I tried my best to build a PVP ES sorc and the result was not a good one.
Items I used :
Vipermagi skin, 35%/12 with an UM in
Shako (with a Shael in)
heart of the oak (37%)
lidless wall (Perf D in)
2 SOJS
Mara (28%)
skill belt
Frostburn
Silkwave
(2nd lot I have a crappy call to arm with lidless wall)
20/16/6 unique sc
10 light GC
some sc with FHR/mana
with these items, I have more than 40 lvl of energy shield (which reached the 95% max absord dmg), and 110%FCR - basically the max you need for a sorc, 80% all res in hell, +13 all skills and a huge mana pool.
I am going all ENERGY and zero into VIT, no bloack (meaning no dex), I have around 400 points into energy.
After BO, I have around 3500 mana and 4XX life at lvl 82.
The skill I have chosen was thunder storm, with max thunder storm and light mastery and above items, I am doing around 35XX damage.
I also figured, I need some help from a merc (well, some may argue duel/PK with merc is no manner but in this case of an PVP ES sorc, I really don't see how can I do enough damage without one).
So I had chosen an Act 1 bow fire merc.
I leveled her to 73 (directly hired her in hell at lvl 71), so that she can use a WF, I also had couple other nice items for her, including the unique sharkskin armor (40% OW) and the latest runeword - Duress (33% OW and decent res), also with some help from a friend, I as able to get a perfect upgraded 220% unique razor bow.
I suppose if damage from WF doesn't work, then OW should make her a nasty killer also.
on paper, this kind of setup seems the best possible you can put on an PVP es sorc build and I did expect something good came out of it.
I tried out with my friend last weekend, the game was created in hell.
1. against a charger, I almost has zero chance to do any damage on him, the 3XXX light damgage in PVP is pretty much a joke, the damage of the merc is nothing to a high defense Pal. I can fly, no doubt, if I try to avoid getting hit, I can get away and the match will never end, but I just don't have any chance to beat him.
2. against a WW bar, same situation.
3. against a well setup sum nec, i did able to dispatched about 1/5 of his army but at the end, I can't beat him either.
Also, the point is, if an es sorc will be against a melee char and he/she will have some kind of OW, you are going to die, real fast.
If you are going to against a char with some kind of poison attack, you are going to die fast also.
Merc is basically a non factor (I even tried to use another enchant sorc to party and enchant my merc first before the duel - which added 4XXX fire damage), still the damage is not nothing at all, OW is not very obviously also, I think the penalty on OW using be merc is pretty high.
with max abosrd in ES, I did able to take some amazing damage though, I am able to take 3-4 hit of huge charge damage, 2 WW from a duel handed axe bar with BOTD, and that sum nec who got bone spear as his second attack, doing around 3XXX magic damage, basically can't do any damage to me at all (less than 20 life taken per hit).
So, with these items and setup, I think I can still solo hell with the help of a bow merc, but its pointless.
as for PVP, I really can't see any light yet...
Items I used :
Vipermagi skin, 35%/12 with an UM in
Shako (with a Shael in)
heart of the oak (37%)
lidless wall (Perf D in)
2 SOJS
Mara (28%)
skill belt
Frostburn
Silkwave
(2nd lot I have a crappy call to arm with lidless wall)
20/16/6 unique sc
10 light GC
some sc with FHR/mana
with these items, I have more than 40 lvl of energy shield (which reached the 95% max absord dmg), and 110%FCR - basically the max you need for a sorc, 80% all res in hell, +13 all skills and a huge mana pool.
I am going all ENERGY and zero into VIT, no bloack (meaning no dex), I have around 400 points into energy.
After BO, I have around 3500 mana and 4XX life at lvl 82.
The skill I have chosen was thunder storm, with max thunder storm and light mastery and above items, I am doing around 35XX damage.
I also figured, I need some help from a merc (well, some may argue duel/PK with merc is no manner but in this case of an PVP ES sorc, I really don't see how can I do enough damage without one).
So I had chosen an Act 1 bow fire merc.
I leveled her to 73 (directly hired her in hell at lvl 71), so that she can use a WF, I also had couple other nice items for her, including the unique sharkskin armor (40% OW) and the latest runeword - Duress (33% OW and decent res), also with some help from a friend, I as able to get a perfect upgraded 220% unique razor bow.
I suppose if damage from WF doesn't work, then OW should make her a nasty killer also.
on paper, this kind of setup seems the best possible you can put on an PVP es sorc build and I did expect something good came out of it.
I tried out with my friend last weekend, the game was created in hell.
1. against a charger, I almost has zero chance to do any damage on him, the 3XXX light damgage in PVP is pretty much a joke, the damage of the merc is nothing to a high defense Pal. I can fly, no doubt, if I try to avoid getting hit, I can get away and the match will never end, but I just don't have any chance to beat him.
2. against a WW bar, same situation.
3. against a well setup sum nec, i did able to dispatched about 1/5 of his army but at the end, I can't beat him either.
Also, the point is, if an es sorc will be against a melee char and he/she will have some kind of OW, you are going to die, real fast.
If you are going to against a char with some kind of poison attack, you are going to die fast also.
Merc is basically a non factor (I even tried to use another enchant sorc to party and enchant my merc first before the duel - which added 4XXX fire damage), still the damage is not nothing at all, OW is not very obviously also, I think the penalty on OW using be merc is pretty high.
with max abosrd in ES, I did able to take some amazing damage though, I am able to take 3-4 hit of huge charge damage, 2 WW from a duel handed axe bar with BOTD, and that sum nec who got bone spear as his second attack, doing around 3XXX magic damage, basically can't do any damage to me at all (less than 20 life taken per hit).
So, with these items and setup, I think I can still solo hell with the help of a bow merc, but its pointless.
as for PVP, I really can't see any light yet...