L86 blizzard sorc needs advice

My build:
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/qtjf10q4

Basically I'm a L86 blizzard sorc with 30 skills point not sure where to allocate. Most advices are on telekesis, Energy Shield which seems only defence, but not fire or lightning as secondary. Any other way to better level up?

Cheers,
slavevern

I have a lvl 92 Bliz sorc on Switch SSF.

I actually kinda hate Energy Shield as it depletes my mana too quickly and I'd like to be able to cast without surprises. (although I can imagine HC characters would benefit a lot from Energy Shield)

As for extra skill points, I would recommend to max out Frozen Armor as well as put 1 pt into Frozen Orb. Casting Frozen Orb in-between Blizzard can help tremendously with crowd control (and it looks very cool)

slaveern wrote: 12 hours ago

My build:
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/qtjf10q4

Basically I'm a L86 blizzard sorc with 30 skills point not sure where to allocate. Most advices are on telekesis, Energy Shield which seems only defence, but not fire or lightning as secondary. Any other way to better level up?

Cheers,
slavevern

I honestly don't even understand the question.
Blizzard sorc does not have 30 points left after maxing Blizzard and it's synergies.

In your build, you don't even have 20 in Blizzard. That's the skill you max first. Then all the synergies. And I would even put 20 hard in Cold Mastery as it increases your damage vs. cold immunes even after maxing.

Your secondary skill should be Ice Blast or Glacial Spike. This is the one to max 2nd.

Apart from 100 in Blizzard, you want 1 in Teleport and 1 in Static Field. And 1 in a cold armor of your preference.

That should cover this topic until lvl 96.

voodoojuju wrote: 8 hours ago

I have a lvl 92 Bliz sorc on Switch SSF.

I actually kinda hate Energy Shield as it depletes my mana too quickly and I'd like to be able to cast without surprises. (although I can imagine HC characters would benefit a lot from Energy Shield)

As for extra skill points, I would recommend to max out Frozen Armor as well as put 1 pt into Frozen Orb. Casting Frozen Orb in-between Blizzard can help tremendously with crowd control (and it looks very cool)

Both Glacial Spike and Ice Blast are better than a 1pt FrOrb. If you want to go dual with FrOrb Blizzard, you max both. This will reduce your blizzard damage.

Maxing cold armor is a waste unless you have a PvP build. You only use cold armors for the chilling effect that it prevents hits and this doesn't change with a higher level.

And as mentioned above, blizzard spec doesn't have many spare points, even at 99.

I am guessing that a new brother / sister just joined our ranks fighting against the prime evils.

My recommendation would be

Blizzard 20
Glacial Spike 20
Ice Blast 20
Ice Bolt 20
Cold Mastery 10
Frost Nova 1
Warmth 1
Charged Bolt 1
Telekinesis 16
Teleport 1

Get Memory or a decent orb on swap to precast Energy Shield. Annoying but would last some 15 minutes. Chilling Armor you can recast anytime from Snowclash. Don't ignore the Energy Shield. As you progress towards 99, survivability is the top priority, especially with the heralds now.
I certainly don't recommend a dual element build, it's suboptimal since the sunders exist

ganseng wrote: 7 hours ago

My recommendation would be

Blizzard 20
Glacial Spike 20
Ice Blast 20
Ice Bolt 20
Cold Mastery 10
Frost Nova 1
Warmth 1
Charged Bolt 1
Telekinesis 17

Get Memory or a decent orb on swap to precast Energy Shield. Annoying but would last some 15 minutes. Chilling Armor you can recast anytime from Snowclash. Don't ignore the Energy Shield. As you progress towards 99, survivability is the top priority, especially with the heralds now.
I certainly don't recommend a dual element build, it's suboptimal since the sunders exist

You forgot the most important skill - Teleport, my friend.

I would max out Cold Mastery for the cold immunes and skip on ES completely:

20 Blizzard
20 Glacial Spike
20 Ice Blast
20 Ice Bolt
20 Cold Mastery
1 Warmth
1 Frozen Armor
1 Frost Nova
1 Telekinesis
1 Static Field
1 Teleport

106 skill points, so you are maxed at level 95 (94 skill points from leveling + 12 from quests)

Flyhorse wrote: 7 hours ago

ganseng wrote: 7 hours ago

My recommendation would be

Blizzard 20
Glacial Spike 20
Ice Blast 20
Ice Bolt 20
Cold Mastery 10
Frost Nova 1
Warmth 1
Charged Bolt 1
Telekinesis 17

Get Memory or a decent orb on swap to precast Energy Shield. Annoying but would last some 15 minutes. Chilling Armor you can recast anytime from Snowclash. Don't ignore the Energy Shield. As you progress towards 99, survivability is the top priority, especially with the heralds now.
I certainly don't recommend a dual element build, it's suboptimal since the sunders exist

You forgot the most important skill - Teleport, my friend.

my bad, corrected. and if OP doesn't have a sunder, he can get it from me for free on SC NL

about max dmg (max Cold Mastery) vs max survivability (max Telekinesis), here are the numbers


Lvl 10 Cold Mastery + 20 points from gear = -165 res. -25 res from gear = -25 - 165 / 5 = -58 res on cold immunes

Lvl 20 Cold Mastery + 20 points from gear = -215 res. -25 res from gear = -25 - 215 / 5 = -68 res on cold immunes

Non-cold immunes are screwed anyways

-85 res from emilio's Infinity or Lower Resist from a5's Plague ignored

Imo survivability is more important, but let everyone decide for themselves

mikelessar wrote: 7 hours ago

I would max out Cold Mastery for the cold immunes and skip on ES completely:

20 Blizzard
20 Glacial Spike
20 Ice Blast
20 Ice Bolt
20 Cold Mastery
1 Warmth
1 Frozen Armor
1 Frost Nova
1 Telekinesis
1 Static Field
1 Teleport

106 skill points, so you are maxed at level 95 (94 skill points from leveling + 12 from quests)

Static fields tends to be rather unnecessary for blizz sorcs imo, thanks to the inherently fairly overkill dmg on blizz itself.
But yeah, agreed on the rest.

Blizz sorcs don't have left-over skill points until hitting 95 for the first spare for 5 of them at 99. Certainly not 30 spare points at lvl 86. Looking at the OP's build, blizz, mastery and synergies are all barely half-way done so that's where those points should go for a real blizz sorc. And imo that's including a respec to drop the 2nd point in Teleport, the 4 to get Energy Shield and the one in Static Field to open up 36 instead of 30, all of which then go towards blizzard, mastery and finishing 2 of the 3 synergies.

Energy Shield tends to be completely unnecessary for a blizz sorc as you never have a reason to be in the thick of it (and hence to get hit) to begin with.

Schnorki wrote: 3 hours ago

Static fields tends to be rather unnecessary for blizz sorcs imo, thanks to the inherently fairly overkill dmg on blizz itself.
But yeah, agreed on the rest.

For P1, a Blizz Sorc usually does not need it, but P5-8 is different. Baal packs and Herald packs can be so tough that it makes sense to cast Static in between Blizzard casts. The cast delay is 1.8 seconds, after all.

mikelessar wrote: 3 hours ago

Schnorki wrote: 3 hours ago

Static fields tends to be rather unnecessary for blizz sorcs imo, thanks to the inherently fairly overkill dmg on blizz itself.
But yeah, agreed on the rest.

For P1, a Blizz Sorc usually does not need it, but P5-8 is different. Baal packs and Herald packs can be so tough that it makes sense to cast Static in between Blizzard casts. The cast delay is 1.8 seconds, after all.

Gives you something to do in the cast delay I guess, true. But I never bothered with it even on P8. And never missed it.
But be that as it may, them last 5 points from 95-99 are indeed just left over so might as well do whatever one feels like with them. Not losing anything of importance with a pt in Static Field anymore there anyways.
(Technically, 6 from 94 on I guess, seeing how blizz sorcs are so far off and safe that Frozen Armor, too is rather optional - though I for one still prefer to have that one just out of Principle)

Try Hydra sorc i love it y just stand and summon Hydra from afar and thats all no need for static at all they melt bosses
i have 3921-4348 on Hydra atm so thats 150k on non immunes and 55k on Sundered immuness full Hydra blasst and not all skillers just have 3 and sunder its mental
https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/hydra-sorceress

your Maxroll link
says you have only 58 points in Cold Tree.
U can easily pump all of your points into your synergies?
About Energy Shield:
If u arent prebuffing with Memory, or using Frostburns or Jordans that give u massive mana, you dont get anything much from lowering ur Blizard potential to get a shield that doesnt work well.

I would just stay with Bliz
1 point Frost Nova
20 points in Blizard - Main AOE skill
20 Cold bolt
20 Cold Blast - Secondary attack skill
20 Glacial Spike
20 points into Cold Mastery.

If you are intrested in having a budget CI buster, then you simply need to have a merc that does that:

Examle being: A5 with ( Amn) Flamebellow/Gface/Hysteria or Treachery
or
Dual ( Amn) Djinslayers / Gface/ Hysteria or Treachery

And u can even prebuff them with a Demon Limb at base if you want them to slap something particularly immmune and spicy