Having trouble as sorc

[Urza-DSF]

I just recently got the game and I just beat it as a warrior and am now playing as a Sorceror and i'm having loads of trouble with fire resistant and immune enemies.

Heh, its allright, everyone is new to any game at one point or another, but its good that you came here looking for help.

The trouble first started with the Butcher. I opened his door and, stupidly, saved the game. Nearly 30 minutes more mana pots than I can count later I realized that there was no way I was going to be able to beat him. I had worked out a method where I would run, shoot a fireball, prey that his attack missed, and run again to repeat the cycle, occationally healing insted of the fireball. I also tried it with charged bolt but that was even worse.

The easiest way to take out the butcher is to stairtrap him. This is a little technique that involves you having the butch follow you to the stairs down, and then walking around them untill he traps himself in them when you are positioned behind the stairs. Immobilizes him and your free to fire away with spells or even a bow.

So I made a new game with my character and everything was fine until I got to the skeleton king who killed me even more easily than the butcher.

Leoric is a bit of a tough opponent, but if you have slvl 1 or 2 Holy Bolt by the time you face him you shouldnt have any problem, and you should be able to stunlock him easily with it.

So I skipped him, saying I'd come back when I was stronger, and went on until I came to a unique Shadow Beast named Pulsecrawler. I tried equiping a club and sheild and put heal on right click and attacked him and healed myself through 16 mana pots (two full belts) to no avail. I eventually just gave up, went up one dungeon level, and saved.

Heh, well there is one big problem right there: a vanilla sorc should never, ever go melee. Its alot easier if you just go slow and try to draw your enemies out into a cleared area, then take them out there by shoot-running and keeping your distance.

I am right now a level 10 sorceror with 50 some magic and around 25-30 in all the other stats.

An often quoted remark about the sorc: "Any level up point put into a stat other than magic before its maxed is a waste." Which is very, very true. I could go on, but rather than that I'll link you to a resource that should help a whole lot more: Freshman Diablo. It has all kinds of articles to teach new players how to survive

http://www.arewehavingfunyet.com/diablo/diablo.shtml

Also, as a small recomendation I'd say try battle.net games or even multiplayer IPX or another option game if you cant get online that often. Multi is a bit more difficult, but you dont have to save your progress and your able to repeat levelsin order to find better equipment/books/ect.

Well, thats all I can think to add at the moment, so good luck and hopefully we'll see ya around sometime :-D