05-30-2004, 07:35 PM
HI!
I found that the best mephi-runners are cold sorceresses (if you manage to keep away from the CI blood lords, that is). My cold sorc uses a fully sinergyzed ORB, with maxed teleport (a 1-mana teleport means you can find meph easily), but my friend made a better one.
So far the consensus seems to be (at least among us), that the best meph-runner is a 20 orb 20 mastery 20 teleport 20 TK 1 es build. If you pump your ES to such heights, you might have trouble staying alive. This build, however, teleports for "free", so the worst that can happen to it with no mana is the inability to cast orb. With your skill plan, a 20-ES 1 TK solution would mean that stray hits would drain your mana rather quick, ensuring certain death.
I have just built a 20-es sorceress. She has 20 in TK as well, and maxed orb with a single point in mastery. Her goal is to have a level 40 es (95% damage goes to mana); she is at ES level 35 right now (90% absorbtion) and is doing fine. Apart from mana burn monsters and Blood Mana nothing ever kill her (she is level 72 in Nightmare). The problem with this build is, that you need a LOT of mana (I am at 2k right now, and it's not enough), you need very specific equipment (level 40 es? come on!), and your MF will be ~ 350 at best. Taking all this into consideration, I'd suggest instead the previous build, the one with max orb/mastery/teleport/TK, and a single point in ES.
Hope you'll find that build just as usable as we do.
I found that the best mephi-runners are cold sorceresses (if you manage to keep away from the CI blood lords, that is). My cold sorc uses a fully sinergyzed ORB, with maxed teleport (a 1-mana teleport means you can find meph easily), but my friend made a better one.
So far the consensus seems to be (at least among us), that the best meph-runner is a 20 orb 20 mastery 20 teleport 20 TK 1 es build. If you pump your ES to such heights, you might have trouble staying alive. This build, however, teleports for "free", so the worst that can happen to it with no mana is the inability to cast orb. With your skill plan, a 20-ES 1 TK solution would mean that stray hits would drain your mana rather quick, ensuring certain death.
I have just built a 20-es sorceress. She has 20 in TK as well, and maxed orb with a single point in mastery. Her goal is to have a level 40 es (95% damage goes to mana); she is at ES level 35 right now (90% absorbtion) and is doing fine. Apart from mana burn monsters and Blood Mana nothing ever kill her (she is level 72 in Nightmare). The problem with this build is, that you need a LOT of mana (I am at 2k right now, and it's not enough), you need very specific equipment (level 40 es? come on!), and your MF will be ~ 350 at best. Taking all this into consideration, I'd suggest instead the previous build, the one with max orb/mastery/teleport/TK, and a single point in ES.
Hope you'll find that build just as usable as we do.