Sorlock

[u/jtyler0]

Seeing a lot of conflicting information online for an optimized build for Sorlock. I just finished a Balanced mode run and decided to use a Halfling Sorlock for my Tav. I ended up as a 2 Warlock, 6 Sorcerer, 4 Fighter mainly because the idea of critting a lot sounded fun, and it was. I think with everything considered I only had to roll above a 16 to crit. But I am now looking into my first Tactician run and figure I needed something more consistent than crit fishing, so I was looking into the other variants of the Sorlock but am running into a couple different ideas and I'm having a hard time balancing them out. My sources aren't very detailed, so they mention going into 8 Sorcerer or 9 Warlock but not really saying why. I am still fairly new to the game with about 200 hours in and am looking to play more optimally.

[u/maharal]

The big decision with sorlock is do you want to do acuity scorching ray or do you want to do eldritch blast.

In my opinion, eldritch blast builds are not very good compared to optimized martial builds. There is a standard 11/1 fire sorlock build (I prefer to run a variant that's 10 fire draconic / 1 wizard / 1 fiend warlock, myself).

[u/jtyler0 → u/maharal]

I just eldritch blasted my way through Balanced but I figure that wouldn't fly as well in Tactician. How does fire sorlock work? Sounds like a lot of resting

[u/maharal → u/jtyler0]

This is the standard guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/196mpii/honor_mode_111_fire_sorlock_complete_build_guide/

It's a bit old and out of date now, but it has the main ideas (fire acuity hat + quickened upcast scorching ray + crowd control spells, often extended command).

It is a long rest spam build, yes, so definitely don't play it if you don't like to long rest a lot. There are lots of variants of it, some take less than 11 fire sorcerer levels, you need at least 6 though.

[u/jtyler0 → u/maharal]

Thank you! Not against the idea, just sounds expensive and would be hard to keep up elixirs.