ES nova sorc help… again

So, they’ve nerfed the warlock, mine went to 5000 damage. My expensive gear is worthless (Obsession/Phoenix)

I’m back to trying to get my ES sorc not to die in P1 Chaos.

I have everything that everyone recommended.

I’m using Infinity scythes near perfect roll
Griffons with -5/+5 jewel (+19/-25)
Perf vipermagi (35 res, 13 MDR) +5/-5 jewel

Magefist
Dual soj
A mesh
70pr

Eth

Sandstorm Trek
+3/10 ammy
Torch/anni/sunder
6 skillers with 25-27 life
CTA/viseratuant on swap

Warpspear for buff +6 ES (don’t want a dumb Memory staff)

A2

Prayer merc with Insight and Cure

i have a level 40 ES, 4400

Nova damage. A few points to strength, the rest to energy

I think the only thing im missing here is the uber jewel… other than tat, i think most everythis is BIS?

Anyway, i died two times in my last Chaos run P1. The second time it was the Venom lords, mana burn.

Teleport>instant Death

I’m confused at this point. I can’t do Chaos runs,

Baal runs without getting smashed by something… on p1, mind you

Is there any hope here? Its ridiculous to me to have such an expensive character that is considered S tier only to get absolutely ripped apart on P1… especially when you can’t even hit the Ground running or pickup many items… I have to swap weapons, cast, swap, then cast bo, adding over 20 seconds to what should be a 60 second Chaos run as well has have a slap full inventory and have to take an incredible amount of time to see what Diablo dropped

What am I doin wrong?

Your gear is good.

Problem with

Baal is the blood mana curse. Nothing much you can do about it - have some full rejuvenation potions on hand.

Chaos Sanctuary - Venom Lords if you tele into the seal pack it can be problematic to say the least. This is just something you need to bear in mind, best to have them move towards you and just spam

Nova. You should melt them before they get in range.

Problem I have with this build is sometimes forget to cast

Energy Shield ;0.

How much life and mana do you have with the CTA? How much poison res?

Your gear is good but a 3-10 amu is not bis. Best is 2-20 with e.g. mana, strength, poison res, poison length reduction etc.

One tip: Cast

Cyclone Armor from your Infinity (I hope it is non-

Eth as it should be) with your ES. Your ES will protect the

Cyclone Armor but it will still soak damage.

You call out having level 40 ES, do you also have

Telekinesis maxed out?

As @mikelessar said. Casting

Cyclone Armor really does help. Cast it before you cast ES.

Buff order should be: BC, BO,

Cyclone Armor,

Frozen Armor, and finally ES. Thunderstorm (if you have it) doesn't matter when you cast it as long as its after BC.

mikelessar wrote: 4 hours ago

How much life and mana do you have with the CTA? How much poison res?

Your gear is good but a 3-10 amu is not bis. Best is 2-20 with e.g. mana, strength, poison res, poison length reduction etc.

One tip: Cast

Cyclone Armor from your Infinity (I hope it is non-

Eth as it should be) with your ES. Oyr ES wiml protect the

Cyclone Armor but it will still soak damage.

I have 698/2170… 60 stats reserved for gear change (I’ve never been able to get used to respec… never do it)

Some people suggest damage taken goes to mana gear,.. just don’t know how to fit it on the build

Hell and this thing doesn’t even have any MF

Knappogue wrote: 4 hours ago

You call out having level 40 ES, do you also have

Telekinesis maxed out?

As @mikelessar said. Casting

Cyclone Armor really does help. Cast it before you cast ES.

Buff order should be: BC, BO,

Cyclone Armor,

Frozen Armor, and finally ES. Thunderstorm (if you have it) doesn't matter when you cast it as long as its after BC.

Yes

Telekinesis is maxed . I made sure to max static last so survivability is priority.

I do everything in that order except cyclone. But damn, that’s a lot of work for a character with less than 100mf to do a Chaos run. Adding like 20-30 seconds to what should be a 60 second run. I have no idea how this is considered S tier… I may as well bring a bo barb to the game while I’m at it

Agree if you tele into a the seal pack u are toast. better to static a little away and then as they run to u spam the

Nova

I to have had same problem with Chaos

Best of luck.

M1ck wrote: 4 hours ago

Your gear is good.

Problem with

Baal is the blood mana curse. Nothing much you can do about it - have some full rejuvenation potions on hand.

Chaos Sanctuary - Venom Lords if you tele into the seal pack it can be problematic to say the least. This is just something you need to bear in mind, best to have them move towards you and just spam

Nova. You should melt them before they get in range.

Problem I have with this build is sometimes forget to cast

Energy Shield ;0.

StoBeast wrote: 4 hours ago

Knappogue wrote: 4 hours ago

You call out having level 40 ES, do you also have

Telekinesis maxed out?

As @mikelessar said. Casting

Cyclone Armor really does help. Cast it before you cast ES.

Buff order should be: BC, BO,

Cyclone Armor,

Frozen Armor, and finally ES. Thunderstorm (if you have it) doesn't matter when you cast it as long as its after BC.

Yes

Telekinesis is maxed . I made sure to max static last so survivability is priority.

I do everything in that order except cyclone. But damn, that’s a lot of work for a character with less than 100mf to do a Chaos run. Adding like 20-30 seconds to what should be a 60 second run. I have no idea how this is considered S tier… I may as well bring a bo barb to the game while I’m at it

Pre warlock this build along with Mosaic Assassin was at the top page of every ladder. There's even one this ladder, considering how OP the warlock is that speaks volumes.

It's S Tier because it can easily clear everything in the game on P8 (aside from a few areas with excessive blood mana curse). It's perhaps not as convenient for doing single area runs such as Chaos over and over again due to the initial setup, but that doesn't detract from it being an amazing build overall.

Also Magic Find is overrated, I've found several Death Web's and

Astreon's Iron Ward with a basically 0mf

Nova Sorceress...

Did you respec your

Nova sorc "back then"? Following the "recipe" you were given?

You can add me on bnet - I can help you fix this once and for all - let me know

StoBeast wrote: 4 hours ago

I have 698/2170…

After CTA? That's surprisingly low.

I have 1000/3400 with better gear but you should have at least 800/2700 with your gear.

For Memory, do remember on a (cheap) base you can get +3 ES bringing to +9 ES.
For the remainder the gear seems ok, maybe needs to be a little more cautious and sometimes just a bad enemy affix combo happens.

Necrarch wrote: 3 hours ago

For Memory, do remember on a (cheap) base you can get +3 ES bringing to +9 ES.
For the remainder the gear seems ok, maybe needs to be a little more cautious and sometimes just a bad enemy affix combo happens.

iirc, after 40 there is no benefit of es. Is that correct? Mines at 40 with my +6

You're doing something wrong with how you play. Post a video so we can see.

For reference my gear is probably not as "good" as yours. I also split my vit/mana so that I don't have to deal with the blood mana curse.

I do everything with:
Griff+Jewel
Skullders
Rare

Boots
Arachnid
1 Soj
1 Caster (10%)
1 Trang Glove
Self Wield Infinity
Mara
2 skillers (no health)
1 Sunder
Insight Merc

My HP/Mana is 1490/1450

I don't ever die on TZ96 Chaos? Not trying to jinx myself.

I very rarely die during TZ96 Worldstar if I

Teleport during gloams or other shenanigans.

In general I don't die unless its a desync with T5 Heralds or some issues with ES disappearing.

Walk a tiny bit more

Teleport a little less and learn where mobs usually are.

During Worldstar walk from the WP and see which monsters are on lvl 2. You'll learn quickly which monsters usually accompany souls. If you see souls you're better off walk-aporting and its probably good to have some lightning res for that area. If you zigzag in the areas where monsters usually spawn and you know there are souls there, they will always miss and then you can

Teleport before their they're able to use lightning again.

I don't understand how you die to Venom lords. Don't

Teleport into a group of them? Like when you spawn the Venom lord seal, position yourself away from where they spawn so they walk to you. It gives you time to use static and them a change to target your merc first.

Try using static before teleporting into mobs or of mob looks ultra dangerous just peck at it from the side. Otherwise the more you attack the better, so spam that hotkey! Oh and if you are blood mana cursed, use full rejuvs and/or

Teleport away. Also can't hurt to make sure your merc has a lvl 17 aura on that Insight as well as a Chains of Honor for the extra skill points if possible.

Are you keeping the mobs on the Edge of your

Nova because there can still lots of incoming dmg in Chaos?

mikelessar wrote: 3 hours ago

StoBeast wrote: 4 hours ago

I have 698/2170…

After CTA? That's surprisingly low.

I have 1000/3400 with better gear but you should have at least 800/2700 with your gear.

I didn’t do the jade figurine quests. So I just did that and it put me to 800, still 2170 mana. I can get 813/2198 if I swap my cool looking shield to a lidless. And again, I have 60 stats remaining, and of course I didn’t do the stat quests.

StoBeast wrote: 4 hours ago

mikelessar wrote: 4 hours ago

How much life and mana do you have with the CTA? How much poison res?

Your gear is good but a 3-10 amu is not bis. Best is 2-20 with e.g. mana, strength, poison res, poison length reduction etc.

One tip: Cast

Cyclone Armor from your Infinity (I hope it is non-

Eth as it should be) with your ES. Oyr ES wiml protect the

Cyclone Armor but it will still soak damage.

I have 698/2170… 60 stats reserved for gear change (I’ve never been able to get used to respec… never do it)

Some people suggest damage taken goes to mana gear,.. just don’t know how to fit it on the build

Hell and this thing doesn’t even have any MF

The main issue is your mana is way too low. Although you still shouldn't have problems dying with that. I think my mana is 1800-2200 before CTA (depending on whether I wear FB or

Magefist). After CTA I am ~3250 mana w/

Magefist and 3850 with FB.

Unpopular opinion here as the standard logic is to FCR max - but FB are amazing for

Energy Shield sorc even if you lose an FCR breakpoint. Even at 75 FCR you tp as fast as the fastest any other char can go. If you are dying, just

Sacrifice a break point to boost your mana. If you are not dual SOJing, do that too.

With FB, dual SOJ, CTA and

Arachnid Mesh you should get around a 1+.40+0.25+0.25+0.80+0.05 = 2.75x boost to your base mana. Invest those 60 reserved points into energy. Respecing is cheap. 60*2=120 base mana * 2.75 = 330 more mana. Also do the stat quests of course to get more mana. And also get some +mana charms. And if you invested too much into strength or anything into dex you should respec that out to get more points for energy.

Finally - I will admit that even with my fairly maxed

Nova sorc I do not tp into the center of the

Infector of Souls pack after popping the seal. If I did and just stayed there while casting

Nova and not taking any rejuv, there is some risk of Death, although probably not on P1. I just get close to the pack and hit it from the side, still out of range of at least some of the pack, versus taking 12x

Inferno hit all at once.

Nova is great at disrupting enemy attacks, but it does not disrupt the

Inferno attack, which is why

Infector of Souls is a rare exception at being able to potentially take you down. If need be, static them as soon as they drop also, but it shouldn't be necessary.

Infector of Souls and dolls are the only pack in the game I will not TP into the center of with zero fear (including cows, souls,

Lord De Seis).

I have zero fear teleporting into the center of any other Venom lord pack

try

Fireball

Hydra
mine only ever dies to a disconnect