Sorceress Leveling Build Guide: Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 Ladder
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 update patch sorceress leveling build guide and gameplay for the upcoming ladder.
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Very helpful guide for someone who hasn't played this game in 15 years! A couple of things I noticed:
1. You don't need 47 STR for the Ancient's Pledge runeword. It inherits the Str requirement of your shield, so a Large Shield would require 34 str, for example.
2. You can easily create the Ancient's Pledge runeword in act 1 by farming Countess for 4 Ral runes and a Tal rune. She drops these very commonly (in my experience, much more frequently than even Tir, which is lower level). Combine 3 Ral to make your missing Ort.
The two Tir runes you mentioned are extremely helpful. Killing 4-5 enemies returns the cost of the Nova spell for me right now. It's much better than Mana Regen at the early stages!
got my ancient's pledge right at level 21 in act 3 thanks for the tip man this should be pinned
Just make sure to grab the cube from act 2 so you can combine those 3 ral runes into ort.
I always swing back to this guide whenever I'm rolling a new Sorceress!
Thanks Rhykker for the amazing guide. :D
Beware, if the cow level is a terror zone, the crystal sword that drops will be a higher ilevel and will get 6 sockets from Larzuk instead of 4. I learned this the hard way...
Got me twice lmao, this message saved my third attempt thanks bud.
There is no cow level
how do you know if it is a terror zone?
@@bambuchigui It says when you enter a server or every full hour. It tells you what zone is terror zone. (They change every hour)
@@cherrycola4476😂😂😂
Perfect guide thx. Everything is geared towards end game builds and I was looking for something from start to end
Most noob friendly informative d2 video I have ever seen. Thank you very much!
IMO best way playing sorc is: 1-33 fire skills tree, 33-66 cold skills tree, 66-99 lighting skills tree. Static field, energy shield, cold shield, cold armor, teleport asap but just 1 point. Then use equip which maximize sorc skills. This build is OP trust me. And as weapon use the Razorswitch for max resist and being even more OP. For merc def merc act II with reaperstoll ohm and a andariels visage helemet. Some tanky armor for merc. In best way ethereal for merc. For sorc just max lv runewords.
I am a long time fan of your videos and content, and I would like to say that one of the reasons why I keep coming back to your channel is that I like the way your voice sounds, very professional. As a radio speaker and content creator myself I understand how powerful a good voice is.
You need to be in normal deficulity to shop after item that you can use to runewords :) on nightmare and above you can only buy blue items :)
I went for insight before spirit. I don't regret it. Not having to chug potions constantly is a huge quality of life improvement.
I think going fire first is the best. The damage Leaf is just too hard to ignore. Plus it’s very easy to get a decent base using Drog in a2. +3fball +1-3fbolt But if you don’t wNna spend a large amount looking for both +3skills then just go for +3fball
Hey Rhykker, have you done a guide video on how to get a torch ?
Following sorceress guide so far, but no Eth Rune, seems it's the most difficult one to get. Aside that frustrating matter thx for the video.
Dumb question........how in the hell do I go further than like....30 feet without needing to go back to town for mana pots?! Im at level 23 and I have slowed down significantly for constantly needing health/mana.
I'm kinda stuck to on countess at LVL 9, I can barely get to that boss because lack of pots, and gold to buy more
Fill your entire inv with pots. Use cube for extra inv. Dont pick up too much. Never forget: town is lava!
A beginner guide is for people taking their time to play this game not speed running it. Saying Town is Lava is just moronic.
I'm still playing diablo 2 expansion.. but I only kill andarial when I hit level 20... ..this man is very fast
Normal fireball 1-30. 30-80ish frozen orb shreds normal and nightmare naked. 75-80+ go blizz.
Rhykker better be doing this for every class
I'm playing on console and Blizzard + Meteor unfortunately is not viable with controller, because you can't properly aim them. Can I go with Orb + Fireball instead? Sure hope so, because that's what I'm doing so far :D
I think this is old school meta. Very well put together video, but I really doubt many veteran players will be jumping on these played out skills when many want to jump onto the nova and hydra train. Energy shield will also be a major thing again. Plus, going fire in normal difficulty is the most effective way to start the char and using leaf staff. Also lastly IMO meteor is extremely slow, same with blizzard. They also lack in control. I’ve found the best hybrid combination to be fireball and frozen orb. Especially if people use a controller…there is no cool down and the damage is significant, controller makes it especially easy to spam both back and forth when dealing with different monster immunities and the play style is much more enjoyable and visually pleasing.
Thanks Rhykker, love your guides. Picked this up as a result of all the drama over Immortal. Good move dropping the cancer that is Diablo Immoral! Nobody should support it in any way - we must preserve the integrity of PC and Console gaming at all costs!
Nice.... thats what i need this whole time
Does this mean that I have to Best the game before doing this tutorial?
So then Micro MANAmagement must refer to Barbarian builds with small mana pools?
miss your d3 content man hope all is well
hm sounds complicated, i just start rocking with hydra, probably make leaf runeword for +3 fire at some point. i thinl leaf is kinda underrated, the stuff itself has total of +6 to warmth and 2 mana per kill, thats alot. one point in warmth is like 13% mana reg or somehting like that ? thats like 80%. i think the most important rune word as a sorc is insight on the merc.
...fuck i forgot hydras are lvl 30 not 12, thats gonna be a long time fireballin :>
I already farmed 3sockets same sword, but i cannot use them at ACT5 to add socket to it from Larzuk
Nova beats fireball with leaf staff for early game?
Somehow, the crystal sword I got from the cow level got socketed with 6 sockets when I used Larzuk's normal difficulty reward :(
So I had a normal armor th at had 2 sockets and I put the right ruins in and it didn't give the armor the buff
how do I get to nightmare I just bought D2R and first char trying to get to end game I read I have to kill bale sorry if name is wrong not much info as new player let me post this for help and feedback TIA!
is maxroll gonna update the build guides for patch 2.4 or just leave the old ones up
Is spirit still ladder only for resurrected?
I guess I need to watch your Beginners video b/c I was a lvl 25 Paladin but Duriel wiped me to Oblivion... to the point where I'm keeping the toon but I'm starting a new one since the Paladin has 0 gold, and practically no gear. I don't understand how your such a low lvl for everything. Just by clearing out every dungeon available I hit 25 in Act 2... didn't help obviously 😅
Is this guide still valid? How does one manage past the lightning resistent mobs near Diablo?
You’d be better off making a leaf staff and stealth and rocking with Firebolt/Fireball
the build went okay until hell difficulty. Im getting wrecked so hard its basically unplayable now. constantly get one shot by off screen attacks and stunlocked to death.
and how did you manage to stand there taking hits until the meteor casts in that act V clip? i cant time it properly and if I try to just stand there I'm dead after 2 or 3 hits.
Ok I've been following this. I did make 1 mistake. So once I unlock the socket quest on NM mode, do I farm for Crystal sword in cows normal?
Yes , did you do that ? It has to be in cow lvl
How you get a 4 socket polearm?
I've spent hours trying to get this crystal sword only got 1 with a 3 socket =/
haha
TIME STAMPS!
You ever considered being a voice actor?
he keeps saying "faster castrate" and im worried
When I saw this channel I realized I couldn’t be a Diablo UA-camr because of same deep voice. He already got the copyrights lol
I don't have Diablo 2 Resurrected, I just like listening to Rhykker talk. If he did an audiobook, I would buy it.
I think 90% of the time when i "watch" Rhykkers videos, I do it offscreen when I'm taking a dog out.
I'm no native english speaker so it is quite a rare to actually understand english for real without subtitles.
Dudes so monotone you'd never know when another character is talking. Ahah
I also like listening to him so much :) how he expresses important points to watch for by voice is rly impressive
Buy ittt
Firstly you should buy it. If you're after more velvet smooth voices watch a vaati vidya video
If you haven't grabbed D2r, you are missing out. This game is the most challenging/rewarding ARPG around. With crazy patches, support, and a changing meta, bringing Annihlus charms to the masses, and a plethora of new viable builds. You get in on the ground floor, where others like me have been waiting for 20 years for these changes. Placated with D3 for the last decade. So glad that's over...
"This game is the most challenging/rewarding ARPG around." lol : )
I hate how stuck you are into doing specific builds, in a lot of other arpgs I could pretty much do wtv I wanted on my first run through and worry about builds later, in this game I had to have guides open every step of the way because everything suddenly says "fuck off you're not gonna progress", and on top of that they're extremely stingy with respec. I can appreciate a hard game, but a hard game that knows you're gonna fuck up and locks your only chance at redemption behind tons of hours of grueling gameplay and multiple difficulties is bs. Had to remake characters 3 times within 17 hours because I wasn't playing the game right by having fun
I somewhat agree but i really hate the potion chugging until you get the higher rune words. All this item-level/zone-level chaos is also very bad: Crystal swords need to drop directly from cows in the cow level for the desired 4 sockets but not from chests in the cow level because then you get useless 3 sockets? It also mustn't be a terror zone because then you get 5 sockets? And you can't see the item-level anywhere, you'll only find out if that once per difficulty quest reward fails? WTF? I get that this game is 20 years old but these things need to be patched asap, at least for a casual 2023 mode of the game, which i kinda wish for.
So expensive in Turkey.
It's amazing to me to be able to re-experience a 20+ year old game with a brand new patch. Thanks for this!
Yeah, glad we got people going against the grain of freezing old D2 in time - this is much more fun.
I hope they add a new expansion or a game mode kinda like mods... imagine diablo 2 with double the inventory or a mod pack with new areas, a new act, new weapons, different skills, pokemon as enemies....... well maybe not that one. They could honestly just rip them from nexus mods and not a single person would care. The biggest thing tho... they need to have it online. I know you can use mods offline but no.... that's crap.
Rhykker reminds me of my stepdad. He’s a Diablo veteran and I don’t get to ask him questions all the time like I used to when I still lived at home. I really appreciate well made videos like this
Picked up D2r finally last month... just started a sorc to follow this guide and almost immediately found a staff with +3 to both charged bolt and warmth.....and a slot. Thanks, RNGeezus!
Pretty nice guide for leveling, but if i remember correctly when farming normal cow level for a crystal sword just make sure it drops specifically from the cows and not from a chest in the cow level as the i-level of the items could differ and larzuk won't give it 4 open sockets then! I also personally prefer to go with frozen orb in nightmare as frozen orb is just super OP in nightmare but it means you will have to use an extra respec when going to hell from akara where this guide only uses one respec
So that's why my crystal sword turned out with only 3 sockets... :) Is there a way to see Item-level, fcr / fhr / ias frames breakpoints inside D2R like with old maphacks?
@@HURSAs no not that I know of, to find an item with the correct i-level you have to target farm it or chance it in the cube, but all the fhr and fcr breakpoints is available to see online and you just match what you have in game with that, just be sure to check the fcr breakpoints for each skill as certain skills can differ and same with ias breakpoints the skills and the weapon you uses can impact what Ias breakpoints you need
@@jonathankoekemoer8389 Thanks a lot ! I ll try!
How are you supposed to socket the weapon when you get the cow level after act 5 and I can’t complete the first quest in act 5 without socketing a weapon…. So what? Go threw nightmare to socket 1 weapon? Sounds rather stupid to me and a waste of time.
@@justinmartin8139 you don't have to complete that quest to finish the act and to kill baal to unlock the cow level. Some quests in some acts are completely skippable. And this one you save for the great items you want to socket I always save all 3 of my larzuk quests for end game
Currently trying this build and I must say I had an easier time leveling with a fire build, died a lot less and somehow it ain't as much mana dependent as this one plus it has more damage. Oh, and this might be down to luck, but I've met a lot more elites that are lighting resistant then fire. Thanks for the guide though, it still helped.
I’m supposed to be in act 5 at lvl 21? I call bull. I’m lvl 21 getting owned buy everything in act 2
Crank it down to /p1, hamie.
If you want to play something simple and fast as a sorc, just go down the fire tree and rock fireball and it's synergies
(you won't find many fire immunes until hell anyway).
It's pretty easy to hit 5-6K damage per fireball (+10k for the first hit of meteor) with very basic gear:
- spirit sword
- rhyme shield
or
- +fire staff with leaf runeword
Magefists gloves are fairly easy to find too.
Just slap a Lore helm, some +FCR/+res rings, a +fire skills ammy and some +2-3 res boots and you are good to go.
With the new patch, its also super easy to farm as a fire Sorc:
- Cows (bases)
- Andariel (runes/gear)
- Stony Tomb (runes/gear) on act 2, which is very close to town.
- Ice caves on act 5
- Mephisto and Ball you can hit with fireball + meteor
Plus when you are starting, having firebolt/fireball on left click and teleport on right click is easier to manage than skill swapping all the time.
Set up your frozen armor, teleport to the champions, uniques and bosses and melt them away with fireball (don't even need to use static field, unless fire immune)
Beyond that, it's safer for your merc (just telly him out of trouble) and more mana friendly at the beggining than going the light tree.
Once you hit Hell, just respec to your favorite end game build.
This is what I'm doing. Wowhead has a similar leveling guide. Fireball melts enemies if you can lure them in bunches.
Dude, this is an incredibly informative video..mass props to you for making this.
You don't have to do act 5 quest to make ancients pledge, you just need the three runes. Which you can farm off the countess. Thought I'd clear that up for people who think it's a quest locked runeword. There is no quest locked runewords BTW.
You cant get Ort from The Countess... EDIT: I guess you can use 3 Ral to make an Ort...
Nice 👍 Thanks!!
Considering meteor takes a while to hit, why not just firewall?
Also, what about energy shield and warmth?
This has probably been stated but for the runeword Ral Ort Tal shield, you can farm Act I countess for 4 Ral runes then use the cube to turn 3 Ral into an Ort. This gets you the shield in Act 2.
How you get cube in first act?
doing quests
This comment needs to be pinned Thank you so much
I just did that, nice
@@Jason-vi2pj you don’t
i have a question , me personally i make fire sorc with a leaf till respec to cold , why you are using meteor instead of firewall? in hell with cold immunes you cant slow down them to reach with meteor , firewall seems its better idea {no offense just my opinion} if you can explain me why meteor maxed and firewall not i will appreciate it , i enjoy your content , have a nice day.
I'm at lvl 76 on my Sorcereress... this guide has made that possible but Hell is definitely difficult... Act 2, just did Viper Temple. Also how come y'all didn't mention getting Insight for your mercenary? Literally the only reason I've been able to make it as far as I have. But I have made like 8 stealth and have them all divided up between my characters and everything so after I beat the game on Hell? I'll be set up to get my next class through it... I'm trying to get as much of the Platinum as I can get done on the PlayStation as possible
Dumping points into warmth and shopping a +3 inferno staff makes you way stronger at level 6-19. Even if you only put one base point in inferno on your way to firewall, it still hits harder than anything else until 18. Make a leaf staff with +3 inferno at 19 and you’re doing 300+ dps with inferno with only one base point in it, and you can focus on firewall. Having 300% regen on warmth totally eclipses many other options.
Not sure why people are using charged bolt or these weird hybrid setups now that inferno is fixed and firewall gets senergies from warmth.
Pretty much the way I go, and I was always experimenting and found that frozen orb/firewall on a brand new ladder character ended up being the strongest all round and a low point investment required
100% This. This nova build is 100x worse than just firewalling
Speed runners focus on nova. Because it takes less time. So, the meta has shifted to lightning. I’m doing lightning and missing the power surge of leaf. The rune word boost is designed with casters in mind.
Thanks, newb at the game, but i was looking at the skills and the mana regen from warmth seems nice.
Do you have a link to this build ? New player here
Whoever does the concept art for your thumbnails needs a raise.
The link to the build no longer works?
Is meteor better than hydra? I am lvl72 sorceress struggling a lot on hell act 2. I am very unlucky with dropping good gear although my MF is 150%
Great guide should have watched this sooner....For me part of the fun of this game is the trial and error process, the best lessons in life are usually the most painful. I feel like a lot of players are just rushing through the content to end game.
If playing online:
Dex: 42 if you grab an Alibaba...Gull never drops, but Baba does...people trade them cheap.
Runewords: Stealth...good stuff. Ancients Pledge is fine too. Make Spirit and Insight ASAP.
Fill an armor and helm with Flawless Topaz, or make Rhyme/Splendor
ID blue rings for some FCR and or mf, try to get a skill ammy. Buy or find some mf gloves, easy.
Get some R/W boots.
Go full Blizz, dont bother with Fire until youre doing Hell. Just farm meph, do some baal exp runs until 75.
Do this, and all of it will be replaced within hours with the stuff you find.
Don't waste your time with dex for alibaba...gul dagger is so easy to gamble.
As alway a very clear and concise video, this will help a ton of new players.
Well this contradicts himself.. says avoid fire with Amazon from nightmare onwards as there's too many fire resistant enemies.. and now he's telling you to use fire with the sorceress build.. 🤔
i need mana......
Man that roll on your spirit sword almost made me cry with only 26% FCR 😢
i got a mana problem and always dead at act 4 i wonder what's wrong with it :(
Just hit the same wall as well. Upgraded nova chews through mana and the damage falls off.
Go with Firebolt/Fireball instead. Way more mana friendly if you make a Leaf staff.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me the Orange Arrow on items/sockets??? What does it mean? I see them on the website. Thank you.
im curious why you don't invest 1 point into warmth. 30% mana recovery rate passive is pretty good no? most other guides I have watched tend to invest 1 point there
Same I struggled following this guide until I point 1 point into it
@@michaellao7264 gotta have those 1 point wonders man, warmth, telekinesis, teleport etc. extremely vital when u get to hell. plus if you get charm skillers or skiller gear it boosts them a bit too which is always nice. atm im running tal rasha set with spirit monarch, 1 fcr ring and some resist stuff and then waterwalk boots with magefist gauntlets (+1 to fire skills) and im literally blowing through hell. only played this character for around 20 - 24 hours and already im at kurast bazaar hell difficulty (a lot of that time spent farming nm mephisto and such). also got insight and treachery on my merc
@@AaronWOfficial coming back into d2 for the first time in about 15 years. I don’t remember a single thing. These comments and vids help though 👍
@@michaellao7264 best advice i can give you since im sort of in the same boat as you. Trading discords are your best friend when u reach act 1 hell. can get a nice head start if u farm p.gems
unes beforehand or if ur fortunate enough to get good skiller charms thats also a good way to get ur character going trading for some nice gear
unewords. 4os polearms are quite high demand also depending which you get. Also farm a lot of countess in nm\hell, runes are one of the most important forms of currency
@@AaronWOfficial people don’t use gold for trading?
I can't help but wonder what was originally said at 9:49. :-P
There is a unique charm now (or how they are called in english?) that makes cold immune no longer cold immune, it has also -75 cold resistance but since that item exist (I don't know since when but when I played before diablo 4 released in early 2023 I think it didn't exist), this charm should allow us to kill everything with blizzard or?! means we don't have to spend points into fire and don't know if we need a merch that has an aura which doesn't give us anything,
I remember that at least for non-sorcs that cold aura which slows enemy down was always nice and could be nice for sorcs too as it slows enemies down, so the chance that they attack you is much lower when you teleport for example, but thanks for the first 11-13 minutes! I made tomb runs until 25 but was lucky to get a free spirit-sword (no cristall sword but who cares, 47 str) in my first baal run, the guide really helped me compared to my first sorc which I started with ice blast as my main dmg skill which works too but nova is way better and the armor and tir+tir helmet are really nice :)
I always only get 1 point into charged bolt, then shop a +3 staff from akara... they are very common and not that expensive ^^
I just did my respec at level 24 for blizzard but I still have 12 skill points did I miss something? I did get 5 in static field already. Should I use the extra points in ice blast and keep a point for cold mastery at level 30?
It's so gross looking at that small ass inventory after playing with mods....
There's going to be a ladder in the game now?
First you say put 10 points in energy. But next you say by level 12 i shouldn’t have? I’m confused??
I find this game much more compelling and interesting than D4. I like D4 too but it’s waaayyyy to complicated to build your character imo.
And with the new layer of paint D2 actually does look good, less than D4 of course but still good.
If you just "want" to play Diablo 2, then this is a completely inappropriate video for you, you will use about 1% of the advice from the video.. It's like asking what kind of tires to put on your car and a moron tells you uy formula 1 tires, otherwise it won't be ok
Please stop talking about bot putting points into different stats. Vitality is the least important stats while levvling. Pop some extra energy and str to not have to be bothered with it. Respec is free. Dont waste time not being able to equip stuff you find. Also put like 20 points energy early so you dont need to buy as many mana potions. It saves many minutes while levelling to 30 then its baalruns anyway so rest of guide is pointless.
Make your own guide video then?
Awesome video! Can you do the same but for modded game which gives 10 attributes and 2 skill points per level?
Why respec blizzard at 24 lvl? Nova much faster all nightmare. Just mana hungry.
Unfortunately Blizzard unlocks at level 25 for me so I just respeced and cant put points into Blizz smh
I'd rather go with fire earlier on as it uses less Mana
Level 21/23 secret cow level? Don’t I have to finish the game the go to the cow level? 😊
RAL+ORT+TAL at lvl21 ..
you can shop Large shield with 3 sockets from Charsi (ACT1)
3xRAL=ORT
Omg. I hadn’t thought of that!
Please do a end-game socceres build guide as well 🙏🏼 I really like your D2 Res and D3 videos
back then in the day when i played the original and was farming the bosses on the highest difficulty you needed to be in a full game for the drops to be at their best quality/chance. how does D2R handle this? is it the same mechanic?
More players means more drops, yes
i can recommend frozen orb as a better skill for nightmare - once in a3 hell respec into blizz (or hydra in 2.4)
Since I haven't seen anyone mention it - for the spirit runeword you can also use Broad Sword and Longsword (both from cow level). Longsword has a dex requirement but Broad Sword and Crystal only have str requirements. Which your going to have for shield requirements anyway so if you don't want the crystal sword visual, or you just found 5 blank broad swords before the crystal you don't have to wait.
does the sword have to be from cow level or just drop white with ivll between 26-40?
@@williamtess3660 ilvl of 26-+ Broadsword/Longsword max socket is 4 anyway. Normal Cows is just an easy way to ensure that but I believe act 5 also counts since everything there is 30+. Act 4 is mildly problematic, early on it's under 25, later on it's over 25 so... Later areas is probably safe but A5 or Cows is the easiest way to ensure it's of the proper ilvl category.
Just did mine my first roll in an etheral broadsword I found and it turned out to be a 35 fcr 😍
Only issue I ran into is I got a six socket sword from Larzuk's reward on the sword I got from the cow level :(
need an update
I prefer fireball for leveling. It's effective till nightmare mephisto
Do u have to get stealth in the first act. Or can it be any armor with 2 sockets?
I bet we will see more videos like this about other classes and so on soon!
Awesome and very helpful guide Sir but I do love how you say you may be at the cow level / finished Normal by a certain low level, I've never gotten to that point that low😭😂
Yeah I was 30 when I got out of normal
what number should i set my offline difficulty scaling?
As much as you can handle without loosing too much kill speed to gain more xp 😊
I suggest you put more points on mana or equip +mana gears until level 30. Sorceress is mana driven character and it will be more safer running in dungeons...
Yeah I usually go like 30 pts energy for my first fire spec, second respec gets no energy BC of finding enough sapphires etc.
people still run bots in d2r or does blizzard shut them down?
Guys what's an alternative for someone who made the build exactly like it's being said, but don't want to respec into a Blizzard Sorc, because I don't like the how the skill works. What's the alternative? For someone who wants to reach late game and proper play through all difficulties? What's another sorc which is begginer friendly, easy to manage and not to expensive in terms of itens/grind? My question really is, what should I respec other than blizzard around the level 24?
Thank you for this guide, but I think try this one and fireball. And fire ball much easy for leveling, realy )) You can take leaf from tower and apply it to staff with +2 to fire ball and totally you get +5 to fire ball. It would be great if you show alternative way in guides )
I personally prefer Fireball Sorc to level through normal. Leaf staff is OP and awesome for mana management. You can teleport around more too. Stealth also grants mana regen so between leaf and stealth you should have way less problems with mana upkeep.