Godly Lightning Sorceress

[Blind568]

I'm thinking about going ahead and making a lightning sorceress for pit running and hell baal running. First of all, let me start by saying that I am going to get her the best of the best gear. She will be pure lightning, with a merc using Infinity. I am looking for some suggestions on gear, because I am unsure of what is really "the best" in certain slots. For example, should I leave str at base and use annihilus and torch to put on a BP enigma, and then have lots of extra points for vitality? Or should I use a CoH for my armor and add some points to str? Here is what I have in mind for gear so far

Occulus
Shako
CoH/Enigma/Other?
2 Sojs
Perfect Maras
Magefists
Arachnids Belt
Perfect War Travellers
Stormshield

Depending on the choices for my armor, I will have 200-300MF before my switch. On the switch for bosses I will have an Isted gull dagger and a quad-isted monarch.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Also, will this sorceress be able to solo the pit and baal runs in 8 player games better than a Hammerdin? Since I won't have to worry about immunities with my merc and his Infinity, that won't be an issue. It just comes down to which can kill non-immunes faster, chain lightning or blessed hammer. I'm thinking for normal rooms with monsters spread out more, chain lightning will be a bit faster. Does anyone have any input?

Thanks for any help.

[insaneIII]

Use CoH, or else your resists will be lacking. You will need about 80 base str to hit 156 with all your gear. After that max your block rate and vit. Baal is doable, but it can be tough especially when souls spawn. I think a paladin would definitely be preferable for hell mode. Pits is a cakewalk, however.

[junglejunkie]

Occulus
Shako
CoH/Enigma/Other?
2 Sojs
Perfect Maras
Magefists
Arachnids Belt
Perfect War Travellers

Thanks for any help.

.:No Occy: Use Perf Light Eschutas with a 5/5 light facet
.:No Shako: Use a Perf Griff with a 5/5 light facet
.:No Enigma: Use COH (my preference is always COH): or, get a perfect light Ormus with Light or CL.
.:Get lots of light GCs, torch, and anni.

the rest is fine

You will absolutely demolish anything.

by the way, infinity goddam owns. it's my single favorite thing in d2x right now. (i guess after the grief/fort combo on a zealot)

[StewieGriff_XLT]

my level 96 light sorc:

perfect light 5/5 escutchas
wyrmhide CoH
Um shako
35 spirit
3 light skills/10 fcr ammy
mages
soj/soj
arach
etreks
6bo cta/espirit on switch

act 2 holy freeze merc:
perf eth infinity cryptic
dream bone visage
eth fort
he pwns all

9 gcs/anni/torch (i can take out more gcs for more room while mf'ing or w/e)

i belive i do 12-52000 damage lightning damage

she rox my sox

CJ :clap:

[junglejunkie]

my level 96 light sorc:

i belive i do 12-52000 damage lightning damage

she rox my sox

CJ :clap:

or, more appropriately, she shox your sox.

:D

sorry, couldn't resist.

and holy crap, 52k dmg?? insane.. why not use griffs, though?

[pedu]

Since you apparently went the damage route instead of the mf route, I too wondered why you didnt use griffons. Yes, the griffon makes your damage LOOK smaller in the character screen, but on the battlefield you do more damage. And 52k looks pretty nice, i guess :)
Im guessing monsters still die with ease wether youre wearing the griffon or not. Or atleast they should, my 27k lightning mf sorc can kill monsters easy. And the mf from the shako cant hurt...

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Shako would be more suitable for mf and stuff. Lightning has far too much damage to kill hell monsters with ease anyway.

52? Damn... Mine's 48, but thats at when I'm 88. I bet I'd get about 53 atleast to maybe around 55 if I get it to 96... wasted skills on Shiver Armor... -.-

[HoneyBuny]

i would go for 105 fcr at least...

.:No Occy: Use Perf Light Eschutas with a 5/5 light facet
.:No Shako: Use a Perf Griff with a 5/5 light facet
.:No Enigma: Use COH (my preference is always COH): or, get a perfect light Ormus with Light or CL.
.:Get lots of light GCs, torch, and anni.

the rest is fine

You will absolutely demolish anything.

by the way, infinity goddam owns. it's my single favorite thing in d2x right now. (i guess after the grief/fort combo on a zealot)

[dominee]

my lightsorc wear at the moment;

um'ed shako
mara
hoto40
enigma
sanctuary (due 67 resall)
magefists
arachnid belt
2 sojs
on switch: cta + lidless

My merc have:
Fortitude (due 300 enchant damage)
Tal Rash Mask
Windforce

What you you guys about my merc? And should i change armour and shield? A sprit shield is maybe better...

[shyflyrebelguy]

With my sorc I went with the ES approach and use charged bolt as my primary attack skill. She is 96 and currently uses:

Griffon Faceted
Perfect Eschuta's Faceted
Archon Enigma
Spirit
Rare +2 sorc ammy
Arach
Sojs
Frostburn
Rare boots

MERC
Eth Infinity
Eth Andy
Eth Fort

With my gear, I am able to put EVERY stat point in energy and still have str for spirit, because of enigma. She has almost 1500 life and over 4000 mana with my bo. Her charged bolt does over 1000 damage too, then infinity really makes it shine. She is pure lightning, but not the skill lightning if thats what you are referring to.

[junglejunkie]

/bit of a hijack

Out of curiosity, what do you guys consider the best merc helm?

i think we have a consensus for the following --

weapon: eth ca infinity
armour: eth fort

for helms, i've seen andy's, gaze, and dream.

i can't seem to figure out why people like dream so much -- does the lvl 15 holy shock really do much?

[dominee]

MERC
Eth Infinity
Eth Andy
Eth Fort

how much damage has your merc?

[shyflyrebelguy]

how much damage has your merc?

1691-6450 without the help of fanat, conc, etc.

The andy's has a 15% IAS jewel so that he can reach the next breakpoint for a cryptic axe. 7 frames iirc