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General

Overview

Sorceress requires some playing skill, but has the best potential in the game.

Sorceress' feature, low life and high mana is emphasized in ES. Sorceress is considered the best starter class in LoD because of being item independant. This is also true to some extent in ES, but you'll need more defensive equipment, safer character building (skill selection) and cautious tactics. Hell is really hell and her life is really little in ES.

Some skills are more offensive and some are safer, but most skills in ES are viable in Hell. Melee Sorceress with Enchant, Fanatic Swing and Aerial Guard is one of the most viable builds in ES. Immolation Sorceress requires expensive gears to be viable, but a good Immolation Sorceress can be untouchable like Nova Sorceress in LoD 1.09.

Initial Stats and Increment

Skills

Cold Spells

Sorceress - Cold Spells / Lightning Spells / Fire Spells

• Soul Shiver
• Ice Bolt
• Chilling Armor
• Aerial Guard
• Twister
• Ice Blast
• Glacial Spike
• Blizzard
• Ice Nova
• Frozen Orb
• Cold Mastery

Soul Shiver

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Warmth

None

Pros

A passive skill never hurts. Even 1 point works fine.

Cons

Notes

+200% Mana Regeneration means your mana regenerates 3 times faster, for example. In other words it takes only 1/3 time to regenerate 1 mana.

In ES, Soul Shiver doesn't work if you have no actual point in it. So when you play a Sorceress, at least one skill point in Soul Shiver is a must. This change is because it proved oskill Soul Shiver has the same loophole as the Holy Aura item exploit in LoD, and oskill Soul Shiver needed to be disabled. (The loophole allowed you to stack the effect of oskill Soul Shiver as many times as you wish.) Oskill Soul Shiver only exists on some old Necromancer unique rings, and is of no use in the current version. You can replace one with oskill Fire Armor by rerolling.

Ice Bolt

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Receives less synergy. Pierces enemies. (R2E change)

Pros

Pierces enemies. (R2E change)

Cons

Single target skill.

Synergies

Ice Blast: +12% Cold Damage Per Level
Glacial Spike: +12% Cold Damage Per Level
Blizzard: +12% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Nova: +12% Cold Damage Per Level
Frozen Orb: +12% Cold Damage Per Level
Each Skill Also Gives: +5% Cold Duration

Chilling Armor

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved Defense and Damage. Base points reduces enemy's cold resistance.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Shock Armor: +10% Defense Per Level
Fire Armor: +10% Defense Per Level
Shock Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Fire Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Aerial Guard: +1% Cold Absorb Per 2 Levels

Aerial Guard

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

A new ES skill

Improves the poor block/recovery ability of Sorceress.

Pros

A must for a melee Sorceress. Grants three times faster block/recovery rate at high slvls.

Cons

Penalty to Cast Rate. If your Cast Rate is below -50%, you can't cast any spells.

Notes

For the fastest block for Sorceress (3 frames), you need level 40 Aerial Guard (200% FBR).
For the fastest hit recovery for Sorceress (5 frames), you need level 56 Aerial Guard (280% FHR).
(Of course if you have other FBR and FHR on the items, less skill level is needed.)

Synergies

Shock Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Chilling Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Fire Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level

Twister

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Mana cost increases per level.

Pros

Crowd control and physical damage. A handy subskill for any elemental Sorceresses.

Cons

Not affected by Conviction and Lower Resist.

Synergies

Fire Mastery: +7% Damage Per Level
Cold Mastery: +7% Damage Per Level
Lightning Mastery: +7% Damage Per Level

Ice Blast

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

Ice Bolt (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Receives less synergy from more skills. Improved damage. (R2E change)

Pros

Though a single target skill, freeze duration is fairly longer than Glacial Spike.

Cons

Single target skill.

Synergies

Ice Bolt: +8% Cold Damage Per Level
Glacial Spike: +8% Cold Damage Per Level
Blizzard: +8% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Nova: +8% Cold Damage Per Level
Frozen Orb: +8% Cold Damage Per Level
Each Skill Also Gives: +3% Freeze Duration

Glacial Spike

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Ice Bolt (1), Ice Blast (6)

Difference from the LoD version

Bigger explosion. Slightly improved damage. Receives less synergy from more skills.

Pros

Freezes target. Has AoE.

Cons

The damage isn't so impressive.

Synergies

Ice Bolt: +5% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Blast: +5% Cold Damage Per Level
Blizzard: +5% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Nova: +5% Cold Damage Per Level
Frozen Orb: +5% Cold Damage Per Level
Each Skill Also Gives: +3% Freeze Duration

Blizzard

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Ice Bolt (1), Twister (6), Ice Blast (6), Glacial Spike (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Less cast delay.

Pros

Good AoE. A "Fire and Forget" skill. More spammable than the LoD version.

Cons

Spamming Blizzard may cause graphic lag.

Synergies

Ice Bolt: +4% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Blast: +4% Cold Damage Per Level
Glacial Spike: +4% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Nova: +4% Cold Damage Per Level
Frozen Orb: +4% Cold Damage Per Level
Each Skill Also Gives: +5% Cold Duration

Ice Nova

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Ice Bolt (1), Ice Blast (6), Glacial Spike (12)

Difference From Frost Nova (LoD)

Improved damage and missile range.

Pros

Attacks the enemies in all directions. Spammable. Multiple missiles hit a large target.

Cons

The damage of each bolt is low.

Synergies

Ice Bolt: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Blast: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Glacial Spike: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Blizzard: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Frozen Orb: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Each Skill Also Gives: +5% Cold Duration

Frozen Orb

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Ice Bolt (1), Twister (6), Ice Blast (6), Glacial Spike (12), Blizzard (18)

Difference from the LoD version

Slightly less cast delay. Receives better synergy.

Pros

Good AoE.

Cons

Still has a cast delay, thus increment in casting speed has less effect on damage output

Synergies

Ice Bolt: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Blast: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Glacial Spike: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Blizzard: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Ice Nova: +3% Cold Damage Per Level
Each Skill Also Gives: +5% Cold Duration

Cold Mastery

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Increases Cold Damage you deal, instead of reducing enemy's Cold Resistance.

Pros

Boosts all Cold Damage including weapon Cold damage. Just 1 point provides a big boost.

Cons

With high +skills, investing additional hard points in Cold Mastery may be less effective than investing in synergies.

Lightning Spells

Sorceress - Cold Spells / Lightning Spells / Fire Spells

• Teleport
• Charged Bolt
• Shock Armor
• Lightning
• Telekinesis
• Lightning Inferno
• Static Field
• Energy Shield
• Lightning Hydra
• Time Stop
• Chain Lightning
• Lightning Mastery

Lightning Mastery is nerfed so that Fire Mastery, Lightning Mastery and Cold Mastery grant the same amount of damage increment. (In LoD, Lightning Mastery grants much more damage increment than Fire Mastery.)

• Instead, the damage of most Lightning Spells is greatly improved.

Teleport

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Lower level requirement. Lower Mana cost. Castable in town and in wereform.

Pros

Oskill Teleport is very good for summoners to gather their minions.

Cons

You may get fat from lack of exercise.

Charged Bolt

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Additional bolt per level is reduced but the cap is increased.

Pros

Good AoE. Good Min Damage unlike most Lightning spells.

Cons

Missiles are slow. A lot of bolts may cause graphic lag and hide the bolts of LE bosses.

Synergies

Lightning: +7% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Inferno: +7% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Hydra: +7% Lightning Damage Per Level
Chain Lightning: +7% Lightning Damage Per Level

Shock Armor

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Frozen Armor

Improved Defense. Base points reduce enemy's Lightning Resistance.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Fire Armor: +10% Defense Per Level
Chilling Armor: +10% Defense Per Level
Fire Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Chilling Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Aerial Guard: +1% Lightning Absorb Per 2 Levels

Lightning

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

Charged Bolt (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Cast speed based on Faster Cast Rate, not on IAS (Lightning was indeed based on weapon speed in LoD v1.10, that's why lightning sorcs used fast swords and lots of IAS jewels in it)

Pros

Can hit multiple enemies if enemies are in a line.

Cons

Unstable damage because of Min Damage = 1.

Synergies

Charged Bolt: +6% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Inferno: +6% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Hydra: +6% Lightning Damage Per Level
Chain Lightning: +6% Lightning Damage Per Level

Telekinesis

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Teleport (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved damage. Mana cost decreases per level.

Pros

Knockback, Stun and the diminishing mana cost are nice in emergency situations. Good Min Damage unlike most Lightning spells.

Cons

Single target skill.

Synergies

Teleport: +4% Lightning Damage
Static Field: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Energy Shield: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level

Lightning Inferno

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Charged Bolt (1), Lightning (6)

Difference from Inferno (LoD)

Improved damage. Deals Lightning and Physical damage instead of Fire Damage. Pierce enemies.

Pros

Can kill both FI and PI monsters. can hit multiple enemies if enemies are in a line.

Cons

The caster must keep casting until the target dies. The blast is long but narrow.

Note

Physical Damage = Base Lightning Damage * (100 + Lightning Mastery + Wind Mastery) / 100
("Mastery" includes "XX% To XX Skill Damage".)

Synergies

Charged Bolt: +5% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning: +5% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Hydra: +5% Lightning Damage Per Level
Chain Lightning: +5% Lightning Damage Per Level

Static Field

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Teleport (1), Telekinesis (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Lower cap of the life reduction of enemies.

Pros

A great boss killer. One of the most powerful skills in the game. Even 1 point works fine.

Cons

You need another skill to "kill" enemies. The effectiveness is nerfed in NM and Hell.

Energy Shield

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Teleport (1), Charged, Bolt (1), Telekinesis (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Higher mana consumption, but synergy reduces mana consumption a lot.

Pros

Sorceresses gain much more mana per level and energy in ES.

Cons

With no synergy, consumes a lot of mana.

Synergies

Teleport: 3% Less Mana Consumption Per Level
Telekinesis: 3% Less Mana Consumption Per Level
Static Field: 3% Less Mana Consumption Per Level

Lightning Hydra

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Charged Bolt (1), Lightning (6), Lightning Inferno (12)

Difference from Hydra (LoD)

Spits Charged Bolts instead of Fire Bolts. Additional duration per level. Improved damage. Shorter cast delay.

Pros

"Fire and forget" skill. "Scouting" ability. More spammable than Hydra(LoD).

Cons

Synergies

Charged Bolt: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Inferno: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Chain Lightning: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level

Time Stop

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

None

A new ES skill

Stops the enemies in the screen for a moment. Despite being a Lightning skill, Time Stop can't stop cold immune monsters. This is because it uses "Freeze" effect to stop the enemies due to the restriction of D2.

Pros

A very defensive skill. Especially helpful with the "toe to toe" skills like Lightning Inferno and Immolation.

Cons

Can't stop bosses, champions and cold immune monsters. Shorter duration in Hell.

Chain Lightning

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Charged Bolt (1), Lightning (6), Lightning Inferno (12), Lightning Hydra (24)

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. More bounces.

Pros

The bolt "bounces" many times against a mob.

Cons

Not good against a single target. Unstable damage because of Min Damage = 1.

Synergies

Charged Bolt: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Inferno: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level
Lightning Hydra: +4% Lightning Damage Per Level

Lightning Mastery

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Much less damage increase per level. Oskill Lightning Mastery grants less damage increase.

Pros

Boosts all Lightning Damage including on-weapon Lightning damage. Just 1 point provides a big boost.

Cons

With high +skills, investing additional hard points may be less valuable than investing in synergies.

Fire Spells

Sorceress - Cold Spells / Lightning Spells / Fire Spells

• Blaze
• Fire Armor
• Fire Bolt
• Fissure
• Enchant
• Flame Wave
• Fire Ball
• Fanatic Swing
• Meteor
• Immolation
• Fire Mastery
• Meteor Shower

Blaze

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Receives synergy.

Pros

You can do two things at once, fleeing and attacking.

Cons

Can't damage the enemies which don't move much or at all.

Synergies

Fissure: +7% Fire Damage Per Level
Flame Wave: +7% Fire Damage Per Level
Immolation: +7% Fire Damage Per Level

Fire Armor

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Shiver Armor

Improved Defense. Deals Fire damage instead of Cold damage. Base points reduce enemy's Fire Resistance.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Shock Armor: +10% Defense Per Level
Chilling Armor: +10% Defense Per Level
Shock Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Chilling Armor: +10 Seconds Per Level
Aerial Guard: +1% Fire Absorb Per 2 Levels

Fire Bolt

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Receives less synergy. Pierces enemies.

Pros

Pierces enemies.

Cons

Synergies

Fire Ball: +12% Fire Damage Per Level
Meteor: +12% Fire Damage Per Level
Immolation: +12% Fire Damage Per Level

Fissure

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

Blaze (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Less cast delay.

Pros

More spammable than the LoD version. If you miss Fire Wall, this skill can be a good alternative.

Cons

You need to pin the target.

Synergies

Blaze: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Flame Wave: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Immolation: +6% Fire Damage Per Level

Enchant

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Eased the penalty for ranged weapons. (It's unknown if this penalty is actually working, though.)

Pros

Party friendly. Hirelings except Western Sorcerers also benefit.

Cons

Synergies

Meteor Shower: +4% Fire Damage Per Level
Fanatic Swing: +4% Fire Damage Per Level

Flame Wave

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Blaze (1), Fissure (6)

A new ES skill

Launches a V-shaped moving Fire Wall.

Pros

Good AoE. Knockback effect is defensive.

Cons

Can't attack behind obstacles. Knockback effect is sometimes annoying.

Synergies

Blaze: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Fissure: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Immolation: +5% Fire Damage Per Level

Fire Ball

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Fire Bolt (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Improved damage. Receives less synergy.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Fire Bolt: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Meteor: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Immolation: +6% Fire Damage Per Level

Fanatic Swing

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Zeal (LoD)

Almost none. (The skill itself is faster to make a Sorceress attack as fast as a Paladin.)

Pros

Lets a Sorceress zeal roughly as fast as a Paladin. Works fine with Enchant.

Cons

Other defensive skills and good defensive gears are also necessary to stay alive in melee. Less life leech because of less weapon damage.

Synergies

Soul Shiver: +8% Damage Per Level
Twister: +8% Damage Per Level
Enchant: +4% Fire Damage Per Level
Meteor Shower: +4% Fire Damage Per Level

Meteor

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Fire Bolt (1), Fire Ball (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Slightly improved damage. Slightly less cast delay.

Pros

Good damage on impact. The ground fire lasts for some duration.

Cons

Delayed missile landing.

Synergies

Fire Bolt: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Fire Ball: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Immolation: +5% Fire Damage Per Level

Immolation

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Nova (LoD)

Deals Fire damage. Improved missile range.

Pros

Attacks the enemies in all directions. Spammable. Multiple missiles hit a large target.

Cons

The damage of each bolt is low.

Immolation.xls Damage Table

Synergies

Blaze: +3% Fire Damage Per Level
Fissure: +3% Fire Damage Per Level
Flame Wave: +3% Fire Damage Per Level
Fire Bolt: +3% Fire Damage Per Level
Fire Ball: +3% Fire Damage Per Level
Meteor: +3% Fire Damage Per Level

Fire Mastery

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved initial damage increase. Less damage increase per level. Oskill Fire Mastery grants less damage increase.

Pros

Boosts all Fire Damage including melee/ranged Fire damage. Just 1 hard point brings a large bonus.

Cons

For many skills, investing in synergies is better than investing in Fire Mastery after the initial point, particularly if you have a lot of +skills from items.

Notes

Pre-buff skills (specifically Enchant and Holy Fire) now receive the full bonus granted by Fire Mastery in R3x ("+% To Fire Skill Damage" also works like FM). Note that the fire damage on your weapon is further multiplied by Fire Mastery at full strength (using the target's FM, not the caster's), so ultimately these skills receive more benefit from Fire Mastery than direct damage skills. If Enchant is cast on a minion or player with no Fire Mastery skill of their own, Fire Mastery has less effect.

For those skills, the fire damage shown in the skill description is [(base * (1 + synergies)] * [1 + Fire Mastery + Fire Skill Damage bonus]. The fire damage added to the melee/ranged damage in the LCS is then further multiplied by (1 + Fire Mastery + Fire Skill Damage bonus) before being added to the weapon damage.

There has been some discussion as to whether Fire Mastery works with fire damage on ranged weapons, the current consensus is that it does.

Meteor Shower

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Fire Bolt (1), Fire Ball (12), Meteor (18)

Difference from Thunder Storm (LoD)

Improved damage. Shorter interval. Deals Fire damage.

Pros

Handsfree.

Cons

Random target. Single target.

Synergies

Enchant: +4% Fire Damage Per Level
Fanatic Swing: +4% Fire Damage Per Level