Shadowhunter vs Sorceress

[Nebula]

I main a sorceress but I've invested a lot of time into Shadowhunter. I've maxed out demonic impulse, I'm specced for specialty, but the damage is still subpar compared to my sorceress.

I thought this game was supposed to have balanced classes? Why does Shadowhunter feel so weak?

I went into an Abyss Dungeon with three Shadowhunters and a pally, and we couldn't get enough damage in to beat it. People have told others, wait until you have enough specialty points to stay in demon form 90% of the time. I'm pretty close to that now, and my DPS is lackluster.

Have I just been spoiled by overpowered sorceress?

Can we get a buff to Shadowhunter's DPS? Especially if we're following the top build online for Shadowhunter DPS?

[Sith Lord Seyz]

balancing is for late t3, but sorc has one of the highest dps of all classes anyways.

[Offence]

Originally posted by Nebula:

I main a sorceress but I've invested a lot of time into Shadowhunter. I've maxed out demonic impulse, I'm specced for specialty, but the damage is still subpar compared to my sorceress.

I thought this game was supposed to have balanced classes? Why does Shadowhunter feel so weak?

I went into an Abyss Dungeon with three Shadowhunters and a pally, and we couldn't get enough damage in to beat it. People have told others, wait until you have enough specialty points to stay in demon form 90% of the time. I'm pretty close to that now, and my DPS is lackluster.

Have I just been spoiled by overpowered sorceress?

Can we get a buff to Shadowhunter's DPS? Especially if we're following the top build online for Shadowhunter DPS?

Shadowhunter is middle of the pack in terms of dps in tier 3 , pretty much nothing can compare to ranged dps but sorc is weak asf rn without all 3 engravings and gems so flip a coin if you like SH that much.

[DeiGratia]

Don't expect to top dps of zerk, sorc or gs. Game balance is a work in progress. Anyone who thinks dps classes are balanced is only kidding themselves. You can however do content on all classes. When they release arcana it'll be the same. You can play 100% perfect and still come up short of a badly played zerker which it is hard to play bad. Anyways you gotta play the class that makes you want to login everyday whatever that is

[Offence]

Originally posted by DeiGratia:

Don't expect to top dps of zerk, sorc or gs. Game balance is a work in progress. Anyone who thinks dps classes are balanced is only kidding themselves. You can however do content on all classes. When they release arcana it'll be the same. You can play 100% perfect and still come up short of a badly played zerker which it is hard to play bad. Anyways you gotta play the class that makes you want to login everyday whatever that is

^ best answer

[GrealinC]

Had the same issue at 960 between my shadowhunter (perfect suppression) and artillerist, same ilvl the SH felt way stronger, still pushing the artillerist as my main to T3 (enjoy more the gameplay) oping that the gap become thinner later on.

[Retrowave]

My main is a Sorc too, also i don't run a single alt which i hear is actually required or at least people seem to think is required in order to play normally.

However i have run a few extra classes and i noticed the dps very quickly but soon worked out why Sorc will be a challenge in the near future.. so all in all we are powerful yes, but we are based on the multiple elements, and each Guardian is a fine example of how one particular element really does matter in terms of resistances, other classes mainly physical are not limited in that area, if elements are to be considered then the work around is simply to run a dps melee "crit" and the dps would be very effective. Crit resistance doesn't exactly exist.. So you could basically do a crit melee class and throw runes on it with stagger on hit. where as we have a cast time and damage based on element so we are more restricted.

With guardians and mobs in general you can just card up your side with resistances easily enough, but this does not apply in pvp at all, although pvp is balanced.. on a sorc we have cast time and that really is a problem, even if we use runes to lower cast time or apply a dmg res increase on cast it really is a challenge in the arena or pvp related islands in general.

I also see people mention that we rely on grenades when it comes to certain bosses, which to be fair is completely accurate as a boss in general is a specific main element like fire for example, that does not give us a lot to work with because we have multiple skills all of which are various elements but not all tied to one specific element in general, so running with grenades is a smart option.. although mechanic wise you would honestly think a sorc would be kitted out in a way as not to rely on grenades to start with, but due to cooldowns and cast time.. its really another +1 skill and it really does help.

[insta†.Nefer]

i used to main shadowhunter aswell it was my first class i only played it because of demonic impulse which i rly loved
than i made a sorc and this is when i decided that i dont want to play shadowhunter anymore

[Zalliko]

Shadowhunters are one of those classes you have to invest a lot of time, and money into before they start to get on the same level as some other classes. Once you have everything at max and with the correct engravings your dps will do just fine. (Perfect suppression being the most expensive of the two)

I main perfect suppression and have 7 alts to feed it to keep it going :3