Full Dr Sorcie Guide

[Taem]

I write this not out of spite, but to educate. My words are not upset or forced, but level-headed and thought out. Without further adu:

Your guide's requirements can only be attained by cheating. Why won't you just give a link to the pindlebot website in it, so we can have another reason to flame you. I would suggest for you to take a walk. A good long walk. When you are done, come back, and think about your guide.

Apparently you've never heard of ebay. I don't cheat or use hacks or bots. My friends dont either. However, before I was playing diablo, I was spending $40 a month on a new video game. But diablo was different. It kept me entertained and I never spent money on video games again. I always try to give myself at least $20-$60 a month for personal spending, and since I wasn't blowing it on video games, I might as well spend it on personal enjoyment. Yes, I buy some of my gear that I can't trade for. Now I know some of these people use bots, but at least those items are not duped. I only mentioned the 160/60 armor for the ONE time I ever had some on ONE of my characters, and for the completeness of this guide, included it for a merc. I have never had a rogue merc, so rather it works or not is speculation - but I've heard from numerous sources that rogue mercs are the best set-up for PK'ers.

It is a build for PK'ing (as opposed to dueling).

I stated that it was build for all element of diablo - not specifically PK'ing. It only emcompasses pking as an option since Pking is part of the game, isint it? As for PK'ing... I enjoy it from time to time, but I'd rather duel. All I'm saying is that this build allows you PK (if you wanted to - and do keep in mind that PK'ing IS part of the game!!! IS there a little hostile button? Does the attacked party have to OKAY a hostile to be attacked by you? NO!) if you want to, and do hell rushes, and Duel. Isint that the ultimate goal of every build? To be able to have fun while withstanding the horrors thrown at you?

I'd love to see a level 43 barb with Cruel exceptionals, Vamp gaze, +15 max damage jewels, and an item that has a chance to cast amplify damage tear you from limb to limb...

And, I was talking about legit Pking. Even heard of ethereal duped ITH hacked swords? Ever heard of Scarcen's chance? Even heard of Amplify damage screwing you to hell? What about conviction? Cold mastery? Buriza?

As for getting owned in duels... I'm sorry friend, but you seem to have no knowledge of what you are talking about. I dueled a baba carrying an ITH CCB and zerking me like a mad man. First off, I teleport when I duel so he rarly ever hit me, but when he did hit me, my energy shield absorbed most of the damage and it only shaved off maybe 150 damage at the most. Did it hurt? You bet! Did I survive? Not only this, but I killed the guy too. And he was bragging how his zerk was soooo powerful that I would surly die. I had a tendancy to believe him because he showed me his gear before the fight, as did I. Corpes exploding necros? Never encountered that problem in a duel - I just stay away from the dead bodies - orb is great, and bone spears are too slow my friend. Inless your reffering to corpse exlposion from Nith... dosent hurt me...

Conviction: FoH palis dont stand a chance - trust me... I've dueld plenty - switch to LE absorb gear
Cold Master: If your fighting another sorcie, switch to Luna
Reduce Speed by: it dosent matter if my speed has been reduced to 100% - spell casting is unaffected and I don't run, I teleport and cast spells. Try it out sometime.

Also, your math is flawed. -damage is applied before -DR. If a hell bovine does 200 damage, and you have 95% DR, you will take 10 damage. If you have -50 damage, then you will take 95% of 150 = 7.5 damage.

Thanks for pointint out how my math is flawed. It most definatly is. I will update my guide.

Have you heard of block-lock? What about Might Extra fast, Extra strong cows?

Block lock? Of you mean that silly assassin mind blast trick that will be fixed in the patch? Or do you mean getting hit so many times in cows that you can't move? I dont know how you make your characters, but I am literally standing in the middle of a mob of at least 200 cows and am casting orb and charged bolt left and right and barly ever getting interrupted. As for mind blast - cheap trick. Still, I end up winning.

Extra fast? Might? LOLOL.. this proves you dont know what your talking about. Do the math... I did from diabloii.nets darkness site. A fanatic cow with might from another cow and curse hitting me will only do about 60-120 damage. Does it hurt? You bet! But I will survive and I don't place myself in situations where I will get slaughtered. I suppose my statement that I'll be TOTALLY IMMUNE has ruffled a few feathers. I wan't trying to boast bragging rights, but state that against most of the dangers in diablo, you will NOT get one hit killed, which means you have time to leave the danger. And if you do happen to lag out before you drop, you will survive *almost* any encounter in the 20 seconds your character is in game.

Frozen armor: Yes, 1 second in hell cows. Apparently you have NO idea how fast a teleporting sorcie moves or what FPS stands for. When Im casting at 9 FPS and shooting at 2.5 attacks a second, cows that are frozen and not attacking me in the period because they are solid statues are dead. Just one orb, two statics, another orb, three blasts from charged bolt and the cows are dead. First off, I never get hit, but if I do get surrounded, despite what you think, that one second makes a HUGE difference. HUGE! I guess thats the difference safely teleporting out of a group of fanatic/might cows or getting stun/block locked and dying, isint it?

Conclusion: Again, I'm sorry for whom ever I offended with this guide. It is a thouroughly thought out and well-tested build. It works using LEGIT items. My claims that it is full-proof are misunderstood, because I proved here that this build does take damage, and as with all builds, the horrors of diablo can be dangerous at times.

It supports whatever playing style you enjoy and is not biasses towards the game (it supports dueling, rushing, pk'ing, cowing, and whatever else you can think of). Im so sorry the Lurker Lounge does not support this game which it represents. I guess I have been mislead the entire time because if I am right, PK'ing is an entricate part of the Diablo game, is it not? Why are you allowed to PK if it is NOT part of the game? When you have a web-site dedicated towards the greatness and improvements of a game, dont you support all of the games strengths? If pking were a bug or hack, then I'd say you all are correct, it is a mistake to support it - but c'mon guys, its part of the game!!! Your holier than thou approach towards this makes me sick. Why not boycott dueling or how about sending a petition to blizzard to ban MSLE's because they're so dangerous? Your concerns about pk'ers are noted, but your reasoning is obselete because Pking is part of the game, was intended to be part of the game, and will always LEGITAMETLY be here FOREVER!

Thanks for your time in reading my reply.