FO/Hydra build...

[MA_Sweden]

Hi,

I´m not a sorceress expert so I need some advide on a "fun" build that I thought about.

This is what I planned:

20 Ice Bolt
20 Frozen Orb
1 Cold Mastery

20 Hydra
20 Fireball
20 Fire Mastery

Have any tested this build? How viable is it in Hell-mode?

Regards MA

[melianor]

Forget about Icebolt. Frozen Orb with just 1pt into Cold Mastery and some +skills is already very strong and enough if you have a second element.

Also your skill distribution on the fire tree cuold improve by reallocating skillpoints.

With this setup here you will get the most out of damage from both trees with about +10-12 skills

20 Frozen Orb
1 Cold Mastery
20 Firebolt
20 Fireball
20 Hydra
1 FM

Why only 1 into FM? Masteries improve from +skills, synergies do not. So for synergies to work you need to have placed skill points into the skill that gives a synergy.
Also synergies and masteries are calculated seperatly.

With this setup you get a strong Frozen Orb + a formidable Fireball and Hydra, meaning you can spam Fireball inbetween Hydra and Frozen Orb, which makes you kill even faster. This is about the best skillsetup you can get for a Hydra/Orb Sorceress and she can handle Hell on her own very well.

[hysys]

Hi I did one but didnt go very far (75 starting hell) :) so I might not be the best person to answer.

First I agree with the expert :)

Second :
dont forget the one point wonder telek/ telep/ static (warmth ?)

Merc HF is good to slow down monster, more chance for your hydra

This is a very defensive build IMHO, so it is more a get some hydra in front attract the mob retreat and repeat.

Have fun

[sk8brdnick]

The hard thing about this build is that you don't have a spammable skill. The timer for hydra limits you FO casting and the FO timer limits you hydra casting. It's doable, but you will want a strong tank for sure!

[melianor]

The hard thing about this build is that you don't have a spammable skill. The timer for hydra limits you FO casting and the FO timer limits you hydra casting. It's doable, but you will want a strong tank for sure!
Excuse me, but that is not true. I stated above that you get a very usable Fireball that has about 4kwith decent +skills.

[sk8brdnick]

Excuse me, but that is not true. I stated above that you get a very usable Fireball that has about 4kwith decent +skills.

I stand corrected!!