Funny Hexa-pvm Sorc


1/ Introduction

Here's my best attempt to make a viable pvm-sorc using 6 different kind of damage : fire/cold/light/poison/magic/physical.
The result is nothing but funny, since you can solo Hell games without a merc, farm torchs (more or less easily) ...
To make it clear right now, this sorc will use only 5 different damages at one time, with nice results. You'll need to switch between 2 setups, according to your goal.
It's a melee sorc, but developped in a far different way as many others.
No zeal from passion, no bear form.



2/ Skills (level 87)

Fire tree :
20 warmth
20 fire mastery

Light tree :
1 tk
1 tele
1 static
20 light mastery

Cold tree :
20 frozen orb
5 pre-requisit
10 cold mastery (*) here go your last points

(*) at this point, you'll get (including gear skills) 100% pierce cold, wich is always usefull.



3/ Stats

Usual melee sorc have max block, i dont suggest this !
I'd rather opt for a full vita build, putting str/dext only to wear gear.
No energy shield, low block...
We dont use zeal (unbreakable attack) or Guardian angel (fast block rate).
With high block, we'll get locked instead of hitting.
Rather than block, we'll have a really decent defense.
Actually, this sorc isn't far from a tanker in many situation, due to its high and various damages.



4/ Gear

Setup1 : Light/fire/Cold/poison/magic

Use this setup in any place you can meet iron maiden.

Dream helm + shield
although circlet/tower shield have nice style (and more block on shield), i suggest using high defense bone visage/troll nest.
56fhr are needed to reach 86% breakpoint without any extra fhr charms.

Mara
or any nice skills/stats/res amu, but mara works fine enough.

Azurewrath sox Light RbF
the physical damages dealt here are not so high we could die vs iron maiden, just be more careful when cursed.

Treachery
for ias, stack res 15%dr from fade, and poison.

20ias Gloves
anything here except Laying of hands. ias boost is required to reach next breakpoint when decrepified.

Dungo
another 15%dr

Raven / BK

up Waterwalk
nice max fire res, and life.


Setup2 : Physical/light/fire/cold/poison

Use this setup in any other place.

Dream helm + shield
50fhr to reach 60% breakpoint.

Highlord Wrath
for deadly strike and ias.

Grief PB
i heard somewhere it was a good weapon... any ias will suit, just look for best damage.

Fortitude
grief boost ! also high defense and chilling armor for even more def.

Draks
you dont need more ias, draks will heal you correctly and also get Open Wounds.

Dungo

Raven / BK

Gores
final physical boost.


Switch gear

CtA / Lidless
156 str for spirit is a waste, you'll get more final life with lidless.


Precast

Demon Limb
(something was missing on skills?)


Inventory

Skillers are not really needed, but if you want them, Light skillers are the best choice.
What you really need are some res charms (res are low in setup2, you need around 40@ more from charms).
Any light/fire damage charms will give nice boost.



5/ Strategy

1.Cast enchant from Demon Limb,
2.cast BC/BO,
3.choose appropriate setup,
4.look for monsters,
5.cast Frozen orb,
6.tank them at melee.

it will work 95% of the time.

if you feel unconfortable, tele back, recast orb then tank again.



6/ Merc

A merc isnt really needed but of course it will help a lot.
I suggest Act2 Defiance merc,
- low damage Infinity
- eth up Shaftstop (sox 15@)
- eth up Gaze (sox 15@)



7/ Figures

Taken at Level 87, using :
5x 45life Light Skillers
8x 5@/20life
2x 1-71/20life

Setup Azure/Mara average damage :

Melee : 30K
- 2.9K fire
- 0.315 psn
- 26K light
- 0.24 physic
- 10% CB
- 0.375 magic
- 0.4 cold

Frozen orb : 399-419

Light pulse : 1-3060 / 2sec

Torch : 564-639 / sec

Pierce res :
- cold : 110
- light : 5
(- infinity : 85)

Setup Grief/HW average damage :

Melee : 30/31K
- 2.75K fire
- 0.315 psn
- 23K light
- 3.7K physic (4.9 on daemons)
- 35% OW / 15% CB

Frozen orb : 369-388

Light pulse : 1-2900 / 2sec

Torch : 540-611 / sec

Pierce res :
- cold : 100
- poison : 25
(- infinity : 85)

frames per attack : 10
Life / Mana : 2.8K / 0.6K
Def : 7.4K / 14.4K
Block : 38% / 27%
%dR : 30% / 15%
Ar : 3.5K / 2.8K (ignore def -25%def)

Hell res :
- 140/170/140/140 cap 80/75/75/75
- 80/80/115/80 cap 75/75/80/75

Fhr bp : 86% / 60%
Confused when struck : 19%

i hope you'll enjoy this !!

regards

-- feanur

This post was edited by feanur on Mar 21 2010 12:22pm

looks a bit better like the shown dmg mayby you should brg in a s/s

looks pretty good, but too expensive and complicated for someone to bother making, considering it's pvm.

This post was edited by ghostfaic on Mar 21 2010 12:06pm

bad guide, you don't need 6 elements when they do like 10 dmg. nn

especially why do you talk about im when it's removed in 2 days? lol





38% Block is too much for noblock-Build. And you won't even hit a fallen on hell with 3.5k AR, all in all its a shitty noob guide for rich kids like u...

maybe you get confused between 10 and 10K damage ?

chance to hit Hell Fallen = 95%

calculation = 100 * AR / (AR + DR) * 2 * alvl / (alvl + dlvl)
AR = 2.8K
DR = 0 (grief ignore defense)
alvl = 87
dlvl = 67
cap = 95%

6 different damages are usefull to solo Hell game without a merc, actually i dont know many sorc-builds able to do that.

38%block is only what you get once you put enough dexterity to wear a phase blade.

About Stormshield : you'll loose high light damage and some life to gain maybe full block (with some more dext points), with nice fbr, and also %dr.
But most of the time, you kill hell monsters in 1 hit, leaving them simply no chance to hit you at all.
Thats why i dont suggest this choice.

I made this guide because i found this sorc really funny to play.
I made her 1 year ago, at that time noone spoke about removing IM in next patch.
Of course, use only setup Grief/HW if no maiden anymore.

I wouldnt say its an expensive build, since it's working also fine without 45life skillers and 5/20 charms (just get clean skillers and 5@ charms).
Actually my sorc have such cheap charms, only have less life than what i wrote (but still around 2.2K).
The rest of the gear is really cheaper than a 'classic' zeal sorc using 4sox/100life 3x15ias/15@ jools - cham.

regards

This post was edited by feanur on Mar 21 2010 12:49pm

the holy shock will do the killing

up

is this one really working?

near anything works in pvm...

true dat, but is it doing any good?