Mike's MF Sorc Build

[xdemon666x]

I use the following for my magic finding for Hell Andy and Hell Meph runs. If you haven't figured out this character's purpose is to......magic find items.....

Stats:
Strg- enough to use gear (i would say around either 50 or 104..i'll explain)
Dex- none
Vitality- Rest of points
Energy- (I usually go for around 500 base mana)

Skills:
Cold Skills
lvl 20 ice bolt,
lvl 20 frozen orb
lvl 20 cold mastery
Fire Skills
lvl 1 warmth
Lightning Skills
lvl 1 static field
lvl 1 teleport
lvl 1 charged bolt
lvl 1 lightning
lvl 1 nova
lvl 1 chain lightning
lvl 1 thunderstorm
lvl 1 lightning mastery
Put as many leftover points into telekisis and energy shield


Gear Information:
Now there is two ways to make this character work the cheap ok/great way or the godly mf/expensive way

No-So Rich Equpitment
Helm- Tals Helm Ptopaz'd
Weapon- Tals Weapon Ist'd
Armor- Tals Armor Ptopaz'd
Shield- Grim Shield Splendor Runeword
Belt- Tals Belt
Gloves- Chance Gaurd
Rings- Nagels
Boots- War Travs
Ammy- Tals Ammy


Rich Way/ Expensive Way
Helm- Ist'd Shako
Armor- Ptopaz'd Tals
Weapon1/Shield1- Occy or Hoto with Lidless or Grim Shield Splendor Runeword
Weapon2/Shield2- 6 socketed Crystal Sword Ist'd with 4 socketed Monarch Ist'd
Belt- Perfect Goldwrap
Gloves- Perfect Chance Guards
Ammy- Mara's for resists (trust me you'll need res)
Rings- either Perfect Nagels or 40% mf magic rings
Boots- Perfect War Travs




Inventory:
Any Sorceress Torch/ Perfect 20/20 Sorceres Torch
Any Anni Small Charm/ Perfect 20/20/10 Anni Small Charm
Any Gheeds Grand Charm/ Perfect Gheeds Grand Charm
20+ 7% mf small charms



Mercenary:
Act 2 Nightmare Defensive Mercenary
Gear:
Weapon Choice 1- BoneHew Amn Amn or EthBonehew Amn Amn
Weapon Choice 2- Eth Breath of the Dying Warpike
Armor- Fortitude or a decent Eth Stone
Helm- Delirium Bone Visage or Tals Mask for more life leech



With this you should have close to 650-700 % mf.....happy magic finding with this guide


Me personally have had facets drop from mephs run after run. Its all luck basically though. Baal can drop any item at all him being ilvl=95. If he drops it that is...its hard for him to drop...but if he does drop its great. It's all about patients (spellled that wrong) but yea. This is my guide that I always follow and have fun with it.

Killing Andy-Mephisto
Andy: Clear the 2nd room where Andy is and just orb her to death
Meph: Teleport right to him and static him while orbing him, 3-4 orbs and he should die while your merc is the dummy

I really dont see a problem with the gear....so idk what ppl are saying about, i dont die from either andy or meph without having insight on my merc for mana regeneration but it would help I guess instead of using mana pots and rebuying them after you killed both andy and meph...But its just a suggestion i guess....well i guess that is it for my guide...sry if it still sucks

[Ares]

bad.. items are bad tell us how to kill the bosses tell ur total mf life dmg dont add into fire ur merc should kill immunes

[Joshy]

You put so much in mana but it all goes to waste, you need some in telekinesis if your going to have that much mana so it absorbs more damage without takeing up so much mana when you get hit. Also, why not infinity for merc?

[xdemon666x]

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[PoTatoes]

and im sure there alot better items you can have for items in the uber rich section.

[DiGiTaLiS]

ok well to kill andy, just clear out that room where she is and then orb her twice and static a time or 2 in between the orbs and just orb and run, orb and run, should take like 5 orbs the maximum.

to kill meph, tele right to him static him and just orb at the same time so static orb static orb static and orb the crap out him when static wont do it nemore.


I really dont need an infinity because i have enuff mana regeneration to keep me at 75% mana orb and it barely goes below 50%




******edited skills********

no fire skills except 1 into warmth

lightning skills- pore 10 into telekesis (the points used from firebolt), and 10 into mana shield (the points used from fireball) and just keep getting energy shield and telekensis and your chracter should be good enuff to just sit and orb both bosses instead of running and orbing

the point for infinity is to clear monster's resistances to elements.

you're thinking of insight o_O

[Ares]

and umm edit that INTO your guide not in reply.. this guide is a mess.

[Daddy_XL]

can u please remake it after you clean it all up?? doesnt make much sense cept using a cold sorc to orb bosses.. personally a blizz sorc would do it safer or even a meteorb sorc.. if u want dual skills

[Mr Mellow]

I know i have been asking this question alot, but no one seems to get it that much. So yeah... I need a Hell soft core, non ladder, magic find sorc. I can buy anything, infinty 10x ist dont matter. PLEASE HELP! PLEASE i looked every where. please?

[MFN]

I think you dont need that many points into lite skills one should be enough and just wear an infinity if you want because it also helps cold a little bit.

[North Cast]

Ew, dude, 500 base mana? And after those skills add up you're only level 70 or so. I've always felt that 85 was the peak for most characters, plus the quest skill rewards will contribute to the numbers quite a bit. I usually get warmth up until I'm regenerating enough so that I can last the entire run without using a pot, or at least not having to down pot after pot. FCR and mana regen vary a lot, but 500 base mana is ridiculous. If you have a torch and a nigma with a low strength req, you should be using minimal stat points on strength and more into vit. Just my two cents.

[John]

^^ why with the posting in threads from 2006?