Melee Sorc Advice Please

[wingsfan]

Hey, everyone, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I am building a mell sorc in line with gimmershred's guide:

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=471447

So I was going to use the following skill distribution:

20 enchant, 20 warmth, 20 light mastery, 20 fire mastery, rest into TK for synergy w/ Energy Shield.

However, I was considering two variations on this:

1. I was going to use dragon armor to gain the additional fire damage from the holy fire aura. I assume this is enhanced by fire mastery. What do you think about using this as opposed to CoH?

2. I was considering using a crystal sword for my Passion instead of a Phase Blade. I figured the vast majority of my damage would be elemental, so why make it impossible to run the chaos sanctuary by using a high(er) damage weapon.

Finally, Is this a kick*** PvM build or am I wasing my time?

Let me know what you think. Thank you in advance.

[Doppel]

Crystal is no good, pb is many times faster, trust me, you need it. (plus, no need to repair)
Plus, PB still has low enough of plain dmg to really not make your life that difficult at Chaos Sanctuary, personally i never had any trouble being IMed there. (still doesn't mean you need to carelesly hack away though)
Wouldn't use Dragon either, the dmg it provides from the aura is marginal at best, plus the skills on CoH will boost your ench and light aura to way higher dmg, other good armor is a viper for the plus skills FCR (wich you will mainly lack from rest of gear, but still comes in handy when you need to tele somewhere) and res and mdr, plus you can socket it with a jewel to for example enhance res or to attack at a faster speed and so on.
Viper is really one of the best armors out there.
Another great option (and my personal favorite) is the Gladiators Bane, it lacks skills and such, but your dmg will be insanely high anyways and the mods it offers are nothing to sneez at, certainly not when using ES.
Lets look at the mods:
-Defense: 1255-1496 (varies)(Base Defense: 375-481)
Required Level: 85
Required Strength: 111
Durability: 135
+150-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+50 Defense
Cannot Be Frozen
30% Faster Hit Recovery
Poison Length Reduced By 50%
Attacker Takes Damage Of 20
Damage Reduced By 15-20 (varies)
Magic Damage Reduced By 15-20 (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

Its simply godly when using ES in my opinion, it got everything someone who needs some defense can ask for. (and defensive stats/skills is what you need when playing a melee dual dream sorceress)
FHR, CBF, Poison Length Reduction and what makes this armor amazing coupled with ES, namely PDR and MDR, plus again, you can customize it with a nice jewel, or even further boost the PDR with a sol rune.

Is it a kickass PvM built? Hell yes, maybe even one of the most kickasseble PvM builts out there.

[wingsfan]

Thanks for the reply, CoH it is. I am not sure I can afford a CTA on switch so I was thinking of using wizzy/ Spirit for teleporting.