Original Classic Pvp Sorc Guide

hi i started thinking lately maybe i would make some guides so here is an original pvp sorc guide that isnt really meta-

this isnt going to be crazy indepth so any questions let me know thanks

filler:
so i was never really into blizzard sorceress as they are pretty much the meta for classic pvp in diablo 2 i always liked orb as a child
but i did think that the iceblast that a blizzard sorc had was very strong i thought that the blizzards iceblast was actually the threat
and not the blizzard as iceblast is much more likely to get you stun locked then a slower ticking blizzard but im not going into that much

so because of that thats when i had decide to make an orb-iceblaster that basically has a low damage blizzard, or you could just call it
an Iceblast sorc, an iceblast sorc is pretty simple you just max all of its real synergys, i loved and always thought it was interesting
how one of iceblasts dmg synergys was orb, so because of this sort of build it was pretty much impossible for a blizzard sorc's iceblast
to ever challenge me because i have more iceblast damage then they do while i am naked and they have on alot of +skill gear.

blizzard damage is also pretty decent on this build as i still use blizzard quite often but only in its strong spots such as namelocking
a running or clagging or teliporting enemy attempting to teliport off im dropping blizzards or starting a telipopstomp with iceblast

i also like the fact that matchups like cold vs fireball an interesting situation presents itsself when you can have like 110fcr orb-iceblaster
which generally cold sorceress do not go 110fcr on classic and having a 2400dmg 110fcr iceblast is very unorthadox and very adnormal damage

i dont want to get too deep but its also importain to note that when fighting a hacker with autoaim or just in general if you know the order in which
blizzards fall and land and which number is striking its impossible to get hit by blizzard even if the person is using hacks, actually very oddly it
is actually worse fighting a legit player then a hacker because a hacker the same number spike always hits you but when you fight a legit player
often that legit player will miss and you could get hit by a random spike number as oppose to always getting hit by the same from AAutoaim or a legit namelock

so because of this this is why orb i feel like always out performs blizzard, but blizzard always had a nice weapon being iceblast which is overall
what lead me to this orb/iceblast build

i also want to go on to say that classic fights clagging invisable paladins alot more then expansion because im assuming they teliport there instead of clagging, i see some sorceress or most good sorceress they ussually use like frost nova for example to cancle the clag, when while that is useful i feel
like its alittle dangerous cause frost novas range means by the time its cancled they are quite close to your character hammering at this point, which to
my point is why i would prefer blizzards on head, and mainly orb spraying for the cancle with maybe even frost novas but main point is i think orb is more reliable to cancle clag then frost nova as its range is further

the build is quite simple as ive said above its basically just maxing the ice blast synergies instead of blizzard so like

20 orb
20 blizzard
20 iceblast
20 icebolt
20 cold mastery
(skipping g-spike cause it doesnt add damage to iceblast)
(generally this is very weird looking on classic and looks very newbish to an untrained eye, as being a sorceress casting both orb and blizzard looks suspect.)

i think that when this is staffed also that you still get some amazing numbers your at around 4000iceblast which is just nutty for classic
and while you may not have 6k blizzard and im not 100% sure what my blizzard damage is offhand but u still have a solid around 5000 damage blizzard

as well as it being harder to level on classic getting additional levels past the points needed to max the character you can then still take those points
and add them to g-spike to further increase blizzard damage aswell, you can also do this with a blizzard sorc like for example start adding points into orb after others are maxed but i think this is much worse as imo iceblast is what actually thrives in a blizzard build

but yeah this is a great build i can go on with much more detail and explain many things but i just want to put the ground work out there for this as
while some players might use this build now because of me on classic before i used this build no sole ever used this sort of build lots of sorceress
esp ones that are "pking" and using staff with blizzard sorceress are very shocked to see a shield-/shard sorc has higher iceblast damage then there
staffed/blizzard sorc thanks! any questions or comments let me know

This post was edited by Jvun7 on Jun 4 2024 02:03pm