Sorc Build

[gekko]

I refused to spend on the prereqs for energy shield and so I have to cast it with a +3 lit skills +3 energy shield staff i keep in my stash, or in my backup slot for repeated short games. My style is... stingy, very stingy.

First off, last time I checked energy shield uses your current skill level when checking, not the slvl from time of casting. So if you have zero points in energy shield, then you have no energy shield -- unless you keep that +3 energy shield staff in your primary slot all the time. It's a display bug that keeps the little ball above your head.

Second of all, I disagree with you that one tree is enough. Sure, you CAN get through with enough cold mastery, but why bother? If you've picked cold as one tree, you definately have enough points to get a skill from the fire or lightning tree and boost it's mastery to respectable levels (eventually, of course).

The only way I could think of that would leave you short of skill points would be a max warmth / cold armor / cold mastery / blizz or orb sorc. However, since both of those killing spells are timered, there'd be no reason to max warmth. And few sorcs will max a cold armor. Point is there's no reason NOT to pick a skill from a different tree to round out your sorc.

gekko