Hitting 117 FCR

[:1]I'm trying to hit 117 FCR for lightning without screwing up my MF or my survivability. My gear is:

3 piece tal's (20%)

occy (30%)

spirit (35%)

shako

magefist (20%)

rare ring (10%)

nature's peace (nilithak)

rare boots (unimportant, can't get FCR boots)

for a total 115% or 2% short. Freaking 2%

So, the obvious choices are:

1) griffon's for 25% (costs me 50% MF and a lot of survivability from life/mana/dr, but I can drop the rare ring and maybe make up some there)

2) eschuta for 10% (costs me 50% MF, and some survivability from vit/resists, still have to use my rare ring)

3) rare circlet, if I can find one that ideally has 2 skills, life/mana, and of course any amount of FCR (this is probably prohibitively expensive for a good one, I'm not rich)

4) break 3 piece tal's, (lots of lost MF, but lots of good gear options open up - arach+skulder+mara?)

5) add tal's hat (get 10% on ammy. Lose a some mana and life, 50% MF, DR, and 2 skills)

6) Forget about 117%, drop the rare ring for an SoJ and sit at 105% for teleport.

Now griffon's seems like the obvious best choice since it ups my damage a lot too, but I'm worried about getting one-shot by nilithak. With shako and energy shield (one natural point TK and ES) a corpse explosion takes away all of my mana and most of my life. I'm worried that if I drop the shako a corpse explosion will one-shot me, even with energy shield. (Not to mention how Tomb Vipers occasionally violate me most heinously)

Eschuta wouldn't cost me as much effective HP, but I've actually grown kind of fond of the occy proc, it's saved me a few times teleporting around, pops me right out of something nasty looking without even waiting for FCR on my next teleport (or caring if I get manaburned). I'm just not sure.

Why oh why aren't there FCR jewels/runes like there are IAS ones? A lousy 2% |||well let me say first that going 1 ES and 1TK is not recommended. you can't take much dmg to mana,and it doesn't give you a good protection either. practically every big hit equals an empty mana bulb.

imho 1ES/16TK is a bare minimum of usability. that gives you probably about 70-80% protection and 1:1 damage to mana ratio.

speaking of equipment, i'd drop the shako for griffon's and use frostburn instead of magefists. it's almost a heresy to not use a frosty on any ES based sorc. 40% to mana aye?!|||Quote:








well let me say first that going 1 ES and 1TK is not recommended. you can't take much dmg to mana,and it doesn't give you a good protection either. practically every big hit equals an empty mana bulb.




Actually it works just fine. Gives me just enough effective HP to survive corpse explosions, and dropping to zero mana isn't a problem thanks to insight. ES doesn't even go away when I get hit for way more than my total mana bulb, presumably because insight restores some mana before ES can drop, I dunno, but a corpse explosion from nilithak doesn't drop my ES.

Griffons+frostys is probably the way to go though, frostys should make up a lot of the survivability that I lose from shako.

I kind of wanted the +skill from the SoJ though, and can't drop the rare ring if I drop the magefist - plus SoJ has extra mana too.|||what survivability does shako give? ES by itself is not too dependant on resists in general, because the resists are considered, after whatever the ES absorbed. which if you got 80% ES absorbage it means the 10% DR from shako is applied against those 20% that gets through.

so 100 damage you take 20 gets through and then that 20 damage loses another 10% ie 2 in your case, so the difference is not great. shako is no consideration at all.|||shako has huge life and mana, plus the point is to survive corpse explosions which take a large chunk of my life after taking my mana, and do half physical damage. I have 75% fire resist too even though it doesn't matter for energy shield. I'm not spec'd or geared for energy shield, I just use it to get enough extra effective HP to survive the corpse explosion. If I ever get a tyreal's for my merc I'll stop using ES all together.|||life/mana on the shako is just a fixed amount.as long as you use a CTA for BO the bonus gets kinda lost.

also i wouldn't use the merc for a run like this.|||Quote:








life/mana on the shako is just a fixed amount.as long as you use a CTA for BO the bonus gets kinda lost.




Uh, what? BO is a % boost to mana and life, the bonus gets amplified not lost. Not that it matters, I only have one CtA and that's on my smiter. If I had CtA on my sorc I'd have enough HP to easily survive corpse explosions without ES.


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also i wouldn't use the merc for a run like this.




It's a thought, but I'm kind of addicted to insight, plus while he hurts survival with nilithak himself, he helps keep the tomb vipers at bay, which are honestly a bigger threat.|||the bonus that shako gives is not increased by BO.

it's just added to the totals, flat out.

that's why imo it's not a big deal.

well if you don't use BO to begin with then shako adds a more significant pool.

although CTA are pretty cheap nowadays.|||since you mention hoto, that's a good idea though, that would get me another 10% fcr, and I do have a vex laying around.|||hoto would fix most of your problems, yes. then you can use a soj and frostburns.