Frozen Orb/Fireball sorc

**Ostekongen** · 07-09-2008, 14:00

Hi all
I want to make a Frozen orb/fireball sorc and im not sure which skills to max...this is my plan so far:

Frozen orb (max)
Cold mastery (max)
Fireball (max)
meteor (max)
firemastery (5-10 points)

static field (1)
Telekinesis (1)
teleport (1)
warmth (1)
shiver armor (1)

is this good or do i need to change something??
The main thing im wondering about is ice bolt....

**noodleOrb** · 07-09-2008, 14:07

max frozen orb
max fireball
max meteor
max firemastery
remaining points coldmastery

**Ostekongen** · 07-09-2008, 14:11

but will dammage from frozen orb not be to small??
and what about ice bolt?

**guface** · 07-09-2008, 15:24

dont max Fire Mast, max firebolt if you're going for fireball. The synergy is greater

This is the point about synergies, the more synergised a tree is, the better the damage. Therefore you'll have to offset some damage in cold. Orb is still immensely powerful through NM and into hell, especialyl with about 17 soft points in CM. Icebolt adds only 2% bonus, which is tiny really, considering you can add a lot more to your fire damage with its synergies. And remember, you're mainly a fire sorc with a backup in cold.

Having a "balanced" 2 trees in sorcs is much less effective that one weighted tree.

**Ostekongen** · 07-09-2008, 17:24

thx for your answers...
what if i mainly wanted to make a cold sorc with frozen orb with a backup in fire...what skills would u say were the best?

**AxlStrife** · 07-09-2008, 17:34

If you want cold as your main you'd be better off running Blizz/Ball or even (a crazy experiment of mine) Blizz/FW IMO.

**Ostekongen** · 07-09-2008, 18:06

ok...but is there no way i can make a sorc with frozen orb as her primary skill and still deal a ton of damage?

**AxlStrife** · 07-09-2008, 19:23

FO's damage is mainly in sweetspotting. It can kill at a good rate with the right setup and hitting the sweetspot (I run Eilo Rytyj's Full Tal's FB/Orb (-sojs due to budget) and hit 500+ per bolt on LCS, it does fine for MFing FI areas) but Blizzard works better from my experiences with a similar setup.

**Ostekongen** · 07-09-2008, 19:44

ok...do u know how a meteorb is played, i mean: does it use frozen orb and fireball for monsters and meteor for bosses?

The reason i keep askin is that i just love Frozen orb...

**OneFromBeyond** · 07-09-2008, 20:06

Basically any sorc tele's in and statics the bosses. My use is that I give an orb to freeze it (or at least slow it down), then tele and static and then repeat until it is dead. Usually my fireball does more damage than my orb against bosses (although the Orb does very well against groups).

The order I max things is
Frozen Orb
Fire Ball
Fire Bolt
Meteor
1 in Fire Mastery
1 in Shiver Armor/Teleport/Telekinesis/Static Field
Rest in Cold Mastery

Hope that helps!
*OneFromBeyond