Light sorc questions.

[Darklife]

This is more directed towards xey because he has a pretty good one. I want a key/rune lightning sorc for countess/summoner/nith and e/s/p runs as well. My gear will consist of the following:
Peasent crown
wizspike
Viper
Infernostride
Tgods
Ravenfrost
nagel
magefist
mosers

I was wondering what i should max. If i should go
20-Chain lightning
20-Lightning
20-Lightning mastery
20-Charged bolt
20-nova

or i should go
20-chain lightning
20-lightning
20-lightning mastery
20-tk
20-nova(nova is so cool >.<)

Would this work out at all? I wont really be doing nith until i can get some better gear like a higher viper and an ss but I will be doing some e/s/p runs. That and nm cows. Would my dmg be high enough without alot of +to skills? So far i only have an um rune and i think i can get a lightning charm out of it and thunderstrokes i could trade for one i think as well. So would my dmg we anywhere good enough?

[HAMC8112]

I always did my sorcs like this:
20-Chain lightning
20-Lightning
20-Lightning mastery
20-Charged bolt
20-nova

I am pretty sure your dmg will be high enough.

[Darklife]

That's true it will be high but I wont have the support of energy shield. That's why i am leaning towards maxing tk and 1point in es.

[HAMC8112]

That's true it will be high but I wont have the support of energy shield. That's why i am leaning towards maxing tk and 1point in es.


I have done both e-shield built and straight all sinergy with out e-shield builds, IMO these are 2 very different builds all togetter. I find the E-shield lacking in dmg. unless you have enough skillers and uber gear.

[xeyloderixed]

lemme say right off the bat that nil is impossible without actual good gear. your merc is gonna die in 1 viper hit, so u have to be able to tank a bit urself (note: the viper hit isn't as bugged on players as it is on hirelings). with that in mind, i wouldnt go there unless u have some sort of damage reduction.

some more notes:
(1) with 35 dr and max fire res, a nil CE deals my sork 300 damage.
(2) nil is light immune approx 1/8 times (empirics).
(3) mfing nilathak is most worthless because his drops are "weird" (ie he drops gold most of the time). survival gear is most practical.
(4) damage on lightsorks arent very good without top end gear, with or without es (of course, it is much worse with es than without). a magic resistant nilathak still takes a while to kill with my sork's -20 enemy res/13k lightning (around 10 hits in 1p)
(5) the 3 skills i use the most, in order, are: lightning, chain lightning, nova (nova only for rushing/nm cowing). i suggest maxing lightning first, then it comes down to your preference (with top end gear you can rush people faster with nova; with crap gear chain lightning is better)
(6) fire is a bit more unwieldy mana-wise, becase you pay full price for your teleport, but none of the monsters in halls of vaught have inherent fire immunity. if you can make your mana work, this is probably a good sork to make. there is another downside however; you have to have a good waheed stick to be able to do countess (any elite non eth polearm should work, eth are of course better)

[Darklife]

yeah.. I got her to level 50 and decided.. hmmz a chanter would be far more useful so instead of making light sorc i made chanter >.< and omg iwanted to say this 4 ever


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