Diablo II Sorceress suggestions

To correct a few points: First, Cold Mastery will not break immunities. The only things that’ll break immunities are the paladin’s Conviction and the necromancer’s Lower Resist, Amplify Damage, and Decrepify (the latter two for physical only). So even if your primary is something cold, you’ll still need some other element.

Second, there are no triple-immunes in the game. If a monster gets a set of modifiers which would make it triple-immune, only the first two immunities apply. There is one monster type with five immunities, but in single-player, you’ll never see it.

Moving into the realm of suggestions, then: Yes, most monsters are fire resistant. Even when you take that into account, though, Fireball still kills faster than any cold skill. Except against fire immunes, of course, but then, there are cold immune monsters, too.

If you’re going to give your merc Insight, I would recommend a Prayer merc (that’s normal or Hell combat-type) rather than Defiance. The merc’s own Prayer works as a synergy for the Meditation on the runeword.

A Spirit shield has very good mods, but it’s also going to be very heavy. The lightest shield you can make it in is a monarch, which requires 156 strength, much more than any of your other equipment. You can make a case for it being worth it, but it’s a judgement call.

And with all due respect, a sorc can solo Meph and Pindleskin naked. Soloing Baal, now, that means something.

Ahhhh… Diablo II. I remember it well… and Chronos’ Fire sorceresses put out more damage than any other thing I’ve ever seen. And you cannot brag about soloing Meph and or Pindleskin… my summoner necromancer would never even break a sweat killing them in Hell level. Now, soloing Hell Baal was a challenge. It was one that I didn’t do often since it took too long and if I died at Baal it was over because I couldn’t raise enough things without my equipment… But I did do it several times.

Maybe I should reinstall Diablo for those times I get bored with WoW.

Oh, and do not think that Chronos is talking out of his hat. This thread pissed off a lot of people on the board for the length of time it hung around and the number of views and responses. Anything you would ever think to want to know about Diablo II was probably discussed, analysed, disected, and argued about in the thread.

If you don’t know about it, this is an awesome site for planning out your skills or testing to see how effective a build will be at higher levels without actually leveling up your char and finding out your Firebolt Fury sorc isn’t too great. :o
At level 99 hell difficulty you’ll have a total of 110 skills(counting the quest reward ones too), so plan around that if you like.

I always preferred a lightning/fire sorc, since I played through D2 with my necromancer friend.
I never really got the dislike so many people seem to have for some of the spells like mana shield or thunder storm. Mana shield saved my butt more times than I can count, and if you put more than 1 point into warmth you can get to a point where you’ll regen the lost mana so fast it isn’t too much of a problem unless you get surrounded by blunderbores or something. The decent levels of warmth are also nice since you only end up needing around 500 or so mana and can throw the rest of the stat points into stamina and stuff. With about 20 total in warmth counting +skill items my mana would regen from empty to full in about five seconds. Never needed a mana pot unless I was fighting a manaburn guy. YMMV of course.

Now: lightning storm. It may not seem too great when you just look at it, but if you’re going deep into the lightning tree it becomes really powerful. It has a passive bonus most people ignore or don’t know about in which each point decreases the time between lightning strikes. With decent points and +skill or +lightning items you can get it so it’s a free hit for around 1200-1500 every 2 seconds or so. Its radius might also increase too, but that’s only from my observation; I’ve never sat down and tested that.
So effectively it becomes the best mana:damage spell sorcs can get, and it’s WONDERFUL when you’re kiting around some Extra Fast Extra Strong Cursed monster in hell difficulty where your cold effects only last for 0.3 seconds. :dubious:
Plus maxed out chain lightning just looks so badass. :smiley:

I did check out that service. In looks like you can do it with almost anything, provided you specialize.

Particularly one of those one-handed sorceress-only globe thingies that they added in the Lord of Destruction expansion. They’ll give you the same kinds of bonuses that a staff will, but they only consume 1 of your 2 hands.

Just checking in, but I haven’t seen any dopers on US West yet. Are you a late-evening crowd or just haven’t been playing lately?

Hey, good to meet you in the game. Sorry I disappeared, apparently I was “Tempbanned”.

Sorry we haven’t seen you online, I actully haven’t played this week, I just got Civ 4 :slight_smile: There is about 4 of us playing regularly, and over 8 of us that show up occasianally, and we have gotten pretty rich on the US West realm, so we can equip your character however you want it :slight_smile:

Oh and Palooka, if you want me to take my HoZ back, you can email me your account/password at hirkatbawa@gmail.com