Here's how I envision the possible builds until now: The nice thing about a Blizzard sorc is that I would be able to pour points into Ice Blast and Glacial Spike, since they synergise with Blizzard anyway.
I've resisted the temptation to put more than one point into Ice Blast until now (and I have none in the Fire tree), but this may become more difficult as I'm starting to encounter monsters that take 3-4 shots of Ice Blast to go down, and I'm not even going to think about Champions, Andariel, or Duriel.
The problem with Meteorb builds is that I'll have a very difficult time until I get Frozen Orb. I am however much more worried if some of the superuniques or bosses frequently spawn as cold-immune.Īnother possibility would be to build a Meteorb with Frozen Orb and Fireball (rather than Meteor) as the main attacks. My question is therefore this: how possible/impossible is it to solo a Cold sorceress all the way to Hell Baal? If it's just a matter of encountering the occasional Cold immune then I don't really care, as I can always run past them. However I know this trick will not work on higher difficulties. I've come across some already in Act I Normal, which I easily dispatched thanks to item-granted Fireball. However, I'm really worried about immunes in the harder difficulties. Now my problem is the following: I really dislike Meteor, and would much rather play a pure Cold sorceress, just because I find the Cold tree to be much more fun than anything else. The way I see it there's only 2 builds that stand a reasonable chance of surviving Hell by themselves: either Blizzard or Meteorb. I suppose this severely limits the number of builds that can actually work over the entire game. Now here's the catch: I want to do this in single player. This time I'm using 1.11b and I want to build a Sorceress that I can take through the entire game until Hell Baal. I've played through the game (including LoD) with a Sorceress before, but that was on patch 1.08 (no syngergies) and I ended up having something like a tri-sorceress with skill points all over the place and not a single powerful attack.