Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

[Misterbk]

Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

I've gotten myself a level 83 fishymancer, and he's done alright for himself but I find the inability to kill anything myself and the emphasis on clearing large areas of monsters as opposed to teleoporting at maximum speed to an act boss fairly slow and depressing. I always feel like I'm going at a snails pace, and my team end up being trapped by doorways or whathaveyou. I figured I'd quite like an MFer designed for fast runs, which by definition would seem to be a sorceress, but I always find them hideously painful to level as they seem to be very weak early on so I figured I should be damn sure it was a good idea before I started one.

Would a meteorb sorc be a good idea for someone of limited means (I started up again recently, so I don't have a lot of available cash)? Is it worth using the fishymancer to hunt down certain things for the sorceress first, or better to just level her up and go from there?

 

[Painman]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

Use Fishy to hunt her a 4 socket crystal/broad sword and Tal, Thul, Ort, Amn for Spirit (assuming SP with runeword mod or Ladder)

It'll be kinda arduous until lvl 24. Life all of a sudden changes for your Sorc at that point, as she gains Blizz and Meteor. Lvl 25, and she gets that Spirit sword you made for her.

Also make her Stealth in a light armor with low lvl req, and perhaps a Lore helm. Insight polearm for her merc - make 2 of these if you can. One in a 4 socket Bill or even just a poleaxe for immediate use at lvl 27 or so depending on STR req. One in an elite polearm for later levels.

Give her mana, life, resist charms, look out for some FCR rings... her first serious mission will be running NM Meph as soon as she can handle it.

 

[Xdeathfire]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

Short answer, yes.

Basically, get to NM Meph and run him until you get an Occy and Skin of the Vipermagi. Then, you can probably move onto Hell and start running whatever targets you can do there.

Get a spirit monarch and a fcr ring and you should be able to hit the 105 breakpoint which will get you teleing fast enough to relatively easily escape teleporting into packs

 

[Misterbk]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

Up to level 24 so far, and recalling why I tended to do so badly with sorceresses in the past. But I'm holding my fingers crossed that my luck'll change around level 30 when I can hurl blobs of frozen death at anything that displeases me. Time has brought me two new questions :

1) Is it a good idea to never kill Mephisto for the quest on Hell? I've heard something along the lines of that if I only kill him in games in which the quest can't be completed I get quest drops every time, but I'm not sure if it's polite to jump into Hell Baal games, kill Meph, grab the loot and run like hell before anyone even notices I joined. Is that a faux pas? I suppose I could sit the Fishymancer in a game for 5 minutes every time, but it seems like that'd slow things down so much as to defeat the benefit...

2) At what point will I move towards playing more like a spell caster (primarily killing things by casting at them) and less hitting stuff with a stick? Thus far I seem to run out of mana after about 4 casts of anything useful, it is rather depressing

 

[PlasmaTorture]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

Welcome to the early life of a sorc.

Personally, when I start fresh (which seems to happen way too often, haha) and am not doing a sorc first, I like to give her a bunch of gold to start with so that you can always afford mana pots... and get used to the constant drain. D:

 

[Are]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

1. I don't think that is worth it at all. Any time spent waiting for a suitable game to show up that you can join is time you could have spent killing Meph. And killing Meph more often by far outweighs any benefit from quest-killing him.

2. Around level 25 or so, if memory serves me well regarding my own MeteOrb. Fireball gets to be pretty useful at that time, and you'll soon have a decent level Frozen Orb to go with it

 

[UncleSporky]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

You might be surprised, Are. The quest drop never contains junk like potions or scrolls, and a quick look at Atma's drop calculator shows greatly, greatly increased chances for good drops from the quest as opposed to regular drop.

But of course the most important thing is to just try it and see if you like what you're getting from him.

Personally I'm going to run other stuff with my necro for five minutes, like hell cows, then join with sorc and do Meph real quick.

 

[Akse]

Re: Is a meteorb sorc a good untwinked MF idea?

put some energy.. won't run out of mana so badly.