50k Lightning damage??

[Losifer]

I dont get how people are getting such high lightning damages...heres my stats/gear:

Lv 89, 6-35,000 damage with Lightning. (full light spec with 1 in warmth/chilling armor)

Gear:
Eschutas with 5/5 facet
Griff with 5/5
Enigma
Mara's
2x BK ring
Arach belt
magefist gloves
trek boots
Spirit monarch
Torch
Anni
7x Lightning skill gc's


What can I improve to get higher damage?

[Socialism]

2 more lightning Skill GCs, use a 5/-5 light facet Ormus instead of Enigma. Dump the spirit, get a 4x 5/-5 light facet Monarch (preferably Artisand or Jewelers of Deflection so it's 30FBR/20 IBR). Switch out Mara's for a blue +3 lightning/something-or-other amulet.

[soul killer]

Basically equip anything and everything that adds to Light skills and +Light Dmg.

[Bjorgin]

I dont get how people are getting such high lightning damages...heres my stats/gear:

Lv 89, 6-35,000 damage with Lightning. (full light spec with 1 in warmth/chilling armor)

Gear:
Eschutas with 5/5 facet
Griff with 5/5
Enigma
Mara's
2x BK ring
Arach belt
magefist gloves
trek boots
Spirit monarch
Torch
Anni
7x Lightning skill gc's


What can I improve to get higher damage?
ditch griff for a +3/20/10/10 circ

+3 light ammy/10 fcr

2 more light gcs.

have you maxed everything? i didn't until i was lvl 93 and that was with 1 pt in chilling. though i might have dumped 2 points elsewhere to get tstorm. but still.

[Summerfun]

Its not worth it to get that high dmg! Use the gear that make sence!
Maras
shako/griffons
Viper/coh
Hoto
Lidless/spirit

You will be killing allmost as fast

[KTang]

Thats odd...
I've maxxed out lightning at level 92 [skipped a few points]...

1-45~6k Lightning

My gear is:

Shako
Enigma
+2 Light Skills Amu
Soj/Soj
Arachnids
Spirit
Hoto
7x Light GCs
Anni
Torch
CTA.

I use NO facets...

And its built for MF, I've still got 300 mf.

Hmm.

You definately need some levels. A lot more, those minor levels make a huge difference in damage.

KT

[Bjorgin]

Facets barely make a difference in the character display screen it seems :undecided:

[Kijya]

Facets barely make a difference in the character display screen it seems :undecided:
the +% only adds to the mastery, and the -% doesn't show up. But ofc the -% is far more useful then the +%.

[JME]

Facets barely make a difference in the character display screen it seems :undecided:

We call it the lying character screen for a reason (LCS).:smiley: Although in this case it is likely working as intended since it is not literally increasing your damage, just effectively. Kijya is right. The -% is far, far more important than the +% and does not show on the screen at all.

[Sepdick]

My sorc (lvl 90) did 47k I think.


I had
Griffs
Maras
Eschuta
CoH
Spirit
Magies
SoJ
Arach
SoJ
Sands
9 Sparkling Gcs
Torch
Anni

How come I did so much more damage than you?

[zallus]

This is my sorc, level 93 fully synergized. It does 7 - 44461 light damage. Has 120%fcr and Max res in hell.

+3 hoto
+2 maras
+1 griffs
+2 coh
+1 arachs
+2 2xsoj
+2 spirit
+3 torch
+1 anni
+1 cta/spirit on switch
+7 light skillers
=+25 light skills.

to reach 50k light damage you need roughly. +28 light skills with a full synergized sorc. So lets think how we can get that.

+3 p light eschuta w/ facet
+3 light skills ammy
+2 sorc skills helm
+2 coh
+1 arachs
+2 2xsoj
+2 spirit
+3 torch
+1 anni
+1 cta/spirit on switch
+9 light skillers
=+12 light skills and +17 all skills
Thats +29 and will give u 7 - 52045 So ur screen will read 7-52k

[WhisperndaWind]

ElectrifiedWind..
93 sorc fully synergized
100% FCR

6-49694

Hoto (perf)
Shako
Lidless
Coh
Arach
Sojx2
3/10fcr ammy
Magi
Waterwalk(pvp/travs for mf)
1+ cta on switch
Torch
Anni
9 Life skillers

28+ to skills total

Now if i dropped my Hoto and Shako for griffs and a 3 skill eschuta. Lets Hypothetically say the Griff has 17% damage and to make this mathetically easier the eschuta has 13%. Add 2 5-5 facets you have 40% more light skill damage. So removing the 1 to all skills i gained from shako my damage would then be 47k without the added 40% light skill. Someone will have to check my math even though for some reason i dont believe its this simple... But 40% of 47k would be around 18k probably closer to 19k. (Math makes my head hurt) So total your damage would be if your twinked out without perf griff/eschuta 63kish. Assuming my math is correct and i didnt miss something. My Perfect damage would be 70k. (50% off 47k is 23kish)(i could get higher if i wasted str pts to wear a spirit but going save those pts for max block/vita) Now you'll never see someone either in PVP or MF try to get reach the max damage. In pvp reason is simply because to keep their resists max'd theyd have to either find a godly 3 sorc ammy with fcr resists to stop them from tossing that 3 sorc ammy for a maras . OR they'd have to drop skillers for resist sc's to achieve max resists. Some may even drop sojs for absorb rings dwarf stars,wisps etc. For Mf they'd have to load up on mf sc's and drop 1 skiller for a gheeds. Hope this helps ya see where the damage is comin from.

[mystified]

well..you COULD use rare/magic orb.
magic with 3 light skill/3 lightning would help. I know it is nigh impossible but 3 lightning mastery can be atttached to it. Good luck getting one tho.
if magic, hopefuly 2 sox, if rare pray it comes with 2 sox. Magic will have higher dmg thanks to 3 lightning skill mod. face this baby.
also 3 light/20 FCR or something similar (3 light is more important depending on FCR anyway)
see how much boos that make. Built mine similar to other people, reached 90 then stripped her naked..:p
I had 43k if I remember correctly, but missing 1 or 2 charms.

EDIT* to wind// the +% light dmg applies to base lightning dmg like the way lightninig mastery does. Otherwise we will end up with huge dmg of fire sorc and light sorc that can truly be goldy even with abs :p
This, however is competely different story with cold sorc..who benefit a lot from these features..
in short, that extra 40% is more or less like +4 to lightning mastery.

[zallus]

Now if i dropped my Hoto and Shako for griffs and a 3 skill eschuta. Lets Hypothetically say the Griff has 17% damage and to make this mathetically easier the eschuta has 13%. Add 2 5-5 facets you have 40% more light skill damage. So removing the 1 to all skills i gained from shako my damage would then be 47k without the added 40% light skill. Someone will have to check my math even though for some reason i dont believe its this simple... But 40% of 47k would be around 18k probably closer to 19k. (Math makes my head hurt) So total your damage would be if your twinked out without perf griff/eschuta 63kish. Assuming my math is correct and i didnt miss something. My Perfect damage would be 70k. (50% off 47k is 23kish)(i could get higher if i wasted str pts to wear a spirit but going save those pts for max block/vita) Now you'll never see someone either in PVP or MF try to get reach the max damage. In pvp reason is simply because to keep their resists max'd theyd have to either find a godly 3 sorc ammy with fcr resists to stop them from tossing that 3 sorc ammy for a maras . OR they'd have to drop skillers for resist sc's to achieve max resists. Some may even drop sojs for absorb rings dwarf stars,wisps etc. For Mf they'd have to load up on mf sc's and drop 1 skiller for a gheeds. Hope this helps ya see where the damage is comin from.

What you said here for the max damage is not correct at all. That 40% extra just gets added on the the total % you get from light mastery so it really doesnt do that much extra damage. and also want to add a little bit of help on ur equip because you are in-between breakpoints the whole way.

Ok and based on those 2 changes you are going to make you would break the 120%fcr which would be a good thing. and your damage would read 7-50093 (avg damage of 25050).

Faster Cast Rate
FCR % FPC
0 13
9 12
20 11
37 10
63 9
105 8
200 7

Lightning / Chain Lightning / Inferno Faster Cast Rates
FCR % FPC
0 19
7 18
15 17
23 16
37 15
52 14
78 13
117 12
194 11

As you can see by what i bolded and you mentioned that you have 100%fcr, you are stranded between all the fcr% for the important things you have. And not to mention but based on the gear u listed you have like zero fhr so you are basically a glass cannon because of low def, life is terrible, no max block, and no hit recovery = 1 very fragile sorc.

[WhisperndaWind]

I have fhr sc's, i typically drop a couple skill gc's the plain ones for more fhr if i'm in a pvp game. My normal 9 sc's i carry are ALL resist/fhr or fhr/lifers.I dont do pub pvp'n so unless i'm in a team duel i can usually shift around items to make me optimized vs w/e perticular person i'm dueling. Hard to get a good perspective of my gear w/o putting me up against a perticular class because of how i shift items around. Suspose i could use Etreks for more fhr, but with my sc's and the stash'd ones for meleer's. I might not get the bp(dont think i am) but its good enough for me. My block is max'd but life is a little low because of the max'd block. I didnt feel the need to go into that part of my sorc, as the asker was interested in the damage zallus. I've also recently dropped my coh for up'd vipermagi to fix my fcr. As i knew that was a problem, that being said i socketed my lidless with an Um to keep resists max'd. I'm always changing armors around and things on my characters hehe.

[yelopen]

I find that Light GCs add ~2k each, so adding two more GCs will get you ~40k.