Hello !

I am currently building a lightning sorc. My end goal with it be to full grush 7 other players with relative ease and efficiency. Therefore, I need great damage output and decent survivability. Before you ask, yes I have a hammerdin and, while it works perfectly fine, I dont enjoy the gameplay that much and would rather zap monsters to a crisp.

I have looked through many builds and, while it has helped me, I cant seem to find my way through all the contradictions I see with different sources and no one really seem to address the needs of a rusher.

My actual setup is :
- Griffons
- Eschutas
- Spirit shield
- Vipermagi
- Arach
- Magefist
- Silkweave
- 2x soj
- Maras

Merc : Infinity, tals helm, treachery

I plan on getting a cta on switch to definitely solve mana problems and add survivability. Right now, my build is lacking resists (I'm at -5, 30, 30, 30)

My weapon alternatives are : crescent moon, Hoto
For crescent moon, while the -elightres is very tempting, the lack of FCR forces me to keep vipermagi and the lack of resists doesnt help me at all. Hoto would solve my resists problem and would allow me to swap vipermagi for something better, but I feel like I would be missing some damage potential.

My armor alternatives are : coh, Enigma
While enigma seems the most appealing for life and mana management, the lack of resists would force me to use Hoto and resist charms, which I feel would be my least damaging option. Coh, on the other hand, would allow me to use a better weapon than hoto but would provide less life and mana management.

The Energy Shield debate :
Most build I have seen are either full lightning vitality or full energy shield and rest lightning. While energy shield seems to be tankier option, the required skill investment to make it worthwhile (30+) feels like I would be cutting out a TON of damage. On the other hand, pure vitality feels very fragile. Would it be worth it to use a 1-point energy shield ? I feel like the mana damage penalty on top of the fact that ES ignores resists makes it feel like it would be even less tanky and much harder to manage...

Could anyone please clear things up a bit ? Thank you !

crescent moon would be best options with 7 other players imo.

200fcr with hoto instead of eschuta and few skillers is by far the best rush sorc build
~40k dmg and 2.5k+ life depending on amu/rings/skillers with full res
never go es in pvm

Get CM
Cap res with charms

Res:
Viper 35
Spirit 35
Anya 30
Torch 20
Anni 20
Maras 30

Already 170, so you need 1x 5allres to cap it and either aldur boots or another 35fireres from charms.

+1, usually i would recommend eni+hoto to have more mf, but for p8 rushing CM all the way.

Use cresent moon and different boots with resistance.

Thanks for bumping a 2 months old thread

This post was edited by Hell_of_Dammed on Sep 17 2020 06:19am