BW & Sorc feedback - October 2025

[Ninjagon]

Hello.

Short:
In my honest opinion the DPS of Bright Wizards & Sorcerers is too low now and needs to be addressed.

Explanation:
- BW and Sorc are the most fragile characters in the game with lowest armor, (almost) no self heal and very limited survival mechanics.
- Their class mechanic (Combustion & Dark Magic) comes with self-injuring price. Yes everybody knows that.
- In Patch Notes 12/09/2025 Knights & Chosens got new abilities which contains group absorb shield (Shield of the Sun and Bane Shield).
These absorb shields combined with the other (many) existing shields which every healer have, act as a direct nerf to the BW & Sorc damage.
That is, because BW & Sorc DPS depends on high crit damage, but when a target has active absorb shield, you cannot receive crit until the shield runs out.

Solution:
a) Adjust the BW & Sorc DPS that they can crit regardless of the absorb shields.
b) or raise the overall BW & Sorc damage to compensate the new state of the game.

I posses no hard data nor other evidence about this topic, just personal player experience. The "a)" solution looks much better to me.

[nocturnalguest]

Very bad wording, somehow since 2017 alot of people word it like "cannot receive crit until the shield runs out" which is not true. Absorb have no effect of your chance to crit or to receive crit. Absorb "eats" initial damage which is then decided if its crit or not, "eating" that base damage means that if hit will crit, the value of such crit will be from lower base. That simple.

So now i advice to think again what exactly do you want to see changed? Sorc&BW ignoring absorbs will not happen, it contradicts combat mechanics.