I have an orb/firewall sorc that works really great in Hell, but every now and then I'll run into uniques that are immune to both cold and fire. If it's in Act 3, I can hire a lightning merc and static that guy to death and the merc actually works great. But if it's in any other acts, I'm fucked. How do I kill these?

I was thinking about maybe put 3 points in Nova and 1 point in Lightning Mastery. Will that work at all? Sometimes these monsters have pretty fast regen, sometimes not.

static then telek...

The standard way is static spam and 1 point in thunderstorm

Is this strong enough to kill those who also have stoneskin?
What if it's a full game (stronger monsters)?

There is no limit to static field, it will just take longer, the only issue you could face is if the monster has hp regeneration.

However your little orb sorcy wont be killing things in 8 ppl games so you dont have to worry!

I know there is no limit to static, but hp regen prevents us from spamming telek/nova/ts to death if the damage isn't enough to counter their regen (stoneskin mod).

I kill things just fine in 8player games. Done a few crushes already and it works just fine.

Oh rushing is possible with orb in p8, it's just slower.

My recommendation would be to spawn trav with 2 players in game, then let the other players join

To counter hp regen you need to find a rare dagger that has the mods ignore target defense and prevent monster heal.
You poke them with that once then you can do the static/thunder spam.

The only other option is an orb/charge bolt hybrid sorc which can be pretty strong also but relies on plus skills gear and high level in my opinion to get the damage up. And what I mean by that is, I dont recommend the generic iratha build out for those skills.

This post was edited by SagittariusA on Oct 24 2021 08:11am

nova ftw