Advice on ES nova spec

mikelessar wrote: 14 hours ago

Cure is ladder-only. You must buy one.

What character level do you have?

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

Level 86. 0 str 0 dex 0 vit

louner wrote: 13 hours ago

Resistantces do not matter at all if you are using

Energy Shield.

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

That’s nice. I’ve seen someone recommend that armor and I’m kind of mad because I found that and threw it away because it looked like one of those useless uniques. Kind of stupid because I kept 3 griswolds armor because it looked cool.

I may try this, but it means ditching my whole build basically … I guess at least the expensive bit, Infinity

mikelessar wrote: 11 hours ago

StoBeast, you have not told us about your charms. Of course, skillers are a good idea and maybe 2 or 3 +12 fhr grand charms (ideally with +1 lightning) because you are tele-stomping all the time.

This is probably not a great thing, but none of my characters have any charms beyond anni/torch/sunder. I cannot stand having no inventory in a loot based game. I’m not a big fan of building characters for specific tasks … I want to be able to generally find items with any character and it requires an inventory.

You can get a gladiator's bane for free or a few pgems.

But I promise you - go

Frostburn, dual soj, arachnid, vipermagi, griffon, Infinity (you have all the expensive items here already), max out TK, don't overinvest points into strength (and none into dex), and supplement your resistances with resistance

Boots or charms, and you will be super tanky.

Resistances - mara/anni/torch/magi you are already at 35 resist all in hell (maybe slightly less since they may not all be perfect). Ignoring sunder, which you may just have to use a few decent lighting resist charms as a temporary solution until you are leveled.

Then you can use your 2 sockets for ums to get to 70, and is super easy to get to 75. Or use your sockets for

Sol and

Mal if you want more MDR/DR, and use a few more charms. And this is ignoring the

Boots which you can use for resistance also.

Gladiator's bane DR/MDR is pretty cool and will work well with a not yet maxed ES, so you can go that route also, but I think it's the tougher way to go because then you are lacking resistances, + skill and FCR.

Once you are around level 90 you can stop worrying about resists so much, as your ES should be close to maxed (depending on your skiller count)

You can pre-buff with Memory to ensure level 40 ES (for 95% damage to mana). I would try to stack more resist charms and get those out of the negs. I run around 30 or so, and sometimes more if I am running scary areas. You could try switching to a FCR ring and using a Mara's or a

Tal's Amulet. If you can find some tri-res

Boots they would also help a lot but that's obviously tougher. Otherwise your gear looks fine and damage should be sufficient.