Good guide, I'm gonna try it. Always good to have a rusher to help out friends.

go home and play with your lego

agree'd Steadfast has no idea what he is talking about

I greatly disagree with you about the 'proven' fact that no one sorc can do it all for a rush

From my own experience, it is only impossible if you are rushing more than 2 people.

With three people in game you can easily kill everything.

Go hybrid Orb+ Hydra (neither need max synergies to pull this off)

Viper temple- If the snakes are in the chest area, cast massive amounts of hydra, then run up and static NEXT to the alter. If they are loose, go to town and get a mercenary and feed him potions. He will act as a great meat shield while you spawn hydra and Orb.

Tal Rasha's tomb outside the Chamber- This can be lethal and you might even need a new game if it's too dirty. Mercenary helps bigtime here too.


Act 3- EZ! If you are hydra + orb go get a lightning merc from act 3. WALK up the left side of the councils area and pick off any that are outside the main building. Stand far enough back so they are almost off the screen and they will pile up. You're mercenary will move in close so feed him potions as needed. When you get down to just the fire and cold immunes, walk over next to them and cast Static until they are way down on life. Merc will take care of them from there.

If any of the council remained inside, go in and lure them into the same spot you just wiped out.

This post was edited by mephistophilis on Mar 18 2009 01:30pm

feeding your merc potions in classic? while I rarely if ever use a merc every time I have tried that the pots simply fall to the ground...

nm seis will spawn frequently with cold immune and fire immune. he is never, ever to my knowledge cold + lightning immune in nm. yet for some reason folks think that firewall is the go to 2nd element for crushing sorcs...


if one is only rushing 1 or 2 or performing casual rushes it makes more sense to me to have a single element sorc that is useful/viable for other tasks and have another character for the periodic times in hell act2 where an important point is mobbed and for hell travincal.

if you are part of a pro rushing service, doing say 4 rushees or more then one should probably have 2 on the rushing team anyway. if this is hardcore then I would strongly recommend two strong higher levels for the rushing for not only the rushee's sake, but also for the rusher's

no not firewall...hydra because you can set it almost off your screen which means you could attack much further away and not even alert monsters to your presence.

the primary purpose was to disprove his statement that you CANT do it. All you need is mercenarys and in hell, they are generally pretty viable expecially if you are lvl 80 or so. and i thought you could feed them, if not i've been dropping them without knowing it lol.

anyways, that was only if you get him stuck in the mix rather than keeping a wall between monsters and your merc. which is what you will do in act 3.

This post was edited by mephistophilis on Mar 18 2009 02:10pm

make an orb sorc, get a cs-din to kill any necessary cold immunes.... is that so hard ?

distinction between hydra/firewall noted - still a fire element


my stronger point is that the synergized frozen orb sorc build that was originally posted is quite viable for the basic rusher's needs, as well as glitch mfing - it provides a fairly consistent and stable starting point for example when one comes back fresh after quitting, or for fresh ladder starts.

everyone has their own favorite tweaks, but another point of the build was to illustrate to the many xpac folks that are tired of paying for their rushes and/or forge rushes is that things are different on classic. the strongest sorcs here are single element.

a multi-elemental sorc that normally does rush jobs that ventures into the arena of pub cs games in order to glitch will most surely drop an ear against even a ham fisted level 80+ single element cold or single element fire sorc.

Oh I definately agree that a synergized orb sorc does better damage and is seen as a productive member of the classic community. If you are a beginner rusher like the guide is appealing to though, we need to kill as much as we can on our own, without a second character helping no? for that I think we need hybrids here.

Hmm why not 1-5 in Fire wall.
It would be smart imo, for then u can kill easy Cold immune.
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