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D2R Ladder 2 Frozen Orb Sorceress Build Guide - Best 2.5 Sorceress Starter Build In Diablo 2 Resurrected

10/18/2022 3:37:18 PM

Today we're going over the Frozen Orb Sorceress for patch 2.5 ladder season 2 in Diablo 2 Resurrected. This also does include a mention of the Frozen orb Hydro variant. We explain the sunder charm setup, terror zones, skills, stats, gears, farming spots, mercs and more. So let’s jump into this D2R 2.5 Frozen Orb Sorceress build for ladder season 2!

 

D2R Ladder 2 Frozen Orb Sorceress Build Guide - Best Starter Build Sorceress For Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.5

This build ladder Diablo 2 frozen orbs sorceress primarily focuses on dealing cold damage, you can also hybrid it out with some fire and lightning if you so choose, but is mostly a solo magic flying character. You can also use it to farm keys and runes, overall it is a B-tier build because it has high mobility and is very good at single-target damage. This D2R ladder 2 start sorc build guide assumes that you will be level 75 before moving over to it. The Frozen Orb itself is a really good skill for single target, there's a bunch of stuff spraying everywhere, but most of its damage is in the core of the ore making it a great boss farmer. It is a great ladder starter as well, it is super fast paced as well because we're playing sorceress, there are plenty of endgame gear options as well as a bunch of magic find options. This build is pretty squishy, it is slow against cold immunes and takes some getting used to with the range and the proper placement and positioning when you cast the orbs. Specific break points are very important, you do need to hit like 63 fcr or 100, 105, this is not really a great build to bring into Group Play because the damage does fall off due to its lack of synergies unlike the Blizzard Sorceress.


Sunder Charm Setup

With the addition of 2.5's sunder charms and terror zones, the cold sorceress is arguably the strongest starter for Diablo 2 ladder season 2. So if you're playing Blizzard or anything in the cold tree, the cold mastery is just so strong. To optimize the cold rupture, we're going to be using cold mastery, this thing is going to be the biggest damage increase over any piece of gear that you wear. We're pretty much using the standard variant and we just want to add a bunch of damage and you're good to go. 

In order to counter the cold damage, all you just need to do is just put on some cold resist charms or some cold-resist D2R ladder items and you should be fine. You can even go train gloves if you wanted they have 30 cold resist on them and if you some reason need the extra fcr train gloves also are fantastic for that.


Terror Zones

For the terror zones, what we really want to have is a lot of elite groups, high density and no cold immune monsters. So the best terror areas for frozen orb sorceress build to farm are:

- The Secret Cow Level - High density, no immunities

- Tal Rasha's Tombs - high density, skip cold immune monsters, many elite groups

- Chaos Sanctuary - quick access, many elite groups, high density

- Travincal - quick access, council members

- Tristram - quick access, many elite groups


The worst terror zones areas to farm: 

- Pit - Immunities, high physical damage

- Claw Viper Temple - Immunities, high physical damage, slow access

- Act 3 Sewers - Trash mobility, low density, few elite groups

- Frigid Highlands - Low density, immunities, immunities

- Crystalline Passage + Frozen River - Immunities, high physical damage, high elemental damage


Skills For D2R Ladder 2 Frozen Orb Sorceress Build 

For the standard variant of skills, we're going to be going Frozen orb and energy Shield. In order to do this properly, we have 20 points in the below skills:

- Frozen Orb 

- Ice Bolt 

- Energy Shield 

- Telekinesis 

- Warmth


Put 1 point into each of the following skills:

- Static Field 

- Teleport 

- Frozen Armor 

- Cold Mastery 

- Frost Nova 

- Glacial Spike 


Stats & Attributes 

For the attributes, we're going to be using enough strength and dex to be able to wear gear. Putting enough points in vitality to reach 1000 life and then the rest of it goes into energy shield, because we're using energy shield, that is going to be important to have a lot of points into Mana.


Gears For Best Season 2 Starter Build Frozen Orb Sorceress 

For the gear, focus on plus to skills and faster cast rate. The other things are resistances as well to keep yourself alive as much as possible and then magic find. Magic finds are great for lower player account builds. All of the stuff in teal is going to be really sought after. Mainly faster cast rate, faster hit recovery, resistances, magic find and skills are really what you're going to aim for.


Farming Spots For Frozen Orb Sorceress Build Ladder 2

None of these areas require a sunder charm and the ones with the check mark means you can use the starter variant that you'll see below:

Act 1: 

- Mausoleum

- The Countess

- Andariel

- The Secret Cow Level


Act 2

- Stony Tombs

- Ancient Tunnels

- Arcane Sanctuary

- Summoner


Act 3:

- Arachnic Lair

- Lower Kurast

- Travincal

- Mephisto


Act 4:

- River of Flame

- Chaos Sanctuary

- Diablo 


Act 5:

- Pindleskin

- Nihlathak

- Worldstone Keep / Throne of Destruction

- Baal / Waves


Mercenary 

Using a might, Infinity, the rest is fortitude and Andariel's Visage. This is to allow us to do more damage to things, we don't have to put as many points into cold mastery if we don't want and if we're going to hybrid out and do like hydra or something, the extra bonus damage coming in from Infinity is going to be really good.


D2R 2.5 Ladder 2 Frozen Orb Sorceress Gameplay Tips & Play Style

At the beginning of every single run, make sure you cast frozen armor and energy Shield to keep your survivability to the max. Make sure you point and shoot your frozen orb and make sure it explodes and the enemies for maximum amounts of damage. Use your telekinesis against any immune monsters to keep the monsters stunned so your mercenary can take them out without any problems. Using teleport to reposition your mercy is really important as well, there is a huge meat shield for you and takes out cold immunes. For large groups, use frozen orb and cast in the center again the core of the orb is what deals the most damage. You can also use a glacial spike to give us some CC and survivability as well. It's not going to do a whole lot of damage on this build, but because we're already building a cold skill tree, you're also going to have a decent amount of CC. But if you want to freeze them, use glacial Spike to freeze them for a little bit to keep you out of dangerous situations or keep your mercenary alive while he's trying to take something out. Whenever you have the opportunity, use static, it brings them down to about 50% HP and hell and you could even get more depending on if you have conviction or lower res prior. To maximize magic finding, if you're farming Mephisto or Andariel, make sure if you have a bunch of magicline on swap. Before the monsters die, swap over to that so you get the benefits of the extra magic find. Try not to kill monsters over non-walkable terrain as well as make sure you keep your distance with this build.


Breakpoints

Try to hit 105 fcr if you can, but 63 is definitely required at the minimum. Anything lower than that and it starts to get a little bit rough with the mobility and survivability because you're not getting out of danger fast enough. The higher faster hit recovery you have too is also very good. When you're wearing a spirit, all you need to do is have 1, 5 fhr small charm in your inventory and you hit 60.


Hardcore

Go for vitality build, put enough points into strength to wear gear, dexterity to maintain 50% chance to block with storm shield and everything else goes into vitality. You can even put points into energy shields still and just run a weaker energy shield for a little bit of extra survivability. The most important thing is to make sure your resistances are over capped against conviction, using Crown of Ages, Storm Shield, Sandstorm Treks for fhr, Verdango’s or even String of Ears while you have it is very good for more survivability with resistances and damage reduction. Do not use Oculus on Hardcore unless you have a Death Wish. Instead, use Death spasm or heart of the oak. You can even use wizard spike for a little extra resistance as well.


Starter Variant

Care about plus the skills, faster hit recovery, faster cast rate and resistances. Spirit sword in D2R is pretty solid, Lore, Ancients’ Pledge for resistances just some res D2R boots that we can find. Stealth is super solid, if we can find some things like these gloves to shop for merchants with resistances, that's really good. Same thing with the belt and any rings that you find along the way. For the mercenary, all you need to care about is getting them an insight as soon as possible for your Mana sustain. If you can give them a smoke and some extra life as well, that's really important but he mainly survived is based on your ability to teleport really well. Use frozen orb, Ice bolt as normal, cold Mastery, trying to get to level 17 and 100% chance to pierce and then energy shield and telekinesis to be able to get the extra survivability.


Standard Gear

Using deaths fathom Shaco Viper Magi which we can also use Chains of Honor, Mara’s Kaleidoscope, Spirit Monarch, War Travs, 40mf ring, Arachnids Mesh, Stone of Jordan and chance cards. You can check the Sorc build item options but you can even do more magic find if you would like instead of arachnid's mesh. We're going to be using small charms with magic find and resistances if we can find them, we have one cold skiller with fhr, so we can hit that 60 fhr breakpoint. All you would need would be 5 fhr from a small charm and you could hit that 60. The rest are cold skillers with a geed sport fortune and Annie and a Torch. You can always swap some of this damage out for more magic find if you would like to. 


Mercenary Gear

The Sorceress build without Tal Rash's is fairly cheap. The only things that are a little bit tough can be the Tal Rash's armor and the Tal Rash's amulets. Once you have the full set, you can get more faster hit recovery, so it's easy to hit 86 fhr. 

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