Nova Hybrid -- Needs Expert Help

Hey all! I want to make a Hybrid Sorc that uses Nova (Light,Maxed) & Lightning Mastery (Maxed). My question is, what is a good tree or set of skills to pair it with.

The important thing to know is my gear: Full Tal's, however no Torch/Anni/Charms. I'd like to be able to handle Nihil (is this possible?)

Any advice welcome.|||The most obvious backup for any dual tree sorceress who has their main in either the fire or lightning tree is frozen orb. That should be the first skill you should try out as a backup.

There's also the blova build, that maxes nova/LM as their backup and blizzard as main.|||Thanks. In the past I have found that forb is very ineffective once in hell, have you found otherwise?|||Quote:








Thanks. In the past I have found that forb is very ineffective once in hell, have you found otherwise?




Depends on gear and player count, not my favorite of skills to use for 8p games, but 1-3p it does fine ... especially considering the low investment.

I've once gone pure lightning with a +5 to FO rare orb as my backup for LIs, and that was slow, but actually manageable. Not something most other skills can do.|||Quote:








Depends on gear and player count, not my favorite of skills to use for 8p games, but 1-3p it does fine ... especially considering the low investment.

I've once gone pure lightning with a +5 to FO rare orb as my backup for LIs, and that was slow, but actually manageable. Not something most other skills can do.




How would it handle a 1-3 player game using Complete Tals do you think? For Shield Likely only a Lidless or somethin w/ some res.|||When I spoke of it doing fine in 1-3p games I was mostly speaking from experience from using full tals. |||If you're trying to kill nihl, go lightning, not nova. Also you don't need a second element, just pure light + energy shield (make sure to max telekinesis). also get a nature's peace ring.

PS if you think frozen orb is ineffective in hell, you're in for a world of pain with nova, lol. Nova's damage is really bad, much worse than orb's.|||so nova without infinity, torch, and light skillers wont kill very quickly? how about keeping mobs in hit recovery?

for meph/countess was considering either nova or lightning but liked nova back in 1.09 for cows because it was so aggressive and was pretty durable because of keeping mobs in hit recov especially with max block

I dont want to take forever killing stuff though, already have a poorly geared barb for that|||you can't keep mobs in hit recovery unless you do ~1/12th of their life in one nova, and you won't be able too vs anything with significant light resist.|||which almost any hell mobs probably will. oh wells

maybe someday ill have infinity and griffon and tons of good charms and be able to switch over

lightning is ok for now