Sorcerer is broken?

FEC69AEWMP

I recently started playing Tera, and I was eager to try out Sorcerer. However, for some reason, it's damage was absolutely horrible (I was dealing more damage with a Preist than it; the spammable attack with Preist was doing over two times the damage than what Sorcerer's spam attack was doing). Is there an explanation for this, or is Sorcerer just broken at the moment?

Shikine

It is not broken. Sorcerer is part of the old classes therefore gains more powerful skills as you lvl up. But! warning, sorcerer is a mid-tier hard to master class.
Read this comprehensive guide on How to Sorcerer at lvl 65, watch some youtube videos and decide for yourself.

In a few month a complete class overhaul will be done for sorcerers, so they will be more powerful. But TERA, since it is an action combat, is more about skills (sorceres have some bad skills) and timing therefore you have to constantly get better using and knowing your skills and mechanics.

And other thing might be that you don't use Avatar weapons, or use one thats way below your level. For dps gloves and weapon are the most important parts of their gear.

Nopi

If by spam attack you mean the normal shot that uses no mana, Never use that. That's the best way to lose big dps output in any fight. A priest's normal attack is stronger because priests don't get too many attacks to begin with, but as you level up, even that skill becomes weak enough. As a level up sorc with a maintained avatar weapon (as in, collect the next one and get it to +9 as soon as you can build it), you should be doing quite a bit of damage if not one shooting mooks with fireblast. Also when you get it, hailstorm is very good against both mooks and bosses.

aeee98

FEC69AEWMP wrote: »

I recently started playing Tera, and I was eager to try out Sorcerer. However, for some reason, it's damage was absolutely horrible (I was dealing more damage with a Preist than it; the spammable attack with Preist was doing over two times the damage than what Sorcerer's spam attack was doing). Is there an explanation for this, or is Sorcerer just broken at the moment?

Three words.

Stop.
Using.
Fireball.

Palochi

Three words.

Stop.
Using.
Fireball.

This ^ lol
There should be a part in the tutorial that says on Notice "AUTO ATTACKS ARENT GOOD! !"

Ferrishyn

Delete fireball from the shortcut tray and use more rotations, learn new rotations as you level up. the lvl65 skill rotation will be huge with good results. Read Yosha's stuff for more info about sorc. https://sites.google.com/site/yoshasstuff/
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vkobe

FEC69AEWMP wrote: »

I recently started playing Tera, and I was eager to try out Sorcerer. However, for some reason, it's damage was absolutely horrible (I was dealing more damage with a Preist than it; the spammable attack with Preist was doing over two times the damage than what Sorcerer's spam attack was doing). Is there an explanation for this, or is Sorcerer just broken at the moment?

yes soon they will force us to become cute elin

aeee98

Okay I will give a more detailed reason because this is in new player segment.

Sorcerer was built to do devastating damage through hard hitting skills. A good player will use a similar set of skills in a specific order to maximise dps. While this is the same for all classes Sorcerer has one of the strictest combos. We call this a rotation.

While you level, you will realise that after a while you can easily do all your skills without using your spam attack (ie. Fireball). This is that moment where you can safely say that fireball is useless (aside from a certain mech in Vault of Kaprima which is returning, and for very specific things that requires you to do your basic attack. The only reason why you would use an auto attack is if you need to animation cancel something and AA allows you to cancel it effectively. (Eg: gunner). Sorcerer has no such skills, and such does not ever need to use the fireball (which is actually a very horrible skill for an autoattack to begin with.

Remember that the majority of the skills you will get till level 61 (That is where you unlock your last offensive skill) have a cooldown on them. You have the fastest casting AoE nuke in the entire game: Fireblast with a honestly low cd. Like most people say, read the sorc guides. It is not an easy class to be even decent at compared to its range counterpart Archer just because of its good reliance of quite a long rotation and understanding the cooldowns at the back of your head.

Shikine wrote: »

(sorceres have some bad skills)

For PvE yes, some skills are bad, for PvP only Fireball is useless.