Introduced in Build 115, the Sorcerer uses a wand and wears a robe. He deals more damage than Priests and functions as a long-range sniper that can deal group damage. His ability is the scepter, which fires a bolt of lightning that leaps from enemy to enemy to deal damage. To unlock the Sorcerer, reach level 20 with the Necromancer and Assassin. See his stat gains, caps, and averages here.
Sorcerers use wands, medium-damage long-ranged weapons which compensate for the relatively limited protection given by the robes they wear. Wands make the Sorcerer seem unreliable offensively, but due to his extra bump in ATK and DEX, he is able to dispatch enemies faster than the Priest.
The Wand of Ancient Warning and the Wand of Recompense are the most powerful tiered wands, with very high range. These wands are standard weapons for the Sorcerer, with enough damage to deal to enemies at a long distance. The only advantage these wands give compared to UT wands is a slightly higher range (only surpassed by the St. Abraham’s Wand), so the Sorcerer is hindered by having these as a weapon. However, since the damage in the wands are crunched into one single high-damaging shot, the Sorcerer is able to take on enemies with high DEF, and is more reliable than the Staff in that respect. The tiered wands also pierce enemies, a benefit from update 25.0.0.
The Conducting Wand is a drop from the Mad Lab’s second boss. Unlike its old self before the 25.0.0 update, its average damage is lower but has +4 DEX, +4 WIS, and a 125% fire rate. This gives it more attack strength compared to Recompense, and allows it to shine among single monsters with low defense (<48 defense) or those that are armor broken. Unfortunately, the range was plummeted to 8 from 10 after update 25.0.0, making the sorcerer fight at a staff’s range. Note that this wand does not pierce.
The Crystal Wand is a rare drop from the Crystal Prisoner but effective wand that armor pierces. This wand essential to becoming an effective offensive class. The armor piercing effect greatly helps the Sorcerer because it allows him to deal damage to enemies with high DEF such as the Guardians and Oryx.
The Wand of the Bulwark works completely differently from any other weapon in the game and is rather peculiar. If you’ve seen the little floating projectiles fired by the Sandsman Sorcerers and Clockwork Golems, Bulwark’s projectiles are very similar. They float around lazily and last a very long time. You cannot aim the projectiles at a monster; you basically have to create a minefield with them and attract your prey into the field. This wand can be used to set up traps for mobs of enemies to walk through, and since each projectile deals 400-500 damage with a good ATK stat, they can be used to decimate mobs of enemies. The downfall of the Bulwark is that it cannot aim at one specific target, such as an event or dungeon boss, and requires much experience and practice to use effectively. Maxing out DEX is essential if you want to quickly set up with this wand, because its firing rate is reduced to 33.3%. This wand shouldn’t be used regularly, but it has its uses and can be a very enjoyable weapon!
The St. Abraham Wand is the last untiered wand. While its damage is subpar, the range is its savior. With Update 25.0.0, all wands lost some range except for this one. This makes it stand out, as it is the only one able to hit bosses like Dr. Terrible without activating him, making for a safer battle. St. Abraham’s also gives a stat boost with +4 VIT and WIS, making it a nice wand if in need of recovery or if on the run. The sorcerer can use this in conjunction with the Scepter of Storms, Shendyt of Geb, and the Candy Ring to have an incredible 98 VIT, pumping his recovery through the roof..
A fresh Sorcerer is somewhat good since the chain lightning is able to hit multiple enemies and the attack power doesn’t increase drastically after the T8 Wand. One of the biggest perks of a fresh Sorcerer is its simplicity in getting soulbound damage in the godlands. When the Sorcerer is in a large group of players, his scepter damage stands out the most by firing quickly and accurately in addition to giving set damage to every enemy. As such, the Sorcerer can qualify for more soulbound pots at the same time than any other class. But like every class, a maxed Sorcerer will be able to pot farm and kill enemies quicker. Furthermore, maxing wisdom is essential to unlock the full power of the scepter.
A Sorcerer’s first priority is to max DEF. Fresh Sorcerers are fragile and cannot heal themselves, putting them in the same vein as Wizards. One of the greatest aspects of the Sorcerer is his amazingly high 75 VIT stat that allows him to quickly heal off damage and solo rather easily. VIT can be hard to max out, but still makes the Sorcerer stand out from the Wizard. It is recommended to max VIT along with DEF.
The Sorcerer is a long ranged class. Its special ability is the scepter, which fires a chain lightning effect. Upon activating his ability, the closest enemy in a “cone” area of the direction of your cursor will start the chain. This activation area extends to the edge of the screen. You will see a particle effect of this cone if there are no enemies within it. For the chain to extend to more targets, a monster that has not been hit yet must be within 9 range of the last target.
There are a slew of side effects that the scepter has that easily ranks it up as one of the better specials, but only if used correctly. Scepters thins out crowds when spammed and are easy to aim. They can also be used for spur-of-the-moment tracking. If you’re too lazy or too focused in fighting to look at the minimap–or if you just want to go on a rampage–you can use your scepter and follow the bolt off screen, to the next enemy. You can also hit enemies as far as 3 screen-lengths away from you, a trait found in no other special ability.
Another aspect of the scepter is its ease of use in a dungeon. Unlike most other ability items, the scepter can target unseen enemies, including those hiding in the black screen! This allows you to pinpoint the location of an unseen room, and soften incoming enemies for quick disposal.
Overall, the scepter is a great ability for landing soul bound damage to events and dungeon bosses, and is unmatched in terms of farming.
The Scepter of Skybolts and the Scepter of Storms are the most powerful scepters. The Scepter of Storms is capable of dealing 1100 damage spread over 5 targets (1680 damage to 6 targets upon maxed wisdom), with Skybolts not far behind. They are also the most cost-efficient tiered scepters, which makes them relatively easy to cast multiple times, and they deal relatively high damage. With no side effects, it can be hard to fully make use of each bolt that is casted, so use it when the time is right.
The Scepter of Fulmination shoots an orange lightning bolt that not only deals 640 damage over 3 targets (1100 damage to 4 targets at max wisdom), but also slows them for 3 seconds. Since the scepter also costs 10 less mana than Skybolts/Storms, it’s also easier to spam. The spammability and added slow to enemies makes the Fulmi invaluable in rushing dungeons. Although the Fulmi is invaluable as a primary scepter, the tiered scepters should still be carried as a swapout–an unmaxed sorcerer using Storms will still do as much damage as a maxed sorcerer using Fulmi.
The Scepter of Devastation is a rare, yet very powerful scepter. While also costing 10 MP less than Skybolt/Storms, this sceptre is capable of massive damage output (920 damage), although to only 1 target at max WIS, with a very narrow aiming cone. However, to realize the full potential of this scepter, the Sorcerer should have at least 70 WIS, by wearing equipment such as either Robe of the Grand Sorcerer with Ring of the Sphinx or only Geb’s Ring of Wisdom. At this point, the scepter can hit 2 targets instead of 1 with 2020 total damage across both targets. This allows the Sorcerer to one-hit over half of the enemies in Godlands and two-hit the rest, two at a time. Despite this, there still may be situations with more low-HP enemies in groups where the Sorcerer wishes to hit more targets, and may opt to carry a tiered scepter to swap with this one. However, a Sorcerer with a desire to deal heavy damage, who possesses deadly accuracy, is sure to make incredible use of this scepter.
Some strengths of this class is that this class is pretty much the harder-hitting version of the priest, with high recovery as of 75 VIT and a high MP stat of 385, giving amazing scepter uses everywhere. Furthermore, the scepter doesn’t just hit the mob that you hit, but it will chain itself to other mobs farther away and give SB chances on them too. It’s a great discovery to find a pot bag in godlands when you didn’t even shoot it once! The wand is also a great piercing tool, shredding easily through godwalls and making the Sorcerer more powerful than ever before.
Despite these strenghts, the sorcerer can never match a wizard in a game of pure damage due to wands trading of damage for range. Also, the Sorcerer is very frail like his other robe friends, so he will not most likely survive a shotgun and probably die instantly, depending on what would want to sit on him. Furthermore, the power of the scepter is locked away until the wisdom stat is maxed–evidenced by the difference in damage given by the Scepter of Fulmination (640 dmg unmaxed, 1100 dmg maxed)
The Sorcerer has a big role in the group. His scepter has the ability to damage up to six enemies and cause massive damage to a structure of enemies. Also, when the Scepter is fired, it essentially coats the enemies it hits with soulbound damage. This makes the Sorcerer a good group-based pot farmer, as he doesn’t need to solo to get soulbounds.
The Sorcerer can be exceptionally good at Snake Pits. With a tiered wand, the Sorcerer can literally rip through the walls and enemies (Snakes) that reside inside this Speed Pot-dropping dungeon. He can also use the Wand of Recompense or the Conducting Wand to snipe the dungeon’s boss (Stheno) from about 10 tiles away, thus, making him one of the most safe classes to solo Snake Pits with.
Sprite Worlds are a breeze for the Sorcerer. The Sorcerer has enough range to take out rogue Sprite Gods safely, and also snipe Limon the Sprite God from afar. All in all, Sorcerers are, again, one of the best/most safe classes to solo Sprite Worlds on.
The Candyland Hunting Grounds aka. cland are a pretty safe/easy place to farm for an exceptionally well maxed out Sorcerer. With the use of his ability, the Scepter, he can (Also literally) Take the place by Storm (You see what I did there?), because his Scepter can hit multiple targets, thus, making it quite easy to clear the dungeon for the next boss to spawn. On the Unicorn-Bases Boss, Gigacorn, all the Sorcerer has to do is circle-strafe it, while simultaneously shooting and activating his ability.
The Desire Troll Is also another pretty easy boss to solo single-handedly. The Sorcerer just has to take advantage of The Desire Troll’s follow limit (A few tiles outside of the boss fight room entrance) and then just keep running back and forth, shooting and spamming his ability.
MegaRototo is basically the same general idea as the Gigacorn, and the Spoiled Creampuff has only about half the HP as the Big Creampuff, so, it shouldn’t really be that hard to kill either of them.
The sorcerer is basically an in-between of the priest and wizard. Firing from long range, enemies that are far from him are his specialty, frying them with his chain lightning and wand. If you would like a wand user that hits just a little harder, then I suggest Sorcerer.
