My First MF sorcerer

[Joshers]

I wanted to start a character i could use to farm for my smiter, back in the day i made a meteor/orb source(back in 1.09) but i was wondering thats the strongest spec 1.12 . The only real request i have is i want Frost to be part of the build

i was leaning towards Chain lighting / Orb source but i have no idea if its strong

Links to some guides would be great

[Baboon]

Links to guides are all over the place here, they are called stickies :)

And welcome ;)

[SeCKSEgai]

My Orb/CL is what I used to build wealth. However, she has been eclipsed by just about every character I've made since then, and now acts as a hell mule in full tals.

The strongest sorc overall for mf at this point would be pure lightning simply because the use of infinity (usually on merc) allows it to be extremely versatile.

However, if you basically starting from scratch, a dual-tree sorc would probably be wiser. MY orb/cl could solo hell baal with her merc, but it was slow and tedious with a bit of risk of death. However, she could basically solo anywhere. Now my lite does too, much more efficiently, but her gear is also a bit more pricey.

[evev]

It depends on how many good equips or tradable runes you already have.

If you have some that you can use to outfit your sorc then I would suggest pure Blizz sorc for the very nice damage. If you have a lot you can spare to outfit your sorc, then like Egai I recommend a pure Light sorc.

If you have absolutely nothing to spend or that you can use on a sorc then I recommend a Fishymancer. Those guys kill slower than a sorc, but they can pwn with just a Suicide Branch.

Final notes: Only get Infinity if you are doing Light. The investment isn't justified for Fire or Cold because Infinity does not guarantee breaking those immunities. Also, (my personal opinion), only do single element Sorcs because you will need synergies to boost damage.

[CrossXyer]

I have an inclination to pure blizz, pretty good character starting with gear you find around (wizzy,magi,rhyme come into mind at the moment). All depends on preference, although it's annoying if there are mass cold immunes and you have a bad merc. Light will always win out dmg wise though but that requires good equipment and even a better merc.

Dual trees are definitly nice in terms of versatility, but by hell i've found that for cl/fo the damage is not to full potential (due to intricacies of the synergies being based on dmg 5 skills to max) meteorb seems to be more effective at least to me since you can skip out on inferno without a large impact (so 4 skills to max). Its also effective with full tals which is a saving grace of a first char sorc.

I guess it revolves around personal taste