Because unlike Frozen Orb, Blizzard has several synergies that must be vested to produce significant damage. Frozen orb only has Ice bolt as a synergy and does adequate damage that is also widespread in effect (chant affects single monsters, while orb covers a wide area). You could utilize charged bolt if you preferred, but orb is also nice for slowing down mobs that are coming your way and I prefer orb because I can then use static as my "third element" if you will.

Ahhh, yeah. Good point with the synergies.

Thanks for covering that for me! Appreciate it!

I am now utilizing my enchantress as a rusher/leveler. I've been making bumper accounts to sell people, and the enchantress makes getting a char from 1-40 easy as pie.

Such a handy character to have, honestly. Not hard to get halfway decent gear for them either. (Lucked out and picked up an enchant ormus for free :D) These should be right up there with hammerdins as essential classes for any account.

Thanks for this guide.

This post was edited by Meimu on Jul 24 2011 06:37pm

Ive been building Firewall/Orb sorcs since d2 was released and have a well known reputation For firewall sorcs


and imo my variations would be this


Bps/Stats

105fcr/142fhr

75% Mb

rest into vit


Skills

20warmth,
20firewall---------------Y
20firemastery
20orb
1 cold mastery
1 enchant
1 es
1static

Rest in cold mastery as you level Or Inferno for synergy

Merc ( Defiance aura merc)
infinity, Ca or Cv/Efort or Estone for fhr E andys

His damage alone without enchant is plenty to 2 hit just about anything unless phys immunes

with the defiance aura you can practically tank more then an es sorc but with the 75% es from the 1 point in it mana regen is insane if you go skiller gear

No need for prebuffs To keep this char well balanced

I prefer Eth nws and Eth treks as well as nigma for the frw bonus and str bonuses

My sorc wil hit over 15k defenese with defiance merc and this gear

and also 35k firewall which is over kill


2sojs
mages
mp nigma
40hoto
Eth Nw
Eth treks
Arachs
Maras
Spirit mon ( with 75% mb)
3frw/5res scs for stack or 20/17s but you really dont need any scs for this sorc to be excellent


Reason i take nigma is for massive str bonus and frw, which is handy in duels and running around monsters,
The hoto is for dex to help with mb
Eth Nw is for def/+dex for Mb
Of course skiller gears
Massive def

105/142 bps

You can pretty much go afk in the middle any mob and go take a piss


Your life will sit about 1.8k mana 1.4k ish

which is better then 2.5k+ life because your mana regen is so massive you wont need to have beefed up life you can take more hits then a vita sorc all day that is if anything gets through your 15k+ defiance values


I find that a combination of frw/fcr/fhr is the best option with this type of sorc,

because when you go for fcr gear you lose the vital skill bonuses that make this char so well rounded (warmth/frozen shield/es etc)