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Hey there,

short summary

I started off with a leveling guide for a Blizzard /
Meteor
hybrid build, which seemed to have payed off pretty well. I then transitioned into
Frozen Orb
/
Chain Lightning
hybrid build but soon after i found my
Cold Rupture
Sunder charm.

My thoughts and research

I'm now gathering essences (only need one from diablo) so i can respec.. but the question remains, what should i respec into?

I was looking around watching a couple of builds and guides. It seems that fire sorc is most famous for doing ubers but my
Cold Rupture
doesn't really have added value here. Cold sorc seems like a debate between blizzard and orb, but i'm not sure if orb is the right choice. Mainly because it seemed i was no match at all for doing ubers. Someone helping me said it made sense i didn't stood any chance because i was an Orb sorc. Besides that, i think it seemed easier doing cow levels for instance with the blizzard/
Glacial Spike
combo instead of what i have now.

Further more a couple of other builds (
Zeal
,
Werebear
) but i don't think i will focus on that any time soon.
I think for now i want to transition back into blizzard sorc having the
Cold Rupture
.

My Gear and options

The gear i have now is:
The Oculus
,
Harlequin Crest
,
Skin of the Vipermagi
, Spirit
Monarch
,
Natalya's Soul
,
Tal Rasha
's Fine-Spur Cloth,
Magefist
,
Mara's Kaleidoscope
, Order Grip ring with 10FCR 26CR and
Nagelring
25MF. Weapon swap has
Blade Of Ali Baba
and Rhyme
Bone Shield
.
A couple of charms for the resistance,
Gheed's Fortune
, a 16/17 Anni and an Amazon torch 15/10.
I currently have all resistances 75% except cold, which is at 68%.

I have some other gear options as well, like a couple of other rings with FCR,
Manald Heal
,
Chance Guards
,
Gloom's Trap
,
Snowclash
,
Frostburn
,
Trang-Oul's Claws
.

My A2 merc with Might has an Insight
Thresher
with lvl14
Meditation
,
Stealskull
and
Goldskin
.

Last but not least..

I'm still focussing on gathering better gear, mainly the ones i need for cold build and the runes i need for things like, HOTO or Doom, CTA, Infinity and Treachery.

I hope someone can guide me a bit or maybe have some usefull feedback. Please let me know if more information is needed.

Thanks in advance! Cheers!
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
Hey there,

short summary

I started off with a leveling guide for a Blizzard /
Meteor
hybrid build, which seemed to have payed off pretty well. I then transitioned into
Frozen Orb
/
Chain Lightning
hybrid build but soon after i found my
Cold Rupture
Sunder charm.

My thoughts and research

I'm now gathering essences (only need one from diablo) so i can respec.. but the question remains, what should i respec into?

I was looking around watching a couple of builds and guides. It seems that fire sorc is most famous for doing ubers but my
Cold Rupture
doesn't really have added value here. Cold sorc seems like a debate between blizzard and orb, but i'm not sure if orb is the right choice. Mainly because it seemed i was no match at all for doing ubers. Someone helping me said it made sense i didn't stood any chance because i was an Orb sorc. Besides that, i think it seemed easier doing cow levels for instance with the blizzard/
Glacial Spike
combo instead of what i have now.

Further more a couple of other builds (
Zeal
,
Werebear
) but i don't think i will focus on that any time soon.
I think for now i want to transition back into blizzard sorc having the
Cold Rupture
.

My Gear and options

The gear i have now is:
The Oculus
,
Harlequin Crest
,
Skin of the Vipermagi
, Spirit
Monarch
,
Natalya's Soul
,
Tal Rasha
's Fine-Spur Cloth,
Magefist
,
Mara's Kaleidoscope
, Order Grip ring with 10FCR 26CR and
Nagelring
25MF. Weapon swap has
Blade Of Ali Baba
and Rhyme
Bone Shield
.
A couple of charms for the resistance,
Gheed's Fortune
, a 16/17 Anni and an Amazon torch 15/10.
I currently have all resistances 75% except cold, which is at 68%.

I have some other gear options as well, like a couple of other rings with FCR,
Manald Heal
,
Chance Guards
,
Gloom's Trap
,
Snowclash
,
Frostburn
,
Trang-Oul's Claws
.

My A2 merc with Might has an Insight
Thresher
with lvl14
Meditation
,
Stealskull
and
Goldskin
.

Last but not least..

I'm still focussing on gathering better gear, mainly the ones i need for cold build and the runes i need for things like, HOTO or Doom, CTA, Infinity and Treachery.

I hope someone can guide me a bit or maybe have some usefull feedback. Please let me know if more information is needed.

Thanks in advance! Cheers!

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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Hello, i see the situation you are in right now, in your position I:
1. Respec, or stay in, full Blizzard Sorc. It’s too strong and versatile, you can stack a lot of MF and it plows lots of areas.

2. Farm the hell out of; Cows,
Travincal
,
Ancient Tunnels
,
Andariel
(especially if TZ) and maybe The Pit. As you probably already know, you don’t really need a ton MF at Cows, you go there for bases, runes and charms, with around 100mf is already overkill.

3. Reconsider a cold Sorc for Ubers, never tried it before but sounds like a pain in the butt. Might as well go Smither and play it safe.

4. Subscribe to my channel at Twitch.com/just-kidding-lol hahaha, for real thou I have an
Eth
Treachery I don’t really need anymore. Add me and I could donate it to you.

5. Keep slaying 😈
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What's your goal ?

Blizz sorc is just one of the best char you can make, you can farm efficiently almost everywhere even with low gear.
You'll do good with the gear you have, you'll just be a bit slow against cold immune since you don't have a lot of -cold resist apart from
Cold Mastery
, but you have plenty areas to farm without lot of cold immunes. I think Blizz sorc can do ubers now with a cold sunder, but wouldn't be fast or easy (I didn't test it...).

Fire sorc is the best for Ubers I think (even without a fire sunder). But you'll have less area to farm efficiently (like CS wouldn't be a great spot), and you'll have to change some gear.

Were,
Zeal
are more expansive builds.

I'm not sure about Light sorc. I mean it can do everything (including Ubers), but I think you'll need more gear to really use the potential (I think you'll do better with a starter blizz sorc than with a starter light sorc).
I don't know if you can do Ubers just with Crescent Moon and a Light Sunder...?

So maybe you should farm with a Blizz sorc, you have gear for that, and when you got richer you can change for a more expansive build. That's generally how it works.

Just know that you can do Ubers with a cheap smiter (really cheap ! ^^).
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
Thanks for the helpfull and detailed feedback! Really appreciated. It seems clear to me; I will go blizz sorc for now, cold only. Seems viable and strong enough and expect it to do tons of damage since my previous blizz
Meteor
already seemed to do better.

Thanks for the Treachery offer in advance! I'll add you for sure.
As a thank you, i'll subscribe to your channel 😜

My goal for now is to just make a build that can farm as fast and/or efficient as possible. Of course i want to do ubers as well, mainly to get the right torch.
I was planning to play a pala afterwards and farm its gear or requirements with my sorc, so in that case i can make the smiter.

I've seen a blizz sorc doing solo ubers once but with better gear ofcourse. I think he also had a barbarian merc with dual wield, proccing a buff from chest armor first then swapping it for something else.
I don't find myself nearly geared nor skilled enough for such magic 😂

And just for my clarity. With smiter you mean a pala with
Smite
, right?

Thanks again!

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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Necrarch 2055Moderator

Necromancer Europe PC
Smiter = Pala with
Smite
indeed. Best Dclone / Ubers hunter.

Cold sorc can be efficient with budget gear, and optimized then with more, but already works without top tier stuff.

Typical budget cold sorc gear :
- Full TalRasha Set
- Spirit
Monarch
Shield
- Aldur's
Boots

-
Magefist

- Most expensive is probably the rings, with 2 SoJ (or 1 SoJ one FCR ring if you miss FCR - I don't think you should)
- You can optimize by adding cold facets

- Cold sunder
- Res charms to go back to standard 75 all
- Cheap Anni and Torch

Merc :
- Insight in
Eth
elite polearm (
Cryptic Axe
is typically nice and not TOO expensive)
- Treachery
- Andy's Visage with
Ral
or
Vampire Gaze
or any leeching decent
Helm


Then optimize where you want :
You :
- Death Fathom for
Wand

-
Shako
or Nightwing for
Helm

Are the most obvious
- etc. (Arach / Chains of Honor / Mara's...)
- Skiller charms, better charms...

Merc :
- Fortitude in armor
- Nice stuff in your Andy Visage that compensates fire res + adds either IAS (expensive but better) or min/max damage (cheaper)
- Infinity is always great but less required for cold sorc due to how
Cold Mastery
works.

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Main: Necromancer / Second: Assassin / Third: Amazon / Check my stash, my crafts and my many cheap
Annihilus
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I went Blizzard /
Energy Shield
.

Memory rune word (quite cheap) to boost ES and uniques which boost your mana:
Frostburn
, 2
Stone of Jordan
,
Silkweave
and
Arachnid Mesh
.

Main weapon: Doom (to demolish cold res opponents) or HOTO
Armour: Chains of Honor
Helmet:
Harlequin Crest
with cold facet
Shield: Spirit

Also don't forget to keep a
Cold Rupture
in your backpack!

When you have 3K points of Mana you and your merc don't need Insight anymore. He needs something better! If you cannot afford overhyped Infinity please consider Obedience (again, quite cheap), it hits hard!

Armour for merc: Fortitude
Helmet: my choice is
Crown of Thieves
or anything with life stolen per hit.

You will be good.
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And how to get a
Ber
rune for your Chains of Honor?

A
Ber
rune costs circa 15
Ist
on the market.

One
Ist
rune costs 20
Ral
.

Farm Countess on normal for low level runes (and cube them to
Ral
), she also drops
Ral
. I can get 20
Ral
from her in about one hour,
Teleport
to her quickly with at least 105FCR!

However sooner or later you will be fed up with farming so have a break and continue 2 days later :)

Enjoy your Chains of Honor!
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
Thanks for those detailed explanations, Kriss and Necrarch! Most definitely some good goals to aim for.

Also.. How, for the love of god, would one reach 3k mana.. i'm at 592 now and cannot imagine how i could reach that insane amount of mana.

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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My 88lvl Blizzard Sorc work pretty well with standard, budget gear and cold sunder charm. Mostly i farm
Andariel
, Coutness, Cows,
Mephisto
and
Travincal
with her. Rest of the zones (and ofcourse Ubers) do with my FoH/
Zeal
/
Smite
hybrid Paladin.

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kozie wrote: 1 year ago
Thanks for those detailed explanations, Kriss and Necrarch! Most definitely some good goals to aim for.

Also.. How, for the love of god, would one reach 3k mana.. i'm at 592 now and cannot imagine how i could reach that insane amount of mana.
Haha :) Just put your
Frostburn
, SOJs,
Arachnid Mesh
,
Silkweave
and HOTO on!

The thing is when you go
Energy Shield
you invest all points in Mana not in Life.

I'm level 91, my life is 500 something and mana nearly 3000.
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
Kriss_De_Valnor_ wrote: 1 year ago
kozie wrote: 1 year ago
Thanks for those detailed explanations, Kriss and Necrarch! Most definitely some good goals to aim for.

Also.. How, for the love of god, would one reach 3k mana.. i'm at 592 now and cannot imagine how i could reach that insane amount of mana.
Haha :) Just put your
Frostburn
, SOJs,
Arachnid Mesh
,
Silkweave
and HOTO on!

The thing is when you go
Energy Shield
you invest all points in Mana not in Life.

I'm level 91, my life is 500 something and mana nearly 3000.
Ah, look at that. Makes a lot of sense.

I would first need to find myself an SOJ, including the
Belt
and
Silkweave
. Still need to find the runes for HOTO as well. At least i have the
Flail
. Thanks again.

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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You don't need
Energy Shield
at all imho :P

You'll do well with your actual gear, don't worry :)
Try to find some skillers :)
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
I just found my last essence and respecced into blizz sorc now. I might transition into the build with the
Energy Shield
when i have the appropriate gear for it.

But man.. i was looking for this stuff. This build is tons and tons better than the build i had before.

Thanks again all. I also have some clearance on what to focus on and what to farm for.

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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I have a self-wield
Nova
,
Fireball
and Blizzard sorceresses with BIS gear. FB is the most easy to play with Phoenix since there's no mana issue. And she kills with sunder.

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* I trade both ladder and non-ladder, please check before asking.
* All my trades are for runes, keys (especially KoT and KoH) and essences!
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I have a 89
Frozen Orb
/ Blizzard sorc with a cold sunder charm and i'm loving it. You can cast two frozen orbs between blizzards, blasting everything out of the way.

And
Cold Mastery
, although only works with 1/5 efficiency on cold immunes, is really cheaper than some runewords to reduce enemy cold resist.
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kozie wrote: 1 year ago
I just found my last essence and respecced into blizz sorc now. I might transition into the build with the
Energy Shield
when i have the appropriate gear for it.

But man.. i was looking for this stuff. This build is tons and tons better than the build i had before.

Thanks again all. I also have some clearance on what to focus on and what to farm for.
Hey ! What pieces are you missing for your blizz sorc ?!
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
siriuswhite wrote: 1 year ago
kozie wrote: 1 year ago
I just found my last essence and respecced into blizz sorc now. I might transition into the build with the
Energy Shield
when i have the appropriate gear for it.

But man.. i was looking for this stuff. This build is tons and tons better than the build i had before.

Thanks again all. I also have some clearance on what to focus on and what to farm for.
Hey ! What pieces are you missing for your blizz sorc ?!
For the
Energy Shield
build i do miss the SoJ's,
Arachnid Mesh
,
Silkweave
and the HOTO or Doom. Further more, still missing the
Ormus
' Robe as well as the CTA

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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Nate 584

Switch
When you find a lightning sunder charm I highly recommend
Nova
sorc, with a Crescent Moon she doesn’t need Infinity or griffons eye to still farm effectively, but once you have them… she’s one of, if not the best out there!

Fireball
sorc is fun too
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kozie 19

Sorceress Europe PC
Nate wrote: 1 year ago
When you find a lightning sunder charm I highly recommend
Nova
sorc, with a Crescent Moon she doesn’t need Infinity or griffons eye to still farm effectively, but once you have them… she’s one of, if not the best out there!

Fireball
sorc is fun too
Thanks for the recommendation! I've seen
Nova
Sorc in a farming video before. It seemed very efficient but mostly fast to work/play with.

Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
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By the way, I strongly recommend Cure and Insight on
Prayer
merc. Heals you up incredibly fast and solves pot requirement.

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* All my trades are for runes, keys (especially KoT and KoH) and essences!
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