Is my FO/CL Sorc a gone case? or is there still hope for him? der=

[behling]

Is my FO/CL Sorc a gone case? or is there still hope for him?

okay i tink i screwed up big time.

my main idea was to make a sorc kinda like socialism's one but with CL as well to fight in hell.

so here is wat happen

i did some mis calculation and realise my sprit chance to block is only 42% so i went 156str base dex, eng and mass vit. now im level 73 with gear and charms i got 900HP, mana is not a problem have a total of +6 skills to all and +8 to cold

my gear

rockstopper, occy, magefist, tal's belt, raven forest, 10%FCR ring with cold/fire res +20 vit, silkweaver boot, spirit, +2 to cold ammy

resistance is not a problem in hell i can get 75/75/75/60ish

i followed this guide skills are now

28FO (with +skills)
17CM (with +skills)
20 Teleport (with +skills)
7 warmth (with +skills)
7 LM(with +skills)
24 CL (with +skills)
7 Lighting (with + skills)
7charge (with + skills)

i haven done the skill quest so that shld leave me 12 skill points from all of the skill quest from all 3 acts

with some math, i can hit max CL at 75, add all 12 skil points in lighintg mastery, by 85 i shld have max CL and LM.

my fear is in hell will my CL be too weak without any synergyies? right now honestly i dont really like my sorc w/o max block. i have about 124% FCR, 97 FHR, but i still get hit by mobs on the way while TP-ing and its really painful. when i stop to fight. the mobs just run to fast for me and if i do TP away i get hit by another grp of mobs. i plan to get a merc act 2 defiance i have twitchtoe, arcion needle spear and a tal's mask on him. but my past experience has not been really gd with him.

so is my sorc having no hope left at all?. is my gear even gd enuff to built a CL/FO Orb. cos i donthave +skill GC. i may have been too over ambiteous.

 

[Afitch]

Re: Is my FO/CL Sorc a gone case? or is there still hope for him?

I wrote a rather large post but I'll try to summarize as no one seems to have responded to your dilemma.

The type of sorc you are aiming for requires good gear if not top notch gear & you have to min/max your skill points. Right off the bat I see you have 20 in teleport, which is a definite no no. Since your a dual element sorc that needs to be able to do damage with both skills you really have to invest 1 point in that skill as you did with Warmth and allow your + skills to fill in the rest.

I'm going to assume you will be able to achieve at least +14 +15 skills. Your build should look like this judging on how you built ur sorc so far.

20 FO
17 CM
5 Prereqs

20 Chain Light
20 Lightning
20 Light mastery
1 Tele
1 Static
1 Warmth

the rest if you max out at 99 should go into charged bolt for the synergy.

You'll be hitting around 491-514 FO with a -175% cold resist reduction (this is before coldmastery is applied your damage will be higher, especially if you include Death's fathom, jewel facets, etc.)

Your lightning will hit for around 10kish and your chain lightning will hit around 5k with an average damage of 2600 to 12 targets.

I won't go into stats as I'm sure you can figure out what you need to do. As for your sorc you can get the gear but you will have to start over if your trying to aim for the kinda damage I think your aiming for.

 

[tipme]

Re: Is my FO/CL Sorc a gone case? or is there still hope for him?

I'm kind of in the same boat. I think you spent too much on Teleport, I know I had the same problem, I spent about 5 points in it until then I made my insight and it was no longer a problem.

I think I spent too much in Cold Mastery, it's at 16 Base, plus i got frozen and shiver Armor, only one point, and energy shield too, so that was 3 points, but, although unrealistic, if I go for 99, I don't think I can max lightning mastery. I messed up somewhere...but I don't know where

But this sorc is only for running Hell countess anyway, and Andy if I feel like it

 

[ELox]

Re: Is my FO/CL Sorc a gone case? or is there still hope for him?

I'd say between the extra skills put into teleport unnecessarily and the stat point allocation problem (not max block) that this character should be remade if you want to be particularly useful in Hell difficulty.

 

[Taeraq]

Re: Is my FO/CL Sorc a gone case? or is there still hope for him?

The skill points in teleport, as has been said, are what're killing you. When you're going for dual-element builds you have to be downright stingy with them, simply because you're investing in so many different abilities. For instance, my meteorb sorc is realistically never going to be "finished" - though had I been able to plan around gear rather than taking it as it came, I wouldn't have put points into CM and might be able to finish FM - I have Orb, Meteor, FB and firebolt maxed at 90 with 1 point or so into FM. You can see how that's going to turn out if I ever get to 99. Point is, you just plain don't have the luxury of spending points where you want, since you give that up for the ability to give immunes the bird.

As to stat points, however... if you're going to be using Spirit as your shield full-time, only put enough points into Dex to wear your gear (for instance, in my case, I have base dex, I believe, since I never needed more for gear). Spirit's CTC is just too low to make trying to go for max-block worth it - you would need far too much dex. Instead, once you have enough strength and dexterity for whatever you want to wear, pump everything into vitality - it'll serve you better.

If you're set on going the max-block route, however, you would do best to find a shield with a naturally high CTC - IE, not Spirit.