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Suggested party list for any run:
bo barb
Life oak druid
Conviction aura paladin
fire sorc
lightning sorc
cold sorc
lower resists necromonger
1- Character selection
- Sorc for teleport (unless you have someone/group of friends doing private runs with who will have a teleport character). Any char can do but sorc may be strong then weak then elite strong again with time. Gotta see skill formulas and if synergies still a thing.
-Barb find item build - can often times double your loot drops of non act bosses. (again if running with a group of friends i would suggest war cry barb for support skills and massive find item so your friends dont hate you) Also I would highly suggest you shout out to your friends good item finds to help them.
2- Magic find? How much magic find do i need ? How i do this is i aim on 100 or so first then see how much i can upgrade until i cannot kill with ease vs the exp i get. I dont quite think MF effects rune drops. So high runes will still be quite rare if you max the mf you have in your kit. You should have diminishing returns but magic find should have a nice chance to make sets/uniques to drop better and better.
3- Leveling and Progression of gear/build? (based off of the current skills/dmg etc in 114)
I Highly suggest aiming for at the very least level 85 before dedicating to pure mf. More preferred is level 95. Most preferred farming level is 99. Also I want to point out Leveling should take over any urges to MF farming. You can do CS runs for good exp and good to great drops means its better then wasting 1 hour doing x amount of mephisto runs. Higher level = better chances of higher end items dropping for you. Again if you can get some people to do private runs and you guys can most likely run andy / meph/ chaos ./ a5 bosses etc…
Leveling progressions: (and i do hope they take away lvl restrictions to exp and just let you boost people with ease to help a friend out)
Normal:(1-55)
(you can focus on topaz’s / mf stuff if you want. if sorc and gull dagger/tarn helm drop roll with it)
Act1 (1-16): clear den and blood raven and then focus on trying to kill anything and everything and progress towards catacombs lvl 2 way point (farming bosses like rakinitsu etc depends on builds killing him just find a build and farm that benefits you the most)
Act 2 (13-23) : Focus on Skill quest then cube/staff/amulet (should be around level 18-20 by time you finish this), If atleast level 17 go for summoner then you will tomb run (false tombs) until lvl 20-25 or so)
Act 3(19-27) If someone has wp to trave and durance 2 then clear travincal / kill mephisto. If this is not the case roll out to gidbin quest and try getting to the tomes areas. You can farm the temples for the tomes for good xp if you cannot solo the council in travincal/mephisto just yet.
Act4 (22-33) Hope you have teleport here… or a friend with it. First thing is first go do Izual (+2 skill points) then find a run (unless running with friends) for diablo. Tele to ROF wp if you dont have and then CS. farm CS runs if you lack the power to clear diablo with ease. which with a group and sorc/s around static is your friend.
Act 5 (25-55) Yes i put 55 there, you can get decent exp to 60 even 63 ish in normal but you will want to progress onward. You will want to farm eldritch/shenk/pindleskin until 30+ for the lvl 30 boosty (sorc fire.cold.lightning mast boosts dmg way up there) Typically first taste of end game skills should benefit greatly… Anya quest is a must and ancients quest is a must. You might consider doing eldritch and shenk til 30 then anya then refarm those til you get a few more levels in and go for ancients and then farm those then baal run it out until you are at the minimum lvl 40-45. (Now if running as friends then as long as all are 24+ pre ancients)
Nightmare (40-75)
Act 1 : clear den, clear andy move on.
Act 2 : clear staff/amul/arcane and duriel
Act 3: clear travincal then clear mephisto
Act 4: clear izual. clear diablo (if a group of friends and you have one under the lvl of 40 clear CS until all are level 40 or higher) clear diablo
Act 5 : If solo you will want to go get frigid wp and do some farming of eldritch/shenk etc until lvl 60 or so… now If you have a group of legit friends focused on hell you can clear Anya, ancients (all must be level 40) and then do nm baal runs private just between friends with one a teleport char to get there. Suggest 2-3 sorcs in this group for teleport and different elemental focuses.
Hell (55-99)
Pretty much the same as night mere but the only difference i would say is You will get to
CS runs and do them til 70-80 ish due to ancients being such a pain in the !@#. Now if you have a legitimate group of friends and that are lucky with drops you could potentially do it as a group (portals open before the summit entrance) and if you die take a tp that is NOT YOUR OWN. clear til it is just one and try to mitigate and regroup when that last ancient is down to a sliver so you dont skrew over anyone.
Baal runs are going to be key to fast lvling here.
End game Leveling…8 man Cs run/baal Run to by pass their stupid anti cheat hard code for anyone making games too fast. (it targets anyone making too many games in a certain time frame and not an anti cheat but anti game making mechanism)
List of white/socketed items to watch out for:
4socket pala shield/monarch (or white and if pala sheild high resists) (spirit)
4socket crystal sword (or 4os low str req sword) for casters (spirit)
4 os Polearm (or ethereal no sockets to cube up) (insight/infinity)
Ethereal no socket armor or 4 os armor
(I would not worry about 3 os armor for enigma etc until you actually find and have the runs ready for it. but if you find one that fits your preferences have it on an alt waiting for the runes. )
For a sorc occy is hella nice but starting out you dont always get lucky as hell…
My typical mf sorc build
Occy 50mf
Rhymesheild 25mf
skulders ire (ethereal would be nice but not required for 127 or so mf)
tarn helm 25 to 50 mf (unless you get LAF and shako drops)
rare amulet (2 sorc skill or 3 to your path then mf + 20 or higher and resists)
nagel rings (or rare rings with 20mf or higher)
rare boots (+20 or 30 % frw resists and 25 mf )
Magefists (fcr> mf here if no mage fists then find some rare gloves with resists and mf)
Tals belt 11-15mf (if no tals belt, hopefully you get nightsmoke)
Charms: anni and torch will not be realistic here until you have a smiter geared enough,
Grand charms life skillers/ fhr skillers are always best for me. SC all resists i prefer below them.
Inventory map 10 wide 4 tall… I suggest 5 GC/5 sc and tombs of tp and id. This will leave you with 4x4 of inventory space to actually pick up items.
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Not a hard concept and this sorc depending on rng you should be at or around 300mf easialy. Not a requirement what so ever for rune farming. You may want to consider not doing MF and going white./ethereal item farming instead.
Starting out i would focus on being able to clear hell ancients asap. Then i would start worrying about getting some end game gear.
This is based off of the infrastructure inplace of diablo 2 LOD 114 until more information is given to us about changes to quests etc. My advice is focus on lvling over mfing early. Unique helms are garbage vs a unique shako. Mf is a bit overrated until you are lvl 95-99 to be honest.
