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Overview:
The hybrid sorceress is the second strongest sorceress variant behind the lightning sorceress. She is incredibly well rounded because it utilises both fire and cold elements which means that there are very few monsters who are completely immune to her attacks. There are three main varieties of hybrid sorceress: Fireball / Frozen Orb, Meteor / Frozen Orb and Firewall / Frozen Orb. This guide will focus on the Fireball variety since it has a fluid, reactive playstyle and has the highest overall damage output.
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
Character Stats
FASTER CAST RATE BREAKPOINTS
Teleport / Fireball
9 Frames = 63 FCR
8 Frames = 105 FCR < Optimal Performance
7 Frames = 200 FCR
FASTER HIT RECOVERY BREAKPOINTS
9 Frames = 42 FHR < Spirit Runeword alone provides 55
8 Frames = 60 FHR < +5 FHR Small Charm or +10 FHR Rare Boots
7 Frames = 86 FHR
BLOCKING
In PvM, it is generally better not to block attacks. If the sorceress teleports into the middle of a nasty monster pack, she should teleport to disengage rather than attempting to tank through it. This is true for Hardcore as well. Block does not increase survivability due to the high risk of getting stuck in block animations. Having Glacial Spike hotkeyed can also be useful to stun any monsters which come into melee range.
DAMAGE STAT PRIORITY
-Enemy Fire Resistance is the most valuable stat for increasing fire damage, especially versus broken immunes.
+Fire Skill Damage is lowest priority because it stacks additively with your fire mastery.
-Enemy Cold Resistance is very important for increasing cold damage, however, we can easily hit the cap of -100% through a combination of Cold Mastery levels and Infinity.
+Cold Skill Damage is the most valuable stat for increasing cold damage since cold mastery affects enemy resistances.
+Skills are always good on a sorceress – her spells scale extremely well with levels.
STRENGTH: Enough to equip items (preferably 0)
DEXTERITY: 0
VITALITY: All Remaining Points
ENERGY: 0
Skill Distribution
20 Ice Bolt
20 Frozen Orb
20 Fireball
20 Meteor
1 Static Field
1 Telekinesis
1 Teleport
1 Frozen Armor
1 Cold Mastery
1 Fire Mastery
1 Warmth
Rest into Fire Bolt
Itemisation
LOW BUDGET
Helm: Lore Helm
Amulet: Any +2 Sorceress Skills Amulet
Weapon: 30+ FCR Spirit Sword
Armor: Any Smoke Armor
Shield: 30+ FCR Spirit Monarch (Larzuk Quest will give 4 sockets)
Gloves: Magefist
Belt: Any Crafted Caster Belt
Boots: 30 FRW Boots with Lightning or Fire Resistances
Ring 1: 10 FCR Ring with Lightning or Fire Resistances
Ring 2: 10 FCR Ring with Lightning or Fire Resistances
Weapon Switch: N/A
Shield Switch: N/A
Inventory
Any charms with +Life and/or +Resistances that are available.
Nightmare Defensive Mercenary (Holy Freeze Aura)
Merc Helm: Socket Helm + 3 Perfect Amethysts
Merc Weapon: Insight Colossus Voulge (Larzuk Quest will give 4 sockets)
Merc Armor: Socketed Armor + Ral + Ort + Thul + 15 IAS Jewel
INCREASED ATTACK SPEED BREAKPOINTS
Act II Mercenary / Colossus Voulge / Jab
6 Frames = 35 IAS
5.5 Frames = 56 IAS
5 Frames = 89 IAS
MEDIUM BUDGET
Helm: Tal Rasha’s Horadric Crest + Perfect Topaz
Amulet: Tal Rasha’s Adjudication
Weapon: Tal Rasha’s Lidless Eye
Armor: Tal Rasha’s Guardianship + Perfect Topaz
Shield: 35 FCR Spirit Monarch
Gloves: Magefist
Belt: Tal Rasha’s Fine-Spun Cloth
Boots: War Traveler
Ring 1: Stone of Jordan
Ring 2: Stone of Jordan
Weapon Switch: Any Call to Arms Crystal Sword or Flail
Shield Switch: Spirit Monarch
Inventory
Any charms with +Life or +Fire Resistance that are available.
Any +6-7% MF Small Charms that are available.
Any Cold or Fire Skill Grand Charms that are available.
Low-End Annihilus and Hellfire Torch
Gheed’s Fortune
Nightmare Defensive Mercenary (Holy Freeze Aura)
Merc Helm: Tal Rasha’s Horadric Crest + 15 IAS Jewel
Merc Weapon: Ethereal Insight Colossus Voulge (Larzuk Quest will give 4 sockets)
Merc Armor: Any Treachery Armor
HIGH BUDGET
Helm: Nightwing’s Veil + 5/5 Fire Die Facet
Amulet: 2 Sorceress Skills / 10 FCR / 20 All Resistances Rare Stat Amulet
Weapon: Death’s Fathom + 5/5 Fire Die Facet
Armor: Enigma Dusk Shroud
Shield: Spirit Monarch
Gloves: Magefist Crusader Gauntlets
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Boots: Aldur’s Advance
Ring 1: Stone of Jordan
Ring 2: Stone of Jordan
Weapon Switch: Call to Arms Crystal Sword or Flail
Shield Switch: Spirit Monarch
*Life, Mana and Strength are additional desirable affixes on Rare Items
Inventory
Annihilus
Hellfire Torch (Sorceress)
Up to 9x 45 Life Fire Skill Grand Charm
1x 11 Lightning Resistance / 5 FHR Small Charm
Up to 9x 17 Mana / 20 Life Small Charm
Nightmare Offensive Mercenary (Might Aura)
Merc Helm: Ethereal Andariel’s Visage + 30 Fire Resistance / 15 IAS Jewel
Merc Weapon: Ethereal Infinity Giant Thresher
Merc Armor: Ethereal-Bugged Treachery Sacred Armor
INCREASED ATTACK SPEED BREAKPOINTS
Act II Mercenary / Thresher / Jab
5 Frames = 42 IAS
4.5 Frames = 75 IAS < Optimal Performance
4 Frames = 142 IAS
Gameplay
LOW BUDGET
The low budget hybrid sorceress is an excellent Jack of All Trades for Hell Players 1 difficulty. She is able to clear all game content relatively easily, making her an excellent choice for rushing other players. The best areas to farm are either bosses or High Density zones: Andariel, Mephisto, Cows, Chaos Sanctuary and Baal Runs – these will net the highest number of valuable unique and set drops overall but other routes such as Countess and Nihlathak are fine as well. You should begin with a Frozen Orb to slow enemies before spamming Fireballs. Unfortunately, Frozen Orb has a 1 second Cast Delay which prevents you from casting too many at once.
Using Teleport to reposition your sorceress is a key skill as she is relatively fragile. You should also use Teleport to reposition your mercenary if he gets stuck in a nasty situation. Teleport backwards and then use Glacial Spike to freeze enemies in place. It is more efficient better to skip past dual Cold / Fire immune monsters.
MEDIUM BUDGET
The medium budget hybrid sorceress is much the same as the low budget version but with a lot more survivability. Call to Arms is an excellent pickup for boosting your life and mana and the full Tal Rasha’s provides excellent resistances and magic find. The damage output will not increase by a huge amount until Infinity is available so the best difficulty settings to farm are still Players 1 and Players 3. This build benefits from having very high magic find without sacrificing other stats (350-400% MF).
HIGH BUDGET
A fully built hybrid sorceress follows the same principle as a lightning sorceress. Rather than stacking MF%, this sorceress is capable of clearing higher difficulty levels (Players 5 or 7) to increase the number of drops. With endgame gear, we can replace our Holy Freeze Merc with a Might Merc which will make short work of unbreakable immunes. The Hybrid Sorceress finishes with approximately:
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