Light sorc question

[dafux]

Hey guys, fairly new here. I have a question about an as-of-now all Light sorc that I am playing. I am currently sitting on level 87, have maxed L, CL, LM, CB. My question is should I keep pumping Nova to maximize the synergy for L, or would I be better off seeking a one-point wonder (I was thinking a point in fireball) to have some damage other than Light? :ponder:

Currently I am using the standard equipment: Shako, Occy, Spirit, Upped 35 Vipermagi, Frostburn, Silkweave, Tal ammy + 15 belt, 26 Nagel and a sweet rare ring I found (+7 min damage, +60 AR, 3%LL, +5 life, all res +8, 8% mf). And a torch, giving a grand total of +13 to all skills.

And of course ideally I am trying to get Infinity, but realistically that's not happening anytime soon.

Cheers!

[sirpoopsalot]

About the only one-point-wonder/attack-skills are Static Field (lightning damage, so it's useless to you) and Glacial Spike - not for the damage, but for the freezing effect to help with crowd control. You could do GS, but don't expect anything spectacular for it... it's more of a "merc-aid" for lightning immunes. And as a substitute for GS, you can use the knockback on telekinesis (although it's lightning damage, the knockback effect still works).

If you want to actually kill lightning immunes with your sorc you can start spending what's left in Firewall, and that'll eventually become 'capable' of killing things... but it simply won't be very good; you don't have enough remaining skillpoints.

Really though, at this point you might just as well stick the points in Nova and go with that. There's less chance you'll regret it later. I wouldn't bother with Fireball.

[guface]

problem with light: need infinity to kill light immunes on hell.
putting 1 pt in fireball - will do 12 damage. Hell monsters: 12k.

solution: farm area with few light immunes. A lot of the a5 frozen areas are quite good.

[penco]

The two closest spells to one-pt wonders, besides Static Field, are Frozen orb and Meteor. You could probably get by easily with 1 pt in cold mastery and 10-15 in Frozen Orb. With meteor, you'd probably need to max it, but still just one pt in fire mastery.

I recently made a nova/meteor sorc, and it pwns with only 20 pts in meteor and 1 pt in fire mastery.

[guface]

The two closest spells to one-pt wonders, besides Static Field, are Frozen orb and Meteor. You could probably get by easily with 1 pt in cold mastery and 10-15 in Frozen Orb. With meteor, you'd probably need to max it, but still just one pt in fire mastery.

I recently made a nova/meteor sorc, and it pwns with only 20 pts in meteor and 1 pt in fire mastery.

and have you tried hell with 10-15 orb or maxed meteor with 1 pt fire mastery?

If not, I doubt this would work.

[Shaimus]

1 point in orb and cold mastery, with the rest going into lightning and synergies will baal/ chaos run or rush very fine. Mind you that's with around 20+ skills to get orb to 300 dmg. That would also give you 28k lightning at level 90, 37k with 5 light gcs. Not really expensive either, only things that could be a problem would be dual soj/ or +2 arm. Still, it's much much cheaper than infinity, and used to work well for me.