light or fire ?

[Fareek]

which is better to build ?

current items for her:

shako
coh
tals ammy
gloomstrap
hoto
spirit mon
frostburns
treks
fcr rings

weapon switch
cta
spirit

[Neksja]

Hi,

I don't know, is there clearly better build, it depends how you like to play. I've recently built both, pure fire and pure light. I like more lightning, because of those fire immunes, ofc there's light immunes also, but I think there is less of them than fi's.

Lightning is pretty tricky, because it can make dmg only 5 or then again like 20k. Then Fire again, it makes more minimum dmg, but less maximum. And if you're baaling a lot, people don't want you to use meteor, because c/i, then you find yourself in situation using only fireball. If you ask me, go with the lightning tree.

And for another thing, you should chance a little your gear, if possible. Use Magefists (especially for firesorc) or Trang Gloves for 20 faster cast rate. You won't be needing that extra mana from Frostburns. Maybe better belt is useful too, Arachs ofc, but maybe some rare/crafted belt before Arachs. And Tal amu ain't the best choice, some rare/crafted/magical amu with 2-3 tree skills/2 all skills, resists and fcr, would be your choice.

Yes, I know, those are your current items, just letting you know, that I would chance those items asap :)

Neksja

[Darkflight]

If you have Infinity, go with lightning. If not there is little difference, just use what you like.

[yuqing]

I like lightning, you have a lot of versatility, holding infinity and using nova or just as a normal lightning sorc. Fire has more spammability and I find it a lot easier to hit then lightning. However, it's also much easier to absorb, 1 tgods will not completely negate lightning, and not everyone has 2 wisps lined up. Mostly everyone can get a pair of hotspurs and 2 dwarfstars.

[Infirmed Lad]

Hey,
I have been playin D fo 3 years now,if ur pvp then fire ball all the way.Noww pvm lite because chain or just normal lite u kill like no other!But infiny is wut u need.Because i dont have one my lite sorc can only solo NM so i hoped this helped
Infirmed Lad

[yuqing]

No single element sorc can "solo" hell without infinity or at least a decent merc.

[squiggle]

IMO,

If for boss killing = Fire

If for general pvm = Light


Seeing the gear you have you can afford infinity, So i'd go light sorc

[LRSAIA]

Infinity will break many more lightning immunities than fire immunities. That alone makes it the PVM winner IMO. I don't do PVP as much (except when some ****** shows up to PK or BM party members/friends but then all manners are "off") In any case, yeah the min damage sucks for lightning but that's just the nature of the game. Look at avg damage and get some fast cast. (note different for lightning and CL). I've always been fond of sitting on baal's steps where minions have a harder time hitting me and spamming a charged bolt "carpet" then L/CL'ing any that survive.

If my calculations serve (and my math sucks when sleep deprived) fire has better total avg damage for a "pure" build vs lightning but not by much. Still, if you Baal run alot Lister is always a PITA with a firesorc. It can be done but merc revives and whatnot get expensive and time consuming. For high level leveling/MF'ing I'd rather a blizz sorc in the ancient tunnels. (lvl 87+ w' no natural cold immunes) but I digress. In any case on P1 your merc should be able to kill most things if well equipped. (you can still TK to help vs light immunes) but on P8 things get very slow unless merc has massive crushing blow or is insanely equipped. Then again, light sorcs are like flies on ****e lately so if commonality has any weight....fire has the edge.

Now that I'm off THAT soapbox, I'll say that Infinity is best IMO carried by your sorc herself in hell at least for the light sorc. The - light resist does so much to help with critters that your conviction has broken at the reduced rate that your damage is far higher vs many of the worst (say gloams/souls). It doesn't make a difference in which critters you can break immunity....just sucks the resists down the crapper of those whom you can break but only just.

Just my pair of cents....

[Fareek]

ok i lvl'd her up to low 80's and used the lightning tree. now i'm highly disappointed in her. already made a new sorc and trying to see which skills to go with. back in 09 i had a nova/ meteor/ orb and had a blast with the sorc. is that still a good tri to build ? i dont want to go with a single tree and be faced with a brick wall with immunes.

i changed some of her gear:

griffions
coh
tals ammy
arach
hoto
spirit mon
frostburns
silkweave
fcr rings


she will be a PvM character, i dont really use skill gc's or care to do uber's. i want to do some mf'ing, be able to solo hell, rush, baal runs etc...

still dazed and confussed with the 1001 sorc builds.