Best Sorc Build For Rushing

[HippyBRAIN]

Best Sorc Build For Rushing

Hey, I was thinking of rushing people through nightmare to get runes and eventually save up for enigma. Sorceressess have teleport, so I thought I should use one as my first rusher. I was wondering what the best build for a rusher is.

 

[astyler]

Re: Best Sorc Build For Rushing

frozen orb, its spamtastic and hits everything w/o trying

 

[eggman111]

Re: Best Sorc Build For Rushing

Nightmare is pretty easy to rush people through. I have a frozen orb/chain lightning sorc and she can do what you're asking really easily.

Because chain lightning demands good fast cast, it also helps your teleport speed. It's possible to take very few hits because you're gone before the monster's attack can go through.

Hell rushing is another story... I think if I had good enough gear and a few more levels, I might be able to hell rush, but currently I'm only able to do the first 3 acts without running into difficulty.

 

[HippyBRAIN]

Re: Best Sorc Build For Rushing

Would Charge Bolt be any good instead of Chain Lightning or is CL better?

 

[sirpoopsalot]

Re: Best Sorc Build For Rushing

Actually, if you're going to stick to Nightmare and are looking at lightning spells, Nova would likely be my first choice. Big area-of-effect + super-spam = fast, fun and effective. Unfortunately, in Hell Nova will start to slow down in full games (perhaps if you have great+/godly equipment it might "keep up").

I also agree with astyler's suggestion of Frozen Orb. It rocks through Nightmare.


... but to answer your question, for rushing, CL is better than CB, I think. CB is very directional, while CL is 'cast towards any target, and it'll likely hit everything on the screen'. Since you want to go fast while rushing, 'hit-everything' is better, me thinks.

By the way, I play exclusively single-player, so take this final opinion with a grain of salt.

 

[stevethatsmyname]

Re: Best Sorc Build For Rushing

I would say pure frozen orb or frozen orb / second tree (Either pick fireball/meteor or lightning/Chain Lightning).

 

[droid]

Re: Best Sorc Build For Rushing

fo/cl.....fo gives you good dumb-fire room clearing capacity, cl gives you both longer range and often stunlocks mobs. You can get 2 CLs off between FO shots at the 105 breakpoint, which means you can fill a room with massive sucks-to-be-a-demon a lot faster and farther than with meteorb builds. Plus, lightning immunes often actually make CL work better as they can serve as CL bouncing points if they're more than 4 frames from the non-LI enemies