PvP - Fireball/Firebolt/Meteor - Energy Shield – 105 FCR - Sorceress Guide

Skills:
FIRE:
20 - Firebolt
20 - Fireball
20 - Meteor
20 - Fire Mastery
1 - Warmth
3 for Prerequisites

COLD:
Nothing

LIGHTNING:
20 Telekenisis
1 Teleport

Notes on skills:
Do not put a point on energy shield. Simply keep in your stash a +9 total to Energy Shield Memory Runeword Staff and prebuff energy shield before you fight!
By using a Memory, you can finish your character at level 94 instead of 98!

Stats:

Strength: 55 to 75
Dexterity: Nothing
Vitality: 125
Energy: Everything else!

Notes on stats:

You get anywhere between 55 to 75 base strength depending on how good or high your gear is. With the right gear you will have enough to use spirit monarch (156 str req.) after your item bonuses. My sorceress has 60 base strength.

Put no points into dexterity because the only thing you would need that for is max block and getting max block is a bad idea when using spirit monarch and going energy shield. This build is good for playing other sorceresses and max block does nothing for you there so be quiet you max block fanatics!

The reason why you have 125 base vitality is because with this build you will have only 75% energy shield and it is a good idea to have (when you're done) approx. 1800 life / 3k mana or better and that is with legit items. Obviously if you're using 70 mana / 15 life small charms you will have more mana and can get more life.

Every other point goes into energy because you need a lot of that when you are an energy shield sorceress.

Equipment:

Helmet: Shako
Amulet: Mara's
Armor: Chains of Honor
Weapon: Hoto
Shield: 35% FCR Spirit Monarch
Ring#1: SoJ
Ring#2: 10% FCR ring with 15+ strength and hopefully +mana or +life
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Gloves: Frostburns
Boots: 15/15 Sandstorm Treks

Backup:
+ 6 battle orders Call to Arms and Spirit Monarch

Charms:
High Sorceress Torch
High Annihilus
8x Fire Skill Lifer GC's
1x Fire 12% FHR GC
10x Life/Mana Small Charms

Notes on Equipment:

Get an Act 2 mercinary of your liking and equip him with Infinity weapon as well as your favourite armor and helmet.

With that gear you should hit 105% FCR exactly (the second to highest faster cast rate breakpoint).
You will also get 87% FHR (Spirit + Treks + FHR GC) which means you will beat the 86% FHR breakpoint.

You can put whatever you want into your shako such as a 5/5 Fire Facet or Perfect Ruby or Perfect Saphire (because I think they add more life or mana than a jah rune or sur rune do. I have not tested it yet but am planning to) or a Shael rune if you can't afford a FHR GC or have all 40+ Fire lifers at which point you would get more life that way by putting a shael and using another fire lifer than using a FHR GC and a Perfect Ruby.

Use Hoto for the resists and 15% to maximum mana and 40% faster cast rate. It is clearly better than a Fire Eschutas for an energy shield sorceress.

It is optional to use a 10% FCR Amulet or 10% FCR ring. It depends on what you have available. If you get high enough +mana you end up having close to the same as using as SoJ. You only get 2 mana per energy so thats not a lot; spirit adds like 100 mana which is a lot.

CoH is godly resists and skills, and I always liked Maras because it means higher level battle orders, nice resists and 5 attributes which helps.

Here is how I got my strength on my sorceress: 60 base strength + 39 (torch, anni) = 99 + 15 (treks) = 114 + 20 (CoH) = 134 + 2 (shako) = 136 + 20 (Maras + Rare Ring) = 156 Strength (enough for Spirit Monarch). If I had a 20 stat annihilus and a 20 strength ring... I could have got 55 strength base.

If you are rich enough to have duped/hacked items such as 70 mana/15 life small charms and Armageddon Fletch... adjust my build to use Fletch and dual SoJ's (which will mean slightly more base strength) and 13x 70/15's. If you have those you should aim for 2000 health / 4500 mana.

Closing:

I play US East SCL and my Fire Sorceress's name is Hitze. This build is approx. 75% Energy Shield - 105% Faster Cast Rate and is meant for Player vs Player. You should find this is pretty close to the best build for 105% FCR. If you have any comments, please tell them. Thanks and good luck!

This post was edited by The-Rising on Aug 9 2006 07:20pm

its always help to put ur dmg/life/mana b/c someone will ask sooner or later

but good setup

This post was edited by built2burn on Aug 9 2006 07:32pm

16 tk puts the life taken mana ratio at 1:1 20 is a waste besides that i like the guide. just missing the pvp strategys

why not fb ormus instead of coh, and fire circ over shako? and use a +3 ligth circ on switch for when u use es

coh is resis hes a caster sorc vs sorc u need resis. fire circ u lose the mana u gain from shako shako>circlet

damage isnt always what is important TT... a fireball ormus has faster cast rate i don't need... and no resists... CoH has 2 to ALL skills and 65 all resists and other useful things. A fire circ if you mean one with faster cast rate is once again excess faster cast rate i dont need and i doubt it will have the amazing + life and + mana bonuses that shako gives. The +3 light circ is not a terrible idea if you keep it in ur stash for prebuffing es though if you want a higher level % es.

Jesus... level 16 is 1:1 but level 20 is even better ratio... higher level telekenis = less mana drained when hit

My sorc has approximately: 1800 life / 3000 mana LEGIT items AND approx. 22k Fireball/bolt damage. not bad for an es sorc.

use 3 light skills ammy/ciclet/ 3 es ormus gets you up to78% es? only that blows lol

where did you get that from? if i use all that + battle command and a +9 es staff i would get 80% es... and i dont use bmanas so why would i even want a higher % es my mana drops fast enough... + im a fire sorc not a light sorc so what do you expect? you think it would be a better idea to sacrafice a lot of damage and/or telek levels to put a bunch of points in es? nty.

This post was edited by The-Rising on Aug 9 2006 08:06pm

use mana pots afk

Sick guide... I might make one and I'll try this out.