The Archmage Hello, I have been trying to find the Archmage build and have not had any luck. Could someone help me out? Thanks, Aucon
not sure on specific links but if you do a search on the forum (top right of main forum page) for tri-elemental, archmage, arch mage. you will get plenty of threads on this topic. From personal experience basic tri-elemental sorcs have 3 common similarities. 1) low stat costing skills (frozen orb, firewall, nova) 2) theme, they tend to stick more with a theme like nova based trielemental sorcs (frostnova, nova, meteor), or cast and forget as a theme (enchant, thunderstorm, cold armors), or bolt skills (ice bolt, fire bolt, charged bolt) 3) usually regarded as low powered builds more of a versitilaty over power. One of my favorite ways to build a trielemental sorc is by using a "leaf" runeworded staff containing firewall and fire mastery as staffmods; for instance +3 firewall, +2 fire mastery with 2 open sockets gives: Leaf "TirRal" two handed damage xx-XX +5-30 Fire Damage +2 mana per kill +3 to Fire Skills +33% Cold Resistance +3 Inferno +3 Fire Bolt +3 Warmth +3 Firewall +2 Fire Mastery With +5 all skills located elsewhere in your build you get a firewall with 1085-1130 damage enough to be usable in Hell. That leave you with only 2 skill trees to deal with, and you have yourself a nice trielemental sorc. Welcome to the forums
I actually have a level 99 Archmage. I built her in Classic and converted her at level 67 to Expansion. She uses the Tal's/Shako/Hoto or Occy set-up. She is Frozen orb/Firewall/ TS with a littlle CL. She may not kill as fast as as single tree sorcy, but? I never have to say.. "Oh, it's immune. I can't hurt it." *LOL* She has 725 MF on the switch and has furnishe med with enough to supply all of the other 16 viable characters. I think my one dlaw was with her stat distribution. Too much strength. But? When I did that, it was for a Classic armor she had. I use a barb merc to cover the monsters that need to be dealt with physically.
Uzziah Thanks for the help Uzziah. I had thought about the "Leaf" Staff but I currently have a "Memory" staff I'm getting my Sorc leveled up for. My first was a FO/CL Sorc and when I got to Hell guess what my first dual immune was? Yep, thats right. Cold and Lightning. It figures. Thanks again. Aucon
