Unsure about Elements to choose...

[LtSinborn]

Ok - im making a magic find sorc. I'm hoping she'll be able to down Mephy, Pindle, and most other mobs. Right now, she is level 52 and is barely beginning to level. I've maxed Blizzard and Glacial Spike (Synergy). I'm deciding on whether to go into the Fire tree - or the Lightning Tree. I'm leaning towards the Lightning Tree but I am unsure upon which skills to rely upon. Any input or suggestions would help. :)

[divinius]

if your gonna take another element i would choose meteor or fireball or max both if u have the points
i have a level 70 pure blizzard sorc and she completely owns any boss
i have maxed cold resist blizzard ice blast......which is a really nice spammable skill and im working on ice bolt and glacial spike to fully synergize.......although cold immunes are definately a painnnn.....

[zebulin]

if your gonna take another element i would choose meteor or fireball or max both if u have the points
i have a level 70 pure blizzard sorc and she completely owns any boss
i have maxed cold resist blizzard ice blast......which is a really nice spammable skill and im working on ice bolt and glacial spike to fully synergize.......although cold immunes are definately a painnnn.....

**Warning the following is posted by a relative noob to d2 (game purchased 1 month ago)**

I went standard meteorb and I can tell you when facing Hell mephisto I'm definately regretting the decision. maxed frozen orb kills meph absurdly slowly, forcing me to rely on a prolonged barrage of fireball and meteor against meph using the moat trick. I simply can't kill meph in much less than 20 seconds even when totally lag free and spamming both spells with maxed FCR. This prevents me from taking my merc with me (he dies for various reasons before I can dispatch meph) and serves as a considerable speed bump to my meph runs overall.

Every time I read an account of a blizzard sorcs successes against bosses I could kick myself for not choosing a blizzball or blizzwall build over meteorb. I had originally made a very suboptimal sorc that was cold based but abandoned her for the meteorb after learning I had screwed her up by wasting points in energy and warmth. Well she certainly was crippled by spending points in energy and warmth but blizzard is so much more effective than frozen orb that I'm finding now that I've been replaying her to experiment with blizzard that she can kill bosses considerably faster than my meteorb ever could at her level. The only exception so far appears to be andariel.

[zebulin]

Ok - im making a magic find sorc. I'm hoping she'll be able to down Mephy, Pindle, and most other mobs. Right now, she is level 52 and is barely beginning to level. I've maxed Blizzard and Glacial Spike (Synergy). I'm deciding on whether to go into the Fire tree - or the Lightning Tree. I'm leaning towards the Lightning Tree but I am unsure upon which skills to rely upon. Any input or suggestions would help. :)


I suggest reading up on the firewall-blizzard builds as that seems like the closest thing to a reveresal of the meteorb prioritization that has been devised.

Instead of basically being a fire based sorc with frozen orb tacked on to cover all fire immune situations it gives you a cold based sorc with firewall tacked on to deal with cold immune situations.

only go with fireball if you know you'll have the points to max not only fireball but approach maxing at least one other fireball synergy as well *and* have the gear to appreciably boost fire mastery as I found my fireballs only really began to exceed frozen orb in effectiveness after spending those additional skill points.

Congrats on not missing out on the joys of blizzarding.