Some questions about my sorc

[Alientank]

Some questions about my sorc

I am currently leveling a meteorb sorc and plan to take her into hell for MF runs.

Currently I have decent gear with 3/5 tals set (need lidless eye and chestpiece), frostburns, 2 nagels, lidless wall, war travs. Weapon switch is rhyme shield and ali baba.

I have orb maxed, fireball maxed, meteor almost maxed, 7 points in cold mastery (was told to stop here) and a few in fire mastery.

My merc has shaftstop, near perfect vamp gaze and insight.

I've left energy at base, dex to 75 (I think this is a screw up on my part), and around 95 into str so far.

My questions are...

1) If my merc gets the killing blow, does it just use his MF or does it add his MF to the gear I wear for the calculation?

2) 5/5 tals set with lidless, magefists, 2 sojs, war travs a good idea? What ammy to shoot for?

3) Is the gear mentioned above hell viable with meteorb, including my mercs gear?

4) Is putting a pdiamond in my lidless a good idea for resists, since right now in NM they're sitting around +3?

5) I have a wizspike sitting there waiting, however I'm concerned about resists and FCR later on, I read the "truth about tals set" thread, will switching out to that gear with 5/5 tals solve the resists problem for hell?

I know it's a lot of questions but they're been on my mind for weeks.

 

[KremBanan]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

1. When merc kills, it is his(or hers) and your mf together. If you kill, it is only your mf.

2. A better idea would be Spirit Monarch with 35fcr. That way you ge the 105fcr breakpoint. Amulet is Tal amu.

3. Its viable. What armor are you using now?

4. Yes

5. With full tals, spirit shield and torch + anni, you will have nice resists.

 

[Akse]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

You can get 105 with full tal set, magefist and lidless IIRC. Tal's partial bonuses give 20% orb give 30% magefist 20% and lidless 20%.. But you don't really need 105 unless you use fireball a lot. Orb and meteor are delayed and 63 breakpoint is fast enough for that and many other duties.

If you want good resists before getting tal armor, lionheart could be nice. Gives huge stat boots 50 all res etc, duriels shell is also ok.

 

[aquaman]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

Tal full set is 50% FCR (orb has 20 not 30)
Magefist = 25%
Lidless = 20%

You need another 10% to reach 105 breakpoint

*edit* if you're not going for max block, there's no reason to use Lidless instead of Spirit. With Spirit you get at least 25% FCR (25-35), one more skl point, nice res, life & mana. And it's cheap!

 

[aquaman]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

Regarding resistances, assuming perfect equipment, you get the following:
65+20+20 = 105 All from Tal + Anni + Torch
73+35 = 108 LR from Tal + Spirit
40+35 = 75 CR from Tal + Spirit
40+35 = 75 FR from Tal + Spirit

So the only one where you're somewhat lacking is poison (+5 in hell after the -100 penalty). Obviously if you don't have anni and torch you need to subtract the 40 All.

 

[LongingForDeath]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

@aquaman:
You might want to count in the 30 all res from the Anya quests as well. Oh, and Magefist only gives 20% FCR, not 25 .

But yeah, I also recommend full Tal's + Magefist + Spirit Monarch. If you don't have a perfect Spirit, get a ring with 10% FCR and you reach the 105% FCR breakpoint, which is kinda important for a Meteorb, since you're usually spamming Fireball.

 

[aquaman]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

@aquaman:
You might want to count in the 30 all res from the Anya quests as well. Oh, and Magefist only gives 20% FCR, not 25 .

Yeah, that was a pseudo-typo, as you can see the total FCR counts the magefists as 20 :nod:

Regarding the res, I was only referring to equipment but you're right, Anya's quests would contribute.

 

[Alientank]

Re: Some questions about my sorc

Thanks for the responses so far. Right now I'm using vipermagi, so I'm teleing around fast, I'm just trying to MF run to get myself better gear. Right now it takes an eternity for meteor to kill hell meph, it's brutal, even killing act 1 enemies is pretty horrendous.