Here’s a little backstory.

I’ve played diablo 2 for over a decade. Always hopped on the resets and played diligently for about a week or two, then occasionally throughout the year. I play pvm strictly and this upcoming ladder I’m looking to do something different. For the reset day I’m rolling a blizz sorc with my team. And I plan on grinding the next 18-24 in hell ancient tunnels and Mephisto mf’ing and getting gear’d. Now.. usually I would then roll a smiter and get torches, but I’m a little tired of that. So, I’m coming to you JSP, what would be a fun alternative way of mfing or grinding something that’s not a sorc/hdin/smiter

GF baba can be fun and isnt absolutely terrible with mediocre gear

Anyone have remarks on an Uber kicksin? Are they able to handle ubers easily?

They're super fun and can easily handle Ubers but probably a lil more expensive to build

essentially this. if you're mfing for a few days anyway and make some fg on the finds you'll be able to get a kicksin for ubers done anyway.
just check the guides stickie here and follow the build that seems to make the most sense to you.
I'll propably go with light sorc, gf baba and kicksin this ladder (lite sorc for terror/hate key and countess, gf baba for some gambles and kicksin for torch runs and farming dest keys until the lite sorc can comfortably get those and not die to random shit)
once i get infi, cta, enigma and am tired of litesorc and get good enough trapsin gear and still have time to play I'll try make the sin a pvp char, but it's probably wishful thinking I can make it work. ;D