this is suboptimal for a nova sorc! As others mentioned Self wield infinity - 105 FCR is much more powerful in PVM. You're getting -55 light res on an infin scythe added on top of griffs/facets and conviction. Plus it allows your merc to focus on safety. Your build is totally fine for P1 dont get me wrong, but those A4/A5 baal waves are gonna go down in 2-3 shots even in P1 and its going to be night and day different on P5-P8 (where this build really shines) Sorc: Griffons ViperMagi Upped Arach Magefists Infin Scythe 3L/10FCR magic ammy 2x SOJs Treks Merc Insight COH (+Skills) Cure Prayer Merc The Cleansing, Mediation and Prayer skills on merc then Synergize, getting a ton of Life + Mana this way, and reducing the blood mana/poison durations Test it yourself if you haven't already! Its my fav build for P8 farming Alternatively, if you wanted to keep infin on your merc, you could swap the Escheutas for crescent moon, and swap maras for a 2/10 or 3/10fcr sorc ammy. Reason being is you don't really need capped res when your an ES sorc - as long as your mana is taking damage, resistance has no impact on damage taken to mana. That way you retain the 105 breakpoint.
Weapon: -55% light infinity HELD scythe helm: -25/20 griffon with 5-5 chest: ormus with +3 nova and 5-5 facet // vipermagi with mal gloves: magefist belt: arach boots: e treks amulet 2-20 rings: soj x2 switch: +3 ES CTA inventory Anni Torch x8 +1 skillers with life x7 small charms 20-17 life mana cube tome Merc: helm: andy chest: fort weapon: Insight with level 17 meditation You'll never run out of mana, even while tanking mobs in P8 games higher -light to cause even more damage to mobs, -80% with infinity and griff I prefer using Magi with a Mal for 20 MDR to resist the souls in P8
Self wield infinity setup only does higher damage in places where there are lots of lightning immunes. There's still other farming areas such as cows where other setups deal faster damage. Still, can't go wrong with self infi though.
You could also have a 20%absorb wisp as ring swap for when your going to encounter souls. And run 2nd soj when your not doing baal. That's what I do anyways
No one would wear infinity as a sorc. That would only increase your damage against immune monsters. You loose a lot of damage against every other mob. Not to mention the slow cast rate. Spirit+ crescent moon or 5/5 eshuta would do a better job most of the time.
And I think there is more powerful way to create an expensive version of this build with 200% fcr Overall I think three are two ways of improvement: 1) Use CTA on weapon swap to increase life and mana. Even with +3-5 BO CTA you can get level 8-10 BO (+62% mana, which is frostburn + 1 SOJ). You also get + life, which is super helpful given low vitality score. pretty easily if you do two things. You can easily get 1000 life a) Get cheap CTA + cheap spirit on weaponswap b) Get Viper Magi instead of ormus - again + all skills is king. Also just +1 to lightning mastery is almost as good as an imperfect eschuta (+12%) This way you will get at least +6 (spirit (2)+arach (1)+vipermagi(1)+griffon(1)+prebuff with battle command(+1)) to BOa. 2) Get to 200% FCR. This not only speeds you up, but also adds 14% damage (3,5 novas per second vs 3,1 novas per second). One nova is not super high damage - it is powerful from spamming. 14% damage is 3 facets or one imperfect eschuta. To do that: a) switch to mage fist = +20% FCR. CTA will help with mana instead of FB b) get +2 skills + 10% FCR craft amulet = +10% FCR c) get 10% FCR rings instead of SOJs = +20% FCR. If you get super rich, you can buy +20% FCR amu and use SOJ on other finger d) Vipermagi instead of ormus = +15% FCR, +35 all res. It also will solve your resistance problem e) Use HOTO instead of eschuta. = + 30-40 all res. This way you will get to 200% FCR breakpoint and improve your resistances. You will also be very close if not better in terms of DPS
@@asharedo crescent moon won’t allow you to get 200% fcr. Eschuta is not very good deal for light sore overall. Lightning mastery gives you huge increase to damage, so plus skills is better value than plus to damage for any light sorc. For cold sorc it is not the case, because you cannot get to more than -100 resist AFAIK For higher player counts, I think light sorc will be better and safer than nova sorc. For me, nova sorc is very cool, because you get fastest teleport in the game AND decent damage. Amazon and vanilla light sorc do more raw damage, but they are not as fast.
There is also a cheaper 105 fcr version without Griffon. You would still need infinity tho. 1) Use crescent moon as a weapon for -35% enemy light res. It's dirt cheap - all runes are farmable from countess + any 3 socket sword would work. It does not have + kills or FCR, but you are overkilling FCR by 35% with your build 2) shako + vipermagi for +3 skills, FCR some res and magic find. These are relatively cheap now. That will also increase all you skills by 3 instead of just one. Which means +3 nova AND +3 lightning mastery, which is lamost as good as +3 nova, + 1 LM from griffon and - res/+ damage modifiers 3) Magefist or 2 10% fcr rings to hit 105% breakpoint. You get to 140% now, if we remove eschuta, it will be 100%, Viper instead of griffon+ormus would bring it to 90%. 2 rings or magefist = 110% FCR.
The Crescent moon version is the budget build of it :) He wants as much mana as possible. Crescent moon doesnt give any of that :( By switching out Eschutas to anything else than hoto he would lose 30 energy. Where Hoto would give 10% inc mana. and 40% all res. If he switched his Ormus to a +3 nova instead of +3 Frozen orb that would increase the dmg also xD Griff is a must have no matter what build you are doing with lightning. The % dmg and -% res is unbeatable in any way and situation you can come up with. He just needs to hit the 105% fcr bp which means that instead of spirit he could use a 4x 5/5 light rbf shield. Or find another shield that gives equal amount of mana or more :)
The higher Flat mana you got the more Warmth regens. Its % based. So by having a mana pool of 4.1k+ 5 points in warmth will be able to regen the mana from spamming nova easy. Even through hits.
My variation of this is max warmth and the rest into blaze. You get around really fast with blaze even when you're not teleporting and then you don't need insight on a merc with max warmth. Then i use crescent moon runeword in a beserker axe for the -35 enemy light res (looks dope to have a sorc with an axe and i also summon the spirit wolves for style points - they survive alright since your kill speed is fast and with prayer merc they regenerate each encounter). I got an infinity for the merc as well, which I traded some GG stuff for the ber runes on ladder. but really with this setup you can annihilate anything that isn't lightning immune even without infinity, so it's no absolutely necessary. That Crescent moon runeword is really solid for damage if you can make up the plus skills and fcr in other areas .
I have also tested this out with test gear. I suggest trying out obsession with a +3 nova +3 light mastery. Obviously hard to find legit, but will try to get this setup online once I start playing this for real. Self wield infinity is also good but not as "the best" setup as some people claim.
Obsession is an amazing runeword for the sorceress, however finding a base with the right attributes is extremely difficult, I have been trying. the best I found was a 6 socketed warstaff with +3 to meteor :(
There is no best build if you follow your logic here. It would all be up to the individual person who is playing. Infy sorc is the best char, because it can farm anything anywhere at any time. It doesnt need a party to help it. There are a lot of different builds out there that can do so. But Infy sorc is the most efficient at it and will always be known as the Pack killer, just like hammerdin was known for the best baalrunners. And the Javazon the best Chaos runners and cow runners. Claiming otherwise only shows how little knowlegde people have of the game and its mechanics.
@@inceneration all serious nova sorc builds use infinity and can farm anywhere regardless, the so called "infinity nova sorc" just uses it as a self-wielded (ie, not on merc) way.
Self-wield Infinity in a Scythe, and you get the benefit of the -45-55 enemy light res. It's even stronger than this version. Also, a Memory in a +3 ES base gets you to 95% damage absorb
Using a crescent moon + spirit shield is better for most areas in the game. I think self-wield infinity only better if you're specifically only farming lightning immunes and not killing other mobs, otherwise crescent moon better for high player count and eschuta for lower player count.
@@asharedo why crescent moon better? It provides -35 light res. Cheaper alternative absolutely, but not better. Infinity is faster. Plus with infinity you get the meditation from insight a2 merc + prayer aura which synergies perfectly and not have to worry about mana or poison for example. Plus a sorc with a scythe looks DOPE 😂
Its not necessarily better but it gives more versatility in terms of other gear options due to the ability to use spirit for the 35 fcr and 2 skills.@@chromff9261
Sick video as always !!!!! U should do assassin next! Find the most OP build for sin would be such an amazing video, esp the way u record and edit and commentary ! I love ur content
It may be better to put that point in Thunderstorm into Enchant instead, so let Emilio do better vs lightning immunities that couldnt be broken. I mean in the sample videos you didnt even need to cast tstorm anyways. :) Love the build. I wish my account was close to affording most of the stuff here. :)
You can do different types though like my es fb sorc usez 75% es and about 1/3 left over stats into vita 2/3 into energy with 1 or 2 points in es and aiming for max telekenisis but some builds go firemastery first some go telek first... either way 75% es ths correct way is way tanky and more survivable than vita
Best build imo and the one I am currently using: Infinity Scythe Viper up’ed 35@ with mal (for extra MDR) AMU 2sorc 20fcr 9str 15@ Arach Magefists Craft boots 30frw / 52m / 20fr / 24lr Rare diadem 2sorc / 20fcr / 12str / 28@ (it’s socked with 1 um) 2 Soj Some skillers, life/mana charms and some res charms. Merc: Eth insight thresher 17aura Eth forti kraken shell Eth Andy’s with 15ias 25fr jool P.S. I can run every area like this with no issues. 105fcr is all I need, yes 200fcr or crescent moon are also great, but a sorc with a scythe?? ❤ how can you resist????
Old school chainlighntning/lightning sorc I would believe is about the same but plays safer. But you need the gg stuff. I had a build that reached 71 k lightning damage, while you cast slower and you need to reach i believe 117% fcr on lightning. It melts everything chain then does about half around up to 30k. But chains to everyone. But my advice to you is, out with the Ormus, its also a frost ormus, On with the viper magi, out with frostburn, 1 out with 1 soj, out with Maras. But on max fcr gear instead so you hit the 200 fcr point with nova, that makes for a huge dps difference and stunlock difference. So 2/20 fcr amulet, 1 fcr ring 1 soj, arachnids, magefists or trang ouls, Throw out echuta and go with Hoto for better resist, if you cant hit that 2/20 amu go with a second fcr ring. Less mana for survival, but way boosted dps. Balance with mana charms or simply go vita sorc instead and put the rest of points in other light skills so you have all options open in light tree. The + to lighning dmg is not that strong since you already have lightning mastery, + to lightskills are more important.
Instead of using Spirit. You should use Jmod with 4x 5/5 Light Rbfs in it. Outscales Spirit. Instead of Eschutas you should use either Hoto or a +3 nova +2 Sorc 20fcr 2 socket magic orb with 2 x 5/5 light rbf. Instead of mara you should be using a 2/15 mana, mana regen, str amulet. Everything is possible to obtain if you know how to craft and Magic find.
You go Life base if you dont have any % mana gear. So if you dont have Soj's Arach Silkweave and so on. Then life base is better. But you are much squishier.
I have a question. Im a bit new in D2R but can HOTO buff mana? I thought its a CTA that buffs Life and Mana? And how did u get all resis so high with the charms in ur inventory?
As I do agree with the gear. Lighting chain combo. With the rest spect into frozen orb works better. I have tested both builds. But it's pretty much user choice
If you spec your points into different trees you are losing a bunch of synergies. Frozen orb is Useless if you dont have fully invested gear into cold dmg.
Yeah, that's why I'm not sure if I want to buy an Infinity because she already does all that stuff amazing and if I want to do Chaos/Baal I would rather just use a diff char like HDin with much more MF
How do you get these special items the grey labeled rare ones.. I’m very knew I have a level 34 necromancer and a level 24 sorceress.. I would love all the tips possible ❤
not 100% perfect gear ;-) You can roll +3nova for ormus. really love this nova sorc, started this and farmed my assup @a5 would be so nice if they enable instant (conv) aura support on merc..
Ormus is scam. It's really the shittiest sorc item you can have, maybe unless you're cold, but even then vipermagi is far superior. Even for Nova sorc now with the static field synergy it's better to have +all skills or lit skill than the measly +20% lit damage.
@@chainedelementals8034 nah +3 nova works fine with ormus and is bit over VM for this build. You will also need the +dps to go for p8 cows. If you do not want to go for p8 cows, keep VM.
Go for 200fcr, swap the ormus for one with Nova, obviously xD (currently is frozen orb). And get a +2 sorc skills +% fcr amulet to get to the 200fcr. If doing P8 then go 117 bp and use crescent moon and use lightning instead of nova as the damage is too low with nova on p8 (compared to lightning).
I clear P3 councils for about 20sec with my self wield infinity light sorc. I start counting from loading screen till I kill all councils. How much faster is your poison necro than that?
TBH I lost interest quickly when I messed around with a hero editor and made it too easy, I prefer online now where all my gear is earned, I see it as a treasure hunt rather than a massacre so keeping the balance between MF and quick kills is key.
Lightning/chain lightning does more damage than nova. So those are more “powerful” in higher player count games. But the nova sorc is more fun, especially with 200 fcr.
Thus is nuts but yeah I'll have to stick with blizz on ps4 on my young sorc. This is endgame stuff and I just finally made a spirit at level 40 as my only 2nd rune made so far
Disclaimer this AINT A LEVEING GUILD, it’s a guild that when your fully maxed out at 99 and on your respect, other wise your gonna die a shit load on how he explains it, lots of though have to go in to how you want to spend your talent points! Any fool with a D2R PC can upload a max character and just add points and kill at will but has 0 thought on (how to ACTUALLY) level this chat from normal to nightmare to hell! He just has 99pts and spends it and said (look at me I can kill anything with 99pts) even though I haven’t leveled him at all because I just uploaded him on my PC
So I was recently thinking about switching to offline solo and I was wondering about hero editor. Which one is safe to download and how do they work exactly. If anyone can point me in the right direction for this information that would be great. Good video to man!
I agree with you that this is strongest sorcerer build. I had the same build in Diablo 3 before they launched Reaper of Souls. In D3 it's called " Wave of Force " skill and with lightning rune. Mine was very tankie and has lots of dps like yours. Best part was in D3 i stun very good. Enemies can't even move. I use only 2 skills to attack, that's Wave of Force and Teleport ( Calamity rune, stuns on arrival ), the rest are all buffs to attacks and defence. 1 armor skill for defence 2 for attack buffs and i had 1 skill open that i can drop in what ever i like. Ros expansion ruined everything for me. Because then we only use set items skills because they gets 10000+ dmg % for idiotic reasons. And Wave of Force isn't among them. I was looking forward to Diablo 4 Sorcerer. But D4 Sorcerer don't have this skill as far as i know. But i'm still gonna make a stun Sorcerer in D4.
I gave my Merc Insight weapon. ^^ gave me lvl 16 meditation aura. 675% mana regen lol. absolute bonkers. Infinity is great for bosses, but not for AoE where Mana is everything.
Yeah, except for (as you emphasized on) gloams... This build is broken. I was already pretty geared for a regular light sorc, tracked down a 15/3 nova ormus and a jewel tonight and it melts.
For me Tesladin its the best build in the game you kill everything no problem whit immunity no problem whit Ubers you can have merc iff you want you can run whit out merc too
"We're gonne put one point into shiver armor". Proceeds to put point in Frost armor. And an impossible spirit with them stats... Frozen orb ormus on nova sorc... At least make it semi legit and smart.
Most powerful Sorceress died at black souls haha! I don't like ES/Nova for many reasons. ES goes away, you are screwed, poison, and blood mana curse. CLFO is just as fast on P1 and way less risk of death. Also can do all content.
Btw: I play this build with magefist and Enigma , the 12 life and 15% damage to mana = godlike. You don’t need resists….. Baal is a lot harder due to the spell that does damage if you have more mana then life. Also it’s not a good boss killer and it drops off a lot at players 4 and beyond
I don’t think the damage to mana actually works with energy shield or at least I saw someone on UA-cam once say it doesn’t. I too use enigma though for the str mf skills and life per kill. The run speed is really nice in town too.
Naaa, I like my Lightning better. And I absolutely hate energy shield. Your just changing life for mana. While you feel safe most of the time it can and will kill you some of the time. When your mana is sucked up and you can't teleport out. When you get a nasty blood mana. Or whatever.
To be honest, my javazon kills way faster... 1 spear for every group of cows. 1 spear for every wave from baal... baal itself is like 3 pokes... diablo is 1 poke... idk man seems javazon beats this build. It's a fast fun build. Nothing beats the javazon tho with enigma and 99fcr.
@@chromff9261 not that hard actually, you see you don't need all of that to be a godly javazon. You can even run hell with a decently geared up javazon with a normal white jav and still clearing hell comfortly.
its a cool build NGL, but you do realize that for 1/3 of its price you can get the actual best sorc build in this patch? A fireball / blizzard hybrid rocking Tal Rasha set. On the highest end this build literally shreds in p8. oh yea.. a max block fireball / blizzard hybrid + max rez is what i mean. All you have to do is swap skillers as you pass by Trav, so you can kill them quicker in slit games that is.. Im really lazy and literally i dont have much time but if enough doubters insist of proof i might aswell show you what im talking about.
@@elitecocktails no no my grandma is sitting behind me with a stick and an Olympics stopwatch... so u wanna tell me that this light sorc will do better and faster in WSK p8 difficulty than the one im recommending?! LOL!!!!
How is that fast man and high-end? You like it or not, light sorc has the fastest clearing speed. We can argue that this gear in the video is not optimal, but no hybrid build is faster on p8, no matter what you say 🙏
this is suboptimal for a nova sorc!
As others mentioned Self wield infinity - 105 FCR is much more powerful in PVM. You're getting -55 light res on an infin scythe added on top of griffs/facets and conviction. Plus it allows your merc to focus on safety. Your build is totally fine for P1 dont get me wrong, but those A4/A5 baal waves are gonna go down in 2-3 shots even in P1 and its going to be night and day different on P5-P8 (where this build really shines)
Sorc:
Griffons
ViperMagi Upped
Arach
Magefists
Infin Scythe
3L/10FCR magic ammy
2x SOJs
Treks
Merc
Insight
COH (+Skills)
Cure
Prayer Merc
The Cleansing, Mediation and Prayer skills on merc then Synergize, getting a ton of Life + Mana this way, and reducing the blood mana/poison durations
Test it yourself if you haven't already! Its my fav build for P8 farming
Alternatively, if you wanted to keep infin on your merc, you could swap the Escheutas for crescent moon, and swap maras for a 2/10 or 3/10fcr sorc ammy. Reason being is you don't really need capped res when your an ES sorc - as long as your mana is taking damage, resistance has no impact on damage taken to mana. That way you retain the 105 breakpoint.
Small addition: energy shield caps out at lvl 40 , so with all great and skillers you can take less points in energy shield.
Weapon: -55% light infinity HELD scythe
helm: -25/20 griffon with 5-5
chest: ormus with +3 nova and 5-5 facet // vipermagi with mal
gloves: magefist
belt: arach
boots: e treks
amulet 2-20
rings: soj x2
switch:
+3 ES CTA
inventory
Anni
Torch
x8 +1 skillers with life
x7 small charms 20-17 life mana
cube
tome
Merc:
helm: andy
chest: fort
weapon: Insight with level 17 meditation
You'll never run out of mana, even while tanking mobs in P8 games
higher -light to cause even more damage to mobs, -80% with infinity and griff
I prefer using Magi with a Mal for 20 MDR to resist the souls in P8
Self wield infinity setup only does higher damage in places where there are lots of lightning immunes. There's still other farming areas such as cows where other setups deal faster damage. Still, can't go wrong with self infi though.
You could also have a 20%absorb wisp as ring swap for when your going to encounter souls. And run 2nd soj when your not doing baal.
That's what I do anyways
@lazy +3 to nova
No one would wear infinity as a sorc. That would only increase your damage against immune monsters. You loose a lot of damage against every other mob. Not to mention the slow cast rate. Spirit+ crescent moon or 5/5 eshuta would do a better job most of the time.
which boot is that E TREK ? Sandstorm Trek ?
Black Souls and Minions of Destruction are the true bosses of the game.
lol yup
Dolls. Hardcore.
But you haven’t Tyreals skills yet
Facts!!!!😂
And I think there is more powerful way to create an expensive version of this build with 200% fcr
Overall I think three are two ways of improvement:
1) Use CTA on weapon swap to increase life and mana. Even with +3-5 BO CTA you can get level 8-10 BO (+62% mana, which is frostburn + 1 SOJ). You also get + life, which is super helpful given low vitality score. pretty easily if you do two things. You can easily get 1000 life
a) Get cheap CTA + cheap spirit on weaponswap
b) Get Viper Magi instead of ormus - again + all skills is king. Also just +1 to lightning mastery is almost as good as an imperfect eschuta (+12%)
This way you will get at least +6 (spirit (2)+arach (1)+vipermagi(1)+griffon(1)+prebuff with battle command(+1)) to BOa.
2) Get to 200% FCR. This not only speeds you up, but also adds 14% damage (3,5 novas per second vs 3,1 novas per second). One nova is not super high damage - it is powerful from spamming. 14% damage is 3 facets or one imperfect eschuta. To do that:
a) switch to mage fist = +20% FCR. CTA will help with mana instead of FB
b) get +2 skills + 10% FCR craft amulet = +10% FCR
c) get 10% FCR rings instead of SOJs = +20% FCR. If you get super rich, you can buy +20% FCR amu and use SOJ on other finger
d) Vipermagi instead of ormus = +15% FCR, +35 all res. It also will solve your resistance problem
e) Use HOTO instead of eschuta. = + 30-40 all res.
This way you will get to 200% FCR breakpoint and improve your resistances. You will also be very close if not better in terms of DPS
And for high player count crescent moon instead of eschuta is the bis. There's heaps of videos on yt of people testing this over the years.
@@asharedo crescent moon won’t allow you to get 200% fcr. Eschuta is not very good deal for light sore overall. Lightning mastery gives you huge increase to damage, so plus skills is better value than plus to damage for any light sorc. For cold sorc it is not the case, because you cannot get to more than -100 resist AFAIK
For higher player counts, I think light sorc will be better and safer than nova sorc. For me, nova sorc is very cool, because you get fastest teleport in the game AND decent damage. Amazon and vanilla light sorc do more raw damage, but they are not as fast.
There is also a cheaper 105 fcr version without Griffon. You would still need infinity tho.
1) Use crescent moon as a weapon for -35% enemy light res. It's dirt cheap - all runes are farmable from countess + any 3 socket sword would work. It does not have + kills or FCR, but you are overkilling FCR by 35% with your build
2) shako + vipermagi for +3 skills, FCR some res and magic find. These are relatively cheap now. That will also increase all you skills by 3 instead of just one. Which means +3 nova AND +3 lightning mastery, which is lamost as good as +3 nova, + 1 LM from griffon and - res/+ damage modifiers
3) Magefist or 2 10% fcr rings to hit 105% breakpoint. You get to 140% now, if we remove eschuta, it will be 100%, Viper instead of griffon+ormus would bring it to 90%. 2 rings or magefist = 110% FCR.
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The Crescent moon version is the budget build of it :) He wants as much mana as possible. Crescent moon doesnt give any of that :( By switching out Eschutas to anything else than hoto he would lose 30 energy. Where Hoto would give 10% inc mana. and 40% all res. If he switched his Ormus to a +3 nova instead of +3 Frozen orb that would increase the dmg also xD Griff is a must have no matter what build you are doing with lightning. The % dmg and -% res is unbeatable in any way and situation you can come up with. He just needs to hit the 105% fcr bp which means that instead of spirit he could use a 4x 5/5 light rbf shield. Or find another shield that gives equal amount of mana or more :)
I like running phoenix as the shield on the nova sorc it seems to do real well it's basically wearing insight on a shield
The higher Flat mana you got the more Warmth regens. Its % based. So by having a mana pool of 4.1k+ 5 points in warmth will be able to regen the mana from spamming nova easy. Even through hits.
Eschuta can be replaced by Crescent moon, piercing resist is way better than bonus damage after you break lightning immune.
My variation of this is max warmth and the rest into blaze. You get around really fast with blaze even when you're not teleporting and then you don't need insight on a merc with max warmth. Then i use crescent moon runeword in a beserker axe for the -35 enemy light res (looks dope to have a sorc with an axe and i also summon the spirit wolves for style points - they survive alright since your kill speed is fast and with prayer merc they regenerate each encounter).
I got an infinity for the merc as well, which I traded some GG stuff for the ber runes on ladder. but really with this setup you can annihilate anything that isn't lightning immune even without infinity, so it's no absolutely necessary. That Crescent moon runeword is really solid for damage if you can make up the plus skills and fcr in other areas .
seems like a waste of str and dex to wield a berserker axe
I have also tested this out with test gear. I suggest trying out obsession with a +3 nova +3 light mastery. Obviously hard to find legit, but will try to get this setup online once I start playing this for real. Self wield infinity is also good but not as "the best" setup as some people claim.
Obsession is an amazing runeword for the sorceress, however finding a base with the right attributes is extremely difficult, I have been trying. the best I found was a 6 socketed warstaff with +3 to meteor :(
There is no best build if you follow your logic here. It would all be up to the individual person who is playing. Infy sorc is the best char, because it can farm anything anywhere at any time. It doesnt need a party to help it. There are a lot of different builds out there that can do so. But Infy sorc is the most efficient at it and will always be known as the Pack killer, just like hammerdin was known for the best baalrunners. And the Javazon the best Chaos runners and cow runners. Claiming otherwise only shows how little knowlegde people have of the game and its mechanics.
@@inceneration all serious nova sorc builds use infinity and can farm anywhere regardless, the so called "infinity nova sorc" just uses it as a self-wielded (ie, not on merc) way.
Self-wield Infinity in a Scythe, and you get the benefit of the -45-55 enemy light res. It's even stronger than this version. Also, a Memory in a +3 ES base gets you to 95% damage absorb
Using a crescent moon + spirit shield is better for most areas in the game. I think self-wield infinity only better if you're specifically only farming lightning immunes and not killing other mobs, otherwise crescent moon better for high player count and eschuta for lower player count.
@@asharedo why crescent moon better? It provides -35 light res. Cheaper alternative absolutely, but not better. Infinity is faster. Plus with infinity you get the meditation from insight a2 merc + prayer aura which synergies perfectly and not have to worry about mana or poison for example. Plus a sorc with a scythe looks DOPE 😂
Its not necessarily better but it gives more versatility in terms of other gear options due to the ability to use spirit for the 35 fcr and 2 skills.@@chromff9261
Sick video as always !!!!! U should do assassin next! Find the most OP build for sin would be such an amazing video, esp the way u record and edit and commentary ! I love ur content
thank you!!
It may be better to put that point in Thunderstorm into Enchant instead, so let Emilio do better vs lightning immunities that couldnt be broken. I mean in the sample videos you didnt even need to cast tstorm anyways. :)
Love the build. I wish my account was close to affording most of the stuff here. :)
Nice video. I found my second griffin in d2r yesterday, but with terrible roll. But I traded it for a Jah, so now Im close to Enigma. 😅
If this is hero edited, why did he put frozen orb as the ormus' robe skill and not nova?
Good to see you back mate!
You had cold facet in Ormus with Ormus with Frozen Orb bonus.
For Hardcore players, would you advise to not got energy shield and max life instead?
Es is 10000x times more of a tank
You can do different types though like my es fb sorc usez 75% es and about 1/3 left over stats into vita 2/3 into energy with 1 or 2 points in es and aiming for max telekenisis but some builds go firemastery first some go telek first... either way 75% es ths correct way is way tanky and more survivable than vita
Holding infinity is more fun esp against ghosts. Then you get insight and that druid shield
Looks nice how is it on players 8?
Best builds for the sorc. Keep up the great build vids
Hi. Nice build. Im working on the gear as we speak, almost there. Im curiuous tho that charms u are using? thanks
Best Choice for Skillers and small charms on a ES based nova sorc is skillers 4x 12fhr 3x 6 str Lightning skills. Small charms 17 mana 5 Fhr.
Best build imo and the one I am currently using:
Infinity Scythe
Viper up’ed 35@ with mal (for extra MDR)
AMU 2sorc 20fcr 9str 15@
Arach
Magefists
Craft boots 30frw / 52m / 20fr / 24lr
Rare diadem 2sorc / 20fcr / 12str / 28@ (it’s socked with 1 um)
2 Soj
Some skillers, life/mana charms and some res charms.
Merc:
Eth insight thresher 17aura
Eth forti kraken shell
Eth Andy’s with 15ias 25fr jool
P.S. I can run every area like this with no issues. 105fcr is all I need, yes 200fcr or crescent moon are also great, but a sorc with a scythe?? ❤ how can you resist????
Old school chainlighntning/lightning sorc I would believe is about the same but plays safer. But you need the gg stuff. I had a build that reached 71 k lightning damage, while you cast slower and you need to reach i believe 117% fcr on lightning. It melts everything chain then does about half around up to 30k. But chains to everyone.
But my advice to you is, out with the Ormus, its also a frost ormus, On with the viper magi, out with frostburn, 1 out with 1 soj, out with Maras.
But on max fcr gear instead so you hit the 200 fcr point with nova, that makes for a huge dps difference and stunlock difference.
So 2/20 fcr amulet, 1 fcr ring 1 soj, arachnids, magefists or trang ouls, Throw out echuta and go with Hoto for better resist, if you cant hit that 2/20 amu go with a second fcr ring.
Less mana for survival, but way boosted dps. Balance with mana charms or simply go vita sorc instead and put the rest of points in other light skills so you have all options open in light tree. The + to lighning dmg is not that strong since you already have lightning mastery, + to lightskills are more important.
Instead of using Spirit. You should use Jmod with 4x 5/5 Light Rbfs in it. Outscales Spirit. Instead of Eschutas you should use either Hoto or a +3 nova +2 Sorc 20fcr 2 socket magic orb with 2 x 5/5 light rbf. Instead of mara you should be using a 2/15 mana, mana regen, str amulet. Everything is possible to obtain if you know how to craft and Magic find.
HI! Can you made video how to start playing with soc. And wich are the best skills/builds
When should you respect to all points into mana and nothing into health?
You go Life base if you dont have any % mana gear. So if you dont have Soj's Arach Silkweave and so on. Then life base is better. But you are much squishier.
I have a question. Im a bit new in D2R but can HOTO buff mana? I thought its a CTA that buffs Life and Mana? And how did u get all resis so high with the charms in ur inventory?
have you tried with 4 pieces of tal so you get more -electricity res?
Even Ball laughed at their VL's rofl
How does it compare to self wielding infinity?
Probably the only thing that can stand against her is a stacked hammerdin with Enigma thanks to Redemption.
How did you use HOTO for buffing mana , Battle orders is only for Barb? explain
As I do agree with the gear. Lighting chain combo. With the rest spect into frozen orb works better. I have tested both builds. But it's pretty much user choice
If you spec your points into different trees you are losing a bunch of synergies. Frozen orb is Useless if you dont have fully invested gear into cold dmg.
@@inceneration you couldn't be more wrong. My hybrid rapes pvg.
It's not better if you use infinity on your sorceress and insight on to Emílio? With that build, regen mana must be important
Even without infinity she's still a god of keys and LK farming.
Yeah, that's why I'm not sure if I want to buy an Infinity because she already does all that stuff amazing and if I want to do Chaos/Baal I would rather just use a diff char like HDin with much more MF
LK?
@@chriscornell8810 Lower Kurast. Glad to see you're still Live after all by the way.
What is the point in farming with this build if you already farmed that much?
How do you get these special items the grey labeled rare ones.. I’m very knew I have a level 34 necromancer and a level 24 sorceress.. I would love all the tips possible ❤
200 for is better in dealing with black souls and get your fhr up. I main this char with 142 fhr and souls aren’t a problem at all
not 100% perfect gear ;-) You can roll +3nova for ormus. really love this nova sorc, started this and farmed my assup @a5 would be so nice if they enable instant (conv) aura support on merc..
Ormus is scam. It's really the shittiest sorc item you can have, maybe unless you're cold, but even then vipermagi is far superior. Even for Nova sorc now with the static field synergy it's better to have +all skills or lit skill than the measly +20% lit damage.
@@chainedelementals8034 nah +3 nova works fine with ormus and is bit over VM for this build. You will also need the +dps to go for p8 cows. If you do not want to go for p8 cows, keep VM.
Go for 200fcr, swap the ormus for one with Nova, obviously xD (currently is frozen orb). And get a +2 sorc skills +% fcr amulet to get to the 200fcr. If doing P8 then go 117 bp and use crescent moon and use lightning instead of nova as the damage is too low with nova on p8 (compared to lightning).
117 fcr only applies to lite chain lite 105 and 200 for nova as the rest of sorcy skills
Lite chain lite bps=78///117
Rest of skills//63//105//200
good for HC?
Swap spirit for a stormshield and your golden, still hits 105 fcr
Poison nova nec is a way faster council farmer with a similar play style/feel if you're down to demo that.
I clear P3 councils for about 20sec with my self wield infinity light sorc. I start counting from loading screen till I kill all councils. How much faster is your poison necro than that?
where did you get 140cast rate ?
You had me until I heard hero editor then I stopped listening because I'll be looking for this stuff for the rest of my life.
So what is the strongest if you can't get access to an Infinity?
I got the same setup online non ladder except I have a jmod shield with 4 x 5/5 lightning jewels (die ones)
So much to learn
TBH I lost interest quickly when I messed around with a hero editor and made it too easy, I prefer online now where all my gear is earned, I see it as a treasure hunt rather than a massacre so keeping the balance between MF and quick kills is key.
use lidless on swap over spirit so the str req is super low. dump everything into mana
Lightning/chain lightning does more damage than nova. So those are more “powerful” in higher player count games. But the nova sorc is more fun, especially with 200 fcr.
Would be cool to make infinity in a staff with mods :D
Thus is nuts but yeah I'll have to stick with blizz on ps4 on my young sorc. This is endgame stuff and I just finally made a spirit at level 40 as my only 2nd rune made so far
Disclaimer this AINT A LEVEING GUILD, it’s a guild that when your fully maxed out at 99 and on your respect, other wise your gonna die a shit load on how he explains it, lots of though have to go in to how you want to spend your talent points! Any fool with a D2R PC can upload a max character and just add points and kill at will but has 0 thought on (how to ACTUALLY) level this chat from normal to nightmare to hell! He just has 99pts and spends it and said (look at me I can kill anything with 99pts) even though I haven’t leveled him at all because I just uploaded him on my PC
So I was recently thinking about switching to offline solo and I was wondering about hero editor. Which one is safe to download and how do they work exactly. If anyone can point me in the right direction for this information that would be great. Good video to man!
same iv never been able to get hero editor to work
@@WhoaD614 I was looking through this guys channel and I found a good video of what to do and it’s got links for the right downloads.
Lightning and chain lightning > then nova 🤷🏻♂️
0 MF seems like the fast killing speed still wouldn’t be as effective at farming?
I'm stuck at first level on Hell difficulty, only building fire wall :/
I agree with you that this is strongest sorcerer build.
I had the same build in Diablo 3 before they launched Reaper of Souls.
In D3 it's called " Wave of Force " skill and with lightning rune.
Mine was very tankie and has lots of dps like yours.
Best part was in D3 i stun very good. Enemies can't even move.
I use only 2 skills to attack, that's Wave of Force and Teleport ( Calamity rune, stuns on arrival ), the rest are all buffs to attacks and defence.
1 armor skill for defence 2 for attack buffs and i had 1 skill open that i can drop in what ever i like.
Ros expansion ruined everything for me.
Because then we only use set items skills because they gets 10000+ dmg % for idiotic reasons. And Wave of Force isn't among them.
I was looking forward to Diablo 4 Sorcerer. But D4 Sorcerer don't have this skill as far as i know.
But i'm still gonna make a stun Sorcerer in D4.
With all that end game gear there is no beating a nova sorceress. Until I get an infinity however my nova sorceress is stuck in act 3 hell
I gave my Merc Insight weapon. ^^ gave me lvl 16 meditation aura. 675% mana regen lol. absolute bonkers. Infinity is great for bosses, but not for AoE where Mana is everything.
Cmoon > eschutas
Phoenix offhand for mana/life
Infinity > cmoon > hoto > eschutas
No need off-hand other than your spirit for bo 😊
Hey buddy, make a review of Diablo 4 beta, is not that bad, I played it, and love it.
Yeah, except for (as you emphasized on) gloams... This build is broken. I was already pretty geared for a regular light sorc, tracked down a 15/3 nova ormus and a jewel tonight and it melts.
@Old School Game Snob Niceee what'd I win?
Cn you farm the anni, and torch in offline single-player..
For me Tesladin its the best build in the game you kill everything no problem whit immunity no problem whit Ubers you can have merc iff you want you can run whit out merc too
Lightning FCR is 117
You should let your Sorc use Infinity.
How is blood mana curse countered?
Pots and be cautious
Try charged bolt at 200fcr
now without infinity.
Wait why is that griffon -25 +25 lol
I am at 28 level now and didnt spend a single point in skill tree the entire game beacuse I am too indecisive. 😅
"We're gonne put one point into shiver armor". Proceeds to put point in Frost armor.
And an impossible spirit with them stats...
Frozen orb ormus on nova sorc...
At least make it semi legit and smart.
Try prayer merc, wont need to worry about psn anymore :)
Thank you. You need self-wield infinity that way which is way greater imo
Most powerful Sorceress died at black souls haha! I don't like ES/Nova for many reasons. ES goes away, you are screwed, poison, and blood mana curse. CLFO is just as fast on P1 and way less risk of death. Also can do all content.
What's CLFO?
Chain Lightning Frozen Orb
@@anthonyroberson1755 YES
Yes only on P1 thats viable and there are no drops. I prefer density and work harder on builds. Certainly this build is not godlike.
@@chromff9261 nova is better now, with some things figured out. P8 nova is good.
Pretty fucken strong, if you just want a godly pvm it’s great idk about pvp though
Why do you keep calling your mercenary, Emilio? I don't think Leharas appreciates that! See 2:43 😜
Is this online players 1?
Btw: I play this build with magefist and Enigma , the 12 life and 15% damage to mana = godlike. You don’t need resists….. Baal is a lot harder due to the spell that does damage if you have more mana then life. Also it’s not a good boss killer and it drops off a lot at players 4 and beyond
I don’t think the damage to mana actually works with energy shield or at least I saw someone on UA-cam once say it doesn’t.
I too use enigma though for the str mf skills and life per kill. The run speed is really nice in town too.
@@reltius2993 I actually have been thinking to try and see if SOL runes would make a difference after Energy Shield to see how tanky you can get
Naaa, I like my Lightning better. And I absolutely hate energy shield. Your just changing life for mana. While you feel safe most of the time it can and will kill you some of the time. When your mana is sucked up and you can't teleport out. When you get a nasty blood mana. Or whatever.
To be honest, my javazon kills way faster... 1 spear for every group of cows. 1 spear for every wave from baal... baal itself is like 3 pokes... diablo is 1 poke... idk man seems javazon beats this build. It's a fast fun build. Nothing beats the javazon tho with enigma and 99fcr.
I agree. Can’t beat Javazon. And 3-4 pokes on bosses.
Yeah once you get the enigma and also have the infinity javazon is pretty beastly.
Javazon always kills faster than anyone. Then there is that problem of getting there 😂🤣
@@chromff9261 not that hard actually, you see you don't need all of that to be a godly javazon. You can even run hell with a decently geared up javazon with a normal white jav and still clearing hell comfortly.
Nova/fw sorc is the strongest, that's a fact end of story
This is a poor mans nova build. Same build can be a lot stronger with the right gear.
yeah got destroyed
far away the most powerful sorc, all that max gear and infi and dies to regular souls on the way
You have the wrong facet in your armor...
constructive criticism but your previous build videos were better put together
Thank you for the guide! Your Griffon Eye is cheat though. -25%/+25% is impossible even with perfect rbf...
hoto..... its CTA hoto dosent buff
Man I hate Infinity.
My sorc can do all the runs that your sorc does and doesn’t have to use infinity I use tal set and use all 3 elementals.
On p8? Doubt it
@@elitecocktails yeah it wouldn't work on single player. it' just for solo MFing.
its a cool build NGL, but you do realize that for 1/3 of its price you can get the actual best sorc build in this patch? A fireball / blizzard hybrid rocking Tal Rasha set. On the highest end this build literally shreds in p8. oh yea.. a max block fireball / blizzard hybrid + max rez is what i mean. All you have to do is swap skillers as you pass by Trav, so you can kill them quicker in slit games that is.. Im really lazy and literally i dont have much time but if enough doubters insist of proof i might aswell show you what im talking about.
Sounds like you don't time your runs. This sounds slow as f*ck
@@elitecocktails no no my grandma is sitting behind me with a stick and an Olympics stopwatch... so u wanna tell me that this light sorc will do better and faster in WSK p8 difficulty than the one im recommending?! LOL!!!!
How is that fast man and high-end? You like it or not, light sorc has the fastest clearing speed. We can argue that this gear in the video is not optimal, but no hybrid build is faster on p8, no matter what you say 🙏
@@chromff9261 You do realize my comment was over 5 months ago on ladder?! I get it you baby rage because light sorc is god..
Show players 8, who cares about such strong build on p1....
try it hc
my sorceress hit 45k lite at 195 fcr.. my ass nova better
powerful yet boring....
Must powerful build and dies on first run... Lol
First pog nice video
original game is better!