Sorcerer PvE build

Hwades is rank 4 Sorcerer on NotMeter's Ludra Hard ranking (Global, week of 5 Nov) and part of Krix Domi's Ludra world first group. He did 271K DPS on the dummy with this setup ("Last night i did 271k").

1. Skills and Specialties

Read off his Skill window. Levels are his.

Skill	Level	Specialties he runs
Flame Arrow	19	5% Fire Damage Boost for 10s on activating. Reset [Blaze] cooldown on landing
Blaze	16	Delayed Damage after 3s. -3s [Wish of Concentration] cooldown. At 20 add Multi-Hit on hit ("delay dmg is better at 16 and at 20 just get multi then"). Hard Nightmare: Absorbs 3% HP instead of the delayed damage
Wish of Concentration	20	+10% additional Attack. +10% Combat Speed. -10s all skill cooldowns. Combat Speed and cooldown at 16, Attack at 20
Hellfire	18	+30% Skill Speed. -15s cooldown. Short boss fight: Ignores Block and Evasion instead of the cooldown. At 20 all three
Firestorm	15	+20% Skill Speed. -2s [Hellfire] cooldown per fireball. At 16 swap Skill Speed for +15% damage per fireball
Bittercold Wind	17	+1s summon duration. Ignores Block and Evasion and lands as a Critical Hit. At 20 add Changes to mobile skill
Flame Scattershot	16	Multi-Hit on hit. -1s all skill cooldowns on hit
Winter's Shackles	15	Changes to mobile skill. +20% PvE Damage Boost and +10% PvP
Frost Burst	12	Changes to mobile skill. Ignores Block and Evasion. Hard Nightmare: Absorbs 7% HP instead of mobile
Defiance	10	Restores 20% HP on using [Defiance]
Ice Chain	14	+20% Skill Speed. Deals up to 12% more damage. Farming and Abyss only

Frost Burst is a DPS gain early. Around item level 2,700 and 150K combat power it becomes a loss: take it out of the macro. Test it on the dummy.
Frost and Ice Chain aren't used on bosses. "We dont use ice chain during bosses."
Passives: max Robe of Flame, then Robe of Earth (a little Critical Hit), then Robe of Cold. The rest only give things like MP.

2. Macro and opener

Hold left click and the macro key together, the macro runs the damage rows. He binds the macro to a side mouse button so right click stays free for farming: "The macro being right click was a figure of speach."
By hand: Fire Wall and Cold Storm (his buffs) and Hellfire. [Correction] In the video Hellfire is in his macro. In the comments: "Ingame macro doesnt channel it max, do not put if u use only ingame macro." He uses a Logitech mouse macro that holds the key for a full charge.
Opener at the start of a boss: Element Enhancement, Delayed Explosion, full channel Hellfire, Fire Wall and Cold Storm, then the macro. After the opener: macro, and Hellfire every time it is off cooldown.
Without Wish of Concentration at 16: put Wish at the bottom of the row as a buff, not as a cooldown reset.
Settings: Skill queue ON. Front camera and priority target scanning.

3. Stigmas

Stigma	Level	Why
Element Enhancement	20	+30% Fire and Water Attack, +200 Accuracy, x1.5 Robe of Flame and Grace of Enhancement. Max it first
Fire Wall	20	Raise it as high as possible early
Cold Storm	15	At least 5
Delayed Explosion	10	Fine at 1, better at 10. Once Fire Wall is 10, Cold Storm can stay at 5 and Delayed Explosion goes to 10

Divine Burst isn't in his boss setup.

4. Arcana

Four Primal Vigor cards and one Magic Armor card, the Bell, for extra damage.
Parchment: the main card. Hellfire, Wish of Concentration and Blaze.
Chalice: Wish of Concentration and Hellfire. Wish to 20 first, Hellfire to 20 later, "a huge DPS increase." Crafting the Chalice: "Yes unless u have a perfect +4 on the card parchment, if u do just pick hellfire instead."
Mirror: Robe of Flame levels. Compass: Bittercold Wind +4, nothing else matters.
Firestorm and Fire Wall only need 16.

5. Daevanion, titles, wings

Daevanion: core skills first (Flame Arrow, Firestorm, Ice Chain, Winter's Shackles, everything except Frost and Frost Burst), every gold node (cooldown and Combat Speed). Then Attack and HP nodes on every board. He skips the movement and stun resistance nodes on Triniel. [Correction] He missed the Robe of Flame node on Triniel in the video and fixed it in game.
Titles: Unbound by Genus, and Through Hell and Back for cooldown until Empty Closet (700 skins).
Wings: Talisra Wings for the cooldown. Until then Forest Spirit Wings, "slightly better" than Dark Veil.

6. Soul Binding

Slot	What he rolls for
Weapon, guard	Combat Speed, Weapon Damage Boost, Might, Multi-Hit, then Attack
Helmet	Double Chance, Attack, Attack Increase, Robe of Flame
Pauldrons	Double Chance, Attack, Critical Damage Boost, Robe of Flame
Breastplate	Damage Boost, Perfect Chance, Attack, Robe of Flame
Gloves	Perfect Chance, Combat Speed, Attack, Robe of Flame
Cloak	Double Chance, Attack, Robe of Flame
Boots	Move Speed, Perfect Chance, Attack, Robe of Flame
Earrings	Might, Accuracy, Move Speed, Attack, Robe of Flame
Necklace	Combat Speed, Might, Attack, Robe of Flame
Rings	Levels for Bittercold Wind and Wish of Concentration to reach 20, then Hellfire or Firestorm depending on your Arcana

The last line on most pieces doesn't matter for Sorcerer: Critical Hit, Accuracy, anything.
Precision: not needed. "Devs capped crit to 50% for global and its easy to reach cap even without precision just from pets and genus."
Rerolling a dungeon weapon before crafting: "u can reroll stats on urugug and just move them + enchantments to ur crafted weapon in the future u do not lose them."