Diablo 2 Blizzard Sorceress Build

Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction has 7 different character types players can choose from. But right now were going to focus on one in general, the Sorceress. The sorceress is by far one of the most deadly characters in the realm of Diablo 2. The Sorceress can choose form 3 elements to master throughout your journey, Fire, Ice, and Lightning. Today we are going to focus on the Ice aspect of sorceress'. These deadly archetypes can dish out tons of frozen fury to a area of foes.

Equipment for your Cold Sorceress

Helm- Nightwing's Veil (Unique Item) all the way considering it gives 2 to all skills and increases cold skill damage by 15%

Armor/Chestpiece- Ormus Robes (Unique Item) Make sure that its the ormus robes that gives 3 to blizzard and 15% to cold damage to deal maximum icy damage.

Shield(1)- Monarch Spirit(Runeword Tal + Thul + Ort + Amn) is the best for your primary shield due to the fact that spirit will buff the skills given by call to arms. Granting you even more health. and longer duration to +1 all skills. You can also get a 4 socketed monarch and place 4 perfect cold facets in it for 20% more ice damage.

Shield(2)- Monarch Spirit(Runeword Tal + Thul + Ort + Amn) also a perfect secondary shield due to skill points and and resistances.

Weapon(1) - Death's Fathom(Unique Item) which adds 3 to all sorceress skill levels and 30% to all cold skill damage. Which will increase your cold damage by an insane amount!!

Weapon(2) - Flail Call To Arms(Runeword Amn + Ral + Mal + Ist + Ohm) is by far the best secondary weapon for a Sorceress. it allows any character to cast Battle Orders, Battle Command,  and Battle Cry. Those shouts grant +1 to skills and drastically increase your health and mana.

Belt- Arachnid Mesh(Unique item) gives +1 to skills, a good addition to a Cold Sorc gear set, adds damage and also the belt has pretty good defense.

Rings(both) - Stone Of Jordan's(Unique Item) give +1 to all skills and increase your maximum mana, which is always good when your  rolling a caster such as a cold sorceress. 

Amulet - Mara's Kaleidoscope(Unique Item) gives 1 to all skills and once again increases resistances and damage output of your sorceress.

Boots - War Travelers(Unique Item) gives strength, vitality and magic find. Perfect for a sorceress.

Gloves- Magefist(Unique Item) gives faster cast rate, which in turn gives you better damage per second, allowing you do deal more damage faster.

Skills to upgrade for maximum effeciency 

+20 Blizzard

+10 or more to Ice Bolt

+20 Ice Blast

+20 Glacial Spike

+1 A Frozen Armor

+20 Cold Mastery

+1 Static Field

+1 Teleport

+1 Warmth

+1 Pre-requisites

Stat Points

Now that we know what skills to max out for a cold sorceress, we must now go on to the stat points.

Strength = Enough to use all your gear. (NO MORE)

Dexterity = enough for gear/ if you want you can get block. i recommend no.

Vitality = Rest of stats into this.

Energy = None

Inventory Items

What your going to want in your inventory is 9 Grand charms that grant +1 to cold skills.

A hellfire torch that gives +3 to Sorceress skills, and an Annialus small charm that give resistances and +1 to all skills.








 

Conclusion

With the gear listed above you should do a lot of cold damage, close to 12k-21k. You should be able to do hell by yourself with this build.

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Happy Blizzarding!