What is endgame build goal? Fire? Light? Cold?


If you already have an idea let us know man!! Personally id love to see a sexy light sorc/nova sorc always loved lightning and the pleasure of making Eth CV/CA infinity in single player is orgasmic.


Trivia Question: If you have 1 item you want to see drop MORE THAN ANYTHING in this W/T what will it be? Nat's claw as youve never found it on Bane/any of your wts?
Or a sexy motha fuckin 30% fathom so you can make a beauty cold sorc

Looking forward to more quick progress (as its a sorc and youre experience in the game tells me you will be moving quickly) and your reply bud!!!

Best of luck with this one x2

My endgame goal is to have a sorc that acts more of a tank/support/crowd control character more than an offensive slayer, as most sorc builds act.

I will look to have high defense, Health, resists. +Skills will not matter as much, so I can go for a super defensive setup unlike the general sorc builds.

Seeing as this is an uncommon type of build, I am looking into weird runewords that never really get used, and trying to make them effective.

My mercenary will be of utmost importance in this build. I will try to gear him as much as possible because he will be doing the dirty work.

My goal is to slow/freeze enemies with frost nova or glacial spike, static them down to low hp and let my merc finish them off while frozen.

It all sounds nice in theory and so far it has proved very effective, but the later stages of Hell have me a bit worried.

Hoping to find a 4 socket staff + sol rune early enough to build an Insight for my sorc to hold. This will open up my merc for using a much more hard hitting runeword or runeword, yet still allowing me to spam spells.

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Nova sorc has been one of my favorite go to dueling builds since early 2007, so that would be cool... but I do not want to break that general rule of not being the offensive damage dealer.

As of now, my backup plan if this build fails hard is to go melee sorc with Passion runeword. That will be a last resort though, I really want to see this theorycraft until Hell Baal, no matter how long it takes!

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If I could see any item drop it would be: Crown of Ages. Another Item I have never found in all my years of D2

Thanks for the luck!



edit: also if you are wondering what spawned this build idea, I got most of it from these two walks:

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=72298208&f=161

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=64702807&f=161


This post was edited by XcrvX4092 on Jun 24 2016 07:59pm

Wicked idea. Be careful though, once your merc takes a headshot, the mobs will be going after the one casting spells unknown to them!

I really enjoy your unique take on a sorc, perhaps with that tanky build you can provide support in terms of enchantress? It would be a great help to your mercenary as well as yourself if you find yourself the right items to make a powerful weapon! Provide support in both the backline and frontline!

I only say this because you can only static field so many times before getting restless and eager to fight in the front line as well ( at least thats my personal opnion!)


Seeing as your mercenary will most likely be the "carry", what does your endgame merc look like? The typical but strategic A2 merc who provides assistance to both himself and you through auras? Or a reckless A5 merc who can frontline just about anything with his powerful attacks?

I love how much dedication you have to all of your walkthroughs!! This one will be no different!

A magnificent warrior, on the battlefield once again may we hope you do not RIP before the fun REALLY begins sir!!

the good thing about being a sorc though is I can teleport away, therefore removing my merc and myself from battle. We will see how it goes

I don't think I will get restless to join battle tbh, because even this early I am already in the battle. I am close enough to use frost nova and glacial spike certain targets and freeze them completely.

I alternate quickly between freezing and static field to constantly be controlling the packs while also removing large chunks of ALL of the health pools of them.

As for now and you will see in my next update, I am actively adding points to warmth and enchant now that I have my bases covered with static/Fnova/Gspike

My endgame merc will probably need an Infinity for static to remain efficient. Seeing as that might be difficult to make, Obedience would do wonders, but I would generally like to try other runewords first, or good unique polearms.
I assume I will want to keep the act 2 merc for the auras. I will need all the help I can get

Depending on how much efficiency I can get out of cold spells in late nightmare/hell, I might need to change up strategy. For now I see this build working well for a while. Duriel was a 5 second fight... My merc took no damage and neither did I. That never happens usually on p8 walks lol.

update #2 inc

This post was edited by XcrvX4092 on Jun 25 2016 09:22am