Posting here because the Sorceress Forum keeps telling me that I’m not allowed to post because I’m not owning the game while its in fact running right now on my Switch next to me. Anyways…
My question is: Many build guides say to put 20 points in Ice Blast. I don’t get why. There seems to be no synergy. Frozen orb description also says the only bonus comes from Ice Bolt.
Blizzard wants to keep all console players separate from PC players for some reason.
Blizzard views console players as less than. That is why you are not able to post on any other threads than the console thread.
You orb sorc - personally never a fan of just cold unless you have meta gear. My 78 HC sorc is running orb/fire ball. Max orb max fb max meteor and 10 pts in cold mastery. Takes a little longer to kill but I don’t get stuck on cold immunes hell. Btw VV did us the dirty by not giving the immune descriptions in hell difficulty so you are pretty much guessing at who is immune to what. Not sure if that is the same on the pc version.
You should add points to Fire Ball i stead of Ice Blast.
Ice blast in those builds are for people playing pure cold and ice blast works well at keeping enemies locked down, but you’re right that it offers no synergy. Those 19 points can go into a fire skill. Some people also argue whether to max ice bolt as it doesn’t offer that much of an increase in damage to orb, which would be another 19 points to place elsewhere.
Yup, they will never value our opinions or listen to our requests as we are just peons. Seems strange, I think my money is just as green as the pc players money…
the real kicker is, all the pc players can post in the console player forums… I think they should be locked out of ours! hah
Like everyone else above, I have an future orbitaller. The main synergy for orb is ice bolt. Apparently since I’ve heard that cold mastery is currently broken (it apparently can reduce immunes to being damagable by ice) I’d suggest putting 20 in that. I put my alternate points into fb/fireball/fire mastery to counter immunes.
Me personally put the extra in fire wall made my self a +3 to firewall leaf staff and which helps kill the cold immunes
Pff go full blizzard, it’s the best skill for farming Andy and meph early. Lvl 88 blizz sorc and I’ve farmed enough to get myself enigma hoto and spirit Mon with a pretty decked out merc
I don’t like the mechanic of blizz, its kinda hard to aim and to static compared to frozen orb. But this is a matter of preference I guess.
Another question: What happens if items increase skills beyond level 20? Do skills provide additional bonus above 20 or is that capped there? In other words, do I need to consider this in my build e.g. skill frozen orb only 17 if I use a +3 staff?
Yeah blizzard doesn’t work on console, especially against fast enemies.
You still benefit from having + to a skill higher than 20. Up to you whether you think that benefit is worth maxing out a particular skill.
If it’s your main attack it couldn’t hurt.
I prefer Frozen Orb over Blizzard myself even though Blizzard does more damage on paper, and is ideal for Mephisto because he’s easy to exploit from afar via his moat of blood.
FO allows me to maneuver around more easily, and it pierces through enemies so it’s more fun to use in just about every situation. I don’t have to constantly goad enemies back & forth through it to maxmimize damage, like Blizzard.
We are barbarians clearly.
I need some advise, please:
Level 67, reached Hell difficulty and getting my a#s kicked by the ice immunes already in act 1. I can’t beat den of evil in finite time. Firewall does okey-ish damage but is a pain with all the moving enemies. Fireball does like zero damage.
Skills:
Mostly ice for Frozen orb. In addition:
1 Fireball
1 Firewall
1 Fire Masterry
10 Warmth.
(+4 on skills by items)
Shall I respect for more Firewall or Fireball? Or soemthing else? I intend to play only solo. Thanks!
Skip the things you can’t kill. You will never be able kill everything as a sorc. Save the den of evil until you have a merc who can kill the cold immunes. I went full frozen orb all through hell. Just geared up my merc some to clear baal wave 2.
Max out orb, 10-12 point in mastery then fireball quite a few points too but meteor will boost the fireball dmg quite a bit with a couple point in fire mastery too. Put insight on your merc and only 1 point in warmth. Dmg has been good for me in hell, survivability has been rough though. Cold immune just fireball them, and orb everything else.
Choose firewall or fireball not both. You can go back to nm and run worldstone and Baal runs to gain a few more levels if you want for some more skill points. Like some people said, you can skip these immunes if you prefer. I’m running firewall and orb and solo cleared hell and can kill anything. My gear isn’t all that good either. I utilize my merc to make firewall effective, you’ve gotta back up and draw monsters aggro onto your merc. While they are on him you can move further away to where they are on the edge of the screen making it easier to target, ofc this isn’t always possible. Invest into your merc to help with survivability.
Would be nice if we could target skills like firewall and blizzard more effectively but that’s wishful thinking atm. If you want more control go fireball and points into fire mastery will certainly help.
Thanks for the help so far 
I have anothrr question. Do the 3 different ice armor skills stack when activated or do I need just to activate one of them? Thanks!
I believe immunites are represented by the smallest dot of color under monster name at top of screen.
That was not my question.