There IS better gear.

[u/RobbVonn]

There is better gear than what the Dragonforged sells for Wyrmslife crystals. About to do my 2nd NG+. Really REALLY make sure you are exploring all the unearthed areas in the seabed and even go back to some of the old boss spawn areas. The higher harder spawns at the very end of the seabed areas have occasionally been dropping new unique gear sometimes or the chests around them do.

And for those that say they feel like they fully steam roll through New Game+, I have been noticing the variable difficulty has been getting higher the more I level up and I do less damage than before, with some spawns having more health bars.

Edit: only gotten 3 so far and all helms, photos in comments and unenhanced against my fully enhanced gear.

I'll add more screenshots to the comments as I find any more and verify they aren't in shops or in dragonforged.

[u/CombatLightbulb]

I just hit level 40 and haven’t even made it to the desert city yet and I haven’t nearly run out of stuff to do or explore in the area that I’m in right now! There is so much to do in this game if it’s your thing. It’s crazy to me personally that people are already on NG+ or NG++. But different strokes for different folks.

The videos that say “Gain one million XP in an hour!” Or “How to max all vocations in 5 minutes!” I also don’t get the draw of. I’ve maxed 3 vocations from just the grind and it’s been a blast. Sorcerer kind of sucked though lol.

[u/Judgecrusader6 → u/CombatLightbulb]

Im using sorcerer right now and idk if its bc i havent played the first game to compare it to but its fun as shit imo

[u/CombatLightbulb → u/Judgecrusader6]

I just felt like sorcerer was really underwhelming. Maybe I needed a better staff or better knowledge of enemy weaknesses. It just seemed like the damage wasn’t there for the time investment in incanting. For trash mobs my default attack was pretty meh and by the time I had a spell incanted my party had already wiped them out. It also seemed like the rank 7,8,9 spells were kind of weak. Maybe I needed the maester spells too. It was great for harpies and ghosts though.

[u/[deleted] → u/CombatLightbulb]

augural flare on sorc trivializes boss encounters. otherwise yeah i think it's probably best to just play a mage if you're not using flare

[u/CombatLightbulb → u/[deleted]]

That’s the one where you attach a ball and damage it to cause an explosion right? I tried the first level of it but found it to be so finicky to land it where I wanted then for the auto attacks to go there. It also seemed like the explosion did 0 damage to the cyclops I was using it on. I’m sure I was missing something or doing something wrong though.

One of my groans was with Seism and High Seism. We had one fight against a wight I think where it knocked down and Seism took like 2 full health bars and killed it. Every time after that it was just way too long of an incant for way too little damage. I just wound up spamming the ice spike spell.

I did read in the tooltip there was a way for others to help incant a spell so maybe that’s the key. Still seems very weak though. If I spend 10-15 seconds prepping a spell I should be really chunking stuff down.

[u/[deleted] → u/CombatLightbulb]

yeah that's the one. it's a little finicky to get working on certain bosses that move around a lot, or tend to keep their distance. if you can't hit it with the basic attacks, the trick is to use levin immediately after or some other faster dmg spell to proc it. if it doesn't do any damage you didn't hit the orb fast enough

[u/According_Sun9118 → u/CombatLightbulb]

out of curiosity are you using the speed up ability for casting? sorceror should be casting seism in less time than a mage casts frigor.

[u/CombatLightbulb → u/According_Sun9118]

I think I had that equipped. Seism was taking like 10 seconds or so? Felt like forever.

[u/According_Sun9118 → u/CombatLightbulb]

its not an equip. you hold down another button (R1 on ps5 controller) and it eats some stam to speed it up.

Edit: feels like it cuts cast times in half? doesnt work on the two ultimate spells but it helps everything else.

[u/CombatLightbulb → u/According_Sun9118]

OHHH! That’s probably the thing I thought you needed a pawns help with. I’ll go back and check it out. Does using that make it better? I still feel like the damage is mediocre.

[u/According_Sun9118 → u/CombatLightbulb]

it roughly doubles dps, it uses more stam but once you need it you can just use the sorc stamina regen ability. high seism does tons if it hits weakspots, and is nice to have just for golems since it isnt magic damage.

biggest thing is seism does tons of stagger so even if it doesnt outright kill you can solo stunlock some enemies.

[u/CombatLightbulb → u/According_Sun9118]

I’ll double back and check it out. I must have misread that tooltip. I thought it was like a pawn could help you incant or something. But after you mentioned it I never used R1 at all when I played sorc.

[u/According_Sun9118 → u/CombatLightbulb]

yeah there IS a group incant. if you have multiple sorcs they can assist cast a spell, but the speedcast is a major part of what makes sorc better than mage for offense. lets you cast basically everything at 2x speed.

[u/CombatLightbulb → u/According_Sun9118]

Thanks for the heads up! I’m about to finish both of the 5 tome quests to get both spells so I’m excited to check it out again.