35 strength + nigma
base dex
base vita
round 465 nrg
didnt get a chance to get the skill placements if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated....|||that's a pretty bad setup for several reasons which i will list:
1) you have precisely 60 fcr. the breakpoint for 9 frame is 63. You need 3 more FCR from somewhere, for absolute-sure. i went for 105 but 63 is a must.
2) no reasonable source of either FHR or life, so you're going to get locked down and die fast. This char is not durable at ALL.
Note that you don't take the FHR stun unless you lose 8% of you're life from a hit... but since you have such low vitality even 95% es won't save you from taking hit recovery stuns.
here's the setup i use on my dueling ES/Orb Sorc: ( you don 't have to use this setup if you don't want, just putting it here for reference )
my sorc is far more durable than your sorc, although i'd do about 25% less damage than your setup, mostly because i prefer manalifers to cold skillers.
Fathom (faceted)
Nightwing's (faceted)
up'd Vipermagi (faceted)
35 fcr Spirit Monarch
Mara's
Frostburns
2 Soj's
Arach belt
Treks
37 inventory spaces of mana with life charms of various sizes ( i don't use skillers )
after bo i've got:
2100 hp
3700 mana (i could get this to 4000 if i had better mana/life charms. the really epic builds that use this setup can hit 5000+ mana. )
my orb damage is 1200 and my fcr is precisely 105.
as for stat points, i divide them between vita and energy at about 2:3 (after meeting str req for spirit. How much you have to put in str would of course depend on the quality of your gear.)
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not saying you need to use my exact setup, and if you want to be more damage oriented than defensive oriented like me, that's your preference.
and full energy can work, but here's some changes i'd recommend to make your setup work:
You need more FHR, for sure: so either
a) swap out your cold skillers for a boatload of cold/fhr skillers. could be expensive.
b) swap out your 20/20 monarch for a spirit shield, which i'd recommend anyway cause you need more FCR. Spirit has 55 FHR. IMO shoot for the 60 fhr breakpoint at least.
Next up: mara's amulet is completely pointless if you're going full energy. Resists don't do anything for energy shield and you will only have 700 hp with your setup (1200 or so if you find some cold/life skillers).
the difference between having -10 and 75 all resists is pretty minor when your health is that low, as most of your durability comes form your mana pool not your hp pool.
what you really need here is a sorc skills with +mana and FCR amulet. If you keep your current 20/20 shield, you'll want 3 more FCR to hit the 9 frame breakpoint. if you swap out for spirit, you'll want at least 10 FCR to hit the 105 breakpoint. so keep that in mind when shopping for rare or crafted amulets.
3) enigma. I actually do hear of orbers using this but IMO its crazy. if i were going for a max damage setup, which you seem to be with your 20/20 shield, might as well go all out and get 15% cold +5% facted ormus robes to go with it. (the skill should be energy shield to save yourself the trouble of keeping that in your stash, or +warmth if you're completely anal and want to keep ANOTHER energy shield ormus robes in your stash for pre-buff. Unfortunately frozen orb ormus robes do not exist. ). the 20 fcr from ormus will let you swap out magefist for frostburns, giving you another 40% mana modifier. since you're full energy, thats going to add quite a lot of mana, more than the enigma will save you by not having to put hard points in str to use your shield. ormus robes will do more damage than enigma, anyway, as +20% frost damage adds a lot more damage than 2 skills.
skill placements:
Obviously max telekinesis* and frozen orb.
Also max icebolt
*telekinesis increases the efficiency of your energy shield, you absolutely must max this on any serious ES build.
edit: and i forgot to mention, 1 point in warmth. but thats obvious.
The amount of points in energy shield is entirely dependent on how lazy you want to be. Are you pre-buffing energy shield, and if so, how much +lightning skills are you planning on keeping in your stash? just a memory staff and a 3 light amulet? do you want to keep a 3 energy shield ormus in your stash? are you going the full blown, 9x light skillres in your stash? lol. its up to you. in any case, you absolutely need 95% ES if you're going full energy. 40 soft points in energy shield gets you to the 95% cap, and you'll need to hit that one way or another. (note: If you're going split energy/vita which i do, you can get by with ~90%, although 95% doesn't hurt. But with full energy, full 95% es is a definate must)
whatever you don't put in energy shield you should put in cold mastery. note that lots of people stack cold resist after max resists to cancel out your cold mastery, so having more points in cold mastery never hurts. it all depends on how much junk you want to keep in your stash to prebuff energy shield to level 40 95%.
anyway lets count it up:
with the max damage setup i suggested (keeping 20/20 shield, swapping an enigma for ormus), you'd be at level 44 frozen orb with +95% cold damage (assuming perfect fathom and nightwings. ). which means your orb damage would be 1755. thats some really high damage orb there.
if you swapped out the 20/20 monarch for a spirit, and used ormus robes instead of engima (and swapped out magefist for frostburns), you'd be at level 46 frozen orb and +75% cold damage, for a 1652 orb, but with more FHR, mana, life and FCR. Now that i think about, this is probably the best setup. i think all of that FHR, FCR and life/mana is worth more than 100 damage. I'd probably use this setup on my orber except i'm partial vita, so i like to have my resists maxed, and good 2/10 sorc amulets are hard to find. (the damage would come out the same if you kept the enigma and also the 20/20 monarch and magefists, except you'd lose a bunch of FCR, FHR, mana and life).
if you swapped out the 20/20 monarch for a spirit, and kept enigma, you'd be at level 48 orb with +155 cold damage for 1529.85 orb.
good luck with your sorc.|||thanks for the help|||Forget about orbers for pub pvp at least, they blow trust me. You are so easy to get sorbed, 2x ravens (which most palas, barbs and amas have) will wreck your dmg.
Skillspoints:
20 Frozen Orb
20 Cold Mastery
20 Telekinesis
Enough for 90%+ es (lvl 35+) depends if u wanna prebuff or not.
Rest in Ice bolt
1 warmth
NW
DF
Enigma
Spirit monarch
Frosties
Treks
Arach
At least 10 fcr on your amulet
Sojs.
This will give you 85+ fcr, so you will need 20 fcr to hit next bp. I would advice to either swap frosties for magefist or get some fcr rings with mass mana (im using a 10 fcr / 110 mana magic ring)
And i would advice skillers over mana/life scs. Especially life skillers, as if u get enough life this way, you can go almost max energy for some crazy mana
|||louis, yeah absorb is bad. i hate ravenfrost, but that doesn't mean a cold sorc is totally trash.he should still do 100 damage an icebolt to someone with 2 ravens**. the real trouble is people who stack frost resist AND use ravens. he'll simply wreck anyone who neither stacks nor absorbs, with 500 damage icebolts.
**math:
1600 orb / 6 (pvp penalty) * 2 (cold mastery, assume -100 frost resist) / 5 (40% absorbed from ravens, so 80% reduction total ) = ~107 damage icebolts.
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