Need help - sorc stuck in hell

[juicyfish]

Hi - I have an almost pure cold sorc, about 14 points in blizzard, 20 points in frozen orb and cold mastery but with +skills bonuses my frozen orb and all other sorc skills are +6 (so frozen orb is 26 points).

I cannot, no matter how hard or slowly i try, make it past the flayer jungle, all the flayers are immune to cold and there are so many monster swarming everywhere. I tried putting points into some fire skills (1 point into meteor and prerequisites, so effectively have 7 points in each fire skill, including fire mastery, but the fire spells do too little damage before I die, with flayers etc swarming all over me. I have decent gear (peasant crown, skin ot vipermagi, and some crafted amulets and rings).

What should I do, please help I have been trying for ages.

[Stoopid_NewB]

I'd start a new sorc. You wasted a lot of points with both blizzard and orb - they're not synergies. You should have picked one or the other, then maxed out the synergies. That will give you points to build up a fire skill if you want. but you might be better off getting a strong merc for cold immunes.

[juicyfish]

my merc is quite strong, he is about level 76, i got in in act 5 nightmare, he's a barb. he has tal rasha's headpiece for life steal + cool other mods and reasonably good defense, and a collosus blade with the runeword honor in it. the armor needs improvement i admit, just a godly wire fleece with 990 defense. I need to find a socketed armor of some kind and runeword it (or a good unique will do).
assuming i will want to keep this sorc in addition to a new one, can i possibly expect to complete the game (i spent a lot of time on this game from scratch, no trading immense items to it from a mule etc, so i am reluctant to give it up completely as a lost cause)

[rg_22uk]

Even if you don't manage to complete hell with it, join a public game (assuming you are on battle.net) and get trav / meph out the way. Then get the river of flame wp from a public game and do the hellforge in a private game. At least you have the chance to get a good rune that you can use to start your new sorc.

A failed barb that I started at the beginning of Ladder 2 gave me an Ist rune the other day as i had forgot to do the hellforge before starting a new character.

[Stoopid_NewB]

You could always turn it into a mf sorc. get a rush and level up on baal runs, then use it to mf. that's what i did with my sorc, she's only slightly messed up. i accidently put 2 points in orb, meaning to click on blizz. and i put a few points in enerygy shield, but don't want to max telikenisis. but she's getting some good items for my other characters that they'd never find on their own.

[juicyfish]

thanks for the suggestions.
unfortunately i am not on battlenet, this is the my first ever character. maybe i can get a friend to tcp/ip with me past hell then as you say, magic find in places with no cold immunes (ancient tunnels and boss runs).