AION 2 Sorcerer Guide: Build, Stigmas & Rotation — Transcript

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1. 0:00The Sorcerer hits harder than almost any
2. 0:02class in Aion 2, but most players lose
3. 0:04damage on one single button. Today, the
4. 0:07build, stigmas, leveling, and the
5. 0:10rotation. And that one button.
6. 0:14Here's the plan. The class, the road to
7. 0:17level 45, the progression system,
8. 0:19skills, the build, the rotation, and how
9. 0:22it all plays out in dungeons and in PvP.
10. 0:25Timestamps are in the description.
11. 0:28The Sorcerer is a ranged caster built
12. 0:30around one goal, [music]
13. 0:32deal as much damage as possible and
14. 0:34never let anyone catch you.
15. 0:36In the first week tier list after the
16. 0:38global launch, it sits near the top for
17. 0:40damage, right next to the Assassin.
18. 0:42Those lists still disagree with each
19. 0:44other, so don't treat this as law, but
20. 0:46the trend is clear.
21. 0:48The upside, huge single target damage
22. 0:51and solid AoE. The downside, very little
23. 0:55armor. It's a classic glass cannon. If
24. 0:58someone catches you up close, you're in
25. 1:00trouble. That's why everything in this
26. 1:02build is about speed and damage, and
27. 1:05survivability comes from a single
28. 1:06stigma, only when you actually need it.
29. 1:11While leveling, don't worry about your
30. 1:13in-game build. You have one job, level
31. 1:16fast and don't die. [music]
32. 1:18Your frost skills carry you here, ice
33. 1:21chain, frost, [music] and frost burst.
34. 1:24Crowd control, slows, and AoE damage.
35. 1:27They'll fade into the background later,
36. 1:29but until stigmas unlock, they're your
37. 1:31best friends. Two tips that save hours.
38. 1:34[music]
39. 1:35First, don't clear everything you see.
40. 1:37Pull mobs along your quest route and
41. 1:39melt them with frost skills from range.
42. 1:42Second, start leveling the skills you'll
43. 1:44use in your rotation right [music] now.
44. 1:46More on those in a minute. For gear,
45. 1:49grab anything with damage and speed, and
46. 1:51don't think about defense yet. The big
47. 1:54milestone is level 22. That's when
48. 1:56stigmas unlock, but only after your
49. 1:59third ascension, the quest called the
50. 2:01one who hears the voice. Don't skip it.
51. 2:04[music] Stigma slots come next. The
52. 2:06second at level 27, the third at 32,
53. 2:09[music]
54. 2:10and the fourth and final slot at 37. And
55. 2:13from level 23, you start earning stigma
56. 2:16shard points. One per level up to 39 and
57. 2:19two per level from 40 to 45. That's 29
58. 2:23points by level 45.
59. 2:26Sounds decent. Until you see what
60. 2:28stigmas cost.
61. 2:30>> [music]
62. 2:30>> Let's start with skills. The class has
63. 2:3222 regular skills. Every active skill
64. 2:36has five specializations to choose from.
65. 2:39Most unlock at skill level eight, one at
66. 2:4212, and the strongest one at skill level
67. 2:4416. Note, that's the level of the skill
68. 2:48itself, not your character. Your base
69. 2:51skill level caps at 10, and everything
70. 2:54above that comes from bonus levels on
71. 2:56your gear and Arcana.
72. 2:59Remember that number, 16. [music]
73. 3:01It's the key to the whole build.
74. 3:04Now stigmas. They have their own tab. 13
75. 3:07stigmas per class and four slots at
76. 3:10most. Each stigma levels from one to 20
77. 3:14using shard points.
78. 3:16>> [music]
79. 3:16>> Watch this.
80. 3:1975 points for a single stigma, and you
81. 3:23have [music] four slots.
82. 3:26300.
83. 3:27For comparison, you'll have about 29
84. 3:30points by level 45. And past level 20,
85. 3:34stigmas need superior stigma shards. The
86. 3:37good news, stigma specializations unlock
87. 3:41on their own at levels five, 10, 15, and
88. 3:4520. [music]
89. 3:46So, where do shards come from? The Abyss
90. 3:48shop. 50 shards in price tiers for Abyss
91. 3:52points. [music]
92. 3:53The Nightmare shop. 1,500 phantasmal
93. 3:56fragments per shard, capped at 35.
94. 3:59>> [music]
95. 3:59>> The the Festival. 300 tokens per shard,
96. 4:03also capped at 35, plus achievements,
97. 4:07the battle pass, and substance morph.
98. 4:10The takeaway is simple. Don't spread
99. 4:12your points across every stigma. Focus
100. 4:15your core, keep the fourth slot
101. 4:17situational, and I'll show you the exact
102. 4:19order in a minute. Buy out the shops
103. 4:21regularly because the limits reset. And
104. 4:24check your achievements. Some shards are
105. 4:27sitting there for things you're already
106. 4:28doing. One rule that trips up a lot of
107. 4:31players. You can't swap stigmas in
108. 4:33combat, and your preset won't switch
109. 4:36while any stigma is on cool down. Change
110. 4:39your setup before the pull, not during
111. 4:42it. The Daevanion, five boards full of
112. 4:45nodes that boost your active and passive
113. 4:47skills. Skills only. The Daevanion does
114. 4:50nothing for stigmas.
115. 4:52Invest in the same order as your skill
116. 4:55priority, which I'll show you next. And
117. 4:58Arcana, cards you slot in, each with a
118. 5:00grade and stats. Pick them for the same
119. 5:03stats as the rest of your build.
120. 5:06Your skill priority changes once you hit
121. 5:0845. So, there are two lists. While
122. 5:11leveling, it's simple. Hellfire first,
123. 5:14then firestorm, bitter cold wind, blaze,
124. 5:17[music]
125. 5:18wish of concentration, and flame arrow.
126. 5:21Raw damage, nothing fancy. [music]
127. 5:23Hellfire,
128. 5:25your main skill and your main source of
129. 5:26damage. It can be charged up to three
130. 5:29levels. Watch the numbers. Level one,
131. 5:33level two,
132. 5:35and full charge.
133. 5:37Remember the word charge, we'll come
134. 5:39back to it.
135. 5:41Firestorm,
136. 5:41>> [music]
137. 5:42>> every fireball it throws takes two
138. 5:44seconds off Hellfire's cool down. That's
139. 5:46why these two work as a pair. Firestorm
140. 5:49spins Hellfire faster.
141. 5:51Bitter cold wind, blaze, and flame arrow
142. 5:54are your damage between Hellfires.
143. 5:57If there's a gap in your rotation where
144. 5:58you're pressing nothing, you're losing
145. 6:00damage.
146. 6:01Now, level 45. This is where most
147. 6:04sorcerers get it wrong.
148. 6:06>> [music]
149. 6:06>> Your new goal is not more Hellfire
150. 6:08levels. Your goal is to push four skills
151. 6:12to level 16. Wish of concentration,
152. 6:15blaze, firestorm, and flame arrow. Then
153. 6:19everything else.
154. 6:20Here's why.
155. 6:22Wish of concentration gives you 20% more
156. 6:24attack for 17 and 1/2 seconds.
157. 6:27>> [music]
158. 6:27>> But at skill level 16, it unlocks a
159. 6:29specialization that takes 10 seconds off
160. 6:32all your skill cool downs. All of them,
161. 6:35>> [music]
162. 6:35>> including Hellfire. And the other three
163. 6:38feed it. Blaze at 16 takes 3 seconds off
164. 6:41wish's cool down.
165. 6:43Flame arrow at 16 resets blaze's cool
166. 6:45down when it lands. And firestorm
167. 6:48[music] at 16 deals 15% more damage with
168. 6:51every fireball up to 75%.
169. 6:54And winter's shackles, 20% more PvE
170. 6:57damage for 5 seconds after it hits.
171. 7:00One of its specializations also adds a
172. 7:02chain skill, winter's illusion, if you
173. 7:05want extra control.
174. 7:08Stigmas. [music]
175. 7:09Your core three, element enhancement,
176. 7:12firewall, and delayed explosion.
177. 7:14And the order matters because shards are
178. 7:16scarce. Early on, put every shard into
179. 7:20firewall.
180. 7:21Once you can afford a reset, move
181. 7:23everything into element enhancement and
182. 7:25take it to 20.
183. 7:26It boosts all your fire and water
184. 7:28attack.
185. 7:29The in-game setup is both of them at 20
186. 7:32with delayed explosion after that.
187. 7:34The fourth slot is your switch.
188. 7:36>> [music]
189. 7:36>> Cold storm, steel barrier if you keep
190. 7:39getting caught. I'll show you when to
191. 7:41use each one in combat. Passives. Robe
192. 7:44of flame is the big one. Always take it.
193. 7:47Then [music] fire mark and grace of
194. 7:49enhancement.
195. 7:50Short on mana? Robe of earth.
196. 7:52>> [music]
197. 7:53>> Need to survive? Robe of cold.
198. 7:56Stats. Combat speed first, then attack
199. 7:59increase, double chance, weapon damage
200. 8:02boost, and skill increase for Hellfire.
201. 8:04>> [music]
202. 8:05>> After that, multi hit, move speed, and
203. 8:08accuracy with regeneration and damage
204. 8:10tolerance at the very bottom. The logic
205. 8:12is simple. More combat speed means more
206. 8:15casts in the same time, which means more
207. 8:18fully charged hellfires.
208. 8:20Attack and double chance multiply every
209. 8:22single cast. Your survival comes from
210. 8:25distance and from that fourth stigma if
211. 8:27you need it.
212. 8:28So, when you're choosing between a piece
213. 8:30with defense and a piece with speed,
214. 8:32take speed almost every time. Invest in
215. 8:35the Daevanian the same way. While
216. 8:37leveling, hellfire and firestorm first.
217. 8:40After 45, everything that gets wish,
218. 8:43blaze, firestorm, and flame arrow to
219. 8:46level 16.
220. 8:47Arcana cards with bonus skill levels
221. 8:49count, too. So, check every card for
222. 8:52plus wish.
223. 8:54Now, the most important part. How to
224. 8:56actually press all of this.
225. 8:58And at the end, you'll get the whole
226. 8:59build on one screen.
227. 9:02Here's the full damage rotation once
228. 9:04your four skills are around level 16.
229. 9:07Element enhancement, delayed explosion,
230. 9:09hellfire fully charged, blaze into
231. 9:11firestorm, bitter cold wind, then winter
232. 9:14shackles, firewall, cold storm, blaze
233. 9:18into firestorm again, and hellfire is
234. 9:20already back, fully charged. Then wish
235. 9:22of concentration, delayed explosion,
236. 9:25blaze into firestorm, and a third
237. 9:27hellfire. Three fully charged hellfires
238. 9:30in 15 seconds. That's the loop doing its
239. 9:33job. Watch the cool down on the bar.
240. 9:35After firestorm, it drops from 27 to 16.
241. 9:39And the moment wish goes off, every
242. 9:41skill on your bar loses 10 seconds at
243. 9:43once. Let's break it down. Element
244. 9:45enhancement goes first because it boosts
245. 9:47all your fire and water damage for 20
246. 9:49seconds. So, everything after it hits
247. 9:51harder. Delayed explosion goes second.
248. 9:53It detonates after 4 seconds and makes
249. 9:55your next hit stronger, so it's ticking
250. 9:58while you charge hellfire. Then hellfire
251. 10:00fully charged, never earlier. Bitter
252. 10:03cold wind, winter shackles, firewall,
253. 10:06and cold storm are your damage window.
254. 10:08Stack them while element enhancement is
255. 10:10still up. Blaze and Firestorm go
256. 10:12together every time they're ready
257. 10:13because Firestorm is what brings
258. 10:15Hellfire back. And Wish goes right
259. 10:17before your third Hellfire, so it's 10
260. 10:19second cut lands exactly when you need
261. 10:22it. You can put the opener on a macro,
262. 10:24Element Enhancement, Delayed Explosion,
263. 10:26Firewall, Bitter Cold Wind. It saves
264. 10:29your fingers, but learn it by hand first
265. 10:31so you understand what's happening. If
266. 10:33the boss moves or you need to dodge, the
267. 10:35rotation doesn't break. Step out, come
268. 10:37back, and pick up where you left off.
269. 10:39Don't restart with Element Enhancement
270. 10:41if it's still active. And here's that
271. 10:43one button. On the left, the typical
272. 10:45rotation. Hellfire pressed the moment
273. 10:48it's off cool down without waiting for
274. 10:50the charge. Sometimes even before
275. 10:52Delayed Explosion with dead time between
276. 10:54skills. On the right, same time, same
277. 10:57dummy, but Hellfire at full charge and
278. 11:00everything on cool down. Just look at
279. 11:02the numbers. One button pressed one
280. 11:04second later. That's the result.
281. 11:15Try it yourself on a training dummy.
282. 11:16Three clean cycles in a row and it'll
283. 11:18become muscle memory.
284. 11:21On bosses, keep your distance. You're a
285. 11:23glass cannon and the best damage is the
286. 11:26damage you deal while alive. Charge
287. 11:29Hellfire when the boss isn't swinging
288. 11:31your way. If you have to cancel the
289. 11:33charge and move, that's fine. A full
290. 11:35Hellfire a bit later beats dying. And
291. 11:38remember, swap your fourth slot before
292. 11:41you go in or between pulls. You can't do
293. 11:44it mid-fight. You'll rarely have time
294. 11:46for a full cycle in PvP.
295. 11:49Distance matters more to you than one
296. 11:51extra skill.
297. 11:53If melee classes keep catching you, take
298. 11:55Steel Barrier. It helps you survive that
299. 11:58first engage. And yes, sometimes they'll
300. 12:01catch you anyway.
301. 12:03That's fine.
302. 12:05That's the Sorcerer.
303. 12:08And here's where this build takes you.
304. 12:11Same boss, Red Spark Ignis. A sorcerer
305. 12:14still on the way up, 28,000 DPS.
306. 12:18The same build, fully leveled, almost
307. 12:2260,000.
308. 12:24More than double.
309. 12:27Here's the entire build on one screen.
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