I’m running blizzard sorc, and I know there are immunes of each type, but the cold immunes just seem rampant, I’m only 81 so my merc is still pretty weak… what is a good mf route for cold sorc if it’s not recommended that I respecc?
Andariel, Meph, Ancient Tunnels, Cows are pretty solid picks for cold sorceress. Not many if any cold immunes at all. Travincial is also a possibility, however there are atleast one council member who are cold immune. Chaos sanctuary is pretty solid if you have a decent merc.
Blizz sorc is the best budget mf build. Meteorb is more gear dependant, and not as strong. Lightning is endgame, but very expensive to build due to infinity requiring two bers.
Ancient tunnels A2 has like no cold immunes and good farm spot
Ok I will continue doing as is. I’ve almost maxed Ice bolt, shoul dI work on glacial spike next? It’s the only other blizzard synergy I have to max. Also are uniques the focus when not farming bosses or just general enemies?
Yes… stop trying to do it all with one element. That was the entire point of immunities.
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do you have a specific suggestion?
I run blizzard with the 3 basic points in light and in the fire tree; 10 warmth then 3 more for 1 pt in firewall and its prereqs. So basically this works best with a good tanky merc to hold them in position to let the firewall do its work. Ive seen builds focusing on fireball and even meteor hybrid cold sorcs, that’s the beauty of D2, the customization in specs. Not sure about a cold/light sorc, that may stretch your points too thin, the nice thing about firewall is its synergy with warmth which is a good all around skill for any build.
Since the cold mastery stealth nerf, Blizzard Sorc is only viable if you have a geared up merc to kill these immunities.
People hate on Orb, but it only has one synergy and the cold mastery doesn’t do anything past 100, so you only need to put enough points into it to get to 100 with gear. If you want to max orb damage, that’s about 50 points or so. The rest you can put into fire or lightning in whatever way you want.
People like the big numbers you get off of Blizzard, but don’t realize that it doesn’t always hit… and it’s a point hog to max out.
intersting, i still have a respec, would love to here someone support this idea.
Yea, I had to farm for a respec and change to more of a meterorb based build after the stealth nerf on one of my alts. I do like orb a lot better than Blizzard, but mine doesn’t even hit half as hard.
Fully maxed with synergy?
No because Blizzard has more synergies.
I find that even with an unsynergized orb, and at only 90% mastery, It usually only takes one or two orbs to kill any fire immunes when I’m MFing solo… if you prefer more of a run and gun style of play, synergize it and it will go faster.
True, but on bosses and elite packs that extra dmg from synergies using Blizzard sure seems to help me.
I am also running pure blizzard I am not ‘stacked’ by any means but we make it through Shako / skulders / hoto / spirit mon / travs / chance / goldwrap / double nagels various charms including gheeds, Merc is dressed with Tal’s helm, Treachery and insight.
and right now my runs are (In order)
Colosseum (Hit and miss its a level 85 area but very low monster count)
Andy
Ancient Tunnels.
Lower Kurast
Trav (my merc pokes the cold immune after I static them down to half)
Meph + Council (same as above)
Chaos Sanc (hunt packs, merc pokes cold immunes)
Diablo
Pindle
World Stone keep 2&3 (if the level is filled with cold immunes obv skip to next)
Baal.
You can get a lot complete as a blizz sorc, they have a fast kill time, there is a reason it is among the most popular builds for starting out.
Another solid one is FO/Fireball it opens up A LOT more routes but, it also brings your kill times down by a ton, its output is nothing compared to blizz.
Of course… but that’s with you specializing in one skill… you can either skip half to two thirds of the game because it’s immune to you, or you can diversify and be a bit weaker but more able to tackle all comers
Unfortunately as an effect, many people now don’t run Blizzard due to all the points needed in the synergy and just use orb. So it inadvertently made a skill useless in end game because you now need the points in the other elemental tree.
Well, those people are missing out… I have one point in Blizz, because of the requirement for Orb, and with gear and the other synergies and cold mastery, I sometimes use it on fire immune mobs when I don’t want to move into orb range. I use it every run doing Andy as I don’t want to agro Andy, but I need to kill that shaman in the left side that is rezzing all his buddies.
Once they are all dead, I can actually Hydra Andy down off screen without ever seeing her.
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Hmm that’s interesting, if respecs weren’t such a pain in the behind to obtain, I might actually try that.