Best Budget D2R Ladder Start Build - Diablo 2 Resurrected Lightning Sorceress Build Guide

What character you should build at the beginning of Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder? And what you should focus on? In terms of the cost, here we recommend a budget D2R Ladder start build - Lightning Sorceress with cheap equipment and great benefits. Take a look at the breakdown of the D2 Ladder Sorceress Build with attributes (stats), skill tree, gear (runewords, armor, shield, ring, gloves, etc.), mercenary and more. 

Best Budget D2R Ladder Start Build - Diablo 2 Resurrected Lightning Sorceress Build Guide

If want to play the Ladder system, you can go with this Diablo 2 Resurrected Lightning Sorceress build by Sweet Phil, it is a budget option for D2R Ladder start. Now what you are going to farm are keys and low Diablo 2 runes, and this Sorceress build is pretty good at this. Lots of people will start off with Blizzard or Fire or something like that, you can kill the Countess in Hell difficulty with any cold or fire build, she is always immune to those two, but she is never immune to Lightning. So you can get a lot of low runes and even mid runes. There are other keys as well such as the one you get from Nihlathak, and the one you get from the Summoner. At the beginning of Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder, you can use this Lightning Sorceress build for farming keys, you could do the Summoner and farm ghost packs along the way because ghost packs have higher chances of dropping high runes than other monsters. You can also get pretty good runes from the Countess. 

Attributes

Starting with the character attributes, you need enough strength to wear your gear and put all the rest into vitality, the resistances are very low, that’s because you are incredibly budget, as you get better gear, this would get better as well. 

- Strength: 94

- Dexterity: 49

- Vitality: 392

- Energy: 65

Skills

Obviously, the focus of this build is Lightning spells, you need to max out the Lightning Mastery, Chain Lightning, Lightning, and Charged Bolt, do not put quite a lot of points on Nova. For Cold spells, one in Frozen Armor, and for Fire spells, one in Warmth. The must-have one points on the Telekinesis, Teleport, and Static Field. 

- Lightning Spells: Lightning Mastery - 20, Chain Lightning - 20, Lightning - 20, Charged Bolt - 20, Nova - 4, Telekinesis - 1, Teleport - 1, Static Field - 1

- Cold Spells: Frozen Armor - 1

- Fire Spells: Warmth - 1

Gear

Lots of budget D2R items for sale are used here, you equip more valuable uniques, sets, and other items if you have no budget limit.  

- Weapon: Spirit (Crystal Sword)

Crystal Sword

1H damage: 5-15
Base speed: [0]
Class speed: Ama, Asn, B, D, P, N - Fast
S - Normal
Adds range: 1
Durability: 20
Req Strength: 43
Quality level: 11
Treasure class: 12
Max sockets: 6

- Shield: Lidless Wall (Grim Shield)

- Helmet: Peasant Crown (War Hat)

- Amulet: Corruption Collar

- Armor: Vipermagi 

- Boots: Fiend Spur

- Ring: Stone Hold, Bone Circle

- Gloves: Trang-Oul's Claws (Heavy Bracers) 

- Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth (Mesh Belt) 

- Charms:

Gheed's Fortune[Unidentified]

                   Required Level: 62
           80-160% Extra Gold From Monsters (varies)
           Reduces All Vendor Prices 10-15% (varies)
           20-40% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (varies)
                                   

(Grand Charm)

Mercenary

- Weapon: Insight 

- Armor: Treachery (Scarab Husk)

- Mask:

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest

Defense: 99-131 (varies)(Base Defense: 54-86)
Required Level: 66
Required Strength: 55
Durability: 20
10% Life Stolen Per Hit
10% Mana Stolen Per Hit
All Resistances +15
+45 Defense
+30 To Mana
+60 To Life

(Death Mask)