Countless builders have broken their backs trying to make the Anointed Blade Sorcerer to work, because it’s so cool, yet nobody has made even a half decent build with it. I managed to make one that’s maybe half decent, but even then it’s damage is very pitiful.
Most people would suggest buffing the Fire Strike end, but I personally think after playing a build with it that the Devastation part is what needs more help - Devastation just does no significant damage without additional projectiles, even with the WD% the weapon gives it. I had to use the cold Devastation prefix on Arcanist’s Conduit to get additional projectiles and even with losing half the fire conversion and -TDM% it ended up actually helping with damage (though, still not enough to feel good to play on Ascendant).
Though, the fire strike end is also crap, but that’s not the cool part of the weapon to most people I think.
Seriously though, the weapon is so cool in concept, it deserves to be at least a little bit good!!! Crate, my beloved, I beg you!
May I suggest a bold move and just get rid of the fire strike part. A two handed melee sorcerer must be near the bottom of the barrel for theoretical builds surely.
Also there is zero support for chaos devastation in general. Both parts of this sword are questionable.
This is the 2nd build I tried when FoA dropped, with the first being Aetherthorns. I have an eye for underpowered garbage apparently.
The worst aspect of this build is devastations cooldown reduction being tied to firestrike. The build is squishy so you cant facetank everything, which means you deal with shitty cooldown while kiting or not having devastation ready to go when jumping between packs of mobs. Pretty often when you’re zooming between packs of mobs you’re just the worlds worst firestrike build with some weak bullshit raining from the sky against bosses. The randomness of the cooldown reduction also makes it impossible to get into a good rhythm with the build. It just feels clunky.