I have mixed feelings about this…and was wondering what everyone else does.
It’s easy-ish as a sorceress to just tele-spam to the end, and kill Baal (assuming you don’t die to tele’ing into the wrong pack, which happens often enough).
That said…I’ve seen and potentially missed so many set/unique drops by just tele-spamming till the end. I’ve had enough lag every now and again, where I’ve seen 3-4 unique drops that I would have otherwise missed.
So…do I just continue to tele-spam, or is it worth clearing to maybe get that good drop from the trash?
debaitible, Honestly i find bhaal runs good for xp bad for loot as most of the uniques are trash at least in my experiance
diablo gives me the good stuff and so dos andy randomly
reguardless its up to you
for me ill just teleport spam for the most part.
If your FCR is at 105 i very rarely get caught by a mob, even thou my finger always hoover’s over the full rejuv.
As for your question I kill any champ, unique pack that i encounter on my way to baal. I dont go out of my way to slaughter everything on the map as i go. If i get to the exit before finding the 4-6 potential champs/unique packs I dont generally back track to find them.
I’d love to, but I’ve just not found anything. Been running NM Baal for now…anything past that I risk dying too much. I can do H Baal…but it takes liek 45 minutes, and more than half the time, I die too much to the damn ghosts.
I mean, just the other night, 10 runs in a row (damn the gold lost was nuts), I died within 3-5 teleports in WSK on hell mode. Hell mode, I have to just kill everything, but it’s sooo slow.
At least with NM, I can tele my butt off and get 'er done, but I’ve not found anything super useful for sorceress yet.
Youre telling me you arent using stealth, double spirit, one of magefist or trangs gloves, havnt come accross a single blue 10fcr ring or ammy?
These are all easy FCR gets from norm/nm and should net you atleast the 105 breakpoint and allow you to work
You clearly need to boost your resists. I’d suggest swapping your MF gear for actual defensive gear, you can swap back on Baal himself, he is quite easy considering.
Personally I have no fun fighting his minions, takes a ton of time and teh last pack can be deadly.
If I put on my non MF setup (I mean, going from 300+% down to 100%), which gives literal crap for drops on Baal, I can get 89% at this point. That setup does use double spirit, with Smoke. Ammy has +3 Cold spells. Ammy/Rings have not been found that have FRC that are decent.
Trying to switch out of the non-MF gear to the MF-gear after getting to Baal is a literal nightmare. I’d have to tele to town, switch stuff out, and…yeah, that’s nuts.
In Hell mode, my MF resist setup is 34/46/41/39 (Fire/Light/Cold/Pois).
My Non-MF resist setup is 75/31/59/59 (Fire/Light/Cold/Pois)
Kill speed and FCR is your friend early on, you gotta sac mf% for these, or you just wont get anywhere fast, litterally.
Put on a stealth, lore, Rhyme or Spirit shield, spirit sword, 10% fcr rings, 10% fcr ammy, then equip rare or shopped mf/res gloves and boots, belt.
What sorc build are you running? Blizz is easy and powerful and can get you past NM and into hell then focus on Andy, AT and Meph. Thats all. Farm the SHT out of them and aquire better gear or gear to trade for better gear you need.
I prefer frozen orb myself, great for surviving and kiting andy and meph and I have added in Lightning as the second option, most go fire, but I find lightning combined with a strong a2 might merc, can kill cold immunes better and light/cold immunes are rarer than cold/fire.
Also allowed me to farm Hell Countess early on without a hdin or smiter up and running.
Its a grind until you can get the gear, but the process is worth it.
Also, forgot to mention, I am using Magefist on my non-MF build.
That said, I’m running meterorb-ish, I think. Cold is my primary…but I have points in Fire to address the cold immunes. I tried running strict frozen orb, but my god the cold resistant mobs sucked *alls unless I could use fireball on them. Especially the dang skeles before Baal that are cold immune that come with the ancients that revive them. Pretty much impossible for me as a pure cold sorceress. Achmel, or something like that.
Yeah honestly, Baal solo is out of your league right now… Its doable, but man its a grind and far less efficient than going pure cold for now and just focus fire on Andy, AT, and Meph.
If you are high enough level, I was 84 I think when I switched from pure Orb/Blizz cold sorc to my hybrid max orb/Lightning build.
Even mid 2k light can do some damage combined with a merc, he needs an eth CA, CV, giant thresher Insight though to really help you with some major damage.
As soon as I had that combo, with basic gear as well I may add, I was able to do Countess, Pits, AT, Meph, Andy, Pindle… This allowed me to find items to trade up and get a shako, occy, vmagi, ect…
Sorry my point is, I hate the meph / baal farm, very boring. I actually do absolutely random farms and change a lot, obviously weaving key farms and such.
Somehow I find good stuff in the most unexpected places, as long as the ilvl is good you can farm any monster. Breaks routine vs spam meph.
In general, from lvl 1-2-3 and throne room is considered to be an area lvl 85, so in general, it isn’t bad. Most ppl choose not to do it due to how hard it can sometimes be and so it isn’t considered worth doing. If you find it easy to do, and can clear it fairly quickly without dying, then do it.
