MF Baaler sorc suggestions

[Immortal_King]

Full tals, ist in weapon, ptopaz in everything else, 35 FCR spirit, magefists, 2 sojs, war travs. So decent MF and resists and going dual element.

Blizzard 20
Glacial 20
Fireball 20
Meteor 20
Some into CM, FM, 1 warmth, 1 armour, teleport and prereqs. Wanna be finished the skill layout by about 85 then put points as I get them.

Str is enough for monarch then all vita. Any suggestions? WIll this work?

[zebulin]

Full tals, ist in weapon, ptopaz in everything else, 35 FCR spirit, magefists, 2 sojs, war travs. So decent MF and resists and going dual element.

Blizzard 20
Glacial 20
Fireball 20
Meteor 20
Some into CM, FM, 1 warmth, 1 armour, teleport and prereqs. Wanna be finished the skill layout by about 85 then put points as I get them.

Str is enough for monarch then all vita. Any suggestions? WIll this work?

Honestly I'd skip meteor entirely. You'll want blizzard as the timered spell almost the whole time. You can synergize the fireball using a skill that has less prereqs than meteor and use the savings to beef up blizzard.

[Thyiad]

There have been numerous examples of how the synergies work. Do a search for threads started by Frostburn, Magechick and PhatTrumpet for explanations. There is even one in the Stickies (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=485416).

What I would say is that CM needs to be at least level 17 after +skills. Apart from that, you pretty much got the idea.

[PhatTrumpet]

I would do 20 Ice Blast instead of Glacial Spike. Spike is not there to do damage, it's there to freeze monsters in their tracks, something it does just fine with one point invested. Blast gives you something a little more damaging to spam in between Blizzard casts.

[zebulin]

I would do 20 Ice Blast instead of Glacial Spike. Spike is not there to do damage, it's there to freeze monsters in their tracks, something it does just fine with one point invested. Blast gives you something a little more damaging to spam in between Blizzard casts.

For baal running spike may be better.

The waves spawn in tight formations and spike allows you to trap them frozen in place shoulder to shoulder by spamming where they will appear just before they appear. Sure you "miss" more of them with blizzard when they aren't moving but you also have a very easy crowd control situation with them all bunched up like that and probably fewer castings of blizzard overall as you dont have to stop to avoid melee as often or divide your efforts as the original big unfrozen mob will tend to spread out into an area too big for the blizzard.

My blizz sorc has both GS and IB maxed and I only switch to IB on baal runs when I am moving on to kill Baal himself. The area of effect spread of the GS damage also seems to allow it to easily outdamage IB when spammed into those tight groups in terms of damge dealt overall per cast.

[Immortal_King]

Well if I have a holy frost merc I guess I can cut out GS for a different synergy. Also I will have 16 CM w/ 1 point I think. +2 orb, +2 amulet, +3 tal set, +2 spirit, +3 torch, +1 anni, +2 sojs

[XRazorX]

If you're just doing baal runs i'd just go with a pure light sorc if I were you. On mine with a good merc I can run hell baal crazy fast. In my MF games I do..

Andy-->Pits--->Meph--->Baal--->Next game.

Absolutely no problem with light sorc.

[Immortal_King]

Whats your build? If you dont mind my asking ^_^;

[janmaxim]

and your gear? :)