hfday

All right, now I know Blizz sorcs are supposedly the best-MF-sorc ever.. but meh. I'm looking to try something a little different. My question is this:

Would a pure fire sorc be just as good? I intend to go with an A2 NM Defensive merc, and put some good gear on him to help with meteor + fire immunes, but how many immunes am I looking at.. and is a blizz sorc just THAT much better?

Another alternative would be a cold/fire combo, and would this work for MF? (Say, 5 into orb or something and then all rest go into fireball/bolt/meteor/mastery/etc.)

And, if pure fire is okay.. what bosses could it solo in hell? (I'm still pretty new and so I don't have all the immunes memorized etc.)

So (roughly) here are my options:
Pure fire
Fire/cold (uh, meteorb?)
Pure cold. (ehhh.. id rather not go pure cold again though)

I need to know soon please. Thanks.

EDIT:

I might consider a lightning sorc too if somebody suggests that, but I don't hear too much good about them as far as mfing goes.

Another question:

Should a pure fire/cold invest in energy shield and/or TS? Static? Telekinesis?

:x

The-Grim-Reaper

get a TS / Orb sorc O.o max ts, light master, orb, cold master, 1 to energy shield, 1 to the 2nd cold armor.

hfday

Synergies?

What damage would TS do..?

Haha, that actually sounds like an interesting build.. :/ But what about hell? >_< Orb damage sucked even maxed out w/ max cold mastery.

jedimaster86

meteorb would be something like 20 meteor, 20 fireball, 20 fire mastery, 20 orb, 10 cold mastery, the "essentials" (like tele, static, and some kind of cold armor/energy shield), then afterwards u can put more points into firebolt or something like that. i got one, and she's working pretty good for me; she can solo anything in hell w/help of act 2 nm def merc.

-Andy is really easy w/fire since she has -50 fire resistance in ALL difficulties.
-If you wanna do Duriel, just have ur merc tank him while you do some static followed by meteor/fball.
-With Meph, you could always do the moat trick, or you could have your merc tank him (in that case you should prolly have something in merc to decrease lightning dmg taken) and you can cast static, followed by meteor,orb.
-Diablo may take longer than other bosses because of many fire immunes before you get to him, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem, esp if you have some orb to back up your fire attacks. also merc will help. Diablo himself shouldnt be too bad, pretty much do all the same tricks as before (merc tank, you static and then meteor/fball)
-Baal is the same strategy as every time. make sure ur fcr is fast enough that you can tele to throne without getting killed.

hope this helped you out a bit; but yeh fire/cold is fun to do.

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hfday

Thank you. :) I've been wanting a "dual" build forever now because my main issue with a pure cold is all of the damn cold immunes, and so I can't solo several places.

Just curious.. not that it's REALLY important, but would this build be okay for pit? (Never been in there in Hell yet.)

jedimaster86

yeh its cool for the pit; that place usually has has monsters that are either fire immune or cold immune in hell, so just attack the monsters with either orb or fireball (or once again let the merc do the work heh)

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Keitaro

Fireball Sorc is very good for MFing.

20 Fire Ball
20 Fire Mastery
20 Meteor
20 Fire Bolt
Resit into ES, Telekinesis and Warmth.

Get a Act.2 defence (nm) merc to take out the immunes.

hfday

Also:

Stat point allocation? So far I think I've put (minus maybe 5-10 points) EVERYTHING into vitality.. which is around base 105 right now I think and my life still sucks. ;x

DeStRuCtIoN

yea fire sorc is very good for mef (cos she can take out EVERYTHING).

stat points are as follow.

str enuf to use stuff
dex none
vit everything
evrgy 2/lvl

hfday

So basically I have about 48 points to put into energy..? Haha, which would put me even further behind. :P Oh well, I'll just start now.

xX5c41z0Xx

well i ****ed up the stats i put some into dex and alot into energy and some into vit but do they have to be perf?

hfday

I might have to get about 45dex for the gear I want and roughly 90-100en maybe. (shrugs)

Keitaro

The point are not wasted if you got a shield, unless you have over 100 dex.
100 dex is the magical max-block % in most cases. (read paladin FoH guide for the exact info)