Don’t listen to anyone here, mixing trees is fine.
I played an orb wall sorceress using full tal set and it was totally fine kill speed on P1 online and helped me magic find and gear up other characters.
Firewall absolutely melts bosses and orb was good at killing trash mobs.
Mixed tree is fine, but you have to choose skills that dont require all the synergies to be effective.
Lightning and blizzard both need a lot of synergy skills.
Frozen orb, nova, hydra, firewall do not need as many synergies