Light sorc 117 breakpoint

So I'm making a pvp es light sorc that uses an insight staff. If it works well I might throw up a build guide. But my question right now is, how important to a pvp light sorc is the 117 fcr breakpoint? Because I'd have to make some pretty significant gear changes to hit it, and I'd lose both survivability and damage. So yeah. Do I really need it?

Edit: Having played the character for a bit in pvm and seeing the amount of damage my life takes, I was thinking of throwing a bunch (but still gm) of life replenish on her. I know I could get 14 life replenish by putting dols in my shako and vmagi, is there a better source?|||Weird build. I've seen people use infinity before on this kind of setup but i guess that insight does have FCR and up to +3 skills.

If you went fire it would be much simpler, then you'd only need 105. Also fireball has more talent points left over after maxing synergies. What's the rest of your gear look like, anyway?

In any case, i wouldn't go under 117 fcr for dueling on a light sorc. Cold sorcs can get away with lowish FCR though but lightning sorcs really can't. You shouldn't have a problem hitting 117 with 35 fcr on the insight though so i don't get the problem, what's your gear look like?

P.S. i now have this bizarre urge to make a pure firewall sorc with max warmth and 95% es and an insight pole and 6k mana. GL with your build :P|||Fire damage is super low with this build, only like 6k. I chose lite because then the gcs give +skills to my es and my attack, meaning I only have to put 10 points into es to hit 90%.

My gear looks like this:

Insight in a +3 lightning staff

Vmagi

Shako

3/10 lite skills/fcr ammy

fcr ring

soj

Arach

Frosties

Treks or maybe silkweaves

Skill setup is max lightning, max mastery, max chain lite, max tk, 10 points in es, rest in charged bolt. I could sub in magefists for frosties but I'd lose an awful lot of mana. With my current setup (assuming torch, anni, cta and 9x grand charms) I do 20.5k lightning damage.|||Dump the shako for griffon's, dump the FCR ring for another SOJ, you end up with the same +skills as before and 120 fcr.

as for boots, don't use treks or silkweaves. Silkweaves are just bad period and treks are way too heavy for this build. You don't want to go higher than 60 str. as your heaviest item is your frostburns.

what you really want for boots is some good rares or crafts with +mana.

The caster boots formula is Perf Amethyst + thul + magic Demonhide/Wyrmhide/boots + any jewel = boots that always have +1-5% mana, +10-20 mana and +5-10% mana regen plus some other random mods. If you get lucky and get the +40 mana mod, they can have up to +60 mana. nice craft recipe for ES sorcs and low str req. Craft a few tries and pick out the best ones.

And i guess you're probably right to stick with lightning, now that i think about it if you're going for 90% es that would be a pain in the *** on a fire spec.|||I forgot all about caster boots! And I really can't ditch the shako for a griffs, I lose huge amounts of mana. It's just too big a hit. I mean, I'll compare shako and magefists vs griffs and frosties and see which leaves me with more mana, but I think I need that shako. I mean, that's easily 130+ base mana, 170 if I put a psapphire in it.|||Just as a side note, in case it affects your decision, mana you get from +Energy and +Mana/Level (such as that of Harlequin Crest) doesn't count as "base mana", meaning it won't get boosted from things such as Battle Orders, The Stone of Jordan, and so on. In other words, the 130+ is still a nice chunk, but not nearly as much as it could be.

(Battle Orders, etc. work just fine on things with plain old +Mana, of course, such as Perfect Sapphires and such.)|||Quote:








Just as a side note, in case it affects your decision, mana you get from +Energy and +Mana/Level (such as that of Harlequin Crest) doesn't count as "base mana", meaning it won't get boosted from things such as Battle Orders, The Stone of Jordan, and so on. In other words, the 130+ is still a nice chunk, but not nearly as much as it could be.

(Battle Orders, etc. work just fine on things with plain old +Mana, of course, such as Perfect Sapphires and such.)




Actually, I thought that too, but when I take off my shako I lose 530 or so mana. So I guess it does count as base mana.|||It doesn't. Period. There is some other factor which you aren't taking into account. Could you please elaborate on what exactly you did?|||Oooooooo. Just realized. Heh. So my strength is statted to the precise amount I need to use frosties (60 strength) and taking off shako leaves me with, you guessed it, 58, taking away that 40% mana boost.