Hybrid Sorcerer/Sage Utility is OP in PvP

HAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA

This guy really thinks sorc/sages have burst. you should see what a assasin/shadow can do to my health pool in 3 seconds, even with my "4k+" (lol) force armor up.

You arguement is a joke because the only way the cookie cutter hybrid class differs from the balance tree is that you replace one dot with TK wave, and TK wave is by no means a gamechanging abillity.

You... don't think sorcerers can burst?

A 23/18 build has all of the cc listed here but in 3 gcds can pull off burst that's not really any worse than any other class in the game.

With relic/adrenals up and lightning barrage procced, assuming everything crits, you can get 5000 (~1250 per tick) in 1.5 sec with force lightning, into a 5k chain lightning (With forked lightning), and a 3.5k Death field. Add to that crushing darkness / affliction ticks and you're looking at ~ 14-15k dmg in 3 gcds, 4.5 seconds. It's even less than that if you opt to pick up polarity shift.


It's not the best burst in the game by any means, but to say the class can't do any burst is absurd (Not to mention, 8500 of that is AoE)

I'm a sorc and I can tell you that sorcs are hardly overpowered. Assassins/Shadows are great at pissing me off in pvp. They burst damage my health forcing me to cast resurgence whenever possible and troopers with good armour tend to do a metric ton of damage before I down them. I think that Smugglers are the only class that I think are disadvantaged.

I find that Smugglers/Agents seem to be difficult for some people to play and I've killed a fair amount of Smugglers in PvP who don't seem to understand their own rotation. But even then, that's more like Warlocks from WoW - a good class but requiring SKILL and TACTICS. People who say that a class needs a nerf seem to not have very good skills.

#1. MMOs are NOT PVP games, PVP is second to PVE. This means PVP balancing is not at the top of their priority list.

Pulling numbers out of thin air!

Please show screenies of things you say with numbers on equally geared enemy.

5k chain lighning. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

Oh man, you crack me up. People already claculated (people who actually know what they are doing) and in 2 consecutive GCDs (required gazzilion prerequisites so NOT on demand) you are looking at 8-9k burst.

thats 50%- of what some other classes can do ON DEMAND.



Only terribads QQ about sorcs, they dont understand their class, even less other classes, they faceroll and then come to QQ "i cnnot has faceroll teh sorc NERF!"

You... don't think sorcerers can burst?

A 23/18 build has all of the cc listed here but in 3 gcds can pull off burst that's not really any worse than any other class in the game.

With relic/adrenals up and lightning barrage procced, assuming everything crits, you can get 5000 (~1250 per tick) in 1.5 sec with force lightning, into a 5k chain lightning (With forked lightning), and a 3.5k Death field. Add to that crushing darkness / affliction ticks and you're looking at ~ 14-15k dmg in 3 gcds, 4.5 seconds. It's even less than that if you opt to pick up polarity shift.