Need to start somewhere to begin MFing and earning gear, seems like one of the most straightforward builds to start MFing/rushing and even run Chaos.

20 Frozen Orb
20 Cold Mastery
20 Hydra
20 Fire Mastery
1 in Static
1 in TK
1 in Tele
1 Frozen Armor
1 in Warmth
8 in Prereqs (Fire Bolt, Fireball, Enchant, Frost Shard, Ice Blast, Glacial Spike, Blizzard, Frost Nova)

Build finishes at Level 82, excess points can go to Warmth or Teleport.

Weapon: Shard
Shield: 3pdiamond Large Shield
Armor: Twitch
Helm: Tarn
Gloves: Chanceguards
Belt: Goldwrap
Boots: Treads of Cthon
Amulet: Etlich
Rings: Nagelrings

Ideally I want to hit 100 MF through my Goldwrap, Tarn and Chanceguards, so I have good chances at uniques and sets when MFing, particularly if I'm hunting SoJ's from Hell Andy. Also means lots of gold for gambling and/or trading. Eventually the Nagels would get swapped for SoJ's and the uniques would get replaced with good rares that have life, FHR, tri-res, MF, good ED on a Mage, etc.

This post was edited by Foxhound3857 on Nov 30 2022 12:25pm

If you only hunt Andy then there is no need for hydra. Just put those points into orb synarchy. max out all cold skills.
With this build youre weak with fire and cold. You better off making 1 strong skill.
Evade and dodge all cold immunes and if you need to kill it for some reason use the skills below.

For other elemental skills use firewall and thunderstorm. Have a +5 staff for each in youre stash.
Firewall is strong enough with just 1 point to use it in hell.
Thunderstorm. Just static till life is at lowest and thunderstorm will finish it. one point in thunderstorm and lightning mastery will do the trick.

I actually wanted to build for Thunderstorm as the alternative.

20 Frost Shard
20 Frozen Orb
20 Cold Mastery
20 Thunderstorm
1 Teleport
1 Static Field
1 Warmth
1 Frozen Armor

I guess excess points could go into Static Field to boost Thunderstorms damage and SF's range?

If I go full MF I'll probably need the damage:

Gull
(is there an armor for MF?)
Tarn or 3ptopaz helm
Nagel x2
Goldwrap
Chanceguards
25mf rare boots
25mf rare amulet

I dunno what an ideal MF percentage is for hunting SoJ's, sets, desirable uniques like Magefist and Shard, etc.

There isnt a ideal percentage.
Check this for an explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Zgv4ywmF4

Edit: btw good choice. Still you do a lot of teleporting and it will cost you 2 to 4 manapots to get to andy or meph depending how lucky you are.
Since i dont like potting i have 20 points in teleport.

This post was edited by caitlin on Dec 3 2022 07:53am

Well, after seeing how inventory manage is no better even in 2.4 I'm not sure if I'm going to commit to MFing in Classic until they give Classic Shared Stash.

Skullders or talrashas armor.

This post was edited by WindowMode on Dec 6 2022 08:02am

classic mode^^