How do blizzard sorcs deal with CIs?

I've been reading a lot of the mat/pat/guardian posts in the stickied thread about blizzard sorcs and haven't really found an answer to this question. Do you just teleport around everything you can't kill? Park everything in a corner of the map?

My merc doesn't seem strong enough to handle CI packs on his own, not to mention I find it boring watching him slowly kill the mobs he can when blizzard is such a powerful spell otherwise. I'm frustrated because my ocd demands I kill everything. Maybe I need to respec to two elements?|||If your OCD demands that, then yes. Blizz sorc are great to start with since you can run a few things (Mephisto, Ancient Tunnels) essentially naked or with MF piled on while still being very effective, but they're obviously limited by the single element (and get quite boring imo). Once you got some decent gear you can move to a dual-element build or another versatile char.

Give us a list of your gear, perhaps?|||They really don't, most of the time.

Most of Cold Immune monsters are non-breakable, which means that no matter what you do, most of them will keep their immunity. (That's unlike Lightning Immune monsters, their immunity can be broken using Conviction aura, Lower Resists curse, or both.)

So the most popular option is teleporting past them. The ones which you have to kill can be usually handled by the Mercenary. To help him, Static the monster (most CI's are not LI, so yay there), after he lost half his life, position yourself in such a matter that you're standing on the opposite side from the monster than the nearest wall and keep casting Telekinesis at it. It will push the monster back and lock him against the wall, also preventing it from hitting the Mercenary, so he can chip away at the monster till it dies.

Another option is getting Corpse Explosion charges from Bonehew ('HelHel' in sockets to deal with requirements) to provide the physical and fire damage to kill the CI monsters. That option is especially popular for dealing with the second wave of Baal, where skeletons are always CI.

The reason Blizzsorc is so popular is that

- Mephisto

- Ancient Tunnels

- Lower Kurast

generally don't contain Cold Immune monsters.|||Teleport!

/10chars|||Thanks for the quick answers, everyone! Looks like the completionist in me will require a respec.


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Give us a list of your gear, perhaps?




Head: Harlequin Crest (Perfect Topaz)

Weapon: Spirit Broad Sword

Shield: Rhyme Tower Shield

Body: Skin of the Vipermagi (1 open socket)

Gloves: Trang-Oul's Claws

Belt: Nightsmoke

Boots: Natalya's Soul

Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication

Rings: Dwarf Star, Angelic Halo

On the mercenary...

Head: Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest

Weapon: Insight Bec-de-Corbin

Body: Shaftstop (1 open socket)|||If you get your merc a good elite polearm weapon (preferably ethereal), you will be a lot happier with his kill speed. It doesn't have to be a crazy expensive runeword one, some of the elite uniques are good, or you could use upgrade recipes on some non-elite uniques. If you absolutely have to keep insight, at least try to make it in an ethereal elite polearm. I play sorc all the time and I never use insight. Seems like a crutch that isn't really necessary. It still has at least 200% ED though, you mainly just need a better base weapon.|||Or you can make 'Insight' in an eth Elite Polearm. 'Insight' is freakin awesome damage wise. Don't forget what Critical Strike does.

Look, if you want to kill all monsters, you need two elements. If you want to use Blizzard as the main skill, Fireball and Nova are popular backup choices.|||I'll second the use of Bonehew on switch - the CE charges are especially useful against wave two of Baal's minions. I've even found my blizz sorc using it to deal with CI Lister - standing behind the merc and using its normal attack. A little girl swinging a big ol' hurty stick FTW.|||I'm going to recommend a +3 firewall leaf staff on switch. easy enough to shop from normal drognan. then drop a single point into fire mastery.



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Look, if you want to kill all monsters, you need two elements. If you want to use Blizzard as the main skill, Fireball and Nova are popular backup choices.




Is there any particular reason why Nova is preferred over say Chain Lightning?

I tested out Nova once and was kind of unhappy with the range and damage.

Huge thanks for all the answers, especially because I think my questions are kind of noobish.