Was going to make a fire hydra sorc after my bone necro.

+20 fire mastery, hydra, fireball, warmth
+1 tele
Remaining into the last synergy for hydra

Now my question is if dual dragon works with sorc fire mastery?

Apparently lightning mastery works for Holy Shock, so in theory it should work for holy fire as well.

Anyone tested this?

Also, if we go dual dragon, we cannot get to the 105 cast rate breakpoint.

nvm this sounds super sus now. That holy fire damage is not worth losing 105 cast rate.... OR IS IT????

Edit:

I did the math. Even with fire mastery boosting holy fire. The damage is still shit, not worth losing anything for it.

Lvl 28 holy fire only ticks for 58-150 fire damage. Fuck that nerfed shit. nothing will make that good.

This post was edited by Josiah on May 1 2026 07:20pm

an aurasorc can use 2x dragons + hand of justice, which results in 3x level 44 holy fire auras simultaneously
but this is about 1781 damage per tick on auras (before % scaling at distance, so up to 3564 per tick at melee range)
she'll also add about 15.6k melee damage from holy fire and whatever else from enchant which can be similarly high

But a regular ol fire sorc can use 2x phoenix, vipermagi, flickering flame and 105 fcr and still hit 15-16k fireball with max meteor & hydra and is easily better on top of having that 2x level 30 redemption aura for 99.2% chance to redeem for 170 life/mana every tick

triple fire runeword sound kinda crazy, that would be -28 -28 -20 = -76 and with infinity would be 1/5 rule comes to -93 fire res oh shit! if we are also fire sorc that mean we can also wear flickering flame for another -15 fire res for = -108 fire res on fire immunes for a total of -8 fire res on fire immunes. This would likely be -50 fire res on mobs that are not fire immune, to which the blizzard punishment system of 1/5 rule comes in.

This sound kinda crazy now that we are cooking but where is the cast rate coming from? You lose armor,wep,shield,helm slots. That only leaves gloves,belt,rings,ammy. so at max u can only get 20+20+10+10+20 = 80 fcr IF you have 20 ammy. I dont so I would only get 60 fcr ewwwwwwwww

Edit:

Ye i see what u did there. Cancel the x2 dragon for x2 phoenix and flickering flame. Yep that lets us put on viper for that extra 30 fcr hmmmm

Edit edit:

But then how is survivability with 2 phoenix we have shit res eh... only fire res from flickering flame. Does redemption give enough life to say it adds to survivability?

This post was edited by Josiah on May 1 2026 09:12pm

Only good aura sorc was on LOD with stack aura bug...

well with this setup we can get -80% with 105 fcr that sound good for fire skill, not the fire aura.

Edit:

Not using fire auras anymore dmg is too low yep, but stacking -res for fire skills sound really good.

This post was edited by Josiah on May 1 2026 09:31pm

Whitout synergy dmg will be aways sucks...

Different is good. Add hardcore to that list.

aurasorcs =/= fb sorc, you wouldn't bother with the dragons if using a fb build since who cares if you deal 3.2k aura at melee range at 50 fpa when you can deal 16k fb at 8 fpa
Fb build is just

>phoenix weapon (trading +30 / -2 fire for the 2x redemption aura, otherwise 30/30 sword is more dps)
>phoenix shield
>vipermagi
>flickering flame (or +3 skills / 20 fcr / 2 os) circlet
>arachs
>magefist
>2x opalveil (or 2x soj)
>+2 sorc / 15+ fcr craft ammy
>resist boots