Intro
This guide is about a really fun build.
BearSorcs do insane damage, and are funny to look at. Get the items below and just hack and slash away.
This is a PVM build only.
It basically is a sorc that uses her lightning mastery and enchant to do insane dmg, whilst in bear form.
My Bearsorc and Tallbirds AssassinBear
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My Bearsorc who owned Diablo on hell in 4 hits
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Skills:
Warmth - 20
Enchant - 20 (2pts prereq)
Fire Mastery - 20
Light Mastery - 20
Teleport - 1 (1pt prereq)
Shiver armor - 1 (3pts prereq)
Energy shield optional (It can save you a lot, you have a big mana pool, BUT the pixels of the mana ball mingle with the bears head and looks bad)
Its your decision, style or more survivability. Rest of pts here.
Items
Helm
Dream Runeword
3 Socket Helms/Shields Io + Jah + Pul
10% Chance To Cast Level 15 Confuse When Struck
Level 15 Holy Shock Aura When Equipped
+20-30% Faster Hit Recovery (varies)
+30% Enhanced Defense
+150-220 Defense (varies)
+10 To Vitality
Increase Maximum Life 5% (Helms Only)
+50 To Life (Shields Only)
+0.625-61.875 To Mana (Based On Character Level)
All Resistances +5-20 (varies)
12-25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (varies)
Armor
Chains of Honor
4 Socket Body Armor Dol + Um + Ber + Ist +2 To All Skills
+200% Damage To Demons
+100% Damage To Undead
8% Life Stolen Per Hit
+70% Enhanced Defense
+20 To Strength
Replenish Life +7
All Resistances +65
Damage Reduced By 8%
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Belt
Arachnid Mesh
Defense: 119-138 (varies)(Base Defense: 55-62)
Required Level: 80
Required Strength: 50
Durability: 12
16 Boxes
+90-120% Enhanced Defense (varies)
Slows Target By 10%
+1 To All Skills
+20% Faster Cast Rate
Increases Maximum Mana 5%
Level 3 Venom (11 Charges)
Amulet
Maras Kaleidoscope
Required Level: 67
+2 To All Skill Levels
All Resistances +20-30 (varies)
+5 To All Attributes
Rings
Whisp Projector
10% Chance To Cast Level 16 Lightning On Striking
Lightning Absorb 10-20% (varies)
10-20% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (varies)
Level 7 Spirit of Barbs (11 charges)
Level 5 Heart of Wolverine (13 charges)
Level 2 Oak Sage (15 charges)
Raven Frost
Required Level: 45
+150-250 To Attack Rating (varies)
Adds 15-45 Cold Damage, 4 sec. Duration (Normal)
Cannot Be Frozen
+15-20 To Dexterity (varies)
+40 To Mana
Cold Absorb 20%
Boots[/B]
Sandstorm Treks
Defense: 158-178 (varies)(Base Defense 56-65)
Required Level: 64
Required Strength: 91
Durability: 14
Assassin Kick Damage: 60-110
+140-170% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
+20% Faster Run/Walk
+ (1 Per Character Level) +1-99 Maximum Stamina (Based On Character Level)
+10-15 To Strength (varies)
+10-15 To Vitality (varies)
50% Slower Stamina Drain
Poison Resist +40-70% (varies)
Repairs 1 Durability In 20 Seconds
GET THESE ETHEREAL IF YOU CAN
Gloves
Magefist
Defense: 24-25 (varies)(Base Defense: 9-11)
Required Level: 23
Required Strength: 45
Durability: 18
+20-30% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+10 Defense
+1 To Fire Skills
20% Faster Cast Rate
Regenerate Mana 25%
Adds 1-6 Fire Damage
Weapon
White Phaseblade
with 5shaels and 1allres jewel (100 ias : 5fpa werebear normal attack (95IAS))
*Beast Zerker on switch
Beast 5 Socket Axes/Scepters/Hammers Ber + Tir + Um + Mal + Lum Level 9 Fanaticism Aura When Equipped
+40% Increased Attack Speed
+240-270% Enhanced Damage (varies)
20% Chance of Crushing Blow
25% Chance of Open Wounds
+3 To Werebear
+3 To Lycanthropy
Prevent Monster Heal
+25-40 To Strength (varies)
+10 To Energy
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
Level 13 Summon Grizzly (5 Charges)
Shield
Dream
in a trollnest or monarch (monarch = steep str, so i got with troll)
3 Socket Helms/Shields Io + Jah + Pul 10% Chance To Cast Level 15 Confuse When Struck
Level 15 Holy Shock Aura When Equipped
+20-30% Faster Hit Recovery (varies)
+30% Enhanced Defense
+150-220 Defense (varies)
+10 To Vitality
Increase Maximum Life 5% (Helms Only)
+50 To Life (Shields Only)
+0.625-61.875 To Mana (Based On Character Level)
All Resistances +5-20 (varies)
12-25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (varies)
Any spirit fcr on switch
4 Socket Shields Tal + Thul + Ort + Amn
+2 To All Skills
+25-35% Faster Cast Rate (varies)
+55% Faster Hit Recovery
+250 Defense Vs. Missile
+22 To Vitality
+89-112 To Mana (varies)
Cold Resist +35%
Lightning Resist +35%
Poison Resist +35%
+3-8 Magic Absorb (varies)
Attacker Takes Damage of 14
I may get the comment 'Why spirit monarch and no dream monarch ?'
6shael PB doesnt add the STR that beast does
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Stats:
Str:
Enough for Spirit shield (calculate it with torch, beast and anni +str) u need 156.
Beast on switch gives a good str boost too, so good calculation is needed.
Dext:
Enough for Phase Blade (136 after +stats)
You can never get good block rate with a sorc so not worth putting more pts in it
Life:
Rest
Energy:
0
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Merc:
Freeze merc (act 2 NM)
Infinity Runeword in an ethereal Collosus Voulge or Cryptic axe
50% Chance To Cast Level 20 Chain Lightning When You Kill An Enemy
Level 12 Conviction Aura When Equipped
+35% Faster Run/Walk
+255-325% Enhanced Damage (varies)
-(45-55)% To Enemy Lightning Resistance (varies)
40% Chance of Crushing Blow
Prevent Monster Heal
0.5-49.5 To Vitality (Based on Character Level)
30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Level 21 Cyclone Armor (30 Charges)
Tal Rashas mask or eth Vampire Gaze
Eth stone armor or eth upped Shaft or eth Fortitude if u feel u lack dmg...
With full warmth you dont need insight, by the way, infinity is key to the build
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Charms:
4x Light skillers (Get dext or frw mods)
Anni
Torch
Small charms with = life, frw,...
Faster run walk is pretty handy because u cannot teleport
AR charms if u feel u hit too less, but u hit very fast so this shouldnt be a lot of trouble
With this setup u have reached the bp of 62 FCR (on switch for teleporting) and a pretty good FHR bp, if u feel your fhr is bad, get some fhr charms
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Gameplay:
Fairly simple, precast all (Shiver, Enchant, ES) in town(not bear of course) and teleport both with switch for the +skills and fcr from spirit. Bear shift where u need kills, and switch to main weapon. Hack away... Not much time needed to kill enemies anywhere, believe me !!
! You can't use any other skills apart from a standard attack while in bear form.
! Your infinity merc is vital to this build, if your merc dies on hell you will have trouble. The most difficult area for this sorc is diablo on hell due to the iron maiden killing your merc (as you yourself do so little physical dmg you don't need to worry about it much), on norm and nm your aura will kill things before you get near them so it doesn't pose as much of a problem.
Travincal on hell multiplayer can also be a problem for the same reason as I find my merc can die quite easily if I don't keep an eye on him. Learn the shortcut to give your merc healing potions! (Shift + 1,2,3,4 or shift + right click potion)
If u do hell baalruns for lvl boosting, be sure to wear your whisp projector because those gloams HURT!
The only bad thing about this build is item dependancy (that goes with not being able to make kills untill u are lvl 75 (anni+torch +stats).
And that your merc dies from Iron Maiden in chaos sanctuary sometimes, you on the other hand dont, because u do only 0.1% melee dmg.
And that some items are ladder only.
This is a game... I personnally play for fun and relaxation with my mates online and that's why I made this char, and all my chars, because they are fun to play.
BEWARE = people in baalgames will say stuff like
-Why are you grizzly ?
-Show items after run !
-Is that hack ?
-And my personal favorite = oh nice, a bearsorc, you dont see many around
Post any questions HERE ! Not by pm please
Thank you goes to Charlie (Tallbird-ew) for giving me this idea.
**********************************************|||hey sounds like a cool build, can you tell me what a infinity merc is?|||its a merc that uses infinity runeword in a polearm, it lowers lightning resistance on enemies and breaks some lightning immunities on enemies too.
Stats are above with merc|||Shortcut to give mercs healing pots?
Please tell me there's another way then clicking and dropping in pic
|||Shift + 1,2,3,4 or shift + right click potion|||Quote:Shift + 1,2,3,4 or shift + right click potion
Wow... Thanks a ton
|||Stickied, will replace with library version in a few days.|||Okay, thanks for the vote of confidence.I hope many people will enjoy my guide and build the sorc.|||Interesting guide.
One problem: since you don't have the strength to equip the spirit monarch on your phase side if you die you will have problems picking up your body.
Can you post screenshots of the sorc with and without ES?
Will the ias be somewhat decent if you attack beast side (with fanatism)? You could use a axe faster/with lower requirements than the commonly used zerker.
Maybe it could be viable to go full ES and have memory on switch, you could use damage reduction stuff like glad's bane and make your sorc a great tank. I will check this out.|||How do you do life leech???
I built a bear sorc b4 and i did like 41k damage it was insane and i had 4k but i could not leech. I would just get pumled to the ground b/ of that reason. Is there a way i could leech or how does that work?
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