Sorcerer PvE build: skills, stigmas, boards, arcana and gear priorities

You stand 20 metres back and the fight runs through one spell. Hellfire charges in three steps and lands on up to four enemies around your target. Almost everything else on your bar is there to bring Hellfire back sooner, to put it on a target that takes more damage, or to keep your MP high enough that your passives stay on. Your armour is thin, so a good Sorcerer is mostly a Sorcerer who is not standing in the red.

A stack fires the lowest skill in it that is ready, so the order inside keys 1 and 2 is the order things come out.

Set every step to 10 ms. The macro key has nothing bound to it out of the box, so give it one you can hold without thinking.

You can learn every active to 10. Each of the four early boards (Nezekan (Sorcerer), Zikel (Sorcerer), Vaizel (Sorcerer), Triniel (Sorcerer)) has one node for every active, so a fully walked set of boards takes a skill to 14. Arcana and ring lines carry it the rest of the way. That matters because specializations unlock by skill level: three options at 8, one at 12, one at 16, and you equip up to three. A skill at 16 has its full menu.

Firestorm and Flame Arrow have an MP pick in the list. Keep them while your mana dips in long fights. Once it stops dipping, swap Firestorm's for +20% Skill Speed and Flame Arrow's for +50% Multi-Hit.

Two of these switch off when you run dry. That is why MP is a damage stat for you, and why Flame Arrow never leaves your hand.

Put levels into Element Enhancement first. At 10 take Accuracy and the Robe of Earth MP pick, at 15 add the Grace of Enhancement pick, and at 20 swap the Robe of Earth one for the extra Fire and Water Attack.

Walk toward the skill nodes for Hellfire, Firestorm, Bittercold Wind, Blaze, Wish of Concentration, Winter's Shackles, Flame Arrow, Robe of Flame, Fire Mark, Robe of Earth and Grace of Enhancement. Fill the path with Attack, Critical Hit, Accuracy and MP.

Run three Vigor cards and two Magic ones.

The skill lines are where your skill levels past 14 come from. Hellfire, Firestorm, Bittercold Wind and Blaze come first on any card that can roll them.

The early target is a Spiritforged Spellbook at +10. The Season 1 ceiling is an Aulamus Spellbook at +15 with a Vakron Guard and Vakron robes at +10. When you enhance, push Double Chance lines first, then Weapon Damage Boost, Damage Boost, Attack, and Accuracy or Critical Hit last.

The ring skill lines are worth more than a raw stat once Hellfire is short of 16.

Weapons and armour take Attack, Critical Hit and Accuracy Bonus, and every robe carries one MP stone. A sanggeup-maseok can roll Weapon Damage Boost, Critical Damage Boost or Damage Boost once in a while. Keep those whenever they land; they beat any flat roll.

Put Theostone: Tassin's Command on the spellbook and Theostone: Aultross's Promise on the guard. Both are single-target procs, and a class that hits this often sets them off all fight. Two identical theostones only count once.

Every genus wants the same base: Max Attack, then Attack Bonus, then HP %, then Critical Hit and Accuracy. Power Shard Damage Bonus only comes in once your Critical Hit and Accuracy are where you want them. The damage line is what changes from genus to genus.

On the tolerance line, take Damage Tolerance or PvE Damage Tolerance over Endurance. Mastering Genus Insight gives you Unbound by Genus.

Wings you own count even when you are not wearing them, so level the ones with the best held effects: pureun-jeongwangui-nalgae, ilkkaeun-geungjiui-nalgae, pureun-padoui-nalgae, tusaui-nalgae, deuramata-dungjiui-nalgae, jamsikdoen-geumbit-nalgae, sup-jeongryeongui-nalgae, heosangui-meari-nalgae, akmongui-nalgae, guwonbateun-tarakui-nalgae, gongheoui-talriseura-nalgae and debaui-choesanggeup-nalgae. Wear debaui-choesanggeup-nalgae while you build up; switch to gongheoui-talriseura-nalgae once you have them.

For the Pantheon, put Colossus: Zikel's Apparition (Bound) or Colossus: Kromede's Desire (Bound) in the colossus slot first, and Colossus: Kaisinel's Illusion (Bound) when Season 2 brings it. Statues go to Freedom, Death and Space; paintings to Illusion, Wisdom and Life.

The stack on key 1 fires Delayed Explosion on its own when it comes up. When you see it about to come back, have Hellfire ready to charge so the two line up. Winter's Shackles comes out of the fire line; on a fresh pull you can press it before Element Enhancement so its 20% boost covers the opener.

When the stagger gauge breaks, hit Flame Scattershot. When Frost is up, press Frost and then Frost Burst straight after: Frost lands for sure on monsters, and Frost Burst only hits a frozen target.