It depends. Cold, specifically Blizzard-based, is by far the easiest to run for MFing if you're poor and just started. Lightning is more of a richer-player type Sorceress, but can be pulled off as long as you have some form of Infinity for your mercenary (you can basically substitute a lot of +skill gear for FCR gear and still do fairly well). Fire Sorceresses are primarily good for just MFing bosses and are also a good choice if you're fairly low on gear and want to MF (so long as oyu focus only on bosses- regular monsters are mostly immune to fire-based damage). Fireball Sorceresses are good duelers because of the stun Fireball gives and its massive damage- that combined with high FCR is a good combination for PVP. Lightning can be awesome PVP so long as, again, you have high FCR- you can often hit a player a few times before they get anywhere near you and kill them (assuming it isn't a Paladin Charging or a Barbarian Leaping). Orbers for dueling aren't the *best* choice anymore but can definitely work if geared properly.
If you can aim good with an orber, and drop the ball on them exactly, if memory serves correctly, they take the damage of all 21 shards. Meaning if each shard does 700 (Which isn't too hard to get) then he does 14700. Plus if your pve'ing you only need like 50 points in cold (20 ice bolt 20 orb 1 mastery and then pre-reqs) and can spend the rest on a light or fire skill for ice immunes. (Which is a good thing.)
Granted, Blizzard is best for just starting out...
Do fire, its always fun owning duelers outside the rouge encampment by blasting 1 hit kill fireballs and dropping random meteors .
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You can do the same with Blizzard, Num3n. The additional hits of Blizzard can make a 3k per hit Blizzard more like 9k total. Not as high damage-wise, but when you factor in freezing on normal mobs, which really helps if you're weak, and the fact that there are far less cold immunes overall in Hell, cold is a better way to go when you're poor. Given, I do enjoy fire when I play it, and yes, it is faster, but, for the reasons I stated there, Blizzard still makes logical sense to me as the best resort for a poorer MFer.
I really think it all comes down to personal preference. I prefer the Ice Sorc for MF, but there are people out there that swear up and down Fire is the best and fastest.
Do fire, its always fun owning duelers outside the rouge encampment by blasting 1 hit kill fireballs and dropping random meteors .
Amen to that! :thumbsup:
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Fireball Sorceresses are good duelers because of the stun Fireball gives and its massive damage- that combined with high FCR is a good combination for PVP..
The only problem with this is that fireball is soooo slow and easily avoided. When I had my decently geared light sorc at lvl 85 i would merc lvl 90-94 fire sorcs all the time with crazy fcr because fireball is so easily avoided. Maybe it was because I was a sorc but in terms of pvp versus a very agile class with teleport or something light has the speed to hit its target.
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I've always preferred cold sorceresses. They have my two favorite sorceress skills after all, Blizzard and Frozen Orb.
And I've always preferred to MF with a sorceress too. They have teleport, so Enigma is not needed, they crank out massive DPS, and they can regenerate mana extremely quickly.
mete/ball sorc = love for ladder mfing so easy to solo hell meph /andy and countess
bad for baal but it is my mf car any ways so what ever lol tal pices chancie gold wrap nagles 4ist monarc if you found good stuff if not use mal's orb
cheapest to build also when lvling find a nice staff and put tir ral in it
i like cold and light but teh cost makes me sad :-( if i am going to pay that much out i'd rather make a hammerdin that can solo ubers whit a few points in simter build
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Woo! The big sorc debate... It's always interesting
And there's always, of course, hybrids.
Granted, Blizzard is best for just starting out...
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fire is actually the easiest, just get mephisto in that one spot and meteor his ass.
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Amen to that! :thumbsup:
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The only problem with this is that fireball is soooo slow and easily avoided. When I had my decently geared light sorc at lvl 85 i would merc lvl 90-94 fire sorcs all the time with crazy fcr because fireball is so easily avoided. Maybe it was because I was a sorc but in terms of pvp versus a very agile class with teleport or something light has the speed to hit its target.
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And I've always preferred to MF with a sorceress too. They have teleport, so Enigma is not needed, they crank out massive DPS, and they can regenerate mana extremely quickly.
bad for baal but it is my mf car any ways so what ever lol tal pices chancie gold wrap nagles 4ist monarc if you found good stuff if not use mal's orb
cheapest to build also when lvling find a nice staff and put tir ral in it
i like cold and light but teh cost makes me sad :-( if i am going to pay that much out i'd rather make a hammerdin that can solo ubers whit a few points in simter build