Build Help

Hi All,

I've built a hybrid fireball/orb sorc for mfing as my first character. Using this gear;
Shako (umed)
HOTO
Spirit Monarch
Ormus Robes
magefist
soj/raven
arach
war travs

I'm currently struggling with a few types of monsters as i have put almost no points in dex, str for gear and rest in vit. archers, claw vipers and niths corpse explosion can kill me in 1-2 hits. Should i re-skill and get max block? or go for energy shield? My merc has insight so mana is not too much of a problem

 

Yeah ... what he said.
Damn, you are so smart! Never thought about Nature's Peace for Nith! That's really next level smart! Thank You!

 

Or, If u dont insist on orb, you can always go for good old fb/blizz full vita sorc... back in the times, when i was not bored by sorcs, i was playing this one almost exclusively... On hardcore - she was named iDDQD for a reason ^^

 

Yeah, that has always been a very fun build for me. Best of both worlds.

 

So would you suggest letting merc handle the cold immunes in hell? Or try and go for infinity?

Good advice, i have seen a lot of sorc builds going for ss. What does a fcr ring trade for usually?

I have a natures peace, would you put it on merc?

--- Double Post Merged, Jul 4, 2017, Original Post Date: Jul 4, 2017 ---

Do you have some more info on this build?

 

Sure... u basically go like this:

Skills:
Fire:
Fire bolt - Max
Fire ball - Max
Fire mastery - 1pt
Warmth - 1pt (optional)

Cold:
Ice bolt - Max
Ice blast - Max
Blizzard - Max
Cold Mastery - 1pt
Nova + Glacial - 1pt each (prereq.)

Lightning:
Telekinesis - 1pt.
Teleport - 1pt.

Stats:
Strenght: enough for eq.
Vita: all the rest go here

And then you throw some basic equipment on - with approx 14 to sorc skills and 5 cold+fire skillers you can reach 5k fb + 5k blizz (not counting + dmg to each element)... Enough to solo whole game on p8...

 

U get 1-2 shot by the vipers in niha room because there's a bug that makes u take corpse esplosion dmg on the sql of psn. To prevent that get dr or better off don;t get hit by psn dmg.As for gear u should mantain 105 fcr and maybe 86 fhr as u probably got life so u can teleport out of danger. I highly dislike the ormus choice as the +fire dmg from it does nothing when coupled with fire mastery and +3 is not that important. I sugest u use a skin socketed with w/e u feel like(Um or fire/light rez) as the 30 fcr from skin coupled with hoto and spirit will get u to the 105 fcr bp that will let u change some items (belt for example if u feel like u need more dr/dungo or light rez/tgods). As for skills in the light tree only get teleport and maybe static, cold tree max orb and 1 pct cold mastery, fire mastery-max fbal/meteor rest of points ill be split into bolt/firemastery(use a spread shit or dmg calculator to see the optimal spread for hightest dmg). meteor/fbal should be your primary skill so do areas acordingly.Imo do ball runs as the waves come stacked so u can meteor/orb then.Other places that i sugest farming are niha. That's it imo till u can afford some better items and swap the build/character.