Sorcerer: mana, elements and presets

Evidence and version: skill costs, cooldowns and mana refills below come from Global client-database skill records retrieved October 10, 2026. The stat definitions come from a community stats glossary. Two passives are known only from machine-translated regional records and are marked as such. Field notes come from one new Asmodian Sorcerer played that evening; they are single, unmeasured observations. Check the tooltips in the current client before relying on a number.

Mana is the Sorcerer's second limit: a melee or healing class mostly waits on cooldowns, but the Sorcerer's strongest skills also cost MP. Per the Global records, Frost costs 100 MP with a 30-second cooldown, and Hellfire costs 200 MP with a 45-second cooldown and a charge. Other core skills cost nothing: Frost Burst (10-second cooldown, needs a target afflicted with Frost) and Blaze (5-second cooldown). Running dry is the Sorcerer's version of a skill being on cooldown.

Two skills refill mana: Flame Arrow is a basic skill with no cost that deals Fire damage and restores 100 MP. Blaze deals Fire damage to a target afflicted with Fire Mark and also restores 100 MP. That makes them part of the rotation, not filler: casting them is how the expensive skills get paid for. Editorial field note: on the new character, the default left-click skill was a fire skill that refilled mana and the default right-click skill was a frost skill that cost mana, so the two mouse buttons form a built-in spend-and-refill loop. Alternating them works better than holding one.

Cooldown reduction has a mana price: more cooldown reduction means more casts per minute, and on a class that pays MP per cast, that means emptying the mana bar faster. On a class without mana pressure, cooldown reduction is close to pure gain. On the Sorcerer, weigh it against MP recovery, or keep a refill skill in every cycle.

Keep mana above half: a regional record for a Sorcerer passive (Earth robe, machine-translated) describes higher maximum MP and MP recovery, plus a critical-hit bonus only while MP is above 50%. A community build guide gives the same advice: keep MP above 50%. If the Global passive matches, letting mana run low also costs critical hits, not only casts. This is unverified on Global; check the passive's tooltip.

The Sorcerer uses two elements: Flame Arrow, Blaze and Hellfire deal Fire damage, while Frost, Frost Burst and the other ice skills deal Water damage. The game counts frost as Water. So the class's elemental stats are a split between fire and water, not "stack fire". A regional record for the Elemental Strengthening stigma describes raising both fire and water attack, which fits that split.

How the elemental stats work: the stats glossary lists the same three stats for each of Fire, Water, Wind and Earth. Attack raises damage dealt with that element. Boost amplifies it further, and it is reduced by the target's matching Tolerance. Defense reduces damage taken from that element. A stat only helps skills of the same element: Fire Attack does nothing for Frost. Before choosing gear or nodes, work out which element deals more of your damage in a fight; the glossary does not give the size of each bonus.

Presets carry their own macros: editorial field note from the same evening, on a level-45 Elyos Cleric. After a skill preset was switched, holding the right mouse button stopped casting the skill chain. The macro that drove that button belonged to the old preset and had to be set up again on the new one. If a mouse-button or hold-to-cast action stops after a preset change, check the macro on the active preset first.

Not established here: the Global names and values of the Earth robe passive and the Elemental Strengthening stigma, the size of each elemental Attack and Boost bonus, which element contributes more damage in a typical rotation, and whether every default key binding matches the field note. These remain open until confirmed in the live client.