| Sorceress Gear List | |
Weapon: Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye | Tal Rasha Socketed with Fire Facet Jewel |
Shield: Spirit | Socket into a Monarch shield |
Armor: Tal Rasha's Guardianship | Socketed with Fire Facet Jewel |
Helm: Flickering Flame | Flickering Flame is a ladder only runeword introduced in patch 2.4 |
Gloves: Magefist | |
Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth | |
Boots: Sandstorm Trek | |
Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication | Budget option Rare Amulet with + Sorceress Skills, Faster Cast Rate, All Resistances, Life, Mana, Strength |
Ring: The Stone of Jordan | Stone of Jordan for more damage, Nagelring for more Magic find |
Ring: Nagelring | Stone of Jordan for more damage, Nagelring for more Magic find |
Weapon Switch: Call to Arms | Crystal Sword or Flail |
Offhand Switch: Spirit | Socket into any shield with low strength requirement |
Grand Charm: +45 To Life, +1 To Fire Skills | |
Small Charm: Stats to prioritise: Faster Cast Rate, Faster Hit Recovery, Resistances, Magic Find, + To Mana, + To Life, + To Strength | |
Small Charm: Annihilus | |
Large Charm: Hellfire Torch | |
| Act2 Mercenary with Holy Freeze Aura | |
Helm: Andariel's Visage | Socketed with Ral rune |
Weapon: Infinity | |
Armor: Treachery | |
| Stat Point Distribution | ||
| Strength | 156 | Enough to equip gear. Keep this as low as you can and use mostly +str items to reach your goal. |
| Dexterity | 0 | |
| Vitality | rest | Spend the rest of your stat points here |
| Energy | 0 | While leveling putting some points here helps as you use a lot of mana. |
| Skill Point Distribution | |||
 | 20 | Hydra | Main Skill |
 | 20 | Fire Ball | Main Skill |
 | 20 | Fire Mastery | For Additional Fire Damage |
 | 1 | Teleport | Main Skill |
 | 1 | Static Field | Main Skill |
 | 20 | Fire Bolt | Synergy Skill |
 | 20 | Meteor | Synergy Skill for Fireball |
 | 1 | Warmth | Prerequisite Skill |
 | 1 | Inferno | Prerequisite Skill |
 | 1 | Blaze | Prerequisite Skill |
 | 1 | Fire Wall | Prerequisite Skill |
 | 1 | Telekinesis | Prerequisite Skill |
The drawbacks of this build is cold immunes which you need to skip or let your mercenary handle.
With the Mercenary there are also a lot of different options, but you want him to be able to kill stuff you are not able to kill and also survive.
| Sorceress Gear List | |
Weapon: Death's Fathom Rainbow Facet (Death Cold) | Socketed with Rainbow Facet Cold Death Jewel |
Shield: Spirit | Socket into a Monarch shield |
Armor: Tal Rasha's Guardianship Rainbow Facet (Death Cold) Skin of the Vipermagi | Socketed with Rainbow Facet Cold Death Jewel. Skin of the Vipermagi is a budget alternative |
Helm: Harlequin Crest | Socketed with Rainbow Facet Cold Death Jewel |
Gloves: Chance Guards Trang-Oul's Claws | Chance Guards for MF, Trang Oul's Claw is a budget option that provides Faster Cast rate while you get full Tal Rasha's |
Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth | |
Boots: Sandstorm Trek | |
Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication | Budget option Rare Amulet with + Sorceress Skills, Faster Cast Rate, All Resistances, Life, Mana, Strength |
Ring: The Stone of Jordan | Stone of Jordan for more damage, Nagelring for more Magic find |
Ring: Nagelring | Stone of Jordan for more damage, Nagelring for more Magic find |
Weapon Switch: Call to Arms | Crystal Sword or Flail |
Offhand Switch: Spirit | Socket into any shield with low strength requirement |
Grand Charm: +45 To Life, +1 To Cold Skills | |
Small Charm: Stats to prioritise: Faster Cast Rate, Faster Hit Recovery, Resistances, Magic Find, + To Mana, + To Life, + To Strength | |
Small Charm: Annihilus | |
Large Charm: Hellfire Torch | |
| Act2 Mercenary with Might Aura | |
Helm: Guillaume's Face | Socketed with 40 Enhanced Damage / 15 Increased Attack Speed Jewel |
Weapon: The Reaper's Toll | Ethreal + Socketed with Ber Rune |
Armor: Sacred Armor | A 4 socket Jewleler's Sacred armor with +100 life socketed with one +15 All Resist/15% IAS and three 40% Enhanced Damage/15 IAS Jewels |
| Stat Point Distribution | ||
| Strength | some | Enough to equip gear. Keep this as low as you can and use mostly +str items to reach your goal. |
| Dexterity | 0 | |
| Vitality | rest | Spend the rest of your stat points here |
| Energy | 0 | While leveling putting some points here helps as you use a lot of mana. |
| Skill Point Distribution | |||
 | 20 | Ice Blast | Best single target damage and freezes monsters for longer but is slower. Use this or Glacial Spike as secondary skill. |
 | 20 | Glacial Spike | Freezes more monsters than Ice Blast and is faster. Use this or Ice Blast as secondary skill. |
 | 20 | Blizzard | The main damage skill |
 | 3-20 | Cold Mastery | The Last skill to max out. Enough points to reach -175% Enemy Cold Resist between items and skills. |
 | 1 | Frozen Armor | Used for increased defense |
| 1 | Static Field | Used on strong enemies/bosses |
| 1 | Telekinesis | Prerequisite, but can be used to pick up items at distance and make for quicker movement by entering TPs faster. |
| 1 | Teleport | While other characters need Enigma, the Sorc gets this skill for one skillpoint |
 | 0-1 | Energy Shield | Some like to use this skill for the extra defense, the endgame build works fine without it. |
| 1 | Warmth | For mana regeneration, you only need one point here. |
| Sorceress Gear List | |
Weapon: Heart of the Oak | Socketed in a flail |
Shield: Spirit | Socket into a Monarch shield |
Armor: Enigma | Ignoring the Teleport skill, this runeword still has a lot of ideal stats. |
Helm: Griffon's Eye | Socketed with an Ist rune for Magic Find |
Gloves: Chance Guards Bloodfist Magefist | Blood and Magefist are options if you do not have enough Faster Hit Recovery yet, |
Belt: Arachnid Mesh | |
Boots: Rare Boots | With Magic Find, Faster Hit Recovery, Faster Run/Walk and triple resistance stats |
Amulet: Mara's Kaleidoscope | |
Ring: The Stone of Jordan | Stone of Jordan for more damage, Nagelring for more Magic find |
Ring: Nagelring | Stone of Jordan for more damage, Nagelring for more Magic find |
Weapon Switch: Call to Arms | Crystal Sword or Flail |
Offhand Switch: Spirit | Socket into any shield with low strength requirement |
Grand Charm: +45 To Life, +1 To Lightning Skills | |
Small Charm: Stats to prioritise: Faster Cast Rate, Faster Hit Recovery, Resistances, Magic Find, + To Mana, + To Life, + To Strength | |
Small Charm: Annihilus | |
Large Charm: Hellfire Torch | |
| Act2 Mercenary with Hoply Freeze | |
Helm: Vampire Gaze | Socketed with Cham Rune |
Weapon: Infinity | |
Armor: Treachery | |
| Stat Point Distribution | ||
| Strength | some | Enough to equip gear. Keep this as low as you can and use mostly +str items to reach your goal. |
| Dexterity | 0 | |
| Vitality | rest | Spend the rest of your stat points here |
| Energy | 0 | While leveling putting some points here helps as you use a lot of mana. |
| Skill Point Distribution | |||
 | 20 | Chain Lightning | The main damage skill |
| 1+ | Frozen Armor | Used for increased defense. Spare points can be put into this skill |
| 1+ | Telekinesis | Secondary skill. Spare points can be put into this skill |
 | 10 | Thunderstorm | Great for some extra passive damage. Spare points can be put into this skill |
| 1 | Static Field | Used on strong enemies/bosses |
 | 20 | Lightning Mastery | |
 | 20 | Charged Bolt | Synergy Skill for damage. |
 | 20 | Lightning | Synergy Skill for damage. |
 | 20 | Nova | Synergy Skill for damage. |
| 1 | Telekinesis | Prerequisite, but can be used to pick up items at distance and make for quicker movement by entering TPs faster. |
| 1 | Teleport | While other characters need Enigma, the Sorc gets this skill for one skillpoint. In this build however you want to use an enigma so this skillpoint can go elsewhere. |
| 1 | Warmth | For mana regeneration, you only need one point here. |