Making an infinity soon to transfer over to a nova/ES sorc. Have a skullders, fcr rings, arach, shako, travs, mages, a +2 sorc ammy. I don’t have a griffon yet so my question is do I make a crescent moon, get an eschutas, or wait, staying as a blizz sorc til griffons. I have also seen a few people use an infinity as their weapon then run an insight for even more mana so their ES can tank way more and spam nova with no reliance on pots. Let me know your thoughts, thanks in advance

Eschutas won't improve your damage much since it only adds up on the Lightning Mastery's +%.
So crescent moon is better for damage output here.

Griffons is also nice, but you can go without it for now as long as your merc holds the Infinity.

Can't agree more!

My gears: Crescent Moon(Zerker, lol), Griffon's, Mara, Magi, Phoenix, SoJ, FCR Ring, Arachnid, Magefist and Silkweave.

She's a Nova/Fireball hybrid though.

- lite res from Griffon's and - fire res from Phoenix. Infinity on Merc.

Phoenix is the best shield for her:

100% Chance To Cast level 40 Blaze When You Level-up
40% Chance To Cast Level 22 Firestorm On Striking
Level 10-15 Redemption Aura When Equipped (varies)
+350-400% Enhanced Damage (varies)
-28% To Enemy Fire Resistance
+350-400 Defense Vs. Missile (varies)
+15-21 Fire Absorb (varies)
+50 To Life
+5% To Maximum Lightning Resist
+10% To Maximum Fire Resist

I hadn’t thought of Phoenix, aura seems really helpful in keeping mana pool full. Currently switched into a nova/Es sorc but only 3.5k per nova until I grab an arach and maras. Have the fg for both but think a cta might be more important to keep my mana pool full. Only problem I’m having is having enough mana regen, how do you go about keeping that high and is a lightning sorc more effective for cows and chaos

Never tried cows but I guess Fireball is safer vs cows. They hit hard I'll do some cows and see how Nova works.

I think ES sorc should have plenty mana?

Oh, every item I use has its own reason.

Silkweave:
+5 To Mana After Each Kill
Increase Maximum Mana 10%
+200 Defense VS. Missile

Gonna pick up some silkweaves and give it a try. Also gonna try using infinity as weapon and insight on the merc to see if that works any better

It's way safer with shield.

And your base should have low str/dex req if you use it as your weapon, so dmg will be low = not good on merc. Infinity made of eth Elite weapon is much better, especially if it's your only infinity.

BTW, eth elite Infinity is quite useful for many builds, I use it with Nova/FB sorc, Kicksin x 2, Elemental dmg Bowazon and Fury/Nado Druid. Wow, I haven't noticed I made that many, lol.

Or you can craft boots like this:

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=94514749&f=169&p=614796676#p614796676

Those are some fire boots my man! I think I got this in the bag, I’ll be sending a pm if any problems occur. Gonna run blizz for a few more days til I have enough for an soj and silk weaves. Current gear is shako, magefists, soon silks, vmagi, arach, fcr rings- soon one soj, a +3 lite skill ammy, and my spirit/crescent moon. Merc is Andy’s, treach, and infinity. Damage felt a bit lackluster with lower mana. I think with the adjustments, the damage and mana will be a lot better though. Thanks for all of your help! Tried both an ES/nova and slightly adjusted for lite/vita but both a bit slow. Need those skillers too!!

Just tried cows and found this when I tele to Tristram:



2 FBs kill cow, but nova is much faster. Just standing in the middle of cowssssss and nova nova nova nova

I love FO/FB/Meteor build but Nova/FB has no casting delay at all, so very exciting I'd say