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Frozen Orb / Energy Shield (MF&PVP) Help!
Firstly: I looked around with the search feature for abit, and could not find the answers to these questions, so sorry if i've missed them. Please provide as much feedback as possible on every point. I'm hungry for the insight.
Current Situation: Right now my sorc is sitting at level 15 with: 50str, 25 dex, 10 vit, 35 energy. 30 points left. Skills---- 1 Warm, 1 Static, 1 Telekin, 1 ice bolt, 1 ice blast, 1 Warmth. 9 points saved.
Background: The intent of this build for me is to be my primary MF char, roughly following Social's HCOTKBTBMFS guide - while also, hopefully, having some pvp viability. This is mainly as I notice that Zharous's PVP FO/ES guide has almost the exact same build. So it seems I could do both roles with one char, which is great for me - as I'm not the most dedicated anymore.
I'm planning something like 20 Orb, 15 CM, 1 static, 5 cold-preqs, 1 warmth first...(At 45 points now, 56 to go) then 10 teleport, 20 telekinesis, 3 lighting preqs, 20 energy shield, 3 ???. Roughly in that order.
My Questions:
What do my stats need to look like? -- It looks like the biggest thing I will be wearing STR-wise is Skulders or Nightwing, and maybe SS. Assuming I go with a rhyme for MF and Sanctuary for PVP (Please advise, is a SS really required? It looks like no.) I'll need about 100 Str. I have almost *no* gear at the moment, and don't see much of it giving me any +str. This makes me want to go with 75~ base and pick up the remaining from torch/anni/whatever when I aquire these things. Does that sound good? Please keep in mind, I'm not going for perfection at all --- just, not a total disaster.
With Sanctuary or SS, I'll be going for high block as I'll always be teleporting in walk mode, which last I checked (can't find the chart) will require around 180~ dex at level 90. (where I assume I'll stop leveling.) Again, it looks like most of this (160~?) will be base. Let me know what you think.
Do I pump VIT or NRG? --- The pvp guide tells me to put everything into NRG to help my ES with almost base VIT. Every other bit of conventonal wisdom seems to say the opposite. I'm pretty lost here, esp as I'll be leveling ES and Telekenisis as my very last skills for pvp once the MF/PVM aspect is fully complete.
Do I even want ES? --- For PVM, I'd rather not die alot. I prefer to pretend like I'm playing a HC char...but I'm not; so I can deal with being slightly more fragile. However, I can't find anything else to invest just 40 points into. I could drop ES down some (or to 1) and pump points into Ice Bolt for more Orb dmg...but everything I've seen shows theres not really much return there. I've never seriously played with ES before, so I really have no idea what its like. I have seen alot of confident sounding folks say it's pretty much required for any kind of serious sorc pvp though.
What am I missing? --- The catch-all. I don't have an issue collecting lots of diffrent gear to try and balance out all my FCR/FHR/FBR breakpoints to MF and PVP, but I'd rather not make two seperate chars, or worse yet, end up just remaking because I planned too poorly. It's been a long time since I played any real D2, and it's my first time on LoD. Therefore, any help or comments you guys have is appriciated. Thanks! :thumbup:
Firstly: I looked around with the search feature for abit, and could not find the answers to these questions, so sorry if i've missed them. Please provide as much feedback as possible on every point. I'm hungry for the insight.
Current Situation: Right now my sorc is sitting at level 15 with: 50str, 25 dex, 10 vit, 35 energy. 30 points left. Skills---- 1 Warm, 1 Static, 1 Telekin, 1 ice bolt, 1 ice blast, 1 Warmth. 9 points saved.
Background: The intent of this build for me is to be my primary MF char, roughly following Social's HCOTKBTBMFS guide - while also, hopefully, having some pvp viability. This is mainly as I notice that Zharous's PVP FO/ES guide has almost the exact same build. So it seems I could do both roles with one char, which is great for me - as I'm not the most dedicated anymore.
I'm planning something like 20 Orb, 15 CM, 1 static, 5 cold-preqs, 1 warmth first...(At 45 points now, 56 to go) then 10 teleport, 20 telekinesis, 3 lighting preqs, 20 energy shield, 3 ???. Roughly in that order.
My Questions:
What do my stats need to look like? -- It looks like the biggest thing I will be wearing STR-wise is Skulders or Nightwing, and maybe SS. Assuming I go with a rhyme for MF and Sanctuary for PVP (Please advise, is a SS really required? It looks like no.) I'll need about 100 Str. I have almost *no* gear at the moment, and don't see much of it giving me any +str. This makes me want to go with 75~ base and pick up the remaining from torch/anni/whatever when I aquire these things. Does that sound good? Please keep in mind, I'm not going for perfection at all --- just, not a total disaster.
With Sanctuary or SS, I'll be going for high block as I'll always be teleporting in walk mode, which last I checked (can't find the chart) will require around 180~ dex at level 90. (where I assume I'll stop leveling.) Again, it looks like most of this (160~?) will be base. Let me know what you think.
Do I pump VIT or NRG? --- The pvp guide tells me to put everything into NRG to help my ES with almost base VIT. Every other bit of conventonal wisdom seems to say the opposite. I'm pretty lost here, esp as I'll be leveling ES and Telekenisis as my very last skills for pvp once the MF/PVM aspect is fully complete.
Do I even want ES? --- For PVM, I'd rather not die alot. I prefer to pretend like I'm playing a HC char...but I'm not; so I can deal with being slightly more fragile. However, I can't find anything else to invest just 40 points into. I could drop ES down some (or to 1) and pump points into Ice Bolt for more Orb dmg...but everything I've seen shows theres not really much return there. I've never seriously played with ES before, so I really have no idea what its like. I have seen alot of confident sounding folks say it's pretty much required for any kind of serious sorc pvp though.
What am I missing? --- The catch-all. I don't have an issue collecting lots of diffrent gear to try and balance out all my FCR/FHR/FBR breakpoints to MF and PVP, but I'd rather not make two seperate chars, or worse yet, end up just remaking because I planned too poorly. It's been a long time since I played any real D2, and it's my first time on LoD. Therefore, any help or comments you guys have is appriciated. Thanks! :thumbup: