occy or wizspike for chain lightning / energy shield sorc?

[FloppYY]

should energy chainlightning / energy shield sorc be using....

occy or wizspike?
tal ammy or 3 to light skills ammy w/ life?
enigma or chain of honor?
silkweave or other boots?
shako or other helm?
frostburn or other gloves?
are sojs best choice rings?
is lidless wall best choice shield?

and i need a quick outline of how my sorc skills should be managed.... this was my plan though,

20 Chain lightning
20 lightning
20 telekinesis
1 energy shield
1+ charged bolt
1+ teleport
10+ warmth
20 lightning mastery

how shud stats be distributed every level?

[Miladys-Knight]

A max ES sorc doesn't need resists. You want damage reduced by X/magic damage reduced by X items.

Hat - Shako (Sol'd or faceted) or a Powered circlet of life everlasting (+3 lit skills/damage reduced by 25) (sol'd or faceted)
Ammy - Powered amulet of life everlasting (+3 lit skills/damage reduced by 25)
Weapon - A good Eschutas (+3 To Sorceress Skill Levels, +40% Faster Cast Rate, +20% To Lightning Skill Damage +20-30 To Energy) [faceted - lum'd if you have no facet]
Armor - Gladiator's Bane (Sol'd or faceted)
Shield - Perfect Spirit (+2 To All Skills,+35% Faster Cast Rate, +55% Faster Hit Recovery, +250 Defense Vs. Missile, +22 To Vitality, +112 To Mana, Cold Resist +35%, Lightning Resist +35%, Poison Resist +35%, +3-8 Magic Absorb, Attacker Takes Damage of 14)
Gloves - Frosties
Ring 1 - soj
Belt - Glooms trap
Ring 2 - soj
Boots - Silk weaves

The reason you want the spirit shield instead of lidless:

1) Glads bane takes 111 str you only need 45 more strength to wear a spirit monarch but spirit gives you 112 mana thats 56 stat points worth of energy. (lidless gives you 10 energy)
2) 22 more vit for free (not a big deal but a nice buffer)
3) 35% to FCR which will make the break with the eschutas for Chain, Lit, and tele. (lidless gives 20% which means you have to give up frosties [+40% to max mana {read that as life for and ES sorc}] for mage fists)
4) 55%!!! faster hit recovery
5) +2 skills (lidless gives 1)
6) Spirit Monarch is 42% chance to block (lidless is 40%)
7) Higher def vs missles.

the only things lidless is better with...

1) higher def vs melee (about 100% higher on average)
2) 10% max mana (you have to give up 40% to max mana to make up for the loss in cast speed... so this is a DUH)
3) 3-5 mana after each kill
4) +1 to light :p (whoop tee do)

on switch you want a memory staff that started out life as a 4 socket +3 to ES staff (even better if it has one of the cold armors on it)

For skills---

Fire tree

1 warmth

Lightening tree
1 static field
1 charge bolt
20 lightning
20 Chain lightning
20 telekinesis
20 energy shield
1 teleport
20 lightning mastery

Cold tree

1 Frozen Armor

For stats I would skip dex. Just make sure that you have 111 strength to equip the glads bane and 156 strength to equip the spirit monarch as soon as you can.

all the rest dump into energy.

[FloppYY]

1 warmth? isnt that a bit low? heard u need alotta mana regen.....

[Miladys-Knight]

1 warmth? isnt that a bit low? heard u need alotta mana regen.....

Don't forget about your + skills 1 warmth + 2 (shako) +2 (Spirit) +3 (Eschutas) +2 (2x soj) = level 10 Warmth (mana regen of +138%)

The bigger your mana pool is the faster it regenerates. Also give your Merc and insight polearm and you will be rolling in mana regen with out using any extra skill points.

[chaca]

Don't forget about your + skills 1 warmth + 2 (shako) +2 (Spirit) +3 (Eschutas) +2 (2x soj) = level 10 Warmth (mana regen of +138%)

The bigger your mana pool is the faster it regenerates. Also give your Merc and insight polearm and you will be rolling in mana regen with out using any extra skill points.

I have a lite sorc, not an ES, and if it wasn't for my mercs insight weapon I'd have dumped her a while ago. The build is so mana intensive that insight is a lifesaver.

[DeMeVeR]

i made an es sorc on ladder
and if you reach max es (lvl 40 with 95% dam absorb)
you dont need block or resistances
as long as you have mana
only poison or open wounds will hurt you

my gear setup is

griffon (perf saphire)
tal amulet (good mana bonus and nn resist from maras)
eshuta (19 mana / 8 energy jewel)
dusk enigma (for str bonus)
spirit
frostburns
2 sojs
arachnid mesh belt
silkweave boots
cta + spirit on weapon switch
lightning skill charms with life
life/mana small charms
annihilus small charm

precast staff:
memory runeword made in 4 sock staff with +3 energy shield (total of +9 energy shield)



my sorc stats are

7 - 25k light damage
95% energy shield
1.2k life 3.7k mana with my bo
(750 // 2700 base)
and 120% fcr (for lightning break points)

skills:
lightning 20
nova 20
lightning mastery 20
telekinesis 20
energy shield 1X (calculate with + skill equip and memory staff precast to reach lvl 40)
chain lightning 1
charged bolt 1
warmth 1
static field 1 ( 16 yards range with all the +skills :D )


at first the enigma might seem odd
but it saves you 67 str on lvl 90
thats a lot of extra energy
and you really dont need the resists from armors like CoH
if you cant afford enigma a viper with mal rune in it is nice too

on es sorc its basicly: more mana is better
and i evn sacrifice facets for that because the damage increase isnt that super
and everybody stacks resists in pvp anyway

stats:
str to reach 156 with enigma + annihilus
no dex
100 vita (+22 spirit and anni bonus included)
the rest goes into energy (470 on my sorc @ lvl 93)

merc:
go for infinity or insight weapon
on a holy freeze merc


hope these numbers convince some ppl to make a sorc like this, i have spend a lot of time thinking about it, and she does well in both pvp and pvm

but at all times: watch out for mana burn