Great when going through Normal when you can't teleport much Rhyme Kite Shield - Shael + Eth - Extra block, resistances and even a little bit of MF. Spirit sword - Tal + Thul + Ort + Amn - No explanation necessary. It's challenging but the monsters die quickly. I've sometimes started MFing hell Mausoleum and Meph with little more than a Spirit sword and Rhyme shield. The point of this guide is to be a cheap but effective character with a good balance between killspeed and MF.īasically slap on everything you find on your journey that gives you skills, resistances, life and mana. This sorc needs very little gear in order to be able to MF in NM/Hell. Put points into Vitality and Energy so that your life and mana are rougly equal, perhaps a little more mana.įor example stat until 400 life / 480 mana. If this is not reached add some more points to ES until you get around 55%. You want to have about 55% damage taken to mana with one point. It is very important to have many points in TK before you start using ES as TK reduces the amount of mana taken with damage. The same as above with 1 point in Energy shield and 20 points in Telekinesis. The reason for this is that your resistances do not matter when you use Energy Shield. When starting out on ladder and playing with low gear, I have started to utilize ES builds when I make the transition from Nightmare to Hell. The point is not to break immunes but to increase damage with lowering resistance, and in this mechanic more is better, up until -195 cold res (which you will not achieve with mf gear). I will include some more information on gear progression.Ģ0 Ice Blast: Untimed skill, shoot these between blizzardsĢ0 Ice Bolt: Max this before Glacial Spike as it increases damage on Ice BlastĢ0 Cold Mastery: There is debate on whether going for 17cm with +skills, as you would in a dual tree sorc, but I prefer to max it as you won't have much +skills with leveling gear or low gear. But over the years as my brain matured and my knowledge of the game increased I have spotted some glaring mistakes and room for improvement and I figured I'd write an updated guide for the new ladder reset coming up. During these little relapses I naturally return to D2JSP and every time my heart is warmed to see the guide that I wrote as a young man still in place in the unified strategy and guides sticky, 14 years later. Once every couple of years I get a nostalgia wave and fire up Diablo 2 to kill some time (and monsters), and every time I still use the trusted blizzard sorc build.

Diablo 2 blizzard sorc skill order