Making a mf sorc for hell meph/bosses

[ikbarb]

I currently have full tals. What should I use for my rings, shield, boots and gloves? I'm gonna be mfing, mostly in hell meph. How should I divide my stat and skill points? Is blizz best way to go?

[pedu]

Well if your pure mf, strap on 2 nagels, wts and chancies. Then either an mf amu or +3 treeskill amu. And see how well you do.
If you die 20 times killing meph. Switch the rings for fcr/res rings or the boots to waterwalks or silks depending if es or not, and the gloves for something else.

For stats and skills and such, you could check the guides. Basic max life build is str&dex just enough for gear, rest in vita, 0 in ene.
Ive never played a blizz sorc, but ive heard that meteorbers are kinda good. :thumbsup:

edit: w00t! 800 posts! Sweet

[CoyoteKid]

Yes all blizz is the way to go for Hell Meph.
105 FCR is also the way to go.

[monsinour]

Yes all blizz is the way to go for Hell Meph.
105 FCR is also the way to go.

While blizzard is a good spell and causes lotsa damage, the casting delay cannot be circumvented. There is a minor difference between blizzard and the faster frozen orb. So just adding on gear to get to 105FCR is actually a waste.

I myself have a FO / Hydra sorc wearing full tals, 2x pnagels, 39 chancies, p war travs, 4x MF SCs ( 3 at 6 and 1 at 7 ) a ptopaz in the hat and armor, and an IST in the orb. My shield is a spirit monarch and i carry an anni and torch. My Meph runs have been and will continue to be updated in the "my mf luck" thread that i started here a while back. I do a fairly decent job of offing Meph in less than a minute. Well i dont kill him, my merc does. My merc is wearing enigma armor, dream hat, and infinity CV for all the extra MF. A typical run consists of teleing down to 3 and accross the moat. I static like 3 or 4 times to be sure his HPs are as low as they are going to get, shoot out 2 orbs and wait for merc to kill him ( which is about 2 jabs later). I can say that there is a distict difference when I kill Meph as opposed to merc. I tend to see better drops and more yellow, green and gold when merc kills as opposed to me. BTW my mf on sorc is 461% and when merc kills it is over 600%.

So just make a dual element sorc, meteorb is fine, and make sure you put 1 point into warmth, static, energy shield, and tele.

You only need 3 items to get the partial set bonus of an extra 65%MF with tals so if you want to get the max MF on a "kinda" tals setup you would want to keep the ammy, armor, and a 15% belt. The rest, just find crap with MF on it and put a ptopaz in the armor if all the sorc is going to do is MF.

Monsinour lvl 85 Avenger

[AnimeCraze]

Full Tal's is just begging for 2 elements. It's easily Baal runnable with it, so don't make a blizz sorc and waste the potential of the set.

[ikbarb]

what 2 elements?

[therup]

Theres a couple of ways that ive done that has been succesfull,

FO/CL
FO/Meteor(meteorb)
Blizz/firewall

but for only doing meph runs only go blizz only.

Killspeed is more important than MF so id suggest 2 sojs tal armor, belt, amu, shako(ist, ptopaz), Hoto, spirit monarch, cg, war travs, 20 sc 7 mf, anni, torch, cold skillers, merc with infy, shako(ptopaz), enigma.

if u can afford this settup

[CoyoteKid]

I agree that I would not waste Tals set to take out Meph when you only need some cheap gear and an all Blizz Sorc.
Full Tal's is just begging for 2 elements. It's easily Baal runnable with it, so don't make a blizz sorc and waste the potential of the set.

Give me ten seconds actually using Blizz on Meph and he is dead meat with cheap gear and moat trick.
I myself have a FO / Hydra sorc wearing full tals, 2x pnagels, 39 chancies, p war travs, 4x MF SCs ( 3 at 6 and 1 at 7 ) a ptopaz in the hat and armor, and an IST in the orb. My shield is a spirit monarch and i carry an anni and torch. My Meph runs have been and will continue to be updated in the "my mf luck" thread that i started here a while back. I do a fairly decent job of offing Meph in less than a minute.

[monsinour]

I agree that I would not waste Tals set to take out Meph when you only need some cheap gear and an all Blizz Sorc.


Give me ten seconds actually using Blizz on Meph and he is dead meat with cheap gear and moat trick.

However on dreaded b.net the games have to take longer or else the freaking temp ban issue rears its ugly head. So do I mind if i take a minute to off Meph ( time to load game, tele to 3 and kill ) hell no. It just makes it easier to kill countess first and then Meph and start all over again from act4.

Monsinour lvl 85 Avenger

[AnimeCraze]

Not only that. You can't run Baal with a blizz sorc, but you can do it with a meteorb.

[heavenlyangel]

well, that's kinda dependent on your mercs gear... I have a lifetap wand on switch + fairly ok merc setup == dead bosses.