I have 3 choices that I am thinking about.

Just looking for some opinions on pros/cons


1. Charged Strike amazon (without infinity)

Reasoning: very cheap, easy to gear, easy to stack mf/frw for faster movement



2. Kicksin/riftsin and death sentry

Reasoning: fairly cheap and super fun



3. Hydra/Orb sorc (without infinity)

Reasoning: only Reason is teleport to be honest. I usually hate palli/sorc starts


Personally I am leaning towards Amazon charged strike and fury. Can it be a good mf'r and PVM'er without infinity??

If sc, hydra/orb sorc.

I'm personally thinking of making a fury/charged strike zon to do cowruns and priorities kill speed over mf to farm runes and charms
It will mainly be fury. Should be cheap enough to gear and the only thing that will take time is finding the trist portal

How about your general opinion?

For sure! A lot of areas outside cows and even terror zones should be tolerable without infinity I believe.

I've never tried sin for mf and for sorc I would go for fireball/blizz but like I said I would prefer a fury Amazon as at the start if you want to mf you give up a lot of damage and survivability
Also at the start of the ladder if you can farm cows you can get a lot of nice bases for runewords which can sell for a lot eg. White monarch
Also with rune drops not being effected by mf I like this option the most

I'd go for sorc to quickly get stuff done and collect some reasonably easy to get 'essentials'. After that make the switch.
Usually my strategy for reset if i dont find a team. Either go MF Route or simply farm runes/key with light sorc.
On launch did sorc into nec and GF Barb. Last ladder sorc into foh and Java. This ladder sorc into assa then druid. Likely low speed terror zone clear with both, but once next ladder is up i'll have all classes nl and can just play ladder based on patch. NL for when ladder economy is dumpstered... Then pvp for the lulz.

any will work fine without infinity.

regarding the sorc, that is a strong option even without teleport.

imo make the one you enjoy most which sounds like the charged strike ama.

lastly, an unpopular option, you don't need that much mf at ladder reset to find good stuff. whites/socketables/runes/popular uniques and sets/craftables/etc,

Agreed, thank you.

Sorc then goldfind barb then whatever your heart desires