Meteorb Point distribution and other Questions

[Br_]

Well I am building a Meteorb for my first char in season 2 and I have come to a point where I am not sure where to focus points. I just beat Normal Baal and my character is around 42. I didnt save up points like the guide say so i am wondering what skill to focus on as I start NM.

As of now
Fireball is around 10
Meteor is around 15
Fire Mastery around 5
FO is around 5
and CM is around 3


Should I go ahead and focus on maxing out Meteor or FO. Also how should the distribution of Mastery points. Should I work in a few while Maxing a main skill or should I wait until The main skills are maxed. I am kicking some serious butt right now and want to have a comfortable ride through Hell when that day comes.

Other Questions

I am searching for Magefists or Frostburns, where is the best places to find them. Norm baal? Norm Meph? NM Pit? NM Andy?

Also i have about a 125 of unused skill points, for PvM does block really matter or should I just dump everything into Vitality?

Thanks

Br_

[GodslayerX]

i prefer max block....but it really depends on your playing style. as far as skills...i would max FO then FB then meteor then fire mastery then alternate putting pts into cold mastery and firebolt...i did this with my last sorc and she whopped on everythin except dclone and ancients

[BodomSaint]

Well I am building a Meteorb for my first char in season 2 and I have come to a point where I am not sure where to focus points. I just beat Normal Baal and my character is around 42. I didnt save up points like the guide say so i am wondering what skill to focus on as I start NM.

As of now
Fireball is around 10
Meteor is around 15
Fire Mastery around 5
FO is around 5
and CM is around 3


Should I go ahead and focus on maxing out Meteor or FO. Also how should the distribution of Mastery points. Should I work in a few while Maxing a main skill or should I wait until The main skills are maxed. I am kicking some serious butt right now and want to have a comfortable ride through Hell when that day comes.

Other Questions

I am searching for Magefists or Frostburns, where is the best places to find them. Norm baal? Norm Meph? NM Pit? NM Andy?

Also i have about a 125 of unused skill points, for PvM does block really matter or should I just dump everything into Vitality?

Thanks

Br_

ok, at first, i'd recommend maxing Frozen Orb first, because Orb alone is able to take you through nightmare easily, and since there shouldn't be many cold immunes in nightmare (actually, very few Immunes at all ;)) Nightmare is a no-brainer with FO. So go max Orb, then put a few points in Cold Mastery (about 7 Hard skill points should be enogh) and then go on maxing your Fire skills. Concernig Fire mastery, there are pro and cons.

The Pros:

-Massive damage enhancement for meteor and Fireball
-It works with +skills

The Cons:

-Lesser Damage enhancement for Fireball compared to Fire Bolt as a Synergy

So it up to you. If you have many +skill stuff and focus on Fire Ball rather than Meteor then max Firebolt before putting more than one point (or maxing) Fire Mastery and let your +skills raise your Mastery. If you don't have much +skills and focus on Meteor, go for Mastery before Fire Bolt, is just a matter of taste imho.

Concernig Magefist and Frostburns... i don't know, i never had to actually search for them, since they're pretty common, and shouldn't be THAT hard to find or trade for, if you're on US East SC Ladder, i could give you a pair of Magefists for free, i already found 3 or 4 of 'em. :)

Max block or max Vita, the neverending story. Personally I prefer max block, especially when you can get Whitstan's Guard (set Round Shield, not hard to get either), I stopped counting the times, the famos *pling* safed my life, and with decent resists and maxblock you can even tank Hell Mephisto yourself ;)

Good Luck and i hope i could help a bit

[iguelmay]

I'm building my first meteorb sorc too, and its been kinda sketchy at points without good equip. right now i think the biggest thing that's lacking is my shield. Whats the max number of sockets that i can get in a shield? cuz if i can get 6, i think it'd be nice to put 2 Eld (or whatever rune) for block and 4 p diamonds for resists (all my resists in hell suck.) Right now i'm using the ward, gothic shield, lol.

As for skills. I think Max Orb is the way to go. honestly.... the ammount of *** it kicks in nm is unbelievable. Then shortly after that you can max meteor... im almost done maxing fireball now, and then i'm gonna go fire mastery, its doing pretty good damage in hell, and killing everything in my nm pindle runs. Also note, i barely have any plus skills (peasant crown, ammy... lidless and hexfire on swithc.) but even without being twinked, she's pretty strong.

anyone have Tals ammy for trade?

[Soepgroente]

First orb, then meteor, then fire ball. After that level ~8 cold mastery and the rest in FM and/or fire bolt (calculate which)

[BodomSaint]

I'm building my first meteorb sorc too, and its been kinda sketchy at points without good equip. right now i think the biggest thing that's lacking is my shield. Whats the max number of sockets that i can get in a shield? cuz if i can get 6, i think it'd be nice to put 2 Eld (or whatever rune) for block and 4 p diamonds for resists (all my resists in hell suck.) Right now i'm using the ward, gothic shield, lol.

As for skills. I think Max Orb is the way to go. honestly.... the ammount of *** it kicks in nm is unbelievable. Then shortly after that you can max meteor... im almost done maxing fireball now, and then i'm gonna go fire mastery, its doing pretty good damage in hell, and killing everything in my nm pindle runs. Also note, i barely have any plus skills (peasant crown, ammy... lidless and hexfire on swithc.) but even without being twinked, she's pretty strong.

anyone have Tals ammy for trade?

Max amount of Sockets in Shields is 4 (Monarch, Aegis and Ward so very high str req.)
I recommend Visceratuant (upped if possible), Moser's Blessed Circle (nice built-in Res all and 2 Sockets) or Whitstan's Guard as shileds with quite low str reqs or Stormshiled (quite costly though), Gerke's or Spirit Ward for Shields with better def but higher str req.