Ben the bow sorc 😅😅😅

Best of luck m8. Make this one work!

It is great to see someone trying out this type of Sorc.

I would suggest a bit of a hybrid build while climbing. I did not look at what you have achieved so far, however I am guessing you went with the Ral rune scenario for socked weapons ... could have just used psn chipped + gems or rubies... could have used sapphire gems (chipped +) to slow enemies down with socket bows... on your rogue as well as yourself... get some +dex LCs (+2 or 3) so you can hold bows without using stat points... same as Str for other gear etc. Best things to find would have been +1-2 cold dmg scs ... they slow monsters, and the duration stacks... but then you may have found a ton of gear.

Following is an old school set up... you can adjust what you feel is appropriate for yourself.

Stats
Strength: enough for items after torch/anni
Dex: same as strength
Vita: all
Energy: NONE

Items:
+5-6 Enchant Orb
Magefists
+3 Fire Ammy (mods that are good are: Str or Dex or All Res)
Spirit Monarch
Travs (or some other that you like, maybe Treks)
2x 3ll Bk Rings (you can go for soj, but i like more life in HC)
Arachs
+3 Fire Circ (mods again same as ammy)

Armors to choose from:
Enlightenment (cheap and easy to make)
Enigma (basically for added str and save skill point into Tele)
Chant Ormus, now this is best for chanting only
CoH (this is for +2 Skill and Res, which is very good if you intend to game with sorc)
Vipers: upped, um'd and 35Res (cheapest option)

Switch Items: (i used)
Kuko Bow (this is very good in groups, Exploding Arrow)

Skills: (now, remember that i chose to work on Blizz/Glacial Spike)
Max: Enchant, Fire Mastery and Warmth (the basics)
Max: Glacial Spike to Freeze all monsters that are immune to fire, i also added 1 point into Cold Mastery and upped Blizzard last.

Now the other skills i added only 1 point into, was Tele (used CoH) and 1 point into Static (which is basic for bosses like meph/Baal/etc)

Inventory:
9x Fire Skillers (note, you swap for cold after pre-buffing)
Torch
Anni
Small Charms: depending on your Res/Life/Mana, you can have 20lifers, or 5all res, Mana (note, all with mods)

Merc: (because i used Bow, i did not need Insight for mana)
E/Fort Armor
E/Infinity CA or CV
Vamp Gaze or Ral'd Andy's or Tals Helm or Shako




Oh yeah... Kuko or Demonmachine... up to you, IAS BPs or not... also, you play D2:r ... so you will change inventory according to better charms or what nots.

I do like your plan, and hope to see it be very fruitful and enjoyable.

ty gents!
yeah demon machine was the one i couldn't think of the name of
what a bunch of random ass stat variables also
hopefully track this down in nm or yeah even a ravenclaw would be cool



thanks for the info man
i actually completely forgot about enchant prebuff orbs ...that'd be a big help
so i spent a couple of hours shopping
i finally found a +2 one from drognan
was just getting way too impatient waiting for 3 so i decided just to go with this
is a pretty significant bump in damage with this buff - extra 20 min damage and 30 max damage


man what a difference teleport makes
even just a couple here and there across the tunnels
this took no time at all


the bolts really scare me but they're goin down pretty quick

also made this for merc


I LOVE TELEPORT
but also im gonna get myself killed if im not careful


isn't this just the prettiest thing you've ever seen
happy friday to me
now i don't even need to go get drunk lol!

Aaaaah. Forgot that bow completely!! I whent to classic after a year with expansion set.

Cant tolerate any other chars than sorc can tele.

In classic you play the chars as they should be. PvP

This post was edited by Um3 on Aug 15 2025 01:31pm

maybe the fastest p8 duriel kill i've ever had in my career
thank god for static field because im firing off 1 arrow every 5 minutes while frozen


got excited about the rare bow but its a zon only one
and i think the 3 ral one is probably best until nm anyway frankly


pretty good gidbinn reward ring

spooky


just kinda rushin through here
really wanna get to nm asap


mr tree
still doin pretty good damage

Make yourself Harmony as soon as you can.

• Adds 55-160 Lightning Damage
  
• Adds 55-160 Fire Damage
  
• Adds 55-160 Cold Damage
  

Put points into each Mastery to boost those three elements.

• +2-6 To Valkyrie
  
• Level 20 Revive (25 Charges)
  

Summon Valkyrie and Revives, and the rest should be easy.

damn that's a sexy bow
ko shouldn't be too much of a grind from nm count, hopefully get there today

for now
we've got icehawk
speedin through this


battlemaid spookrina


another great thing about tele is getting to keep merc close
helps keep him out of danger

man static is coming in clutch
these boss fights are crazy quick


then just gotta stand back and fire 20 arrows or so


hmmmm