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Whyte_Widow
2010-05-02, 10:27 PM
what are some of the best CC spells out there for sorcery yumminess?

Prodan
2010-05-02, 10:29 PM
Grease
Glitterdust
Web
Stinking Cloud
Solid Fog
Wall of Ice
Wall of Force
Wall of Stone
Freezing Fog

Keld Denar
2010-05-02, 11:14 PM
Evard's Black Tenticles
Caustic Mire
Wings of Flurry
Pyrotechnics
Slow
Illusionary Pit

ShneekeyTheLost
2010-05-02, 11:24 PM
And there's the answer to your question...

I might add in Cloudkill, but that may be less CC and more SoD...

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gbprime
2010-05-02, 11:58 PM
Gnome Blight (Races of the Dragon)
Major Image
Slow
Confusion
Mass Whelm (PHB2)
Wall of Pain (Shining South)
Mind Fog
Mass Flesh to Salt (Sandstorm)
Burst of Glacial Wrath (Dragon Magic)

Lycanthromancer
2010-05-03, 12:12 AM
Silent image is a good one, for sure; clever usage can push you a long way.

Summon monster XXX can be good as well. Pull in creatures with spellcasting and you can use the spells on its list as if they were your own (but limited by the creature's CL and casting score). They can also act as mobile walls (can't charge through another creature's space, for instance), and can buff and debuff (flank, Aid Another, bull-rush, disarm, sunder, etc).

Polymorph isn't normally considered a battlefield control spell, but it can totally work. It can net you interesting abilities, especially since sorcerers have good Charismas, and many monster abilities use Cha to determine saves. Look at the cloaker, for instance. And it also allows you to do battlefield maneuvers through trapping and such.

Runestar
2010-05-03, 12:12 AM
Cloud of bewilderment (SpC), a weaker stinking cloud variant.

Be sure to pick up heighten and sculpt spell as well. :smallsmile:

GoodbyeSoberDay
2010-05-03, 12:33 AM
Rounding out the list some more (* my favorites)...

Fear*
Waves of Exhaustion
Sleet Storm
Tunnel Swallow*
Defenestrating Sphere* (because it's fun)
Howling Chain*
Vertigo Field
Wall of [Alignment]
Spiritwall
Avasculate
Wall of Sand
Choking Cobwebs
Flashburst

Good spells for any sorcerer:
Arcane Fusion
Arcane Fusion, Greater
Arcane Spellsurge
Wings of Cover
Ruin Delver's Fortune
Alter Fortune
Nerveskitter

lsfreak
2010-05-03, 12:43 AM
Avasculatar Mass


FTFY. When given an option between purging someone's blood vessels, and purging someone's blood vessels and then entangling everyone else around them in the gore, the choice is obvious :smalltongue:

Dominate Person or Suggestion. Ranges from 'it's dangerous here, you better go elsewhere where it's safe' to 'go kill you friend.'

Wall of Magma and Legion of Sentinels both make fairly decent area-denial things. Enemies either avoid them, or take damage.

Any damage spell with Born of Three Thunders, if you've got the feats to invest. It takes Freezing Fog's heavy annoyance factor and ups it to puppy-kicking levels if you don't have teleport/FoM/good Reflex saves.

ghashxx
2010-05-03, 10:29 AM
Nightmare terrain is pretty nasty, It's fog plus getting grappled by grotesque disembodied arms. Really icky but very effective.