GODLY ES Light Sorc

[Sheliko]

This goes back to 1.10 patch, me and a friend had the best PVP Sorc PvP Character on USWest Lad
If you remember Vash.T.S or LegatoDemon you might know the character.

First of all, the thing about an Energy Shield sorceress is the mass consumption of damage into mana to save your ass and deflect it. The backdraft is it takes in most melee damage, less magic by a lot
(Tip to beat the magic later)

If you get this build right, ES will be at capped 97 Absorb(you take 3% damage and into mana only)

Major Skills: 20 skill each
Lightning (Main attack skill)
Charged Bolt (Fun bolts!)
Telekenisis (Synergy and better bonus to ES)
Nova (Godly and fun ring of lightning ownage, gets really high and better then chain)
Lightning Mastery (Damage)
Tip: The last skill to max should either me Nova or Bolts, I prefer Bolts last, Nova's funner to use and a lot nicer in fast casting ownage ^^)

Minor: 1 skill each
Static Field (Weakens in PvM)
Chain Lightning (Useless skill for ES or any light sorc, it's weak)
Energy Shield (Your main armor)
Teleport (Travel and PvP skill)
Frozen Armor (Freezes enemies that touch you, adds defence)
Warmth (Mana regen on a better level)

The reason you max Telekenisis is it's bonus to ES, ES alone just wastes skills well per each few levels on Telekenisis it's about +5 ALWAYS to ES so you can cap 97 absorb

Gear:
Griffon Eye w/ 5/5 light Die (Lightning damage) Use a higher Sorc helm for ES if you need

Trang-Oul gloves (FCR)

Perfect Magi(35 resist all) with a Um (The casting is best for PvP) Use CoH or +2 Skill armor for casting ES

Crafted +2 Light Sorc skills 18+ FCR High Res(Possibly STR bonus) Ammy
(These amulets cost a hefty bit and I luckily made a 18 FCR with godly mods including 16 STR and high high resists -the poisen which blows much)

War Travlers boots or Treks for STR and Vita*(Vita is needed)

Arach belt(Obviouslly for skills and cast rate)

2x SOJ for casting ES (If you want fast PvP you also want to use 10FCR rings w/ mods)

Warspear staff (The best energy shield sorc staff in the game, mods are: +3 Sorc skills +3 teleport +3 Telekenisis +3 Energy Shield, it's best to use for ES sorcs)

Perfect Monarch Spirit and P Eschuta(Sorry about spelling) 5/5 Die light (PvP Only, ES w/ Warspear)

9x Light GCs (Pref FHR mods, or life mods)
Vita/Res SCs or plain 20 Vitas x10
Sorc 20/20 Torch which would be godly
Nice Anni enough to cover stats and Res won't be too bad at this point

This is the most needed for PvP in magic duels, you need an Infinity so you can use Cyclone Armor which happens to absorb damage, Mostly Magic, covering that weakness to magic damage, now you're nearly godly enough to Duel greatly.

Tip: The only things to be aware of in ES Light Sorc duels is a good 200FCR FBer or telelocking PvP Sorc w/ Blizz and high damage skills. Barbs can sometimes tank through your lightning which comes around 17K easy if you build right which is VERY high for ES Light, it is possible to get to 20K in this setup without max lightning skills.
With torch, the damage can be higher then 20K I assume, I never had a +3 skills torch when I originally did this, nor the bonus stats

Stats are best with Enough Strength to use gear, check over with a calculator.
Back when I did this build there were no Torches, meaning new and easier methods on ES builds are a lot easier and A LOT better.

If you build right, no dex is required as you get it from gear

Vitality: If you want go to 100 for nice life

All points mainly need to be in Energy: Energy is your life! The more energy you can get and the more goes in the better:
Use SOJs if you want a Giant mana bar, Add frostburns for another 25% bonus

This guide should be enough, and if you have questions E-mail me at:
[email protected]
AngelxLifexDeath on AIM

I'm also adding a guide to building the best PvP / PvM Melee Light Sorc guide you can think of, and it's a near same build as ES, just the gear, stats, it goes a lot differently for this melee GOD, I was even able to use my ES Light sorc to make a 70K+ Melee Sorc w/ BP AS and dealing 70K per hit 10 hits+ A seconds, it's really nice

Anyways: Have fun with the build, more questions just ask.

[Bloodangel26]

i dont know about this build...seems like it would be weak damage. i made a lite sorc to mmbot earlier in the season and i just threw a bunch of crappy newb gear on her and she did about this much damage...couldnt really kill much...i might use this on HC or something where its more important to live than kill, but i think this sorc would get owned in duels and not fair that well pvm

[Sheliko]

Believe me, in duels it's beyond godly. My friend Mike who usually dueled with her back in 1.10 of all duels, he was never killed. 1/100 times he might have found something that could kill the sorc.
The only chars that killed it were: FBer sorc (Best on 1.10) / Concentration Barb / Trapsin 20K+ Traps + MB spam that happened to get him(Annoying PKers) / GG FoHer (2 hits)
Those were the only few that had a chance
Wind Druid were the only thing that took awhile to kill, and evading most chars was hard.

We put it into some private PK games with some of the best lad duelers there were and still managed to come out, with all the gear right.

FYI: Need CTA aswell for a better mana/life boost
I kind of half @$$ed the page but I could tidy it up.

The only backdraft is the cost of making a perfect ES, and the damage like you said 17K was a min, 20K was around average, 22K is easy, with Torch maybe 25K, the FCer covers it mostly so the lightning chains 50/50 lines with half a lightning stacking on eachother half and half which is over 2 hits a seconds.

It's also better to use 20/17 life/mana SCs for more mana, and this is the only sorc you would EVER need mana with

There's a few other combinations of gear which make her better for combat, but beyond all, they are NOT easy to kill if they are just right, especially with 97 absorb, cyclone armor, and other mods.

[RaZzor]

If your lightning dmg is 17 you did something wrong. And btw, you only take 1/4 dmg in pvp, soooo that would be 4,25k dmg left which is taken by your enemy..without resist and shit

[tigeroip]

nice build, why didnt u add cta?

i dont know about this build...seems like it would be weak damage. i made a lite sorc to mmbot earlier in the season and i just threw a bunch of crappy newb gear on her and she did about this much damage...couldnt really kill much...i might use this on HC or something where its more important to live than kill, but i think this sorc would get owned in duels and not fair that well pvm

blood what equipment u use with mmbot? i got the best mf available and i get shit

[A.D.]

Warspear staff (The best energy shield sorc staff in the game, mods are: +3 Sorc skills +3 teleport +3 Telekenisis +3 Energy Shield, it's best to use for ES sorcs)

I think the best you can do for a ES staff is find a +3 lite/+3 ES (not telekenisis, telek bonus only applies to hard skill points. max=20). Cross your fingers and hope this staff has 4os/or get it cubed/larzuked and make the runeword Memory out of it. This will give you a +12 bonus to your ES.

[Bloodangel26]

blood what equipment u use with mmbot? i got the best mf available and i get shit

i didnt really find anything, but i only bothered to bot for like 2 weeks. but i just used some random crap i had on mules like war travs, skulder, occy, goldwrap, an upped tarnhelm with a ptopaz...basically just newby mf gear

[Sheliko]

If your lightning dmg is 17 you did something wrong. And btw, you only take 1/4 dmg in pvp, soooo that would be 4,25k dmg left which is taken by your enemy..without resist and shit

17K is like I said, about a min depending on your gear. If you go FCR you have maybe 1-3 K less from 22Kish area, with skill gears, and using all GCs, Anni, HF, you can top 25K for sure. The thing about ES damage, - the chain lightning means that you get less synergy bonus for a bit of damage into your lightning skill. The damage ranges and 17K is without Torch Anni and a few GCs, including FCR gear usually

[RaZzor]

It still seems a lil bit low for me...Normally I always had the 86% FHR and 125% FCR BP and still reached 40k+ lightning dmg with 85% es absorb too though..

[Fuggle]

Isn't cyclone armor w/o synergies pretty much shit. I had Cyclonearmor pts on one of my non elem druids once and all it did was like 100 dmg, which is like useless. Also sorcs can't attack 10+ Hits a second. My Fireclaw druid can only hit 4 a second so that part is bull.

[FraterPerdurabo]

And btw, you only take 1/4 dmg in pvp

1/6

[RaZzor]

Sure?

[mikea454]

I think the best you can do for a ES staff is find a +3 lite/+3 ES (not telekenisis, telek bonus only applies to hard skill points. max=20). Cross your fingers and hope this staff has 4os/or get it cubed/larzuked and make the runeword Memory out of it. This will give you a +12 bonus to your ES.

I just made one of these last night.
+3 ES on staff
+3 ES from Memory
+3 Sorc from Memory
_____________
+9 ES total.... you cant get +12 on one staff, thats impossible


(for the record mine is + 3 sorc, +6 energy, +1 chilling arm = +9ES, +4 chillin, +5 static, 33%FCR,...)

[FraterPerdurabo]

Sure?

Yep.

When attacking other players, all damage of attacks and spells is 17% or 1/6. Some spells are special cased, such as Paladin Thorns, which will only do 1/10th the damage against other players. The duration of poison and cold are not affected unless the player has equipment that relates to those elemental attacks.

[RaZzor]

ok.

[A.D.]

+9 ES total.... you cant get +12 on one staff, thats impossible

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you find a staff that has +3 to light skills and +3 to ES I think it'd work. Of course a staff like this is extremely difficult to find, but theoretically possible. But then again that calls into question if it is possible at all to get a +3 light skills paired with another +3 skill, possibly a +2 or +1 to light skills would be more feasible.

[FraterPerdurabo]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you find a staff that has +3 to light skills and +3 to ES I think it'd work. Of course a staff like this is extremely difficult to find, but theoretically possible. But then again that calls into question if it is possible at all to get a +3 light skills paired with another +3 skill, possibly a +2 or +1 to light skills would be more feasible.

No, you cannot get entire tree bonuses on white items, only +certain skill.

[mikea454]

Thanks frat, ya no +whole trees OR +sorc cept on rare/magic/unique.

[Bloodangel26]

...1 word posts are spam, lets not do them anymore, please and ty

[Redrum-Slugs]

Mines kinda like that but i use wiz gloves and wraith boots, that sorc would get pwned by a Bvc barb though.