I strongly disagree. You already have conviction aura from infinity, so having an item to increase your lightning damage is not necessary and you are using an item slot that could have an item with a lot of survivability.

Griffon's eye is certainly best in slot if your goal is to build a high kill speed glass cannon light sorc and it's the easiest way to do a 200 fcr build.

If you want to level to very high level or be basically unkillable in hardcore, then a simple shako socketed with a reasonable rune is a far better choice.

I know people are always looking for something better than a shako, but for survivability based PVM builds, the 140+ life, 140+ mana, 10% physical damage reduction, and +2 all skills for cta BO that you get from shako is totally almost unbeatable (There's a few builds where a ber ber COA is better, but these are usually not sorc builds.)

If you want a damage multiplier for dealing with lighting immune broken monsters in high player count games, then use a crescent moon + 4x -5 light res facets in a monarch on weapon swap (The %lighting skill barely adds damage. JMOD is overkill. This is PVM, don't stand next to the monsters.)

You rarely get hit consecutivly to need so much fhr with max block and if you do then you should be consequent, either 60fhr or 86fhr, It means bloodfist, sandstorm with possible no block vita spirit (crap) etc. I use shako on Blizz sorc, would never use anything but griffon on a light sorc.

Life per lvl isn't boable. +2 is important because every additional bo lvl on cta on switch is like a Jah rune, 6% more life. But I'd use griffon on a light sorc and ber the stormshield. Too much damage is lost without 117fcr.

This post was edited by babun1024 on Dec 21 2021 12:04pm

I am not sure if you read my post in full but this is why I mentioned that it doesnt apply to hc.
However, griffon is just soo good that I probably would use it in hc too, its a preference.

I agree with you that it's preference.

As far as hardcore: It doesn't help you at all if you disconnect or you crash, so I would never even consider it in an area like chaos sanctuary.

But you know, some people like to live dangerously, both in game, and IRL.

I only play softcore btw


Here's an update on my setup atm : https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/6y010680#6

I now deal about 23% more dmg than before and I am clearing faster.

Now going to try 8 facets in armor and shield and an eschutas to take it even higher, while trying to keep at least 70 all res and 42 fhr

This post was edited by ElSocialist on Dec 21 2021 01:25pm

The first one is almost HC build, that supposed to be tanky although will loose dmg compering to your current one, I would rather change in your current build CM for HOTO. Eni for CoH and maybe TGod for extra absorption.

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/nf0106h3

Here is a very good very safe build for you OP dont have too much fun.

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/vg0106yj

I updated it actually

Took a look and not entirely sure that the the 4x facet body armor is ideal.

Here's what I threw together; I sacrificed some damage for things like absorb/fhr breakpoints/max block/over capped resists, but the eschuta's should fill some of that gap:

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/ig0106rm

If you already have the gear, might be worth trying to see if you're comfortable with the damage and survivability tradeoff

This post was edited by TRaDe- on Dec 22 2021 04:24pm