Mf sorc lightning/frost orb; need improvements

Here is my frost orb/lightning soso set up..

Lvl. 80 (so far)

Gear:

Helm: Shako ral (fire resistance)

Amu: Tal

Belt: Tal

Armor: Tal ral (fire resistance)

Weapon: Hoto 30@

Shield: Spirit monarch 35 fcr

Gloves: Magefist

Boots: Sandstorm

Rings: 2x nagel

Inventory:

Soso T

Anni

Gheeds

Skills:

+1 Warmth (15)

+20 lightning (33)

+20 chain lightning (33)

+7 lightning mastery (20)

+6 charged bolt (19)

+6 nova (19)

+1 : tele, static, telekinesis (14 each)

+20 frost orb (33)

+3 cold mastery (16)

+1: ice bolt + blast, frost nova, glacial spike blizzard (14 each)

Stats:

Str: 114 (156)

Dex: 25 (87)

Vita: 306 (372)

Energy: 35 (67)

Damage:

Lightning: 3-8881

Frost orb: 461-482

Resistances:

75 for all apart from cold (67). going to get one or two cold sc for this

With this i have 105% fcr and 312mf

I need tips for what to improve badly please

I would like to be able to solo hell bosses A1-4, possibly 5.

With that in mind, I was thinking in changing to pure lightning, but immune monsters will cause problems.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks.|||I don't see any specific problems with your build, you should already be able to solo hell as it is. That said, I wouldn't use it for grinding bosses, since I consider lightning/orb as more of an area clearer. If you're not satisfied with how it's doing I suggest giving it a few more levels to buff your lightning. You can also try switching to full tals since the three-piece tal setup might not necessarily be better:

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=151250



Both your attacks have good area coverage but will not deal that massive damage, a blizzard build is better for bossruns imo. Check out some pure blizzard guides in the sticky as well as the blizzballer guide, also meteblizz in my sign might be worth your while reading.|||Your Lightning & Chain Lightning side look good. I don't know if that's that optimal way to invest in lightning skills, but that's not a big deal to fix up later.

Without Infinity, Lightning isn't as good of a boss killer as Frozen Orb. The trick to getting FO to be most effective are twofold:

1. Learn how to aim it to explode right at the target monster.


2. Maximize it's damage with Cold Mastery.
   • Cold Mastery up to level 27 will help against all bosses, with the exception of Mephisto, who have 50% Cold Resistance.
   
   
   • Mephisto has 75% Cold Resistance; slvl 32 Cold Mastery is enough to bring him to -100% CR.
   
   

So, resetting your skills, you'd want something like this:

• Lightning Tree
  • 20: Lightning
  
  
  • 20: Chain Lightning
  
  
  • 20: Lightning Mastery
  
  
  • 4: Prerequisits, Static Field and Teleport
  
  


• Fire Tree
  • 1: Warmth
  
  


• Cold Tree
  • 20: Frozen Orb
  
  
  • +1: Cold Mastery, enough for level 27 or 32 after +skills
  
  
  • 5: Prerequisits.
  
  

After checking, this setup does give you a slightly higher Lightning damage, by about 300 more damage and you save a skill point from Nova.

Given your setup, you could have CM at level 27 around level 90.

Level up, 85 or 88; it helps your mercenary out a ton if he's at or above the monsters he's fighting, especially against bosses.

Are you using a Defiance mercenary with Insight? I would.|||what would be the best shield for this build i have a mosers, could make a spirit, atm i also have lidless