Matriarch Ellspeth, the old lady

So I've switched back from HC to SC for a while. Mainly because there a lot less people to trade and it gets a bit lonely.



Named after a RPG character of a friend of mine.

Stats

Strength: 84 (158)

Dexterity: 25 (59)

Vitality: 341 (368)

Energy: 35 (40)

Life: 1073 (1879 with Battle Orders)

Resists: 75/54/75/69.

FCR: 95 (planned to get Arach Mesh at clvl 80 but Matriarched before that)

Skills: Meteor (20/38), Frozen Orb (20/37), Fireball (20/38), Fire Mastery (14/32), Cold Mastery (1/17), Teleport (1), Static (1), Warmth (1)

Equipment

Weapon/Shield: 'Heart of the Oak' Flail/'Spirit' Monarch

Switch: 'Call to Arms' Flail/'Spirit' Monarch

Helm: Um'd Nightwing's Veil

Armor: 'Enigma' Light Plate (duh)

Belt: Rare 17 FHR, 53 Life, 26 LR, 25 PR

Gloves: Magefist

Boots: Aldur's Advance

Amulet: Mara's Kaleidoscope

Rings: Stone of Jordan (x2)

Inventory: 3 Cold Skillers, 3 Fire Skillers and some resist small charms.

Merc

Act 2 Might. He was wearing 'Fortitude' Dusk Shroud, Um'd Vampire Gaze and 'Insight' Cryptic Axe.

Notable Founds

NM HF: Um

Hell HF: Hel -.-

A couple of TC3: Felloak and Greyform

Vipermagi

Goldwrap (Somewhere in Act 1 Hell)

Wraith Flight (grailer)

Thoughts

Well, the good old meteorber strikes back (on steroids). I respeced my old one into a pure lit build after I got my infinity. But I was a bit nostalgic and decided to make a new one.

The build itself is pretty straightforward and well-known. I think block sorcs are superior but I went to the vita route with this one, just for the heck of it. I also wanted to get as much +skills as possible, that's the only reason why I chose Enigma over Vipermagi (I don't have Chains of Honor).

The journey was fast and easy, as expected. I got a NDE in Great Swamp by a pack of Souls. I also got some dire situations in the CS: lots of nasty dual-immunes random bosses.

Ancients spawned with might and I got hit a couple of times. Thank god I'm quite fast with purples. My merc was able to tank them very well, though.

The WSK, and the throne itself was easy, even with souls and succubi (I hate them). CtA really helps there.

Plans for the future

Making her a WSK runner.

Final Notes

English is not my native lenguage, so my apologies for all the mistakes. I try to do my best!|||Congrats on the Mat

one can never go wrong with a build like this, though with your level of gear, blizzballers already gain the upper hand.

I started a new firesorc myself, untwinked, but she already did some "shopping" at NM Meph, where she obtained (among others) certain blue staff to beat the crap out of those FIs. Her NM forge was also 'Um', just hope she'll do better than 'Hel' with the last one |||Well, I wasn't looking for the most powerful build for the gear I have. My Infinity Lightsorc is more powerful than the best blizzballer I could do anyway. I just feel like make it. Pure nostalgia.

Thanks for your comment and good luck with your sorc!|||'Grats on the new Mat, and Boo! Come back to HC! I do know that the HC trade scene is very quiet, but I don't trade anyway so it doesn't really bother me.

Best of luck with your WSK running!|||We need you back in HC!

Do you enjoy your porra (LOL)?

But anyways, big gratz man!|||You know, you can craft a caster belt to use till you get to 80. It's a common problem for me. 95 is unusual amount, but 1 in 6 belts will get you the 10% FCR needed. I mean, I'm sure you can sacrifice 15 PAmmys to get a belt with 10% FCR . This happens to ~80% of my sorcs.

'Enigma' on a sorc, huh? I get it, +2 skills and MF. I just think if you really want +2 Skills, go Chains of Honor, if you really want MF, go Skullder's with PTopaz. But you don't have 'CoH', so I get the choice. No Arkaine's either then?

As far as block/vita on sorcs goes, I find that the more life I have the less I care about blocking . So with CtA I prefer vita, without I prefer blocking. Weird.

Dude... Stick a facet in the Veil! Um-ing... it's just plain wrong

Do you like Meteor? It's possibly a Sorc skill I dislike the most. Always used Fireball on this one.

Grats!

--Greebo

PS. I'm a non-native speaker myself, but in my view, your English is just fine.|||Thanks all!


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You know, you can craft a caster belt to use till you get to 80.




Why on earth I haven't though of that before? . Yes, you're right, sir. I could reach that last breakpoint with my Um'd Viper, though. But as I said, was not my priority.


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But you don't have 'CoH', so I get the choice. No Arkaine's either then?




Nope, I have neither CoH nor Arkaine's back then.


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As far as block/vita on sorcs goes, I find that the more life I have the less I care about blocking .




I know what you are talking about. The more life you have, the better CtA becomes. But if you go to the block route you end up surrendering about 250 points of life or so. But consider that for that you get 75% less physical damage. Don't know about you, but the only thing that really pwns me is a combination of damage enhancing mods and amp damage. And in that case blocking is certainly superior to having more life.


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Stick a facet in the Veil! Um-ing... it's just plain wrong




Because I don't have a good cold facet. Even then, the increased damage wasn't going to be that great. My FO kills FI at a good speed. A pure blizzard could benefit more from that facet, and yet won't really need it at all.


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Do you like Meteor?




Not that much. It's quite useful against Baal waves and act bosses, though.