2011 ES ORB Sorc Advice

[:1]Can someone point me in the direction of a pvp/pvm Energy Shield + Frozen Orb Sorceress guide? I've been out of the game for 5 years now and would much like to play again. Mostly I'd like to know what gear and I've looked at guides but they are like 7 years old and don't have patch information for when they were up. Ideas?

-Xavius|||Not much to say, it depends on how wealthy you are. I can give you some gear suggestions. I assume you already know how to spend your skill points.

Cheap gear:

helm: Harlequin Crest (aka Shako)

amulet: Tal rasha's Adjudication (set item)

Weapon: The Oculus (Occy)

Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi

Shield: If you're playing on ladder, Spirit is your best option. If on NL, visceratuant for max block, or lidless wall

Gloves: Frostburn

Rings: any ring with faster cast rate/+mana will do nicely.

Belt: look for crafted caster belts, not hard to make your own. +mana again is a plus

boots: silkweave



Expensive Gear:

Helm: Nightwing's Veil

Amulet: Mara's kaleidoscope or rare amulet with +2 sorc skills, Faster cast rate and +mana

Weapon: Death's Fathom (perfect ones go for a LOT)

Armor: Chains of Honor or Skin of the Vipermagi for the FCR

Shield: see cheap gear above

Gloves: Frostburn or Magefist if you need the extra FCR

Rings: 2x The Stone of Jordan

Belt: Arachnid Mesh

Boots: Silkweave

charms: hellfire torch, annihilus (if playing online; single player doesn't have access to those charms)

Keep in mind the relevant faster cast rate breakpoints (63% and 105%). 105% obviously being better, but a bit harder to achieve while maintaining a good amount of +skills but very doable with expensive gear. Also, you should try to have both telekinesis maxed and achieve a skill level 40 for energy shield.

For weapon switches, you have a few options:

1) you can have a "memory" runeword staff made on a staff with +3 energy shield; this will give you +9 ES, making an excellent prebuff staff.

2) you can use a "spirit" shield paired with a "call to arms" weapon to buff your health/mana with battle orders

3) an expensive alternative if you don't want to deal with multiple prebuff setup gear, is to simply have a "call to arms" runeword made on a staff with +3 energy shield. it's a nice compromise between options 1 and 2, but like I said, more expensive (it's hard to find a 5-socket staff with +3 ES to be the base)



hope that helps!|||What I use:

Helm - Nightwings = +2 Skills,+Cold damage,not much more you can get

Ammy - 2 - 10 fcr = Even a 5 Fcr ammy could work to achieve 63 FCR

Weapon - Dfathom = Massive damage...yea...

Armor - +3 Warmth ormus = Saves a skill point for warmth,adds much needed FCR and Cold damage.

Shield - Whistans = Upd Visceratuant adds more damage but Whistans is a cheap alternative for max block.

Rings - 2x Soj = Adds mass mana +2 skills

Gloves - Frostburn = Adds mass mana

Boots - ETreks = I use these for the mass poison resist and 30 stats dont hurt either.

On Switch

CTA + Rhyme shield

In stash

7ES/3CA memory

+3 ES Ormus

~Credits go to Millard for giving me sound advice when developing this build.