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Better than spamming random shit, eh? ;)
Figured, if I MF I could at least go to a place to sell stuff. Didn't find too much yet and hell Travi currently gives me more headaches than rasing my postcount on a forum.

YES.

Was wondering if anyone could help me with my build/set-up - I have having a lot of difficult doing my runs. I find I am having a really tough time MF'ing and killing. For example, I sometimes struggle to solo nightmare diablo and nightmare baal. I stand 0 chance at doing hell diablo or hell baal. However, I am able to kill act 1 boss forgot name, and mephisto, and countess in hell. I can kill all of those most of the time, if I run into lighting immunes though I am screwed. My mercenary also is dieing almost all the time during boss fights with the three encounters I can beat.

I have an 84 sorceress that is modeled after The Full Tal Rasha’s Lightning Sorceress [section 3 of the outline on page 1]. My gear is identical to the suggested setup - except I don't have a torch or any other charms (only a Gheeds and a Aninilhus). Also my mercenary has a crappy gear compared to the suggested - Junky Insight, Andy Visage (lower end of spectrum), Shaftstop. However, I do have a 2/2/2 tal orb with an ist, and I have put Um runes in both the Tal armor and tal helm. Other then those differences my build is identical to the suggest guidelines.

I guess I am just furstrated that I am not finding items as easily as I hope. And that my sorceress isn't nearly as powerful as I had hoped. I switched over to my sorceress from my necromancer that was level 90 becuase I thought the necromancer wasn't killing well enough and i was't powerful enough. Now I am running into same walls with my sorceress.

For an attack order - I will usually buff myself with my possitive spells armor/shield - then I will static the bad guys, then I will lighting them to death with the spell lighting.

So where do I need to improve - my gear? my mercenaries gear? the way I fight monsters?

Just looking to improve and get better, I've realized this game is a lot more technical then I thought, so it is challenging to look for ways to improve.

It's hard to do anything with a lightning sorceress without an infinity merc. I'd suggest an orb+fb sorc in this case (or a blizzard sorc for certain areas - such as meph, ancient tunnels, etc. - a blizzy can be even cheaper than a meteorb and still efficiently deals with those areas).

Thanks. So I'm going to switch back to fb/forb again and just keep playing a lot and hope to get lucky and get some trade fodder for an infinity. Probably take some time to just level and go back and finish up all the quests I missed enjoy the game a little more before I get to grinding for loot ha. Plus a few more levels is a few more health.

Thanks.

Because I just stumbled over a Troll Nest: Is there any Reason behind the Spirit Shield beeing a Monarch? Or rather: Any Reason behind anyone only using those Shields obviously? Because: It's obviously neither the Defence, nor the STR-Req., nor the Block-Rate. Only Reason I can think of - and that's the question - is the number of Sockets: Is it impossible for e.g. Troll Nests to have 4 Sockets?

This post was edited by Nehilim on Oct 13 2010 07:59am

Lowest requirement 4 sockets shield (which is usable by a Sorceress).

Ah, now I feel stupid because this was exactely where I did check for Def, Req. etc.
I however did not notice that the number of Sockets is listed there too - my apologies. That of course makes sense.
Thank you for answering me.

This post was edited by Nehilim on Oct 13 2010 09:16am