07-09-2003, 06:14 PM
I tried a similar sorc and seemed to do decently before I got bored (player1 only -- hell).
Tal Rasha's set (downloaded char, what an ugly set...; ends up with ~+6 skills i think)
All other items were blues I got off of gheed/charsi (resists were barely into the positives)
10 warmth
20 hydra
10 fb (for spamming during hydra cast delay)
20 orb
10 gs (for emergency freezing, but I might go ice blast for the orb synergy)
20 chain lightning (thinking of taking a different lightning skill, though)
1 in each of the masteries
1 in tp, tk, & static, and the rest of the prereqs (~5 points left over, maybe for more masteries if I ever get that far)
Certainly not an uber build, but I am taking skills I know I will actually use.
str to wear full set
200 vit
base dex
rest in energy
I started in the outter steppes. It seemed too easy spamming orb everywhere. So, I went down to the river. This was actually difficult, doable but very slow. Orb is great for the venom lords, but really poor against the maulers. I really had a hard time when I ran into a champ mauler pack. The minions were easy enough when I got them stuck on the ledges to hydra/gs them to death, but the champ himself was impossible to kill. No matter how fast I spammed orbs at him (he wouldn't stay stuck), he regenerated back unusually fast.
I also tried the bloody foothills. I ended up with hell slingers and something from the quill rat class. They also died easy enough with orb, seemingly too easy. The hard part was dodging ~4 javelins along with a bunch of poisoning quills. I died twice doing that, due to stun lock.
As good as chain lightning sounds, it is far inferior to orb when it comes to packs (vs. no cold immunes). The mana cost is the same as hydra's for the same level, but it is relatively weak against single targets, which is where I'd most likely use it (since my strength is fire/ice). I still think a tri-elementalist sorc is possible, but only if she doesn't go overboard with synergies.
I also had a hard time keeping mana. I had about ~500 mana (no sojs or frosties/magefists for +% mana/regen and no es). When I ran into big packs, I never seemed to have enough mana from just spamming orb.
Tal Rasha's set (downloaded char, what an ugly set...; ends up with ~+6 skills i think)
All other items were blues I got off of gheed/charsi (resists were barely into the positives)
10 warmth
20 hydra
10 fb (for spamming during hydra cast delay)
20 orb
10 gs (for emergency freezing, but I might go ice blast for the orb synergy)
20 chain lightning (thinking of taking a different lightning skill, though)
1 in each of the masteries
1 in tp, tk, & static, and the rest of the prereqs (~5 points left over, maybe for more masteries if I ever get that far)
Certainly not an uber build, but I am taking skills I know I will actually use.
str to wear full set
200 vit
base dex
rest in energy
I started in the outter steppes. It seemed too easy spamming orb everywhere. So, I went down to the river. This was actually difficult, doable but very slow. Orb is great for the venom lords, but really poor against the maulers. I really had a hard time when I ran into a champ mauler pack. The minions were easy enough when I got them stuck on the ledges to hydra/gs them to death, but the champ himself was impossible to kill. No matter how fast I spammed orbs at him (he wouldn't stay stuck), he regenerated back unusually fast.
I also tried the bloody foothills. I ended up with hell slingers and something from the quill rat class. They also died easy enough with orb, seemingly too easy. The hard part was dodging ~4 javelins along with a bunch of poisoning quills. I died twice doing that, due to stun lock.
As good as chain lightning sounds, it is far inferior to orb when it comes to packs (vs. no cold immunes). The mana cost is the same as hydra's for the same level, but it is relatively weak against single targets, which is where I'd most likely use it (since my strength is fire/ice). I still think a tri-elementalist sorc is possible, but only if she doesn't go overboard with synergies.
I also had a hard time keeping mana. I had about ~500 mana (no sojs or frosties/magefists for +% mana/regen and no es). When I ran into big packs, I never seemed to have enough mana from just spamming orb.