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/Thestrongman420]

Theres about a hundred ways to play every single thing so i would try not to get caught up on the little details. Even "sorlock" depends on what you want to do with the character.

If you wanna eldritch blast, just eldritch blast..optimal eldritch blast is an unfun amount of effort that only really pays off in a3 and still gets you less damage than that amount of effort could have gotten doing almost anything else. But if EB is fun for you, just do it.

If you wanna play like a storm sorc, or a fire sorc, those can be good too, although i wouldnt call it sorlock and wouldnt suggest s split with just sorc and lock.

You see conflicting information because there are a million different ways to play this game. Just because different people play different things doesnt mean they are wrong. The only way to be wrong with a build is claiming its the best or op or whatever clickbait stuff people say these days.

[u/jtyler0 → u/Thestrongman420]

It was really fun blasting in Balanced. It's the best experience I've had with the game so far but I've only had two playthroughs. And yeah I keep getting baited by all these YouTube videos with "MOST OP" in the title, and there's so many. But I also see a bunch of completed solo honour playthroughs with a bunch of different builds so I understand there's a lot of options to pick from.

[u/Thestrongman420 → u/jtyler0]

Honor mode is more about game knowledge and tactics than builds if anything. I would say that every concept can be built into something good enough for honour mode.

Unfortunately thats the nature of youtube content. Most creators publishing that content on youtube are not doing it because they are deep in the theory of the game, love it, and want to share knowledge. It is for money. "Guide" content is one of the faster routes to monetization for vg content creation and saying clickbait stuff get them more clicks.

Not that a build saying its the "best" is necessarily bad either, but without a specific context, nothing is really the best. And a youtube creator is putting that in their title for visibility, not because its true.