Advice on ES nova spec

Expecting to see a warlock nerf, I built an es

Nova sorc for rushing characters. This build is supposed to be “meta”, but in p1 I can’t even think about using

Teleport because I’ll just die. Right now I am drinking full rejuvenations in the

Frozen River tz on p1, being careful to walk everywhere

My stats are 100% energy
Skills max static,

Nova, light mastery,

Teleport, 10 to ES so far (level 86)

Infinity

Scythe
Griffon’s eye
Skin of vipermagi

Magefist
2x SOJ

Arachnid Mesh

Waterwalk
10fcr all res ammy
+6 Bo CTA and lidless on swap
Anni/torch/sunder

My merc is a2

Prayer with Insight

Gives me 600 life/2.3k mana. All res are negative. A pitiful 3k damage. I have 50 stats remaining

What am I doing by wrong?

You need to max out

Telekinesis and ES.

Also replace

Waterwalk with

Sandstorm Trek. You need to max out poison res. Its the only elemental dmg type that gets through ES.
Also put one point into

Shiver Armor and

Warmth.
Try to get Cure for your merc.
Did you max out

Teleport? I can't tell by the way you worded it, but you only need 1 point into

Teleport.

I’ll switch to trek. No, I didn’t max tele. I need 10 levels to max ES… as far as I can tell, this build needs like level 95. I did put one into

Warmth and frozen

Shael

Io

Tal turned my

Death Mask into a “gemmed

Death Mask”

Oh wow, I’d need to add 41 str to put trek on

Here is mine (and the most common build imo. now with rotw, she could use a new ancient jewel in her griffons and a latent sunder):
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/svejxy0n

StoBeast wrote: 1 hour ago

Shael

Io

Tal turned my

Death Mask into a “gemmed

Death Mask”

Cure is ladder only. You need to buy one on non ladder.

Cure is ladder-only. You must buy one.

Your setup is bot bad but 600 life and 2300 mana are not much for your gear.

What character level do you have?

Have you put any points in Str, Vit and Dex (which you should not do)?

I persOnally do not use Treks (too much str, need the points in Energy). I go with rare (caster)

Boots with frw, mana and poison res.

Your

Energy Shield is lacking. Max

Telekinesis first, and then ES. Dump all your remaining stats in Energy. Get skillers to boost your ES %

StoBeast wrote: 1 hour ago

I’ll switch to trek. No, I didn’t max tele. I need 10 levels to max ES… as far as I can tell, this build needs like level 95. I did put one into

Warmth and frozen

Shael

Io

Tal turned my

Death Mask into a “gemmed

Death Mask”

Oh wow, I’d need to add 41 str to put trek on

Been there you need 20 to

Nova, mastery, static, ES,

Telekinesis. One point Tele,

Warmth. You want to max out

Telekinesis BEFORE ES, it makes a difference.

Meanwhile, if you don't care being slow with immunes and don't want to waste a token, I'd try HOTO + CoH + Lidless. You will feel the res difference improvement!

StoBeast wrote: 1 hour ago

Ias far as I can tell, this build needs like level 95. I did put one into

Warmth and frozen

Yea you max out skills at lvl 95 with this build. I put one point into thunderstorm so she is maxed at 96.
The trek vs other

Boots with poison res really comes down to play style and preferences. I personally go for trek because of the additional fhr and the crazy high poison res. I have also maxed out fhr (all my skiller GC also have 12 fhr). Getting stunned on p8 from a crit soul hit in WSK can be deadly, even with maxed es and

Telekinesis. This is probably overkill, but I enjoy not getting

Stun locked.
At the same time I see the benefit of using the extra str points for energy.

Cracume wrote: 20 minutes ago

I'd try HOTO + CoH + Lidless. You will feel the res difference improvement!

No, ES

Nova Sorc does not need all res, only poison res. And he already has a self-wield Infinity which is the best damage option by far.

This build does not necessarily need lvl 95. It depends on your +skills when you reach max 95% ES

Resistantces do not matter at all if you are using

Energy Shield.

Also check this out forums/budget-non-squishy-nova-sorc-t1770329.html

I proposed that because they didn't max

Telekinesis. Until then, it does