No, this is not clickbait, 6300 life on a Sorceress is doable now and you guessed it - Obsession Staff.
End result with max gear and lvl 99 is 6.3k life and 23k Fireball, but this is not the best fpk build idea, so I will save this for last and expand on the important setups first.
Keep in mind, that the builds I will present to you are groundbreaking compared to what we had to work with the past 20 years in Legacy D2.
So far the peak Sorceress stats in Legacy were: 4000 Life and 23k Fire Ball damage.
Prepare, because you're in for a surprise!

This guide will contain 6 different setups, which are easy obtainable, cheap and easy to swap, you will need only 4 items on swap for all builds.
All setups are at 105 fcr breakpoint, 60 fhr breakpoint:

1. Pub Max Pain 28k Fireball(/w picture)
2. 39% Damage Reduction Setup (/w picture)
3. Fire vs Fire Setup
4. Fire vs Cold Setup
5. Fire vs Light Setup
6. 6300 Life WTF Fire Sorc (/w picture)

1. Introduction.
This is a vita build and getting lvl 99 is highly recommended. A perfect Staff +3 to Fireball and +3 to Fire Mastery is a must for our Obsession and of course the higher the roll - the better.
Although I have the staff and all the items, I will use screenshots from d2maxroll, due to my Sorceress being yet build.
Let's go.

2 .Stats

Strength - 0
Dexterity - 0
Vitality - All
Energy - 0

3. Skills

Teleport - 1
Telekinesis - 1
Warmth - 1
Lightning Mastery - 1
Thunder Storm - 18 (skilled last at lvl 99)
Fire Bolt - 20
Fire Ball - 20
Meteor - 20
Fire Mastery - 20

4.1 Gear(Pub Max Pain 28k Fireball)

Two-Hand Obsession Staff /w +3 to Fire Ball and +3 to Fire Mastery
Coronet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life/2os /w JahJah
Amulet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life
Enigma BP (I like how BP looks in d2r)
Magefist
SoJ x2
Arachnid
Aldur Boots

Swap: CTA + Lidless (I want to mention here that inventory stays the same in all of our setups, pretty neat)
Inventory:
9x Fire Skillers /w 45 to Life
20/11 Cold Res x5
20/11 Light Res x5
Anni and Torch

Result is 4700 life and 28k damage, which has never been done before. In LoD getting to 4k life with 23k damage was a long stretch.
Elemental Resistances are capped at 90%


Now lets move to the interesting part. The GMPK setups.

4.2 (39% Damage Reduction Setup)

Two-Hand Obsession Staff /w +3 to Fire Ball and +3 to Fire Mastery
Coronet +3 Fire Skills/20 Faster Cast Rate/2os /w BerBer
Amulet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life
Enigma BP (I like how BP looks in d2r)
Magefist
SoJ x2
Verdungo's
Aldur Boots

Result is 4361 life and 27k damage. 39% Damage Reduction from gear! Here I would suggest 20/11 Poison resist charms for some ghost sins.


4.3 (Fire vs Fire Setup) Now this gets even more fun. SvS duels!

Two-Hand Obsession Staff /w +3 to Fire Ball and +3 to Fire Mastery
Coronet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life/2os /w JahJah
Amulet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life
Enigma BP (I like how BP looks in d2r)
Magefist
SoJ x2
Arachnid
Waterwalk

Result is 4600 life and 28k damage. 80% Fire Resistance. If rules allow >= 95 Res + Sorb you can slap a Dwarf Star too, but that will make you unkillable in this particular duel.

4.4 (Fire vs Cold Setup)

Two-Hand Obsession Staff /w +3 to Fire Ball and +3 to Fire Mastery
Coronet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life/2os /w ThulThul
Amulet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life
Enigma BP (I like how BP looks in d2r)
Magefist
SoJ x2
Arachnid
Aldur Boots

Result is 4494 life and 28k damage. Though in this setup we use 9x 20/11 Cold Res scs. Our cold res is maxed at 199.

4.5 (Fire vs Light Setup)

Two-Hand Obsession Staff /w +3 to Fire Ball and +3 to Fire Mastery
Coronet +3 Fire Skills/20 Faster Cast Rate/2os /w BerBer
Amulet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life
Enigma BP (I like how BP looks in d2r)
Magefist
SoJ x2
Thundergod's Vigor
Aldur Boots

Result is 4321 life and 27k damage, while having the sweet 85 Max res and sorb from Thundergod's. Additionaly we have 24% damage reduction for those fun team duels!

4.6 (6300 Life Expensive WTF Fire Sorc) Now, the cherry on top!

Two-Hand Obsession Staff /w +3 to Fire Ball and +3 to Fire Mastery
Coronet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life/2os /w JahJah
Amulet +3 Fire Skills/100 to Life
Jeweler's Dusk Shroud/Gothic Plate of the Whale /w JahJahJahJah
Magefist
Nature's Peace (for Oak)
Blood Ring: 10fcr 25str 60 to Life
Crafted Belt: 10fcr 60 to Life and at least 2 to Strength
Waterwalk

Swap: CTA + Lidless
Inventory:
9x Fire Skillers /w 45 to Life
20/5 Life and All Res scs x10
Anni and Torch

The Result:

5. Conclusion:
Lvl 80 is enough to reach Max Pain Damage build, every level over goes to Thunder Storm and more survivability, but of course, if you play correctly you shouldn't die even with 3k life sorc.

I love SvS duels. I've been doing them for fun since I was a kid. I had other guides written, for hybrid 200fcr Sorc, which was also fun and I've had a good amount of love and hate on it.
You can't deny that having a Sorceress in the Blood Moor that have the same amount of life as a good druid or barbarian, while maintaining same damage numbers isn't insane
This is the first guide on this type of Sorceress and after months of theory crafting I don't think there's any room for improvement.

Enjoy!

Crafted by teH_LaTulipe, cya in Ladder Duels soon.

This post was edited by emptyfolder on Nov 21 2022 10:00am

nice but you have to be sick in za head to pvp on d2r

Solid guide

Nice guide and refreshing to see an obsession build.
Curious to know if you have tried it out against physical builds (bvc/zon/ghost etc...) and how did it fair.

I think the main advantage of obsession would be the massive life pool it can achieve. Did you also managed to overstack a little bit of fire res? I think alot of people dont do that and end up with facets doing alot of extra dmg.

Thanks!
Well, how it would do vs physical builds, I'm also excited to try! Perhaps you can 1v1 a barb and kill him first. I forgot to mention that Obsession also has high chance to cast Weaken, which will add 33% DR toi your existing 39 lol
You have plenty of res, so it's easy to stack up on single res.

Yes, we were discussing this previously in another post on viability of obsession, the big life pool+ weaken proc looks really good, but comparing it to orb+max block, it is unsure which will do better. I have no way to test obsession as my staff is Nl and blizz kind of screw up the new runewords coming down to Nl. For now, vita/80%es + mb is really strong against physical characters.

If you managed to get any testing and result going on your build please let us know !!!

If you managed to

I will pretty soon, but Sorceress and Max Block ? Idk, I'd rather keep dr and have all that life and damage instead.
Will do

Yes...maxblock is kind of like "75%DR" against something like ww/GA/multi/kicks etc...having maxblock and 0block makes huge difference when getting hit by these opponents.
Dmg wise it really depends on gear, but you can get around 23-25k fball (2k life // 2.5k mana // 65 - 75@res).

Looking forward to your test results !!!

This post was edited by Kagetsu on Nov 20 2022 02:02am

No is nothing like dr, dr and max block stack
max block is a % chance
dr is constant