Sorcerer PvE

A Sorcerer stands 20 metres back and wins the fight with one spell. Hellfire charges in three steps and lands on up to four enemies around your target; held to the last step it hits at least three times as hard as a tap. Everything else on your bar exists to make Hellfire come back sooner, land on a target that takes more damage, or keep your mana high enough that your passives stay switched on.

This is the set most strong Sorcerers on the global servers wear right now: an Aulamus Spellbook pushed to +15, a Vakron Guard and the Vakron robes at +10, Aulamus jewellery and green cards. Nothing here is exotic, and every piece carries on to the next step.

The macro runs the right-click stack and Flame Arrow at 10 ms. Hold left click, hold the macro key, and keep a finger on Q. The stigmas stay out of it on purpose: you want them on the boss when the boss is standing still, not whenever they happen to be ready.

Hellfire's own cooldown is 45 seconds; you will rarely wait that long. Each of Firestorm's five fireballs that connects takes 2 seconds off it, so one clean cast is worth up to 10 seconds. Blaze takes 3 seconds off Wish of Concentration every time it lands, and Wish, once it comes round, cuts 10 seconds from everything, Hellfire included. Hellfire's own pick at 16 shaves another 15 seconds. That loop is the whole class, and it is why Blaze, Wish and Firestorm all sit at 16 or higher here.

Flame Arrow matters more than it looks. At 16 its third hit, Pyroclasm, resets Blaze, so holding left click is what keeps Blaze, and through it Wish, turning. Blaze only hits a target carrying Fire Mark, which any fire hit puts on, so after your first Flame Arrow it is always ready to go.

Two of your passives quietly switch off when you run dry. Robe of Earth only gives its Critical Hit above half MP, and Grace of Enhancement only gives its +20% PvE damage above a quarter. That is why every robe carries an MP manastone and why Flame Arrow is never off your hands.

Three Vigor cards and two Magic ones give the small Primal Vigor bonus, +60 PvE Attack above 70% HP. The Mirror stays Magic for now because your Double Chance is still low; once it climbs, the Mirror of Vigor and the full 4-piece bonus win, which is what the next version does.

That is 120 stigma points: Element Enhancement takes 75 of them, the other three 15 each. Element Enhancement goes first because it is the only one that touches every spell you cast.