Debunking #1 Arena Sorc?

Mage
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Hello guys, player trueogre keeps #1 arena in beta (spellblade) and also now with a sorc. After #1 he is always changing his skills and items, that nobody can copy his builds (I would do the same ;)) Nevertheless I also enjoy kind of debunking his build as kind of challenge.

Maybe some of you also tried it and have suggestions. i got already a guess which way he is playing.

He can swap his items, skills afterwards, but by the time of reaching highest wave his skill bar cant be changed in online ladder.

These are: Disintegrate, Static, Lightning Blast, FW and Black hole.

You can already sort out a lot by looking in depth at his skill bar.

  1. Question: Whats his main dps skill?

My suggestion is LB in coccenction with overload/unlimited power. Why? It would not make in other way sense to have these 3 skills together at skillbar.

If Disintegrate is his main dps, why whe he should have static then?

If spamming LB is his main dps, why he should use Disintegrate?

Having static in his skillbar lets me asume that he skilled charge conduit which gives 20 static charges while channeling. Again, if Disintegrate is your main skill you dont invest 4 pts into charge conduit but in dmg nodes.

Disintegrate

def layer (dmg reduction), static charge generation, proccing LB and also dmg layer!! (affix for +spell dmg while channeling, where all other procced effects benefit from while he is channeling)

Static

2 possibiliies: either discharging all charges with max dmg or going route to zap/unlimted power/overload.

If discharging with max dmg, why then having LB in skill bar? Just for the 1 second proc via Disintegrate?

zap/overload route would make more sense for me: generating charges while channeling with all benefits and applying LB via static/overload

LB

If he would spam LB, then having Disintegrate would make no sense at all. Just for small dps increase by getting procced every second and a 10% chance for aegis, no I dont think so.

I think his rotation is just channeling Disintegrate including its benefits, getting at same time static charges and casting LB via stativ unlimited power node.

My next thoughts are why he is using especially a sorc for it? I dont thing for the mastery skill but for certain passive nodes he wants.

Thats either the 25% CDR, where only Flameward would benefit from for habing long uptime with it.

Or

Dmg dealt to mana/mana stacker. Only Sorc can get 100% Dmg dealt to mana and he can spam Disintegrate with 0 mana cost and all dmg gets reduced by all this certain nodes and skills and taken dmg gets to mana with a lot of Endurance provided by unique helmet.

Thats all just wild guesses from my side, I have no idea where his dmg comes from or what items he could use. If he goes fully dmg to mana you need the unique helmet where u dont get any dps and also a chest with T7 dmg dealt to mana prefix.

What you think? Anyone of you also tried already to sort out his build?

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They should allow builds to change in arena then.

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i just want to add that he said he didnt use damage dealt to mana or endurance as main def layers. also he was under 500 mana according to his posts.

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Thx for the tipp. Actually I think thats the reason why he chose sorc. With sorc and disintegrate you can have 100% Flame Ward uptime

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How does it give you 100% Flame Ward uptime?

Also the few skills he left on, I wonder if they are clues at all? He has static orb which is speced 4/4 into the Lightning Aegis. That doesn’t seem random. Would also help with survival.

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Hey there. I have no interest in this personally, but as a quick tip, I’d like to say that the skills shown at the online ladder in LETools (i assume that’s what you’re referring to) are most likely the skills the character had specialized, not the skills it had on the skill bar.

Looking at all characters in top 5, only one have a movement skill showing (#5 pylle, and he has teleport specialized). The other one closest to that is the Smoke Bomb on the Falconer. And I assume most people will be using movement skills in the bar while doing end game content, even if unspec’d.

So, there’s a possibility for one of those skills not being used in the bar, but being procced or interacted with somehow, maybe?

Hope that can help.
Good luck on your quest!

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Is it possible it was this https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1e8i2ps/you_can_be_immortal_as_sorc_with_seed_of/

Endurance providing more than 100% DR to mana making you immortal and generating more mana. Was patched Jul 22 so he would’ve had to achieved rank 1 before that.

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no it wasnt it. he didnt use this tech