Fire sorceress level 33, doing far too little boss damage.

[gungadin22000]

My setup is pretty ES-centric but I do have +120% spell damage or so from my shield and wand yet bosses take ages to kill. Just beat Jananra, he took about 10 minutes to defeat, despite my 1100+ ES making me near unkillable myself. I am running mainly fireball, firewall and corpse detonation.

Is this simply a fact of life of fire sorceresses or am I missing something obvious buildwise with gem or skillpoint setup? I haven't bothered picking up the ascendancy yet due to neither of the current options looking like they would benefit a pure fire build much.

[Pervy]

Are you running the curse that lowers fire res? or fire pen?

[gungadin22000]

Yes to both.

[Pervy]

Originally posted by gungadin22000:

Yes to both.

Who cares about the 120% SD, how much dps did the spells do? and all that other good stuff? :D

[Wutever]

Unless you have a Ghostwrithe that is way too much ES.

[Lyote]

With that much investment in energy shield, I'm curious if you've spared any points for Spell and Elemental Damage clusters?

Has to be said though, it looks like your spell selection is AoE focused.
Might sound strange, But high cast speed and the Ashen Staff Firebolt makes for good single target damage.
Fusilade is also surprisingly potent. Just slot Scattershot onto it so you get the 6 max shots in 2 casts instead of 6.
With good cast speed, it's 0.3 seconds per cast.
Double tap to max the salvo and then throw your other spells while the Fusilade launches.

[Caldrin]

I was burning through enemies at that level.

I was actually using incinerate as my main spell.. that thing can melt.. just gotta be a bit more careful as of course you need to basically stand still to get it really going..

[thestile]

My frost sorceress didn't do very good damage around that level either. It was fun and great for AOE but my single target was much slower than my warrior, ranger and witch.

[Rogue]

Obviously, that boss is 30% resistant to fire and lightning damage but weak to cold. Early levels, you should use the combo system, firewall -> shoot a frostbolt or spark to do more damage, or a frostwall and then break it with a fireball...

Else, stack the cold up the wazoo for that particular boss.

[Wutever]

Bump cause I leveled my fire Chronomancer past act 2.
Cast on Ignite is available at level 32. Just saying...
Hope you got a big mana pool and regen. Temporal Rift sorta solves this, letting you pump DPS twice as long.

[Ashyne]

Try to get a Dusk Vigil unique staff. It's amazing for fire sorceress because it triggers Ember Fusillade when casting any spell. Increase cast speed for Firebolt and put +40% damage with hits on enemies at low life for either firebolt or fusillade. Use scattershot for firebolt and chain for fusillade when fighting weaker enemies, and replace them with extra hit+ailment damage support mod for fighting boss/unique enemies.

[Alex]

Do a chaos build. It's kind of OP.

[YMD]

fire is bad to level with, try frost.
frostbolt + cold snap is great

[Empukris]

Caster rely too much on +skill level. As long you use spell as your main damage you need those on your staff or wand. So check with that first, even if you get +1 or +2 it is a big boost. After that will be your +fire damage multiplier and your spell damage. If you only take ES node, you probably dont have much of it which explain why your damage sucks. There are easy 60% spell damage node early you can consider taking that. End game you dont need it as much as spell damage you can stack from other sources but early you dont have that many option if you dont have great gear.

Dont invest on crit early, waste of time respec to it later. So just equip all those non crit flat damage boost to your fireball.

[Thornburst]

probably u need better staff/wand and u may begin to build crtical chance for spells or amlitude of damaging ailments/ignite, depends on what is your main source of damage