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Hi,
I am a Sorceress in Act 2 of Nightmare. I've built up on fire element so far but due to the fire immunes I want a change.
My goal: Solo NM and Hell easily or almost easily?
I know that gear is very important here but regardless of the gear, just thinking skill tree wise,
I am thinking of a hybrid one. Which one of these would you most suggest compared to others?
1) orb- Fireball
2) orb- Hydra
3) orb - firewall
4) orb + Nova
5) full blizz
6) blizz + Hydra
7) blizz+ other fires
8) blizz+ Nova
9) full lightning (because lightning immunes are fewer than cold/fire immunes)
or do you have separate build recommendations for NM and Hell?
Thank you
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I am a Sorceress in Act 2 of Nightmare. I've built up on fire element so far but due to the fire immunes I want a change.
My goal: Solo NM and Hell easily or almost easily?
I know that gear is very important here but regardless of the gear, just thinking skill tree wise,
I am thinking of a hybrid one. Which one of these would you most suggest compared to others?
1) orb- Fireball
2) orb- Hydra
3) orb - firewall
4) orb + Nova
5) full blizz
6) blizz + Hydra
7) blizz+ other fires
8) blizz+ Nova
9) full lightning (because lightning immunes are fewer than cold/fire immunes)
or do you have separate build recommendations for NM and Hell?
Thank you
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Hi,
I am a Sorceress in Act 2 of Nightmare. I've built up on fire element so far but due to the fire immunes I want a change.
My goal: Solo NM and Hell easily or almost easily?
I know that gear is very important here but regardless of the gear, just thinking skill tree wise,
I am thinking of a hybrid one. Which one of these would you most suggest compared to others?
1) orb- Fireball
2) orb- Hydra
3) orb - firewall
4) orb + Nova
5) full blizz
6) blizz + Hydra
7) blizz+ other fires
8) blizz+ Nova
9) full lightning (because lightning immunes are fewer than cold/fire immunes)
or do you have separate build recommendations for NM and Hell?
Thank you
I am a Sorceress in Act 2 of Nightmare. I've built up on fire element so far but due to the fire immunes I want a change.
My goal: Solo NM and Hell easily or almost easily?
I know that gear is very important here but regardless of the gear, just thinking skill tree wise,
I am thinking of a hybrid one. Which one of these would you most suggest compared to others?
1) orb- Fireball
2) orb- Hydra
3) orb - firewall
4) orb + Nova
5) full blizz
6) blizz + Hydra
7) blizz+ other fires
8) blizz+ Nova
9) full lightning (because lightning immunes are fewer than cold/fire immunes)
or do you have separate build recommendations for NM and Hell?
Thank you
To finish hell comfortably, you should go with hybrid.
No to Lightning => it need many skill points to shine
So the choice is Fire and Cold
Cold :
Blizz need many points as Lightning.
Blizz is hard to aim.
My recommendation is FO: good AOE.
Max FO + 1 point Cold Master is enough.
Fire:
Firewall is strong, but enemies can move out of it.
Fireball solid choice but my recommendation is Hydra.
Hydra is now stronger with 2.4 and it is fun to play.
PS: lightning immunes are the most common but their immunity can be break by Infinity.
No to Lightning => it need many skill points to shine
So the choice is Fire and Cold
Cold :
Blizz need many points as Lightning.
Blizz is hard to aim.
My recommendation is FO: good AOE.
Max FO + 1 point Cold Master is enough.
Fire:
Firewall is strong, but enemies can move out of it.
Fireball solid choice but my recommendation is Hydra.
Hydra is now stronger with 2.4 and it is fun to play.
PS: lightning immunes are the most common but their immunity can be break by Infinity.
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I would do Frozen Orb and Hydra. Max Frozen Orb, Hydra and Fire Mastery. From there, put points into any of the synergies for those 2 skills as needed.
Seconding hybrid Max FO with 1 point in Cold Mastery + Hydra. Sit back, relax and let your hydras kill most things, then launch a few orbs at anything still alive. Then have a reasonably well geared Act 2 merc to take care of dual Fire & Cold Immune uniques. Holy Freeze aura for more safety to slow down any pesky mobs. Lots of build build guides out there for this particular build, most agree on skill/stat point distribution and gear.mockingbirdreal wrote: 2 years ago To finish hell comfortably, you should go with hybrid.
No to Lightning => it need many skill points to shine
So the choice is Fire and Cold
Cold :
Blizz need many points as Lightning.
Blizz is hard to aim.
My recommendation is FO: good AOE.
Max FO + 1 point Cold Master is enough.
Fire:
Firewall is strong, but enemies can move out of it.
Fireball solid choice but my recommendation is Hydra.
Hydra is now stronger with 2.4 and it is fun to play.
PS: lightning immunes are the most common but their immunity can be break by Infinity.
Quite honestly, since they fixed the mana burn bug, I am reconsidering a Orb/ Hydra/EG build for HC, especially since you can be virtually immortal building out Telekinesis. You lose out on the synergies for Orb, but it's 2%, so I don't mind. With maxed Telekinesis, 10 points in Energy Shield and maxed Hydra/ Fire Mastery it works beautifully.
As a long time sorcess player, I would have to refer you to Maxroll.gg for the right build. They strongly suggest Blizzard since you can easily build a decent budget hell farmer with little down. I did and I would wholey recommend that again!
I personally used Maxroll.gg for a pure blizz and just teleported past cold immunes. It's possible cold fire hybrid would have served me better, but at the character level I was at when entering Hell, I'm not sure how that would have panned out.
Once I got higher level, I went mostly pure blizzard, but with 20 hard points in Hydra and that got me through very comfortably until I got Infinity.
Once I got higher level, I went mostly pure blizzard, but with 20 hard points in Hydra and that got me through very comfortably until I got Infinity.
I was able to make it all the way through hell with a full blizzard build. My merc was using Tal Mask, a non Eth Insight, and Treachery. I pretty much skipped cold immunes and let my merc kill anything else needed. Ancients took awhile to kill but I got through it. Once I beat Baal I stayed full blizzard and farmed cows, Ancient Tunnels and Mephisto.
blizzård and fíreball worked great for me. took it all the way to 94.
focused on icce blasst/blizz and firebollt/ball/mastery. 0 in metėor and only a few in còld masterý
act 2 merc with freeze arua. tål maśk with dureil shell (cant be frozen) and an Eth insíght if u can get it Eth. never bothered changing his body amror. found an Eth andy and now uses that
focused on icce blasst/blizz and firebollt/ball/mastery. 0 in metėor and only a few in còld masterý
act 2 merc with freeze arua. tål maśk with dureil shell (cant be frozen) and an Eth insíght if u can get it Eth. never bothered changing his body amror. found an Eth andy and now uses that
Another thing...don't discount the various rare orbs you may find. For my FO+ Hydra build, found this little one for my offhand swap, gives me Energy Shield and Chilling Armor for zero points invested, with my charms and a cheap Spirit, they're both at Lv 13 to those skills. Also gives me an option for cold+fire immunes to help out my merc in Thunder Storm, not very fast, but effective.
not mentioned in other posts but keeping something in your cube with -enemy Xelement resist and/or Lower Resist skill to switch with your swap gear makes not skipping past immunes more feasible.
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My first char in D2R is a Sorc and now she's 94, Hydrorber with A5 merc. All I want to say is with a reliable merc you don't need to skip any monster with maxed-synergized Hydra and maxed FO with a few Cold Mastery points.
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-enemy resist from gear does not work against immunes. Only skills can break immunities (but once they do, -res from gear is applied).vallya wrote: 2 years ago not mentioned in other posts but keeping something in your cube with -enemy Xelement resist and/or Lower Resist skill to switch with your swap gear makes not skipping past immunes more feasible.
exactly, so getting a switch swap weapon with charges for lower res then applying the - enemy res from gear is a good strat if you're the kind of person who can't just run past immunes, I know I'm one of them lol. Maybe I've been doing it wrong? I used to just skip immunes so I'm not overly familiar with breaking them.Trang Oul wrote: 2 years ago-enemy resist from gear does not work against immunes. Only skills can break immunities (but once they do, -res from gear is applied).vallya wrote: 2 years ago not mentioned in other posts but keeping something in your cube with -enemy Xelement resist and/or Lower Resist skill to switch with your swap gear makes not skipping past immunes more feasible.
ATTENTION: I WILL BE MOVING ON JUNE 30TH, ALL TRADES WILL BE PAUSED. FIBER WILL BE INSTALLED ON JULY 5TH, IF YOU PLACE AN OFFER BETWEEN THOSE DAYS I WILL NOT SEE YOUR BIDS UNTIL JULY 6TH.
Let me clarify: -enemy res gear does not apply any kind of a debuff on enemies, but is applied to damage calculation "on runtime", on enemies which are not immune (either never been or the immunity has been broken by skills). So while items with -enemy res skills (such as Lower Resist charges) can be worn on switch, -enemy res items (for example Crescent Moon) have to be worn as primary equipment.
If you meant switching to -res gear, you're correct, but then you'd need 3 setups: primary (skills, FCR), -res skill and -res items (the last two can be combined, but require specific endgame items, such as weapon + Medusa's Gaze, Lower Resist wand + 4×Rainbow Facet JMOD or Infinity, to which OP, still being on Nightmare, likely has no access to yet). IMO too inconvenient for regular farming. I'd rather make a hybrid build or skip immunes altogether.
If you meant switching to -res gear, you're correct, but then you'd need 3 setups: primary (skills, FCR), -res skill and -res items (the last two can be combined, but require specific endgame items, such as weapon + Medusa's Gaze, Lower Resist wand + 4×Rainbow Facet JMOD or Infinity, to which OP, still being on Nightmare, likely has no access to yet). IMO too inconvenient for regular farming. I'd rather make a hybrid build or skip immunes altogether.
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