Charged Bolt Sorc

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Christian Albers - 19 Apr 2006 08:29 GMT

Hey all,

I'm building a Charged Bolt Sorc right now. She's still very young, about
clvl 16. My question is: is a fully synergized charged bolt (lightning +
mastery maxed) able to cut things in late nm or even hell? I was planning to
halfway max chain lightning and go for a 10 pt + skills frozen orb as
backup.

Is it just my stupid mind or is there no other serious backup spell than FO
for a sorc? FB, Meteor, Glacial spike all suck when not synergized.

CA

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Patrick Vervoorn - 19 Apr 2006 10:06 GMT

>Hey all,
>
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>halfway max chain lightning and go for a 10 pt + skills frozen orb as
>backup.

NM will certainly be quite doable, Hell a bit more difficult, but still
doable.

If you go Charged Bolt, I'd not put/waste points in Chain Lightning, but
keep the skills restricted to Charged Bolt, Lightning and LM: 60 pts
needed.

This still leaves you with quite some points to invest in a secondary
skill. FO is a very popular one indeed.

>Is it just my stupid mind or is there no other serious backup spell than FO
>for a sorc? FB, Meteor, Glacial spike all suck when not synergized.

Blizzard's nice, and do not underestimate the freezing power of Glacial
Spike BTW. With about 30-40 points left after maxing CB + synergies, I
think you can also get a pretty nice Fireball and/or Meteor going (max
Fireball, 1 in FM, rest in Meteor).

Regards,

Patrick.

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Mickey - 19 Apr 2006 12:42 GMT

> Hey all,
>
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> to halfway max chain lightning and go for a 10 pt + skills frozen orb as
> backup.

The short answer is yes. A fully synergized CB is quite capable of killing
rapidly in hell mode, assume the targets aren't LI.

> Is it just my stupid mind or is there no other serious backup spell than
> FO for a sorc? FB, Meteor, Glacial spike all suck when not synergized.

That is correct. FO is the choice for unsynergized backups.

Mickey

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