Tier 3 Igniter Sorceress Build Guide

This build is recommended for experienced players, with extensive knowledge about each raid and its mechanics!

• Doomsday is your highest damage skill and one of your Casting skills. When Arcane Rupture is active, this skill is cast twice.
• Explosion and Punishing Strike are also Casting skills with relatively high damage output. They are both cast during Arcane Rupture, but can also be used outside of this effect.
• Blaze is your Synergy (Damage Amplification) skill.
• Squall is your Counter skill.
• Frost's Call is your main meter generator, it should never be used during Arcane Rupture.
• Inferno and Seraphic Hail are both damage skills and secondary meter generators. They can be cast during Arcane Rupture, as well as outside of this effect.
• Enviska's Might is your Awakening. It is preferred over Apocalypse Call thanks to its Push Immunity and superior meter generation.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Blaze

• Purify - Allows you to cleanse your debuffs.

Check the Rune Guide for more details on Runes and how to obtain them.

This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Chaos Dungeons. For Ebony Cube please use a Raid build.

• Reverse Gravity and Ice Shower are your main ways to deal with large packs of lesser monsters.
• Punishing Strike, Esoteric Reaction and Inferno can all deal with Elite monsters on their own.
• Punishing Strike can additionally kill the Boss on the second floor in one hit.
• Frost's Call, Seraphic Hail and Rime Arrow can be used freely to deal with any remaining monsters.
• Apocalypse Call is your Awakening. It is preferred over Enviska's Might thanks to its prolonged effect and reduced cast time.

Recommended Engraving Setup

While you can freely experiment with any engravings you want for this content, here's a recommended setup, based on the Engraving Support system:

• Preemptive Strike causes your attacks to deal immense amounts of damage to monsters that you haven't attacked yet, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.
• Contender is a stacking Attack Power effect that increases in strength once you kill a monster, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.
• Raid Captain provides damage based on your Bonus Movement Speed, synergizing well with the Buff Nodes scattered throughout Chaos Dungeons.
• Hit Master provides an unconditional damage boost to your skills, as none of the important ones have a positional affix.
• Reflux provides a non-conditional damage boost and significantly lower cooldowns, synergizing well with Chaos Dungeon ethers.

This build focuses on dealing massive amounts of burst damage within the Arcane Rupture (Z) window. Skills like Doomsday, Explosion, and Punishing Strike benefit from the Magick Amplification tripod which enhances their damage even further when cast during Arcane Rupture.

As a general rule, you should not be using Blink (X), as it will significantly slow down your rotation. However, it can be used in emergencies where you would otherwise have no way of escaping certain death.

An integral part of your rotation is casting Doomsday twice for each Arcane Rupture window. This can be achieved by precasting Doomsday, then entering your identity, with the second cast becoming available towards the end of the cycle.

While the standard build tries to only utilize the Magick Addiction part of the Nightmare Set, this build also makes use of Boundless MP. The goal is to be in Magick Addiction at the beginning of each Arcane Rupture cycle, and transition into Boundless MP towards the end, allowing you to significantly shorten the build-up that follows. This requires careful mana management and timing your skills correctly.

Basic Rotations

Meter Generation Rotation (Arcane Meter build-up)

This build does not have a specific build-up rotation, instead simply using your skills as they come off cooldown. However, meter generation happens within the same thresholds as with the standard build - it begins with Frost's Call, as soon as Arcane Rupture finishes, and ends with a second cast of Frost's Call, at which point you should be back in Magick Addiction state in order to begin a burst rotation.

Burst Rotation (Arcane Rupture)

• Using skills in this specific order is required in order to correctly phase between Magick Addiction and Boundless MP at the right time. You should be transitioning into Boundless MP after the second cast of Squall.
• Make sure to manually cancel the remaining duration of your Arcane Rupture after the second Doomsday has landed, in order to start building meter as soon as possible.
• Try your best to maintain your Synergy using Blaze, even if you aren't planning to attack immediately after.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Using skills in this specific order is recommended for most stagger checks. However, each check can vary in duration, so you may need to readjust depending on that and your party's composition. Remember you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped!

Tripods written in bold text are your highest priority, make sure to level them first!

Nightmare Set

This set is the only option for this build, since it relies on the Boundless MP effect to function properly.

The name of your set will change every time you acquire a higher tier of gear, but the set effect will remain the same. Look for your set's keyword when recrafting it to find it more easily (e.g Entropy, Hallucination etc).