doing 103k now. yes, that's another sorc i made specially for enchant prebuff. i took off all fire gear from melee sorc b/c it was just taking up too much room. enchant sorc has lvl 56 or 57 enchant with BC & skill shrine.
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93k now (without skill shrine). The reason is, I was able to obtain 3 moar light GCs. Now I only need a +3 chant fire ormus, and a +6 chant orb (+3 fire, +3 chant). That will add 4 additional enchant points. The orb will be 2 socketed and I can add 2 fire facets. Ormus will also be socketed with a fire facet. Then I will also add 2 fire facets to my volcanic (+3 fire) circlet. Then, I will remove the current fire facet from my Escutch and replace with a light facet. This should give me well over 100k damage, especially with skill shrine and a barb's BattleCommands.
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88k now. Still working. Breaking 90k will not be a problem. 100k is looking possible at this point! I'll keep you informed.
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I still have room for 3 more light GCs. This is obviously without a skill shrine. I might be able to hit 90k with everything and if i'm BC'd properly.
by the way, i wouldn't fight like this. I'd normally do less damage but have way more IAS, dex/AR, etc. Fighting damage is about 61 to 65k depending on how thoroughly i want to prebuff my enchant.
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FIGHTING EQUIPMENT
The focus is on items that increase your IAS and AR, while still providing other useful mods like +skills, +life, +mana, & %DR.
Wep: Passion PB for the +1 Zeal
Helm: Dream Bone Visage for the +15 Holy shock
Shield: Dream Troll Nest for another +15 Holy Shock
Armor: CoH AP (NOTE: FORTITUDE DOES NOT HELP YOUR DAMAGE. The 2 points from CoH help your damage. Every point to Lightning Mastry adds like 1k at the low slvls, and 2k at high slvls)
Gloves: Magnus Skin for IAS and AR
Boots: Waterwalk for 15 Dex
Belt: Verdungo's for FHR, %DR, & +life
Rings: 2x Angelics for AR, Dex, & +mana
Ammy: Angelics
Charms: 9 Lightning GCs of "Balance" (FHR) and/or of "Dexterity" (DEX); Lifer & +AR SCs; SorcTorch + Anni
NOTE: Remember to have other equipment depending on the situation. In PvM, and in some PvP where you need sorb, you don't need to wear Angelics all the time, so you can pop on Highlard's Ammy & Raven Frosts / Wisp Projectors / Dwarf Stars. Also, carry an Arach's belt for prebuff, a Tgod's for sorb, and a Nos Coil for those special situations lol.
PREBUFF EQUIPMENT
The focus is on anything that will raise your fire skill lvl, no matter how slow or bad it is for fighting.
Wep 1: Call to Arms. The purpose of this wep is for the Battle Command, which increase your skills by 1 point.
Wep 2: 6 chant orb (+3 chant / +3 fire skills) blue orb, socketed with 2 Fire Facets, OR Eschuta's Temper (with 20% enhanced Fire damage & +3 sorc skills) socketed with 1 Fire Facet
Helm: A plain blue +3 to fire skills circlet ("volcanic circlet"), socketed with two Fire Facets
Shield: Lidless Wall or Spirit Monarch
Armor: The same CoH
Gloves: Magefists of course, for the +1 to fire skills
Boots: The same Waterwalks
Belt: Arachs for +1 to skills
Rings: 2x Bul-Kathos or SOJs for the +1 skills
Ammy: A plain blue +3 to fire skills ammy ("volcanic amulet")
GCs: Burning Grand Charms (+1 to fire skills). You do not need any secondary mods (they can be plain)
This list changes slightly if you have a dedicated chanter prebuff sorc. Then you don't need to have these fire things. Use + to all skills items instead.
SKILLS
Lightning Mastery: 20
Warmth: 20
Enchant: 20
Fire Mastery: 20
Telekinesis: 20
Energy Shield: 1
Thunder-Storm: 1 (night as well, since u have lightning mastry maxed already)
Teleport: 1
A cold armor if you wish: 1
And pre-reqs: I don't feel like taking all my gear off and counting at the moment
HOWEVER: Now that I have made a separate buffer sorc to chant me, I think I'm going to rebuild and not put any points in Enchant. Instead, I can re-allocate them to Energy Shield and/or a higher-level cold armor. But, I believe 20 in Fire Mastery will still be required, otherwise the enchant given from the buffer sorc will not be nearly as high for you--it will only add like maybe 7 or 8 k, instead of 30ish k.
STATS
STR: As little as possible. Only enough to wear your equip. Take into account your Torch, Anni, & other gear so you don't have to put so many in. I went for Spirit shield in this build. That made me have to get up to 156 STR. I think, next re-build, I will only use Lidless... it's only a prebuff shield anyway. One less point will be okay i think.
DEX: Max block is VERY hard to get with a dream shield, but i'm sure it would be very useful. I think my next rebuild of this sorc will have max block. You need very high dex (for a sorc anyway) b/c you want high AR.
ENR/VIT: If you're going with an E-shield build, you will want to put more in ENR than VIT. For each level after I got my STR & DEX taken care of, I put 3 stats in ENR and 2 in VIT. I don't know if that was the best idea, but that's just what I did personally.
Why is your dexterity so high for a sorc? Strength is for the shield I know, but dexterity is pointless. Show your gear.
Oh ya, i forgot to mention... i'm melee (zeal). That's why dex is high. I'm also a ES sorc (somewhat), that's why life is low and mana is high(er).
It's hard to boost mana up when you have to sacrifice so much equip for IAS/FHR/DEX, etc. A normal ES sorc would have like 4k mana and she would be almost invincible as long as the energy shield was up. Even so, i tank very well in all PVM except when i get iron maiden, or large groups of Black Souls.
I have always been interested in the melee sorc. Too bad I cant make since I uninstalled LOD and lost my Diablo 2 (Original) cds. I have the Expansion disc just dont have D2. I have always been on a quest to make every single build and make them gfg. I think I still have 15 gfg builds.
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I have always been interested in the melee sorc. Too bad I cant make since I uninstalled LOD and lost my Diablo 2 (Original) cds. I have the Expansion disc just dont have D2. I have always been on a quest to make every single build and make them gfg. I think I still have 15 gfg builds.
Not the cd key my friend...the actual D2 cds. I cant install my expansion disc until i find my d2 cds. Lately I have not had the urge to play d2 lod..but now seeing a few threads in here...I REALLY WANT TO PLAY AGAIN.
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A character deals 8.7k Damage of an element, while his opponent has 57% resistance to it. He is also wearing ja belt absorbing a total of 20 damage. The formula will look like so:
8,700/6 = 1450; (1450/100*57) = 826.5 - (20*2)
So if the guy had 1 resist is would be:
8,700/6 = 1450; (1450/100*1)= 14.5...
With the old method I did way higher damage then I really do... Hooray for 6.25 damage! On a maxed resist person anyway. Oh, btw, I read somewhere that PvP damage was 17.25%, or 1/8. Did they change that?
after doing all the resistances and pvp subtractions you get 2.5 - 2.7k per hit. but thats still gfg, my sin only outputs 500dmg at pvp
Alas, if I could only take more than 1 hit before dying in PVP
In PVM, i can tank pretty much anything. I don't understand how I die in 1 hit in PVP. I've dueled other melee chars before. Sometimes I kill them in 1 hit, but most times my hits look like they do nothing to the enemy. And then they punch and it goes right through my ES and kills me in 1 hit.
Probably poison charms. ES doesn't block poison. But idk
Yuu did 500 damage a hit to my barb, thats will full sorb and maxed resists
thats not bad at all... The only thing to ever 1 hit pk me was a hacked sorc, one hit with lightning bolt killed me, same set up as when i dueled you.
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doing 103k now. yes, that's another sorc i made specially for enchant prebuff. i took off all fire gear from melee sorc b/c it was just taking up too much room. enchant sorc has lvl 56 or 57 enchant with BC & skill shrine.
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93k now (without skill shrine). The reason is, I was able to obtain 3 moar light GCs. Now I only need a +3 chant fire ormus, and a +6 chant orb (+3 fire, +3 chant). That will add 4 additional enchant points. The orb will be 2 socketed and I can add 2 fire facets. Ormus will also be socketed with a fire facet. Then I will also add 2 fire facets to my volcanic (+3 fire) circlet. Then, I will remove the current fire facet from my Escutch and replace with a light facet. This should give me well over 100k damage, especially with skill shrine and a barb's BattleCommands.
--------- UPDATE #1---------
88k now. Still working. Breaking 90k will not be a problem. 100k is looking possible at this point! I'll keep you informed.
--------- ORIGINAL POST ---------
I still have room for 3 more light GCs. This is obviously without a skill shrine. I might be able to hit 90k with everything and if i'm BC'd properly.
by the way, i wouldn't fight like this. I'd normally do less damage but have way more IAS, dex/AR, etc. Fighting damage is about 61 to 65k depending on how thoroughly i want to prebuff my enchant.
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FIGHTING EQUIPMENT
The focus is on items that increase your IAS and AR, while still providing other useful mods like +skills, +life, +mana, & %DR.
PREBUFF EQUIPMENT
The focus is on anything that will raise your fire skill lvl, no matter how slow or bad it is for fighting.
SKILLS
STATS
Oh ya, i forgot to mention... i'm melee (zeal). That's why dex is high. I'm also a ES sorc (somewhat), that's why life is low and mana is high(er).
It's hard to boost mana up when you have to sacrifice so much equip for IAS/FHR/DEX, etc. A normal ES sorc would have like 4k mana and she would be almost invincible as long as the energy shield was up. Even so, i tank very well in all PVM except when i get iron maiden, or large groups of Black Souls.
Gear as requested:
lol, you would still win.
Gotsta find that cd key!
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So if the guy had 1 resist is would be:
8,700/6 = 1450; (1450/100*1)= 14.5...
Something screwy there.
Alas, if I could only take more than 1 hit before dying in PVP
In PVM, i can tank pretty much anything. I don't understand how I die in 1 hit in PVP. I've dueled other melee chars before. Sometimes I kill them in 1 hit, but most times my hits look like they do nothing to the enemy. And then they punch and it goes right through my ES and kills me in 1 hit.
Probably poison charms. ES doesn't block poison. But idk
thats not bad at all... The only thing to ever 1 hit pk me was a hacked sorc, one hit with lightning bolt killed me, same set up as when i dueled you.
I need to check my accounts, its been a while :*(
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Willing to help xfers/mods.