Spark sorc destroyed

I just tested my 94 spark sorc with good gear, standard build not the huge mana build. She is out of mana after 2 sec and cant recover. The damage is like 10-20% from what it was ... not even funny.

I hate the vision and the guy behind. He should immedietly step out and apology to all and never be seen again.

How can you ruin sorc so badly?

Jonathan pls go away from this game.

Yeah, it's a total disaster. They had Archmage costing 6% of BASE mana on every cast already, which is already absurd (should be like 1.5%). Then they combine that with the new double mana cost from Eldritch Battery (seriously, wtf?), even though Mind over Matter is already cutting mana regen in half. Then they reduce the effectiveness of Arcane Surge which cuts our mana regen down even further.

The end result is that Archmage is completely useless now (unless you're using one of the 4 slow cast or channeling skills, which all generally suck). The only way to sustain the mana with Archmage enabled is to give up endgame level defense by disabling Mind over Matter (Energy Shield is hot garbage in endgame), and even then you can barely keep up with the mana cost.

With the massive damage reduction to Archmage it doesn't even make that big of a difference anymore anyways, they've made the skill largely ineffective from a damage perspective. There's too much of a trade-off for a little bit more damage. It's not at all worth the now ludicrous mana cost. They might as well just remove archmage from the game at this point.

The devs seriously need to learn how to tune things, because nerfing a previously viable build into the ground to the point where it's no longer effective at all is a stupid approach. I'm not sure how this promotes build diversity when you just eliminate previously functional builds. I agree that the build was a bit too strong, but now it's just flat out not viable. It was such a good build too, all of the skills flowed together really well.

If things had been tuned in any kind of sane way this build could still be endgame viable, even after reducing the power, and then you could focus on BUFFING the other underutilized currently garbage skills.

This "vision" of making this game into some kind of top-down Elden Ring clone makes zero sense, it's not what the players want.

Fix the Sorc class! There hasn't been a single patch with any meaningful changes to Sorc so far. Meanwhile other classes are getting substantial buffs left and right. Does anyone at GGG even play Sorc in endgame? Because it seems like the answer is probably no.

Jonathan was mentioning that they can take over any character and play it. So take over my character named Arkonis and try running higher end endgame content with it. You'll immediately see the tuning problems. It can just barely handle regular T15 maps now, as soon as I start juicing them I get absolutely destroyed, because the damage isn't tuned properly on the skills. It's not a build problem, this character previously handled everything fine. And note that I switched out Archmage for Cast on Shock and Arctic Armor on it because those are the only skills which currently make sense to use in it's place.

"It's Early Access.™"

So make something else.

Why are you even playing a level 90+ anyway?

Why would you find it fun to make the same old thing?

I think people like yourself would have more fun playing vampire survivors.

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Frankenhooker#0737 wrote:

So make something else.

Why are you even playing a level 90+ anyway?

Why would you find it fun to make the same old thing?

I think people like yourself would have more fun playing vampire survivors.

You should go somewhere else to tell nonsense dude...

Everyone plays the game the way they like, that's how it should be.
Devs are not the ones deciding how you play, they should give you something which you wanna play with. But when devs just force you to play 2 classes (either LS or lich), that's not a game it's slavery, it's paying testers for you to make your VISION (not player's vision in any way).

WE THE CUSTOMERS HAVE PAYED FOR A GAME!
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO JUST REMOVE IT FROM OUR HANDS?
AND EXPECT NOTHING TO HAPPEN??

I've left comments many times hoping to solve the world with only lightning spears, but they seem to think I'm asking them to remove lightning spears. I don't understand why they don't have the option of strengthening other BDs in their minds. There are also many people who say that kind of nonsense, this is EA, and it is because of EA that we need to say what we don't like. Otherwise, when the official version comes out, the whole caster system will be garbage?