idea for a build

[Superhal]

i've been toying with this build idea for a year or two now, and i realize i'm not the person to write it or try it (i just don't believe in sorcs using melee/missiles.) if anybody wants to explore this idea, feel free.

Tri-elemental sorc:
20 lightning mastery
20 fire mastery
20 cold mastery
20 enchant
leftover points in pre-reqs, static, cold armors, es, whatever you feel is useful.

the main basis of this build is to use one of the weapons with large amounts of three different types of elemental damage on it:
glimmershed
hellrack
baranar's star
famine (1h or 2h)
harmony (bow/xbow)

and then, the damage can be increased by using items with holy shock, fire, or freeze.

depending on the weapon chosen, different skills can be selected. for example, if you want to use demon arch, then you only need fire/lightning mastery, and extra points can go into enchant/warmth/inferno.

stats:
i would recommend around 170 str, 140 dex. this will allow you to use just about every weapon in the game (with some variation for the extremes, such as 145 dex for a winged harpoon, or 232 for an ogre maul.) rest of the stats in vit, nothing in energy.

[sirwhere]

Hum.. does mastery damage work with elemental damage from weapon? I thought it only worked with spells, but mebbe I'm wrong :)

Anyway, now that we're onto funny builds, how about "The Self-Serving Tank" sorceress?

Idea: make a sorcie with very high defense so that she can tank monsters herself while burning them to the steak with firewall.

Skillz:
20 firewall
20 fire mastery
20 orb
1 cold mastery
1 teleport
Rest into chilling armor/pre-reqs

Merc:
Defiance

Gear:
Upgraded guardian angel for +max resists
4 p.diamond shield for resists
Rest of the stuff +fire skills, high defense and +resists. No fast cast needed!

Stats:
Str: enough to wear guardian angel
Rest vita

Great idea. I might put it to work one day :)

[Superhal]

yep, that's why enchant sorcs get so much damage. the fire mastery is applied twice, once on casting, once on hit.

[Jek]

Vengeance + maxed masteries = good times. My melee sorc is quite a beast. ;)

[PhatTrumpet]

This will not work with ranged attacks as Lightning and Fire Masteries only get applied twice with melee.

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=464619

[cryist]

I am in the process of building my Melee sorce an Enchant/Titian sorc, My current damage is between 6 and 9.6k with a Kingslayer Berzerker axe. She is lvl 80, and i am hoppng to break the 10k damage before i am finished with her..