06-22-2003, 12:52 AM
With your gear you will probably be surprised about just how strong a pure melee sorceress can be. She will suck in cow level for obvious reasons but she can tear up act 5 ice cave levels quite easily. In fact due to teleport speeding up her movement she is comparible to my hellslayer berserk barb.
Don't forget frost nova. Some short sighted purists insist this is an offensive spell. That doesn't really hold water if you take into account that its barbarian counterpart warcry does more damage than it does. Some "offensive" spell! :P I really suggst giving this a few points. Also in the case of shiver armor I invested in frozen instead because considering the skill points invested to get shiver, frozen adds the same defense.
A great armor to use is shaft which requires less than that 150 str, arkaines might be worth it but I've never bothered to try.
For your dex don't worry about getting *perfect* block so much. 55-60 is just fine and with a stormshield/ryme hyperion plus the dex required for a lightsaber this will be easy to do.
vit: yeah pretty much everything should go here.
energy: don't bother! between shako and 1 or 2 sojs you will have plenty of mana.
Lightsaber is a good chioce because you won't really have to worry about attack rating. So what if you miss a boss 50% of the time? They are less than 5% of monsters you will fight.
For your hat definantly go harly, using anything else is sacraficing a lot for small gains.
Consider thundergod's for your belt. More lightning damage extra str extra vit, oh and you can be near immune to the most dangerous element to you. :D
There are only 2 rings that are really worth considering: raven frost and soj.
For boots war travs are a bad choice and gore riders are worse. It may sound silly but try cow kings, extra dex extra fire damage and a little magic find just for giggles. B) Aldur's is another good chioce. Personally though I use sigons boot/glove combo.
For gloves if I ever get around to putting a shael in my lightsaber Hellmouth gaunts would be great. But it is also a nice spot to get some resists.
Armor: definantly shaft. Besides its useful stats it looks too good on a sorc not to use. ;)
Quote:Skills:
Enchant: 20
Fire Mastery: 20
Lightning Mastery: 20
Shiver Armor: 10
Energy Shield: 10
Don't forget frost nova. Some short sighted purists insist this is an offensive spell. That doesn't really hold water if you take into account that its barbarian counterpart warcry does more damage than it does. Some "offensive" spell! :P I really suggst giving this a few points. Also in the case of shiver armor I invested in frozen instead because considering the skill points invested to get shiver, frozen adds the same defense.
Quote:Stats:
Str: Enough for High defense armor (~150)
Dex: 200+ (for max blocking and AR)
Vit: Rest
Energy: Enough to keep ES going
A great armor to use is shaft which requires less than that 150 str, arkaines might be worth it but I've never bothered to try.
For your dex don't worry about getting *perfect* block so much. 55-60 is just fine and with a stormshield/ryme hyperion plus the dex required for a lightsaber this will be easy to do.
vit: yeah pretty much everything should go here.
energy: don't bother! between shako and 1 or 2 sojs you will have plenty of mana.
Quote:Equipment:
Weapon1: Lightsaber (30% more IAS for 10-frame speed)
Weapon 2: Lower Resists Wand or Dagger
Shield: Storm Shield or Rhyme Hyperion
Helm: Harley or Rare circlet LL, +stats, resists
Belt: String
Ring1: Raven Frost
Ring2: Rare LL, resists, +stats (dream on)
Boots: War Trav or Gore Rider
Gloves: LoH or Rare 20% IAS, resists, +stats (dream on)
Armor: Lionheart or Shaftstop
Lightsaber is a good chioce because you won't really have to worry about attack rating. So what if you miss a boss 50% of the time? They are less than 5% of monsters you will fight.
For your hat definantly go harly, using anything else is sacraficing a lot for small gains.
Consider thundergod's for your belt. More lightning damage extra str extra vit, oh and you can be near immune to the most dangerous element to you. :D
There are only 2 rings that are really worth considering: raven frost and soj.
For boots war travs are a bad choice and gore riders are worse. It may sound silly but try cow kings, extra dex extra fire damage and a little magic find just for giggles. B) Aldur's is another good chioce. Personally though I use sigons boot/glove combo.
For gloves if I ever get around to putting a shael in my lightsaber Hellmouth gaunts would be great. But it is also a nice spot to get some resists.
Armor: definantly shaft. Besides its useful stats it looks too good on a sorc not to use. ;)