Frozen Orb Sorc is BACK!!!! Build Guide and Showcase - Diablo 2 Resurrected

Never understood why they removed the cooldown on FO

how 3.6k mana tho lol

Thank you for another great video. It was very helpful.

20 Frozen Orb + 20 Blizzard does alot more damage than 20 Orb + 20 bolt.

You don’t know the game mechanics well enough to make guides. IMHO.

Blizzard / Frozen orb is far better than going just pure frozen orb.

i love the relaxed play of frozen orb, but i hate the "just skip cold immunes"... i see icy veins has an orb hydra build, but i dont really see many people using it... i was wanting to try an orb/nova build, but then the FCR is kinda contradictory... so now i'm not sure :x

lol 13 med on insight but chains of honor merc.... :D looks prepared just for video :D

I like to user ormus with energy shield and 15%. +cold damage, really pump forb damage

Wasn’t frozen orb able to be spammed at your cast speed back in the day? Same with blizzard?

Can you do it without rare equip and without runewords?

I am trying to understand how the monster immunity now works in the game... Does my sunder charm affect things first, then Infinity, then cold mastery? I really wish blizzard made it more clear. The only thing I read that I seem to be sure about is that when you break a monsters immunity infinity and cold mastery are reduced by 80% to me this means that I would want to maximize my cold mastery in order to bolster any efficiency that that might have for clear speed on cold immune mobs... The major changes that I use from your build is chains of Honor, Mara's kaleidoscope, as well as 7% mf small charms with 10% cold resistance to negate the downside from the grand charm. I am still looking to get a f ew cold skill GC to boost the DMG output... I'm going to do some testing and see if it's viable for me to switch to death's fathom with a faucet, versus using a 40% Rez hoto. I really appreciate everything being res capped especially incase I take a lower res curse etc.

Bro your builds suck

Nice build! I have a Nova Sorceress that is amazing for farm, but now I most want to enjoy the game with my Javazon and build a Frozen Orb Sorceress because i just love this skill. The build I want to make is:
Deaths Fatom with 5/5 facet; Call to Arms and Spirit on swap; Nightwing with 5/5 facet; 3/10FCR amulet; Spirit; 100life armor with 4 5/5 facet; Trang Ouls gloves; 2x Stone of Jordan; Arachnid Mesh; TriResist Boots.
Sunder Charm, Cold Skillers, life and mana small Charms.
Maximize Energy Shield and invest all points on mana. Also, maximize Cold Mastery for the cold imunes.
It gets the 105% FCR needes for the teleport breakpoint - 1 from the higher.
Nova is for sure better for a overall farm, but I want this build mostly to fast farm Keys and maybe essences, and other specific monsters farm. High mobility speed and good damage on a very cool skill build.

I’m playing D4 bro you should play D4 now bro

Do you have a bowzon build guide?

3.6k mana is insane. I didn't realize Pray was so good. I always used Defiance merch with Tal Mask and Fort. Instead of Enigma, I have COH. I'm also lvl 86 with just torch and anni for charms so sunder is a must for me sadly.

well you still need resistances because energy shield is not 100& effective.

If only ormus could have level 30 skills.. orb sorc might be good again :(

what would you say is "stronger" in between these two? Frozen orb or nova?

Boss Killer offline Player 8 Good?

Thank you for your time to make this build, its amazing got to HELL dificulty very fast, following exactly the same but i have an issue
Just got to hell and im literally stuck to the den of act 1 ( LOL ) , zombies are immune to cold and my chain lighting does literally zero dmg
Am i missing something ?

I don't see why you don't use a sunder charm. Energy Shield ignores resistances anyway so the lost cold res is irrelevant.

Nice guide. Would recommend not hovering over a particular skill though on the tree page as it covers most of the skill tree due to the info popup.

Is this build viable for hardcore?

I like this build but pretty much every energy shield build I've tried just gets murdered in baal walks. Players 3 Baal walks are kinda what i use to scale the usefulness of my characters. But i always use infinity on merc. Does elemental absorb work with E.S? I like Wisp Projector. You mentioned damage reduction, does that work with ES?

Players 1 is nice. Chill and just enjoy the game at your own pace

I like that setup. The only change I would make to it is I would save 3 skill points and put 1 to Nova, 1 to Thunderstorm and 1 to Lightning Mastery, in order to use Thunderstorm with the build. It's not going to destroy any content, but I wouldn't pass on the option of dealing "passive" damage to enemies (and stunning them in the process), especially on players 1-3.

I love frozen orb, however there are two thins from making any build with it excel. One it needs to reduce that stupid cooldown, and two it needs a few more synergies to make it viable in 8 player games.

Why do you always show 90+ lvl characters with top tier gear? It would be great to show time to time 70-85lvl characters with not SoJ, Viper and all the super charms. Apart of that nice guide. Thx

Silly question what should I put in a 2 socket 5 nado helm. HC NL

If you can get the rune words for doom, you can save huge points as you don’t have to place much in cold mastery. You can put the extra point some where else.

Im a big fan of chains of honor armor for this build. It shares slot of stats with enigma, just in a different spread

Can i Use every Schild or every Blade wiht 4 Socket for spirit ?

When did the sorceress become a mexican?
In the proper original D2 she is very obviously a white chick...

If you play online I’d go for the 105 fcr since you don’t have static maps and teleport will be too slow.
Nice video , bro.

Should warmth be maxed out if your using mana as health? Would it not increase survivability?

Man, fucking THANK YOU. All other build guides I've seen is alway "put into points into X attribute to equip your items" but I never know what is and they never say or even show how much they put into the base amount.

I do the pvp immortal(ish) variant
2/20/2os circ with mals
2/20 ammy
Safety fcr ring
Soj
Gerkes - mal
Gladiators bane mal
Treks
Arach
Soj
Frostburn
Hoto
110fcr, 86 fhr bps

This is my favorite MF build skill wise, except I use full Tal's set instead for gearing. The maxed out res was nice, but I might try this gear build as well to see if I like it more since it does bump up dmg compared to my current.

I've watched a few of your videos in the last weeks just for fun and I always wonder why you go for a Spirit Monarch and not one that needs less strength.
I've been out of the loop for 20 years or a bit more, was armor that important o was there something else?

Edit: Nevermind, I just looked up which shields can roll 4 sockets and the other non-paladin ones require even more strength.

How does Energy Shield work with that Curse that Ball and the Succubus use that makes you burn health on mana usage?

Lmao you choose the dumbest shit and call it “your build” just so you don’t get called out anymore by Coooley. Quit bitching about your res and use a maras and a coh and you don’t have the res problem. Quit making us MI players look bad lol

Really cool.
I usually use similar Build when i want to farm Mefisto early on.
Its just Spirits + Lore, Blue Amulet Cold skills and everything you can get for better, similar Merc, but with some Yellow Etherial Armor with Lifestolen and some Frost NOva chance when Struck :P And voalla.
Edit: I have +3 Cold Skills and 10 Cast speed amulet :P heheh

that merc setup is so nice for es

If u have enigma why you put a point into teleport?

i always wonder why i cant get my plus skills so high, but then i remember playing single player i can find all but cold skillers. so im down 7-8 cold skill stats

I never understood builds running no shield. It's an obvious choice, since mana to life ratio on soso is 3x more and shield needs only 1 skill to be usable along with meta items.

I really need them to remove the cooldown on Frozen Orb

you made a huge mistake , telekinesis. its the synergy for mana shield but the % of mana taken per point cap at 75% so you put way more points that you should have. i would rather use a cold sunder charm and max out cold mastery with the over spent points in telekinesis but only if you really want to kill cold immunes, dont forget that cold mastery is divided by 3 id using cold sunder