Questing Equipment

[Drider]

I've been searching all over the forums for guides for the best equipment for a sorc while questing. Looking for killing speed and survival for say rushing chars. I first tried Tal's full set and came up with close to max resists and decent killing speed. I just got Shako/Occulus/Chains of Honor/Arachs and i'm coming up with about the same stats. Little more damage on fireball but less resists.

I know im missing Mara's to replace the tal ammy but short of that and some better charms i'm at a lost. Is Tals equivalent to the mentioned equipment with the bonuses or am i missing something. Sorry for the brief write-up for i am at work. Any thoughts and suggestions would be great.

[Scudstorm]

What's your build? Meteorb?

Anyhow, Tal's is effectively end-game gear. The only builds that should not use Tal's Set as final equip are:

- Pvp builds
- 200 fcr builds
- Pure light builds (with access to Griffon's Eye)
- Pure light builds that must have the 117 fcr breakpoint
- Pure cold builds or hybrids with strong emphasis on the cold tree (with access to Death's Fathom)

Otherwise, Tal's is as good as equip gets.

[Drider]

Meteorb. I followed the build posted on the forums. I wasnt sure if there was equipment that would allow more survivability and killing power but maybe my problem lies in lack of charms and merc gear.

[Qveasd]

That's +4 four more skills. For my light sorc that means 6950 average damage instead of 5100, that's a lot. And it looks so much better (once you get rid of shako) :)

[Scudstorm]

For a Meteorb, Tal's is the best regardless of charms/merc.

Here, Zroc's The truth about Tal's Set (http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151250) :)

[Keishacoo]

Here is my set up for running everything.

Shako, ptopaz
Tal ammy
Tal armor, ptopaz
Tal belt
Occy, ist
Spirit Monarch
Soj
Rare 10% FCR ring with resist all
Magefists
Wartravelers

Most charms are magic find or resist with some lifers.

This set up gives almost 20K meteor, about 9 K fireball (Can't recall exactly), about 500 orb dmg, 2nd to last breakpoint cast rate, 75 resist all but poison, 1100 life before BO and about 50% block. About 400% MF IIRC and can solo or rush any area. Hell council can be a pain if bad mods spawn and you have to watch for IM in chaos for the merc.

My merc is still using an insight eth thresher but could switch to infinity now without mana issues (if I had one I would).

I am very happy with the set up.

Joe

[jackthelad]

Here is my set up....


I have.....

Tal helm ist-ed
tal armor ptopaz
tal belt
tal ammy
tal orb (was gonna ist it, havent done yet)
'Rhyme' in a heater
chancies
2x nagels
war travs
gheeds
anni
sorc torch
lots of mf/resist charms

I get 550+ orb dmg, & about the same FB/meteor dmg, max resists (& then some), max block & a fair chunk of life (I forget how much). I get closer to 475mf I believe. Due to the massive amount of MF Im packing, running anything in full-ish games is tough, & baal-running I have to be carefull of for my merc, but Im happy enough. Sure I could swap out some stuff to increase kill speed & survivability, but I dont MF in public games much, so Im not too fussed.

[droid]

You shouldnt have much trouble while rushing with a L85+ sorc with at least decent gear....really, by then your merc can tank pretty much anything in the game long enough for you to kill it (except when IM is involved, of course).

For Meteorb, you cant beat Tal's, thats just that. For any other build, when price is not really a concern, I'd say go more for a CoH/Shako/Arach/Magefist/Maras or +2 Sorc Crafted Amulet setup.

And one thing no one's mentioned yet, HotO is better than Occy for pure power and survival...you lose the MF but you gain more FCR and mana and resists and stuff.