Mother of dragons

Bear sorc uses a 6os Phase Blade with 6 sael for 120 IAS.

Forget everything else.

ganseng wrote: 16 hours ago

even if the bear made sense somehow (which I doubt considering the -20 fire res on Hand of Justice), I would certainly mess up the weapon switching..

vued wrote: 19 hours ago

ganseng wrote: 19 hours ago

to be honest I find pally underwhelming against heralds - very squishy, dps below Charged Strike/ Fireball+ Hydra/ Strafe

correct me if I 'm wrong but he does 5 hits over 11 frames

sorc would do one over 10 frames. even if 4x stronger, it would be less dps, also taking Conviction into consideration. hydras would add 6-9k dps maybe, also not much

sorc would be ~40 p.p. below pally on all res except for fire.. fire would be somewhat better

Energy Shield would add maybe 1k life in equivalent

so.. not sure I want to spend Lo & Sur to test?

If you melee as sorc, you turn into a bear and hit at 7 frames.

I don't understand what's your issue with turning into a bear. You have more life and attack faster.

Do you understand that you can use Hand of Justice as a bear?

Tornado_OLO wrote: 15 hours ago

Bear sorc uses a 6os Phase Blade with 6 sael for 120 IAS.

Forget everything else.

With lvl 14/15 Fana aura (from A1 Faith Merc) breakpoints are 75 (7) and 208 (6) with Phaseblade.

I doubt it's worth to go for 208 IAS so Hand of Justice (33ias) would be better for this build.

vued wrote: 14 hours ago

With lvl 14/15 Fana aura (from A1 Faith Merc) breakpoints are 75 (7) and 208 (6) with Phaseblade.

Why fana ? You want Infinity for A2 merc.

ganseng wrote: 13 hours ago

imo it could only be practical if bear form lasted ~15 minutes

Without any +skill, it's a 200 sec Werebear.
Each +skill grants 40 sec (20 from Lycanthropy, 20 from Werebear).
With +skills from Spirit (for switch), mara and arch, it's a +5 all skills so + 200 sec so 400 sec.

Werebear isn't same build. You want Dragon + Dream with both mastery maxed.

Tornado_OLO wrote: 6 hours ago

vued wrote: 14 hours ago

With lvl 14/15 Fana aura (from A1 Faith Merc) breakpoints are 75 (7) and 208 (6) with Phaseblade.

Why fana ? You want Infinity for A2 merc.

Compare Infinity on Merc with 6shael Phaseblade on main with Faith on Merc and Hand of Justice on main.

You will reach the same attack speed, have Holy Fire bumped by another 16 levels and get native -20 efr compared which is better than the -17 from Conviction vs. immunes.

Without doing any thorough analysis I'm pretty sure HoJ+Faith deals the most damage.

And since this build deals not much damage to begin with, you have to squeeze everything out of it.

Interesting thread you have here.
Holy Fire Sorc is something I plan to try.
For Dream Sorc I tried options like dealer Crescent Moon. Ended up being a Nova Sorc with 2* Dream , good ES and can spam both Nova or Static Field .
I'm not sure how this Bear Sorc works, it is advertised a lot. But no teleporting, no Static Field seems like a big loss to me for just several more frames on melee hits. And if something is so strong that need many hits, it will kill my Emilio and that weak Insight golem in no time, leaving me without Conviction, without mana regen boost and dealing less damage.
It is still theory, but I am hard to imagine how this all will work with my sloppy hands.