BattleCookie said:
How does the recipe work for cubing charms? Could I get a link for this
Check the cube recipes on diabloii.net.
Somewhere like
http://www.diabloii.net/items/horadric_cube.shtml if i remember correctly.
BC
Cubing charms is simply 3 Pgems of any kind. It is best to get Hell charms or at least late NM or NM cows ones, and not ones from chests. Cubing charms and what can be had has everything to do with the lvl of the monster that drops it. Charms from Hell cows are lvl 90, Baal Hell 95, monster in Pit Act 1 are 85, and if you get them other places they will be lower. I am not sure of NM cows lvl but it seems they are in the 60's so you best look taht up, and make sure you know where a charm came from before wasting a bunch of gems.
Remember while rolling charms that, sure you may be looking for certain things but keep in mind that some charms you may not need for your sorc might be highly tradeable. Things like sharps and fines with multiple mods, life, skillers for War Crys, Combat Pally...etc. Charms that give you a big resists and some life are always nice to hae laying around.
I have a couple of charm mules and I keep tons of various charms laying around in casse I need them.
There are also things like crafting that can help your sorc a lot. Now with crafting you will produce more junk that you will get good but the potential of godly is always there. I personally like saftey and caster ammys. They require Rals and Thuls, Pemeralds and Amythests. Safety can get you incresed block% 5-10 as a standard varible which is nice, they can also get more block, priz, skills...etc.
One cheap and often over looked item is Nightsmoke. This belt give a nice small 10% Priz and 50% Damage to mana. The mana to damage will mean that if you get your telekenisis to a 1 mana per 1 damage area which I have heard is lvl 17, then if you get hit for 200 damage, 100 is life, 100 is mana, but you will get 50 mana back do to the 50% damage to mana!!!
There are other "vulpine" (damage to mana) but most arent as nice as Nightsmoke. You could upgrade it to Exceptional to get 16 slots also which is always nice and doesnt require uncommon runes.
You wizzy goes a LONG way to helping you make a solid sorc. Frosties and Wizzy combo with a couple nice mana charms can get you set. Dont forget that saphires in Helm or Armor can also help with mana.
I have many friends that play Classic mostly and they have recently started a little xpac. They all tend to want an MF sorc but they have no gear. Well building a viable Hell Sorc is near impossible when you have no gear, so I suggest to them each to just "forget about Hell" Build for NM, and after you get some gear you can either retool, or rebuild for a Hell sorc. If you take this approach you can look at lvl 80 as an "end game lvl" and only get the dex to get max block for this lvl eventually. After that if you eventually go to hell you can have gear add to your dex if you want the block.
You seem to have "some gear" but not a ton. Well, make it a ton and then go on to Hell. NM Meph and Baal drop soo many of the highly used items in this game. This sorc could also probably do runs in the pit or moseleum later, but dont get being a telesorc on Hell Baal runs. Let this little chich just be a "mid lvl gear getter".
The people I suggested this to that used it are not regretting it one bit. Each of them were sondering what skills. Well I suggested Blizzard. Reason for this is both Blizz and its synergy Glacial are usefull skills. Glacial stops things like a wall when its hit, and with both skils maxed kills very promptly. Also, this skill has proven to be VERY viable in Hell and especially good in thos Baal runs that eventually you may get to. Orb is still nice but I have done hundreds of runs around Blizz and Orb sorcs and there really is no comparison IMO!
Fire is another way to go, but cold is so hard not to chosse which likited gear as it slows things down.
