Guide Sorc Lightning

Dear folks,

I would like to introduce my quick pvm lightning sorc guide to you:

• Breakpoints​
• Skills/Stats​
• Gear​
• PvM​

Breakpoints

Faster hit rate
FHR Frames
60% / 8
86% / 7 Our Goal, which allows us to teleport away faster if we get hit by enemies.
142% / 6

Faster cast rate
FCR / Frames
63% / 9
105% / 8 Our goal for fast teleport.
200% / 7

Lightning / faster cast rate
FCR / Frames
78% / 13
117% / 12 this will be our goal to cast Lightning and chain Lightning very fast.


Cold Spells:
Frozen Armor - 1 Get some more defensive

Lightning Spells:
Charged Bolt - max
Static Field - 1
Telekinesis - 1
Nova - all remaining points
Chain Lightning - max
Teleport - 1
Thunder Storm - 0-1 depending on your own style of playing
Energy Shield - 0
Lightning Mastery - max

Fire spells:
Warmth - 1 Recovering your mana faster, so you won't need any pots.

Stats:
Strength: as many points as you need for your equipment but no further ones.
Dexterity: No points unless you're willing to play max Block vita sorc.
Vitality: Remaining points
Energy: No Points​

Gear

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Regarding the expensive grades within a single guide I will explain 3 for you: Low / Mid / High

Helmet: Lore runeword (Ort Sol) / Shako / Griffon
Amulet: Eye of ettlich / Maras / 2 sorc 1x-20 fcr strength vita res
Weapon: Spirit / Cresent Moon, Occulus/ Hoto , Eschuta
Armor: Viper upped / Eth bugged Skullders (Just put pul in and remove with hel, the defense will increase) / Coh
Shield: Mosars /lidless Wall/ Spirit Monarch, Storm
Gloves: Magefist, Frostburn, Bloodfist 2x upped
Rings: Nail / Soj, Bk/ craft ring 10 fcr, str/dex life res
Belt: Goldwrap / Arach / Crafted 10 fcr fhr str life res
Boots: Waterwalk / War Travelers / Eth sands
Inventory: Torch , Annihilius, Skiller with fhr or life, life small charmes, all resist small charmes

If you need to sock something. I suggest put a -5 +x light rbf in.

Mercenary:
Weapon: Infinity -> Our goal to break most immunites.
helmet: Gulliaumes Face / Andariels
Amulet: Highlord
Ring: Raven
Belt: Dungo
Armor: Treachery / Forty
Boots: Gores

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PVM

My Farming Route:
Countess -> Arcane Sanctuary (Clean Specters) -> Diablo -> Nilathak -> Baal (Worldstone can be cleaned, depending on high density)

Working of -res to enemies / Breaking Immunity:
Immunity of monsters is considered if the resistance is equal or above to 100%. There are only 2 possibilities to break it, conviction (paladin aura) or lower resistance curse ( Necro). As I already mentioned our item goal, the Infinity for our merc, grants you the aura conviction. The - resistance of enemy will only work if you are wearing the piece of equipment otherwise there are no effects for your damage spells.Further it is only usable on not immun monsters. which will increase your damage significantly more than + dmg in percent.

How to aim for Infinity:
The most common way is to hunt torches or get a Grand charm of iLvl above 80 and cube a life skiller.

Rune Drops: Specters has an increased chance of dropping runes. You can find pretty much at arcane sanctuary.

Act Bosses:
Easy: Just static and use Charged Bolt for a fast kill if you are able to take a few hits or dance around them

 

Nice guide the explanation of immune break is cool.
You could have mentioned crescent moon whit a upped vipermage beside eschuta . Also u could talk about the socket of ur helm or storm or u merc.
It could also be usefull To quickly clean travincal it often drop gheed wich could allow you To get a GC from diablo or nilha baal.

 

Thank you neko941, your feedback is welcome. I will make another guide which shows you how to become rich and the work of resistances in gerneral

 

Hey great guide!! 10 out of 10 no errors.

 

which merc aura is best for a lite sorc? might or defiance?

 

I would strongly argue that a NM def merc, with Holy Freeze aura, is the safest bet for most sorc builds. Why?
1. The main "killer" is the sorc, not the merc (with reference to might aura, useless to the sorc)
2. HF greatly slows down mobs, settling them down for better aiming with the mouse . Also, in my opinion, it provides better defense for the sorc, in the sense that slowed down mobs are much less likely to hit her.
There may be other reasons to add, but these are enough for me.

 

Thank you! Man I thought Might would be useless for Sorc too but I see so many guides saying "Might Merc" So I just assumed they would know lmao. I'll give Holy Freeze a shot since Might hasn't seemed to be really doing anything for me.

 

merc can kill light+phys immune vizier thanks to his cold damage. +1 for HF

 

you missed holy freeze like other say. this is good to have control with many monsters
but might aura will be better vs immunes

 

What gloves my merc should use?

 

Dracul's grasp for sure

 

Layin of Hands the only choise.. ✌️

 

Hi there!

Which would be the main nuker skill?? Chain lightning? Lightning?? Nova?

About merc, I'm using HF with Obedience (until i get my hands on the infi) because of the slow, giving some CC.

Not as fun as i thought it would be, but fast as hell to reach destination... Let's see...

 

This build is for light/chain light sorc, i prefered just lightning to chain as main nuke and as u wount have enough mana to cast nova (or wear lots of mana pots ).
If u want nova sorc u can check my post in this guide: https://forum.europebattle.net/threads/experience-in-d2-a-mathematical-perspective.545850/

 

Personally prefer chain lightning as long as you have time and keep it under 117% fcr (breakpoint) at which point you will get faster teleport and casting but mana will be issue like Herlikium said so its not a win win for me. To clarify chain lightning aiming is simple and does not require much efford but lightning has more damage but you gotta be much more carefull where u point cursor at...so its really a preferance you gotta try and see what works for you. Also without infinity....not sure how to play light sorc...so my advice is farm some gem or something...easy to get runes to get infinity that way and pays off in very small amount of time. 500 gems go from ber-lo to ber sur easy so doesnt take much time if u do some cows.

 

Hi there!

Sorry the delay. I did know about the infinity, it's a game changer (as it was for my javazon). I was farming hard and could get an eth CV with 4 socks and the runes. Now there's a 100% different game! Only having issues with the phys/ele inmmunes, I'm still not able to break their immunity because of the build (as it's not finished). I'm thinking on creating a crescent moon for those to test.

Thanks!