You have no idea how much I love this guide. Me and my sister are trying it out (I went HC for the challenge; she went SC, but still enjoys it). Thanks for taking some of your time to compose this wonderful piece of work..seriously. I've been playing D2 for years, and I never thought that putting points into Teleport would actually be so damn useful. Something I'd like to point out:

You mention leaving Ice Bolt at 1 point only. I did some math and, if you put 1 into prerequisites and warmth/ES, it is possible to have it maxed by level 97, along with everything else. Now, I know you said that it only speeds up Meph's death by a few casts, but, being the damage whore that I am (I know this build doesn't encourage damage more than safety, for obvious reasons), I was wondering if this would be a viable build for HC instead:

Blah blah, get Warmth/ES/Static/rest of prerequisites at 1 point, max FO, max Mastery, 10 Teleport, max Telekinesis, max Ice Bolt, X Teleport (until 2-6 mana cast), rest into Warmth (Probably only 2-3 points left, though lol). The damage increase wouldn't be too much, but I'd just feel much more comfortable with a FO sorc that has her synergies maxed. Maybe 15 Ice Bolt instead, and max Teleport first? Some suggestions would be awesome (: .

Thanks again for your time .

*EDIT*: Actually, my bad; I forgot you need 1 point in CB/Lightning/CLight to get ES, so I guess I could do 15 tele and max IB . It sounds good to me I guess o.O

Why do you put 20 points into telekenesis? Seems like a waste to me.

This post was edited by Tomtah on Jul 19 2008 05:05pm

I'm an idiot, didnt realise it was a synergy to es.

Nice guide; it's very similar to how I generally make my first char whenever I return to D2/HC

just got pked with my other sorc so it's time to make a new one and i found this interesting since it doesn't require über gozu gear to complete. But there's one thing that's confusing me, wouldn't blizzard be better for mfing?

From the standpoint of raw power, blizz > orb. However, blizz requires a lot of synergies to be effective, so maxing those synergies means you won't be able to invest as many points into teleport and telekinesis.

Softcore- ES really isn't too necessary, but when you only get one chance (HC), you want to take as many precautions as is necessary.

Could any1 give me a rough estimate on how much dex i would need for max block in this build with viscerant+vipermagi?

This post was edited by Tomtah on Jul 28 2008 05:37am

i am sorry, but have one question, for softcore???

you said energy shield is useless but in hc its a must cuz of additional defence...

okay energy shield is usefull i agree, 1 point in it is rly rly good
but one question why do i max telekinesis, it gives bonus to shield who is kinda useless, i am a noob and do not know what is the bonus....
can u explane me why do i max telekinesis Vs a maybe 19 points into warmth or orb or something else ???