what are the best mf skills for sorc?

[timmay1113]

hey for an mf sorc what are the best skills to get in 1.10, is orb still pretty good? what are some skill suggestions, thx for ur advice

[hiks]

well, this is a hard question..

i can only share my thoughts about it..

I guess you wanna do hell mf runs, and playing in a solo game and trying to reach the end bosses could be pretty hard, and time consuming.

as I play hardcore, i wanna do fast runs (like everyone I think) and not put myself into too much danger.

so I do Eldrith runs (the one above frigid highland wp)

why? his very easy to reach, he dies fast, and he is super uniqe, wich means he can drop, 95% of the items, not sure but it could be 100% also, anyone know this?.

on hell he is cold immune allways, he sometimes have fire immunity also.. (around 45-50%) and of 300 runs I have seen him lightning immune 1 time.

So best way to kill him fast is to kill him with a pure chain / lightning sorc..

i teleport so I see the first monsters.. then i go back, while my merc starts fightning them. and they are sitting ducks..

hope this helps..

yes, this could work very well with a lightning trap assa or a lightning javazon..

but I like the teleport thingy on sorcs, and I have a 75 lvl 2 lower res charges...

[Demosthenes]

well...timmay will prolly be doing mephisto runs

[Farting_Pumpkin]

i would say proabably pure fire and a few points in static

[Umpc]

orb is alright i have it on my sorc, but it gets no bonuses so its not as strong as some skills, if i were u i'd use pure fire, if you max fireball, firestrike ? and meteror you gain alot of bonuses and it does alot more damage

[Kuja]

Pindle and meph can be very easy mfing. Also easy to kill with a pure fire sorc. Pindle is also very good for leveling !

So i would suggest a Fire Sorc.
Here are damage you can expect.
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[Demosthenes]

Thnx kuja...hey timmay...fire it is...lol

what about hydra...ne good?

[Kuja]

Nah, at some point it might probably wont even be able to rival with firebolt. The thing is during the time i wait to cast meteor again i use fireball. Hydra isnt close to the damage meteor can do. It get it's damage raised a little by firebolt and fireball. But fireball and firebolt do not get their damage raised by Hydra.

I would also suggest 1 point in frozen armor and dex for good blocking. Thing is who care if your sorc can take 20 hits from a monster. Most time they will be stuck in recovery till you die. The block give you a chance to survive and the Frozen armor freeze the enemy that hit you. Giving you time to recover and go on with mfing. This is mostly usefull against those damn !@#$en undead stygian.

[Trail]

How much life do you have? My sorc is now lvl 49 and i have 80 into dex which gives me ok block rate but i only have 330 life and 250 mana...

[timmay1113]

hey guys thx.... for ur replies, i cant remember i havent done it in a while but does meph have any immunities in hell cause if not... i think i would do that fire shiznit , that looks pretty damn nice, oh and if i were do like a mix.. cold fire... light fire...what are ur thoughts on that?

[Kuja]

I got about 550 life~.
No Mephisto doesnt have immune.

[-ice-]

so is it better to go for maxblock for mf runs?

[Umpc]

depends what you are going to mf, most mf runs you dont even get hit, sometimes on pindle but in most cases my sorc doesnt take 1 hit in a mf run

[-ice-]

with meteor i thought about standing just next to mephisto, eating all his shit with block and resistances and static/meteoring him to death - does that still work?

[Titusfied]

Why not just do the old across the barrier trick and lay down endless Meteors/FW until death? That always works. :)

[-ice-]

i thought maybe he is that much strnoger that he will jsut pwn me if i do like that ;) but ok then i think ill go for block/resi and make his ass burn :D

[Kuja]

so is it better to go for maxblock for mf runs?
I do think it's good cause block and frozen armor will be what will save your ass when you teleporint in 10 undead stygian.
Also, to kill mephisto i think it s better to just get mephisot stuck then you meteor/fireball his ass.

[Pekson]

If moat trick still works i might use it, only if i can find the damn DURANCE 3 and get better resists.

[timmay1113]

whats moat trick?

[dddaaasssdas]

in the screenshots with the fire stuff the 3 spells are all on level 30. how much damage would they do on level 20???

[akuno]

well mine are all 24 and its about 5k FB and 10k meteor so 20s would be a little lewer than that

[Vollstrecker]

I'm only rolling about 169% MF. My skills are from a pre-patch sorc. I'm using a lvl 33 fireball, 33 meteor, 33 fire mastery, and lvl 18 firebolt.

My strategy is tele to Meph or Andy real quick, if it's Meph, I hit him with a charge of lower resist from a Kris in weapon switch, and cut him down with fireballs at 120% FCR. Works well, but I can stack more MF on her. I'm just too lazy to level her further.