1.09 Nova Sorceress

[je147]

1.09 Nova Sorceress

Hello all!

I recently went back to 1.09 from 1.10 in an attempt to make my first lv 99 character. And i also would like to try something new. So this character has to be good in cow level and be good in 1.10 to. Should i make an all lightning or an hybrid. Is Nova the way to go? a link to a guide would also be appretiated.

Thanks! :uhhuh:

 

[SwifElan]

Nova sucks now. You would be much better off going with chain lightning and lightning.

Hybrids using the lightning tree aren't all that successful. Because of the huge variation in damage between the min and max, you have to put almost all of you points into the tree to see any real improvment. If you are going mf, then fire/cold is a much better option. The only exception would be if you want to do countess runs.

 

[melianor]

Very useful Lightning Hybrid:
CL/FO would be the way to go. Look in the Sorceress Guide Library for that build.

Nova on its own is rather crappy since it has no synergies. Would need 20+ skills to make that effective. Some variant beeing played (though not that powerful) is:

20 Nova
20 TS
20 LM
20 FO
1-xx CM

FO does fine, Nova and TS are a bit underpowered, but can balance each other a bit.

 

[je147]

Thanks for the reply.

OK. I will go all lightning and i know that Nova is bad in 1.10. I´ll be more precise. I think Nova is a cool spell and i want to use it if it is very good in 1.09 and cow runs. It will act as a synergi if i transfer her to 1.10 later. I cannot find any info on Nova since in 1.10 its crap. Have you got any guides or links for 1.09 Nova Sorcerer?

Thanks in advance for answers :uhhuh:

 

[je147]

O its for single player aswell!!

 

[SwifElan]

You should build your character for the type of game you will be playing. If you are still running 1.09 then Nova would be the best option for a lightning skill. You could even do part of another tree in 1.09. The build that Melianor suggested is a very good 1.09 build.

If you plan on moving to 1.10 then I would suggest going with something other than Nova. Nova isn't very good, I would go with maxing Chain Lightning or Lightning and lightning mastery and then move on to another tree. If you wanted to pursue a hybrid.

 

[ThaRiddler2002]

Nova isn't very good...

Nova is badass man...my nova sorc does about 3k nova, and so long as the monsters arent immune i go through hell peice of cake. Its even good for dueling to a certain extent, if the players dont have good res, like many sorcs, you can just teleport right on top of them and they die in just a few hits. The only problem i see with nova is you have to have some pretty good gear to use it...
And as for the mana problem, my sorc uses energy shield/nova, maxed nrg shield, telekenisis, nova, light mastery, and im currently working on warmth. All my points into mana, 0 vit, it works great.
So if you can afford it, you should try nova, its lots of fun and it gets away from the common cheesy archetypes everyone uses nowadays :thumbsup:

EDIT: sorry didn't notice single player...youll never be able to make a good nova sorc sp in 1.10 srry

 

[melianor]

... nova sorc does about 3k nova,...

That sounds pretty item dependant but worthwhile if one can afford it :thumbsup:

 

[bigD72]

Basically 1.09 Nova Sorcs were this (for me.)

Shako (Cham)
Mara's
Wiz Spike (15% resis Jewel)
Viper Magi (Jah or P Ruby depending on your initial Life)
Frostburn
2 x Sojs
Gloom's Trap
Silkweave
Lidless (Um)

Since you are doing cows the sockets can be whatever else instead of Um and Resistance Jewel. The Cham in the Shako isn't needed really and can be replaced with something else.

Inventory
8x Lightning Charms
8x 20 life XX Mana Charms
Cube

Max Nova and Light Mastery
1 point wonder of E-shield (with all the +skills you'll be fine)
Sometimes Maxed Thunder Storm
Most of the time Maxed FO and a bit of Cold Mastery

Stats were...
Dex and Str enough for gear
Energy 100 to 150 base points (my preference, because this is a mana intensive build.)
Vit Everything else

 

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Lmao I saw the first couple replies and I was like wtf not making a nova sorc in 1.09?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nova owned 1.09 big time. PvP / PvM both.

- Dennis

 

[je147]

Thanks a bunch for all your answers! I am in love with Nova and thinks its crap that it did not get synergized in 1.10. NOVA FOREVER (in 1.09) :lol:

 

[Lunatic]

Lmao I saw the first couple replies and I was like wtf not making a nova sorc in 1.09?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nova owned 1.09 big time. PvP / PvM both.

- Dennis

Nova sucked in 1.09 for pvp. Any decent character with max resist would "own" your nova sorc. There are just 2 big flaws for nova and good with pvp to combine.

1) Low range.
2) Low dmg.

1) Because of the low range of nova , you practicly had to teleport on top of your oponent. Making you very easy to hit. You had to stand still aswell to make it work.

2) If you did 2k nova dmg , after pvp and resist penalty it was 125 dmg per cast. If you have Tgods on it's even less. Then it's 35 dmg per nova cast. Good luck killing stuff with that.

 

[tzeentch]

Yep, I don't think nova was very good for pvp.

Only decent against people with low res, but then what sorceress doesn't own people with low res.

The good things about nova were that it pierces and can be cast very rapidly.

Against single targets, it's not so good