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The State of Sorcerers featuring Mekuna and Roxy - Diablo 4 Season 5
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The state of Sorcerers on Diablo 4's Season 5 PTR looks grim. We've interviewed Mekuna and Roxy, two of the best Sorcerer players in the world, to discuss what's wrong with Sorcerers at the moment and how to improve the class in the future.
Mekuna on Twitch Mekuna on Youtube
Roxy on Twitch Roxy on Youtube
To read more about Sorcerer changes on the Season 5 PTR and in Season 5 itself, check out our articles on Datamined Season 5 PTR Changes as well as our Season 5 PTR State of the Classes update!
Patch 1.5.0 Datamined Changes Season 5 PTR State of the Classes
What's wrong with Sorcs in Season 5?
Roxy
The nerfs to and the «immortal» playstyle were expected. However, the change to was more than surprising! Before, we were able to keep its Barrier effect running by dealing damage constantly. On PTR, this form of «life leech» effect has been removed from Ice Armor's base effect, which is a huge hit to Sorc survivability because both uptime and total Barrier value are much lower than before. Obviously, the Teleport cooldown increase only adds insult to injury, making it much harder to get out of sticky situations in case of no active Barrier.
The change to looks promising! Unfortunately, we can't say for sure if it's much better than the old version because Pits are not working properly on the Season 5 PTR.
In terms of item changes, the decision to remove Cooldown Reduction from Focus off-hands as their inherent affix seemed like a creative way to make Sorcs use staves more often, but those will have Damage Over Time as their inherent affix, which doesn't quite hit the mark looking at the current Sorc meta.
Mekuna
As Roxy said, nerfing has been a big hit to the class. It might have been healthier for the game as a whole — but Blizzard should offer something in return!
The nerf seems unnecessary. Our defenses were never great, and now they're even worse.
What's wrong with Sorcs in general?
Roxy
Over the last year, the defensive capabilities of Read more on wowhead.com
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