edit! the perfect mainhain is suicide branch!


+1 To All Skills
50% Faster Cast Rate
Increase Maximum Mana 10%
All Resistances +10
+40 To Life
Attacker Takes Damage of 25

Planning to full AMN your gear too, for uniques and rates obviously ?

Shiver armor will trigger even if attack is unsuccessful, due to high defense or block.
Don't hesitate to go max block.

With high PDR, I see no reason why you should die.
All depends if you're able to find some goddies like Gerke's sanctuary, absorb items like Hellmouth or Thundergod...

Very interesting so far!

you are correct! I didnt think block triggered it because I tried this sorc before and blocks seemed to cause no dmg taken.. but that might have been blocks making the skulls in the shield not cause dmg taken. let me know if you can confirm that a blocked attack will make "attacker takes dmg" not work


ill be stacking hella PDR/absorb in nm/hell. thorns will become less useful because if I am taking less dmg thorns deals less dmg.

Attacker takes damage doesn't work on unsuccessful attacks, indeed.
I was talking about shiver armor.

I wouldn't rely on thorns, in any way : hell monsters easily have more than 10K life, so you would have to suffer 1000 damage to life just to kill 1, given 1000% thorns.

Attacker take damage, with Amplify, and Thunderstorm are able to kill hell monsters however.
I used that combo on a passive sorceress, when facing cold immuned monsters.
I was playing without any mercenary, however.
Just build a strong one, and you should be able to complete hell.
For example, Obedience in etheral elite weapon, and Treachery should not be hard to collect.

Good luck !

ya its either nova or thunderstorm. TS for the pure passive build. which honestly there are not thaaaaat many cold immunes that it would be that annoying. and skip the rest that are mass cold immunes. ill feel it out:) thx and yes, thorns is good in normal. and I know it will get weak later