05-11-2004, 12:48 PM
Hello
I'm assuming you're Ladder, since everyone and their mother is ladder.
First of all, the things on your sorc are rather valuable (mostly the rings), and should give you a useful setup. There are ways to improve matters, however.
(1) Fast cast. The problem with taking off magefist is that you loose a significant amount of fast cast. You don't have a lot to begin with, I simply hate playing a sorc under 65%, and without the gloves you fall below that level. You become too slow, and speed is the thing that keeps a sorc alive.
(2) Dieing a lot. Not good. Solution: STORMSHIELD. Yes, you don't see as many people zipping around in storms these days, but they're still the best shields out there. Blocking and PDR is a huge friend, and it gives you cold and lightning resist, which are obviously needed against Meph. Of course, if one is building a Storm sorc, you have to take the str requirements and dex into consideration, for me it has proved irreplacable (my sorc does not ever die).
Another thing would be the full Tal set (then again, you can have full tal AND Storm, now there's a thing). Partial tal with shako and occy is also neat, see if you have sufficient resists.
(3) Why sorc? If you can pay the price (4 SOJs at the moment), you can have yourself an enigma. It is undoubtably the best armor in the game, and lookie lookie, it has some MF as well. If you put it in the hands of a necromancer, you got a teleporting angel of death (yes, it feels good to be this cheesy at times); or if you put it on an elemental druid you can also have good results (especially against meph, since he is unable to touch a druid -- in Storm :)
Happy hunting
I'm assuming you're Ladder, since everyone and their mother is ladder.
First of all, the things on your sorc are rather valuable (mostly the rings), and should give you a useful setup. There are ways to improve matters, however.
(1) Fast cast. The problem with taking off magefist is that you loose a significant amount of fast cast. You don't have a lot to begin with, I simply hate playing a sorc under 65%, and without the gloves you fall below that level. You become too slow, and speed is the thing that keeps a sorc alive.
(2) Dieing a lot. Not good. Solution: STORMSHIELD. Yes, you don't see as many people zipping around in storms these days, but they're still the best shields out there. Blocking and PDR is a huge friend, and it gives you cold and lightning resist, which are obviously needed against Meph. Of course, if one is building a Storm sorc, you have to take the str requirements and dex into consideration, for me it has proved irreplacable (my sorc does not ever die).
Another thing would be the full Tal set (then again, you can have full tal AND Storm, now there's a thing). Partial tal with shako and occy is also neat, see if you have sufficient resists.
(3) Why sorc? If you can pay the price (4 SOJs at the moment), you can have yourself an enigma. It is undoubtably the best armor in the game, and lookie lookie, it has some MF as well. If you put it in the hands of a necromancer, you got a teleporting angel of death (yes, it feels good to be this cheesy at times); or if you put it on an elemental druid you can also have good results (especially against meph, since he is unable to touch a druid -- in Storm :)
Happy hunting