Give me a Lightning Sorc!!!

I'm going to make a lightning sorc out of my zeal sorceress (can't get the AR or resists to be viable in hell (Ideally I would've like to make her resists using Guardian ANgel and have 95 res all, but... Yeah, can't make it work)



I hate running out of mana, so I will be going Vitality rather than ES due to mana burn and the hassle of watching my blue bulb.



I've read the guides, and just want some suggestions to my gear choice:



Helm: 'Dream' or Griffons (haven't decided, Obviously Griffs is better, but the pulses from dream might come in handy?)

Armor: CoH or Um'd Vipermagi (depending if I need the FCR or not)

Weapon: Eschutas

Shield: 'Phoenix'

Switch: CtA, 'Spirit'

Gloves: Magefist (mana regen)

Belt: Arachs (mana)

Amulet: Maras

Rings: Dual SoJ (mana)

Boots: Silkweaves (mana)



Naturally my merc will have 'infinity' but the best I've gotten for him so far is a 4.2k def 'stone' and a 'delierium' helm, so those will have to do. I wish I could put insight on him for the mana, but I must break the immunities that I can



I haven't had any luck finding lightning GCs so I'll likely just put 15 res all gcs to max resists in hell. Let me know what you think



20 Lightning

20 Chain Lightning

20 Charged Bolt

20 Lightning Mastery

1 Telekinesis

1 Teleport

1 Static Field

1-20 Nova

1 Thunderstorm



1 Warmth

1 Frozen Armor|||Why on earth would you use Dream? :S

Otherwise it's pretty standard stuff. Griffon's is pretty much a must if you plan to do anything against broken LIs, otherwise you need to use Crescent Moon. Unless you plan to put a -5 facet in the Eschuta's, use HotO. I think you'll have enough mana with that gear to skip Silkweaves and use Travs, Aldur's or Treks.|||I don't know lol. I thought maybe the holy shock pulses would help.



So, what would I be looking at for FCR?



Helm: Griffons [25]

Armor: Um'd Vipermagi [30]

Weapon: HoTo [40]

Shield: 'Phoenix'

Switch: CtA, 'Spirit'

Gloves: Magefist (mana regen) [20]

Belt: Arachs (mana) [20]

Amulet: Maras

Rings: Dual SoJ (mana)

Boots: Aldurs (faster RW)

That puts me at 135% FCR, and I think 105 is the breakpoint before 200%, right? or something like that. If it is, it would be nice to don CoH instead of Vipermagi |||Personally I prefer a good spirit, which happens to be cheaper too. but that's just me. cheap.

anyways with that setup, you need Viper. 117 is the fcr that must be broken

Good spirit + CoH is imo more effective. but if u like redemtion etc go ahead with the current setup ^^|||I've got a perfect 'Sprit' (which was hard to obtain being NL )



I'm hoping that redemtion will keep my mana up, I absolutely cannot stand running out, ever, which is why I enjoy running keys on my hammerdin. Insight = unlimited teleport and hammers



I don't know how well phoenix will work though.|||think about it this way:

the goal is to max out +skills or lightning skills - and i know most ppl don�t bother looking at the teleport skill and see what happens when u increase its lvl - so u�ll end up with lets say + 18 all skills (with bo) without skillers and maybe 700 mana (after bo) -> a lvl 19 teleport costs 6 mana and u�ll have lvl 19 warmth (if u invest one point in it) -> u�ll never ever run out of mana

while spamming lightnings u might need a blue one, but ur a caster...thats what they were programmed for|||Hmm, guess I can try both and see.



Spirit instead of phoenix would be nice, and maybe I can find a home for the phoenix somewhere else.|||Griffons

Hoto

CoH

Spirit

Arachs

Magefist



Choose boots and complete fcr with jewelry|||Griffons 25

Hoto 40

CoH

Spirit 35

Arachs 20

Magefist 20



140% FCR, Jewelry and Amulet not needed for FCR. Unless theres a breakpoint between 117 and 180 whatever it is (200 for teleport)



Also, what about wielding infinity and having Insight on my merc? Or vice-versa. The insight would give me 35% FCR, so if I used vipermagi then I would still hit the 117 breakpoint.|||Quote:








Griffons 25

Hoto 40

CoH

Spirit 35

Arachs 20

Magefist 20



140% FCR, Jewelry and Amulet not needed for FCR. Unless theres a breakpoint between 117 and 180 whatever it is (200 for teleport)



Also, what about wielding infinity and having Insight on my merc? Or vice-versa. The insight would give me 35% FCR, so if I used vipermagi then I would still hit the 117 breakpoint.






intinify can give you up to -55 lres, with griffons it can get to -75 and the conviction, a killing machine.



You can also look for 200fcr with vipermagi.

Best thing is to keep everything on stash and have enought strg and dextry to use the infinity form merc, than you can try out different setups.