot (6g/stack at ah)
If one does, disarm asap then detaunt before you can punt/walk away (or try to burst)
For rdps, use disarm first then burst
Most important is to always refresh Chillwind to lower resis
Chillwind>Vision of Torment>World of Pain>Impending Doom>Absorb vit >> Repeat
While you kite, you can use spells like hand of ruin/pits of shades to do 1 hit
Sorc is the only who can (with luck) do an instant ranged punt on open thanks to tactic
Use Pit of Shades / infernal wave if the guy is next to a cliff
You can also use Stricken Voices, easier to cast but you will give disarm immunity (and it can fail to crit)
Don't bother with slow (unless few situations like a disarmed slayer/wh)
Use Obs focus if you can and always try to fight on open fields (or cliff maps)
Note that if you detaunt : dot already applied won't break the effect as long you don't cast new ones

Sorc is really hardcore for solo (far from mage/warlock in wow)
You have quite 0 chance against wl/wh/am/rp/snb tanks...
At least don't worry about your solo kill ratio :p
BW seems better duelist, thanks to stun+healdebuff
Magus best solo for now as destro rdps (more dots/cc)

You may rather use aoe spec in Sc/Wb while waiting rdps patch

Get 780 toughness. Khorze was running this toughness build nearly 10 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKxyysnELdE

Dunno how well it would translate to the current state of the class with the nerfed carreer mechanic and the current state of disrupt

Thx for the hints...most of them i can only do when higher then 23. Last Night i had to flee from a WL cos i know he will oneshot me.....i flee to our castle, he still is behind me in distance....i walk up the wall, use this weapon on the wall (some aoe rain óf arrows) and hit hit him and his cat 3 times(what a miracle) for each hit above 1000....he got into the side door, i saw him running to the stairs , i dot him full, one gloomblast....then he just pull me down to him and oneshot me....he was still nearly full life.... how is this 10s Moral where u cant be interrupted? is this a good thing?(like MOC in DAOC) can he still pull me ? dont think this punkt M1 helps me get enough distance then

Solo on sorc/BW (bw is a bit easier, better kit) is a state of art. Just level up and join some pug warbands, even zerg surfing unless you kinda gear up and reach rr60 gonna be pretty painful.

You will need optimized gear (semi offensive semi defensive) and wounds proc to somehow survive and definitely dont try to solo before cr40 rr60, thats too painful for newcomer.

A piece of advice from best solo roamer (it valid for sorc too) can be found here viewtopic.php?p=546006#p546006

And a perfect showcase from same person is available too (but from BW PoV, however gameplay is the same for sorc too)


Click here to watch on YouTube


Also follow what Demonito described, starter build shared is a correct one