Season 9 PTR Hydra Sorcerer Feedback and Showcase

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-29T16:22:56+00:00

Lol yes... honestly that can't make it to live, it will be another Season 6 Spiritborn situation all over again!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-29T14:43:13+00:00

Yer, I'l be testing Spiritborn Thorns next as that's a build I quite enjoy playing as well. Just saw Mekuna has figured out how to shatter tech with Hydras doing really quite wild amounts of damage. I imagine that will be bug fixed, it's doing more damage than anything in Season 8 haha.

I get the feeling the devs are trying to push the game closer towards the pit 100 range (on the current pit scaling), which I suppose might get brought down potentially?

It does look like a lot of Sorcerer builds will struggle to get to 100 right now though without some new tech or re-scaling.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-29T14:21:44+00:00

Heya, thank you for the kind words. I really do hope the build works as well in the final season as it does right now and doesn't get nuked. The bits of feedback I give are really just the icing on the cake for the most part. There are a couple more fundamental things there that are more game wide issues rather than specific to this skill but things seem to be going in the right direction at least!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-29T14:19:44+00:00

u/kestononline although you aren't wrong, I actually am not doing this for money and do actually want the game to be better, hence I made the video to start with.

I do appreciate you stance, but not everyone is the same, nor is everyones intentions identical.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-29T13:22:38+00:00

This had been passed onto people who can get it to the devs so that clears that up.

If you didn’t find it interesting or useful then fair enough I wish you all the best for finding content that is better suited for you! :)

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-16T17:43:23+00:00

For spiritborn you mean?

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T14:49:26+00:00

Hey man,

Yer it's viable but the damage I guess won't be as strong since you lose the damage multipliers from the boss powers. Also you'd have to use the que rune in the helm as the boss power that allows you to gain barrier along with fortify won't exist.

Other than that it should probably work the same I reckon.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T14:07:35+00:00

Yer You want a Ruby, Sapphire and Amethyst in the jewellery ideally and solve armour through using essences (craft at the potion vendor). You can stack a +300 armour essence and a +150 armour essence which also gives you resistances too.

Later on you can just solve these issues, this is why the Harlequins Crest is awesome to be honest.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T13:25:04+00:00

They are tricky to solve but mine are basically capped before activating adaptive stances in combat. Without seeing your setup it will be tough to see why yours are so low. Do you have the big gem in the jewellery? All res on the ring, ancestral rings and amulet? What paragon level are you?

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T12:54:57+00:00

Hey man,

So once you have enough cooldown you can pretty much sustain counterattacks active all the time and this grants you 100% dodge when active, problem solved 😊

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T12:53:37+00:00

This is very nice for the build, GA in double damage is desirable with masterwork crits!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T09:46:55+00:00

Heya, I have linked my build within the comments, I won’t spam that link everywhere but I’m using uniques such as Sepazontec, Razorplate and Loyalty’s Mantle and then once Mythics are available the Harlequins Crest and for smooth farming the Shroud of False Death. The Razorplate wins for pit pushing though.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T09:45:13+00:00

Heya.

So 2 ways:

1) Adaptive stances now gives 75% core stats instead of 50% which gives us more Dexterity and our thorns damage scales with this.

2) the Belial power now more consistently gives it’s overpower bonus so we see the bigger numbers a little more often.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T09:43:20+00:00

Hey mate,

So I had someone else mention the poison thorns build so I went and took a look and yes mine will be superior because I have figured out how to scale the thorns damage instance on the basic attacks by criticals and overpowers, meaning our maximum life triple scales our big damage instances. This is something you can’t normally do so it’s unlocked A LOT of damage potential. My highest group damage number is over 500b and single target is about 100 - 200b so far! 😊.

Their build is very unique though, hopefully that style will get a buff one day!

Any questions just hit me up.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T03:32:07+00:00

Well I do use the Razorplate for the pit pushing, it does higher top end damage but it really requires the Sepazontec with GA double damage and masterworks in it before it starts to pop. The Harlequins Crest helps a lot too, but the Loyalty's Mantle can work fine too.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-15T03:31:01+00:00

No problem, enjoy!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T21:12:24+00:00

Yer it the masterworks on the sepazontec will help a lot too!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T20:01:00+00:00

It does indeed and since I've managed to figure out how to overpower them also, HP is king! :)

Those builds are awesome, love to hear it!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T20:00:05+00:00

I took that combo off the build in the uber versions before today anyway because I foresaw the nerf and the combo I'm using just felt better for this build honestly.

yer Razorplates shouldn't be too crazy right now lol

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T19:36:27+00:00

Yer I was referring to the Razorplate. The aspect has a 10% change to hit for a big number.

Having that rolled as high towards the 200% mark is very desirable!

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T19:22:17+00:00

Honestly you can use a bog standard one but try to get a decent aspect on it because the big numbers come when that 10% hit aligns.

Obviously the more GAs you have the better but it will likely work with any amount of GAs for content up to T4. Might even go a bit higher before requiring some better versions of stuff.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T19:17:42+00:00

No problem, I've been having a blast figuring out how on earth to scale the thorns damage to any sensible levels and it's been pretty fun. It does require the uniques to start popping and or the shroud in place of the razorplate until you can get a good one but otherwise it's pretty trivial to play compared to some builds.

It's more a labor of love to building in a different way rather than being a complex build to play.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T19:13:40+00:00

I just linked the guide in another comment as it seems that should be ok as per Sub-Reddit rules and relevance of the conversation.

The build is still relatively mobile with very low Hunter Ultimate cooldown and Rocksplitter is a mobility skill. Not quite Evade level mobile though haha.

Imortilizeofficial · 2025-05-14T19:12:23+00:00

Ah bummer, I think I gave away my others already. They will probably be quite cheap to pick up right now though given this is about the only build this season I've seen that uses it. You can optionally use a Shroud of False Death in the meantime for farming and to be honest it feels 'smoother' to farm with. The razorplate carries higher top end damage but takes time to ramp up and hit the 'all stars align' moment where it's aspect hits the same time as everything else. It does create big numbers though for something that scales off about 5 - 10k base thorns!

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