I'm not seeing "big buffs" to survival of sorcerers so much as minor changes to defensive aspects and a few paragon nodes. That's not enough to solve the underlying problem.
This is a clickbait title. Buffing skills that weren't being used can hardly be considered "massive buffs"Sure, the chain lightning had started to see more play, but fireball? Nah... Additionally, through the aspects they are basically just buffing mana regen (which wasn't really a problem at all), and making us unstoppable for longer (nice, but hardly needed). They are buffing the wrong aspects of sorc :/
By "massive buffs" you mean they buffed the massively under performing abilities so now they are just under performing like the rest of the sorcerer skills?
I thought ,for a second , it was ele shaman buff. Hallucinations.
They really need to put more effort into class changes. This is the best they've done so far, but needs more.Overall I am happy to see a big issue with chain lightning has been fixed.
Unimpressive. Start by reverting all the launch nerfs. Ice Blade and Protection: Barriers are still hot garbage.Try buffing all the stuff that has always been terrible. There are quite a few talents and passives that literally nobody at high level will use- ever...Love the pass at Fireball but outside of a critical, Fireball will still hit for less than 1/2 of an ice shards volley or less.Can you make a build around it? Yes. Can it work? Yes, totally. In Season 0, I did and the build had all the defensive skills, frost nova for vulnerability application, required Raiment to apply stun, and it abused the hell out of aspect of control. Fireball hit for 1Million damage when the stars align. Usually it hit for about 400k. IS it fun? Well.. They did add the titles to the game so you can call yourself "Pyro Trash" lol. Roll up on a world boss and use Fireball as your main ability. Watch yourself do meaningless damage.Now in season 1 I guess we can use the gloves and maybe the lucky hits will give back some mana. And maybe the Super Mario Fireballs will hit things. But without Frost Nova Vulnerability, will it do any meaningful damage? I guess if you are sufficiently lucky maybe you can spam it every global from the mana return and watch the pretty light show while the Butcher carves you up.
Blizzard please look at the tier list on Maxroll. Sorc in any setup is only B or C Tier. I love my Ice sorc but its incapable of pushing high level nightmare dungeons. The defensives are just too poor. Its simply not okay to just say that sorc is designed to be a glass cannon. Any class should be able to push high level end game content. ATM Sorcs have to run low level nightmare content or reroll to another class.