Any spammable spell, that is fireball, ice bolt, glacial spike, charged bolt, etc, is mana fucked. Not sure what you were expecting when you gave said spells 50+ mana costs and sorcs can very easily cast 3x a second. Virtually every spec built around spammy spells has no mana base to function. So anyone looking to play sorc, play a spec that has an icd, like orb or blizzard or meteor.
If we remove the fact that double elemental specs will be inadequate, firewalls build makes no sense. Firewall is a boss killer, tk is a boss killer. If you wanted dual element specs, at least appropriate the skills so that you have a chance to clear trash on opposite elements.
Es is all sorts of fucked up for two reasons. First is clearly mana is a huge issue. Even at 26% and a virtually full energy build I can't maintain a pool for any amount of time casting a spammy spell. The second, and even more egregious fuckup in design is the useless synergies. You want a solid % for an es build, throwing points into entirely useless armors is a slap in the face.
Buffs. Holy fuck don't get me started on buffs. Big fuck you for designing buffs to have a 60s duration. Do you realize how many fucking buffs I have? Just on myself, 3 armors, es, thunderstorm. Five casts every minute. But wait, theres more. Enchant and armor on every party member and merc, every minute. What the fuck brevan. Why? This isn't fun. I wouldn't even care if it was aoe but its not. And you know what you shit on? Not the chant bots who are going to have a respectable timer on it, the fucking 1 point wonders who want to give a little boost to their party. And I can only assume duration was shit on to hurt alt enchanters, but all you've done is make me not want to even point it so I don't have to cast it.
Orb icd is fucking long as shit, not sure why. Wouldn't complain if I could cast icebolt in between but I Literally burn my entire pool of mana on a full energy build in the downtime. Good design.
Lastly, I can definitely see abuse of amethyst in shields leading to absurdly fast blizzard casts. This translates into a lot of skills, but blizzard imo is the most abusable.
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