Diablo 2 Resurrected Beginner Sorceress Guide To Beating Normal Act 1 To Hell Act 5

hey everyone i hope you guys are having a great day today so in the last year or so i've been basically watching the comments and a lot of you have been asking me to make some class guides for you on how to get through the three difficulties and to get ready to start magic finding in hell mode so in this series i want to start with the sorceress first because she's going to be the most popular class by far she usually is based off the past of this game so we're going to talk about basically uh what you want to do in each act when you want to go to nightmare in hell what builds you want to go to get through those pretty easily what items you want to look for there's a lot of things to kind of cover so to summarize what this video will be doing is i'm going to make a character from level 1 and go all the way through hell mode and i'm going to highlight exactly what i did so if you're looking for some kind of general idea of what to do with your character right from level 1 all the way to hell bale this video will be great for you for the sorceress and in the future i will also have the other classes as well so i hope you guys find this guide useful and let's get into it so the first thing you got to do before you even start the game is figure out what build you want to go if you're sitting in town take a look at all the skills or if you're one of those players that just wants to pick one of the best builds possible i will have that for you right here the static nova build is by far the best sorceress build early on whether you're playing by yourself solo or with other players static field is overpowered because it reduces the monster's current health by 25 with each cast allowing you to kill anything in seconds including bosses like durial and diablo all you have to do is slow your targets with a frost nova static them down until they are one hp and then finish them off with anything like a charged bolt or gas potions and when you're level 12 nova this build is so good you can even solo 8 player games where monsters have more than 400 increased health and it just makes us build the ultimate carry in multiplayer games so if you're planning on joining public games it's a great way to gain way more xp because you can basically solo them and it just makes the game so much faster for everyone in your party so i highly highly recommend the static nova build no matter what build you're going to go on your sorceress later whether it's frozen orb or fireball or lightning the static nova is the best for normal by far but if the bill just does not interest you the traditional fireball build is also a solid choice it does great damage and has pretty decent aoe the main drawback is that for 12 levels you have to use firebolt which is very tedious because it's a single target skill however you can compensate for this by simply carrying gas potions on your weapon swap so when you find a boss pack or a big chunk of monsters throw a gas potion on them and then slowly firebolt them down once you're level 12 use your fireball now i don't have any cold builds to offer because they're all really bad early on due to either low damage or just simply being single target like firebolt so you're really better off running either fireball or static nova first and then once you unlock blizzard or frozen orb when you're at least level 24 then i recommend respecking into a cold build so if any of these builds interest you i made them in an image format that you can easily follow screenshot or write down so let's take a look at the static nova build first here so on the left side you have the no respec version which is what i recommend if you want to save your respects so as you can see it's pretty easy to follow when you hit level two put your point into charge bolt when you hit level three put it into charge bolt when you complete the den of evil quest use that skill point that you get as the reward to put into charge ball you'll want to save your level 4 and 5 skill points because when you hit level 6 you want to pick up both frost nova static field and telekinesis from level 7 all the way to 11 you want to grab static field and then once you hit level 12 you want to go straight into nova until level 17. when you complete the radamet quest now you can pick up frozen armor with that extra skill and at level 18 you want to unlock your teleport from level 19 and onward everything goes into nova and when you complete iswall in act 4 you want to pick up nova since you are missing one point due to grabbing teleport and then put your extra points somewhere such as static field or whatever you want for level 30 you pick up one into lightning mastery and then max out nova from then on and once you max out nova you want to then max out lightning mastery now for the respect version you can see that i go from level two to five as charge bolt everything in the charge bolt until level six you pick up frost nova to slow monsters and then everything in the chargeable again once you hit level 13 then you want to respec and you can see here i show exactly what you want to respect into which is seven a static field two to nova and then one into some of the support skills so if you wanna run this build here's what you can kind of follow it's pretty easy to follow in my opinion hopefully it looks okay for you guys and let's move on to the fireball build for the fireball build it's pretty simple you put everything in a firebolt until level six and then you want to pick up one into frost nova to slow monsters in case you need some defensive protection and then after that you want to go all the way to fireball again at level 11 you want to pick up static field because this one point will help you against boss fights such as duriel mephisto and diablo and then level 12 and onward you want to go in a fireball then you pick up of course telekinesis with radiment teleport at 18 and then everything in the fireball again so it's pretty easy to follow i hope these uh images are good enough for you guys now let's move on to actually playing the game so for normal act 1 the first thing you want to do as you go through the act is check charcy whenever you're in town for a socketed cap armor and shield make sure they are all too socketed because the two socketed armor will be used to craft the stealth rune word which is your best armor and can easily last you until at least level 40 or higher the two socketed shield is going to be used for early resistance so put diamonds or toe passes into the shield to help you against tainteds and beetles in the first two acts they deal a lot of lightning damage but are easily mitigated by simply having a little bit of lightning res the two socketed cap is for countering shamans and venom lords in acts 3 and 4. their inferno can one shot you if you don't have any fire resistance so socketing a two-socketed helmet with any rows that you find from the countess will help you a lot now if you're going a fire build you want more than just a stealth rune word you'll also want to check a car for a two-socketed staff you can get a cheap one with no skills on it or you can take the time to find one with three to fireball which will cost probably around 40 000 gold when you have at least 5000 gold you'll want to start checking the wands at akara for 10 fcr fcr is vital for dealing a lot more damage faster as well as teleporting faster so if you find any items with fcr equip it the quicker you can reach the first faster castrate break points the easier your journey will be the fcr break points for the source are 9 20 37 63 105 and 200. the main break point you want to reach for early on is 63 which is pretty easy with a wand amulet two rings and a stealth rune word once you clear tristrom in act one go to the top left and pick up where's leg from his corpse and put this in your stash for later this will be used to open up the cow level when you defeat bale in normal now this is the big big part when you get to the black marsh you'll want to start doing tower runs a tower run is simple you take the waypoint to the black marsh find the forgotten tower and kill the countess on the fifth floor the countess is the best place to find runes we're looking for this early on run the tower until you have a towering and an ethereum to make your stealth rune word if you're a fire build you'll also want to kill her until you have a tyrone and ralrun to make your leaf staff remember to sock at the rune words in the orders that they are shown tal and f for stealth rune and tear and route for the leaf rune word also when you're in the tower make sure to check any chests and burials as they have a high chance to drop jewelry when you return the heroic malice you can actually turn a normal item with no sockets into a rare item the stats on the rare item depends on the level of your character though so i recommend saving the imbue quest reward for when you're a higher level personally i like to save it until hell mode and then use it on a circlet boot or tier 2 belt first thing you want to do when you reach act 2 normal is to buy a belt from pharah to replace your sash with an extra row of potions next hire a new mercenary from grey's at the top of luke gallane and then equip him with a pole arm preferably a scythe from pharah due to the attack speed and still having decent damage act 2 mercenaries are by far the best as they deal the most damage can tank for you and provide an aura that buffs you as a sorceress i recommend picking up a combat for the prayer aura healing or defensive from the defiance aura defense boost as you go through act 2 keep checking far for a three socketed large shield or three socketed kite shield this will be used to make the ancients pledge rune word when you get to act 5 which has a lot of resistances which you will need for nightmare in hell mode you can also shop and stash a two socketed shield if you want to make a rhyme later for an extra bit of magic find when facing durial give yourself and your mercenary a thawing potion or two before entering the chamber the increased cold resistance from the potion will allow your mercenary to tank him much longer for you just so you can static him down as a sorceress no matter what build you choose you should have at least one anti-static field to make all of the boss fights easy when you first enter act 3 herotly should be right beside you buy a pull axe from him if your mercenary does not have a good weapon as you progress through act 3 check ormus for a wand with 20 fcr if you don't have any good luck and he just doesn't sell you one by the time you get to act 4 you can still shop at 20 fcr wand in acts 4 and 5 as well when facing mephisto many of his spells can one shot you so you'll probably want to keep reviving your merc the moment he dies his spells take a lot of time to cast though and are very predictable so with the right rhythm you can actually static a few times dodge his attack cast a few more and then dodge it again and just repeat until he dies so mephisto is a little predictable but if you want to be safe keep your mercenary alive and he should be even easier for act four there isn't a whole lot to really say until you get to the chaos sanctuary at the end of the act vizier the top left seal guardian is immune to fire so if you're the fireball build or any other fire build you're gonna need your mercenary to kill him diablo is pretty easy for a sorceress just like diablo and mephisto slow him with the frost nova and static while your mercenary distracts him just be ready to move in an instant when he targets you with his lightning breath the lightning breath can kill you instantly if you're not paying attention so you always have to be ready to be on the move when you first get to act 5 don't buy anything the cost of everything in act 5 is doubled when you first get there until you complete the first quest so you'll want to go back to act 4 to buy your potions and scrolls when you complete the first quest the item prices go back to normal and you'll unlock the ability to socket an item which i recommend saving for later the second quest gives you three runes ral ort and tal which are the exact runes required to make the ancient pledge in a three-socketed shield so take your three-socketed shield and put the rowell ort and towel in that order and you'll have a nice shield with a high amount of resistance when you rescue anya make sure to speak to her to get a random rare sorceress wand if you're lucky the sorcerer's one might actually get 20 fcr on it which is the main reason you want it if not maybe it's better than your current weapon otherwise it's free gold when you reach the ariat summit make sure to leave your town portal just outside in the ancients way activating the ancients fight removes all town portals in the summit area if you open atp during the fight as well the fight will stop and reset and you'll have to do it again so you want your tp to be just outside of the summit in case you die the ancients cannot be frozen either but as long as you give your mercenary a healing potion or two he should be able to survive the damage while you static them down once you defeat the ancients continue on and teleport to the world stone keep level 2 waypoint now at this point if you're not level 25 and you're not running the static nova build i recommend clearing tombs in act 2 or the flare jungle great marsh temples and travenkol in act 3 until you're level 25. if you're running the static nova build and you're not level 25 you can still continue on and kill bale because honestly the statinova build is so strong that it's really actually worth killing bail early on so you can unlock the secret cow level which is the fastest way to level 225 so again if you're not the static nova build go entomb or do act 3 until you're 25 you'll then get experience from bail runs if you're the static nova build just kill bail anyway and then unlock cows and hit level 25 there when you get to the throne room just beware of the death lords in there because they cannot be frozen and they can kill you instantly once you've cleared the room of monsters bale will laugh and a wave will spawn the first two waves are pretty easy to deal with with static field but the third wave boss is lightning enchanted so you'll have to static down the minions until the boss is alone once he's alone revive your mercenary and keep him alive with potions he should be able to kill the boss along with your static field and then after that you should have the fourth wave which is really easy and then the fifth wave is much harder as it deals serious damage and can stun you so you'll have to kite with the frost nova if you find them too difficult zigzag to keep them grouped up and then drag them out of the room once you're far enough out of the room quickly teleport all the way back up when there aren't any monsters in the main room bale will actually proceed to the next wave so it's a neat little trick you can do if a wave is too difficult just make sure that none of them fall you back into the room otherwise it's not going to work as for bale just simply drink a few thawing potions to reduce his knockback damage and static him just outside of his deadly melee attack other than that you should have bail down and now you can open the secret cow level in normal by cubing a tomb of town portal with a wurtz leg in act one the next thing you want to do is actually make the cow level because it's important to pick up a four socketed sword any crystal sword broadsword or long sword that drops in the cow level is guaranteed to get four sockets from your act 5 quest this is used to make the spirit rune word later which is by far the best weapon early on for casters just keep in mind an actual four-socketed sword cannot drop in the cow level you have to pick up a regular one and then use your socket quest on it now it's important i mentioned that the spirit rune word is a ladder only item so if you're on single player or non-ladder don't use your socket quest on a sword since you can't make spirit anyway now at the time of this guy d2r has not had its beta yet so it's still possible d2r single player will have lateran words available we'll just have to see because it's a really popular request and hopefully blizzard actually listens to the community and implements missing features into single player with d2r so you've got your ancients done and you're at least level 25 the final step in normal is to kill bale if you haven't and of course continue doing bail runs until at least level 30. if you're on single player eldritch runs are also an option because of how quick and efficient they are during your eldritch and bail runs make sure to check mala for a wand with lower resist charges make sure it doesn't say one two lower resist necromancer only it has to say charges so this wand makes a great weapon for your weapon swap because the lower resist curse significantly boosts your damage just keep in mind it's expensive to repair so use it wisely in nightmare and hell now once i'm level 32 or 33 i jump into nightmare but if you're a newer player you might want to go around 36 or 37. normal bale runs can get you easily into the level 40s even up to level 50 so it's really up to you if you want to stay in normal for a long time and then transition into nightmare so now that we're done with normal we need to respec into a better build suited for nightmare in hell mode if you're magic finding or playing in a party online lizard is the best build due to its insane damage and large aoe but if you're playing solo such as single player you're going to have to skip a lot of monsters due to the amount of gold immunities with the right finesse you can still get through hell mode as blizzard but honestly it's such a pain that i just recommend going meteorb instead to help your experience with the meteor build you focus on frozen orb first in nightmare instead of blizzard and then you go into meteor and fireball later when you're a much higher level by going two elements you will be able to kill most monsters in hell difficulty making your hal experience both easier and more enjoyable especially as a new player if you're going through for the first time once you've beaten the game on hell difficulty you can switch to blizzard if you want and then begin your fast-paced magic finding so here's the image format i created for both the blizzard and the meteor builds if you want to go blizzard i have it here in that case but i still recommend going meteor first and then respecting after you beat hell bale so with the blizzard build if you absolutely insist on respecting going into nightmare you want to respect one into telekinesis one into teleport seven in the static field and one into frozen armor after you've done that you want to max out blizzard until you cannot put any points into it cold mastery is the next one until you get as close to 100 as you can now the next thing you can do is either put the rest of the points into ice blast or what i like to do put it into ice blast until i have about four or five left and then you want to save those four or five points until you level up so you can put one into blizzard and one into cold mastery at the same time then after ice blast is maxed blizzard is maxed and cold mastery is a hundred percent you can max out glacial spike and then ice bolt last for the meteor build it's a little bit simpler one into telekinesis one into teleport and one into static field as well as frozen armor then you want to max out frozen orb and cold mastery until 100 piercing then just like the blizzard build you want to hang on to your spare points until you level up once you level up you'll have extra points to put both into frozen orb and cold mastery so once your cold mastery is at 100 you can put everything into frozen orb and then once that's maxed then you can move on to fire there you want to go right into fireball or meteor depending on what you want to go first and then you want to max the second one after i like to go fireball first so i will max out fireball with one into fire mastery and then i'll go into meteor afterwards and then i'll max fire mastery so around level 78 or so you'll have fireball meteor and frozen orb maxed cold mastery will be a 100 piercing and fire mastery might have like two or three points into it so the only thing worth mentioning about act one a nightmare is the countess since she drops the runes we want for our next four rune words spear is a rune word crafted by socketing tal thal ort and ammed into a force-octed sword shield if you can make this it's by far the best weapon that you will have access to until you kill at least hell bale unless you're extremely lucky it is a ladder only rune word though so if you're non-ladder or on single player skip this item since you can't craft it lore is a rune word crafted by socketing or insult into a two socketed helm it's a great early on helmet for the one to all skills the lightning resistance and damage reduction rime is a rune word crafted by socketing shale and f into a two socketed shield i recommend using this on your weapon swap for magic finding and misstell using the ancients pledge for the extra resistances at least until you get a lot more later on through other items insight is a rune word crafted by socketing rowell tear towel and soul into a force-octed pole arm keep in mind insight cannot be crafted in spears which is a common rookie mistake it has to be a pole arm this is a great weapon for your mercenary early on due to its high damage and meditation aura which significantly boosts your mana regeneration insight is a ladder only runewood though just like spirit so if you're a non-ladder or single player character skip this item since you can't craft it personally i'd like to get to nightmare act 5 first before i even consider doing countess runs because some of those runes might actually drop along the way but if you prefer to get the gear early on to make your nightmare journey easier for yourself you can simply farm couches it's not that big of a deal you'll want to keep an eye out for a three socket armor three socketed helmet and a four socket up all arm as you go through nightmare as well the three socket armor will be used to craft a treachery for your mercenary later when you find the lime room the three socket helmet is a huge boost to your magic find when you socket it with three perfect toe passes and the force auto pole arm is used to craft your mercenary's insight when you get to nightmare act 2 you'll want to replace your normal act 2 mercenary with a nightmare defensive act 2 merc the nightmare defensive merck has the holy freeze aura which passively slows enemies around him basically making him a moving frost nova for act 3 and 4 there's nothing worth mentioning but in act 5 the nightmare ancients you have to be at least level 40 in order to complete the quest the ancients can easily one shot you so it's really important to have your mercenary distract them if he does end up dying kite with frozen orb remember to use your lower resist wand to increase your static and orb damage on these hard bosses be careful of souls and dolls when you're teleporting to bale's throne room the souls can one shot you if your lightning resistance is low and the dolls explode when they die so keep your distance and use your mercenary to keep them at bay if you get a throne room with cold immune witches just simply leave and make a new game until you get a throne room without them at this point you should have no problem defeating bale and his minions you'll want to continue doing nightmare bale runs until at least level 65. if you're not comfortable with your current gear you can also stick around a nightmare and farm mephisto diablo and bale some of the key items you can magic find are the viper magi moses bless circle dwarf star raven frost dario shell for your mercenary rock stopper and of course from diablo and bail we have the amazing oculus orb and we have from bale the shaco so it's really up to you if you want to keep farming them until you find some of these items but honestly you can still go right into hell mode with the current gear you have so when you're ready to go into hell mode this is roughly what your gear is going to look like so in this case here on the sorceress i decided to magic find a little bit you can see here i did find the oculus here but if you don't have this you can use the spirit sword or keep using your 20 fcr wand if you have it for the armor i had the stealth item until i found a viper magi i think i found this off nightmare mephisto if i remember correctly and then of course up here we have the magic find helmet i was referring to we have a magic find amulet and we have also a magic or yeah a magifine ring and another magic find ring magic find gloves and magic fine boots with a little bit of resistance so you can see here that you don't really actually need a lot of amazing items oh also the moses blast circle i should mention as well it gives a lot of resistances here 63. so i would say honestly you can actually go through hell mode with little gear whatever you have from nightmare bale you can go right into hell mode but if you want to play extra safe the two specific items i recommend finding first are the viper magi and the moses blast circle for my mercenary i have a shaft stop which i found in hell act two giving him 30 damage reduction he has a towel rashes helmet i believe i found in nightmare uh this gives him life leech and resistances and his weapon simply gives him life leech and a little bit of attack so the main thing you want from your mercenary if you're going to gear him for hell mode is to give him life leech so he can survive at uh tanking say your ancients your mephistos your endarios so giving your mercenary a lot of tanky items is a great way to allow you to freely damage down hard difficult bosses so that's what my gear looks like going into hell mode again you can actually go into hell mode with a lot worse gear so most of hell mode shouldn't be an issue as long as you have good resistances and are careful with your teleports travel is usually the first big challenge for sorceresses due to the amount of damage as well as all the immunities the first thing you want to do is kill any hierophants nearby so they don't instantly heal council members to full from a mile away make sure to clear out the outside area as well so you can safely layer one or two out at a time and then you can cast meteor or frozen orb on them or even into the room from the outside so if you're outside on the step you can actually cast in and they won't come after you there should be one council member left alive that is immune to both gold and fire so this is where you're going to need your mercenary to kill him while you keep him stunned with your telekinesis the next challenge is the chaos sanctuary in act 4. the seal guardians lord disease and infector of souls will often spawn immune to both cold and fire because of this you'll want to teleport straight to their seals spawn them to see if they're both immune to cold and fire and if one of them is you have to leave the game and repeat the process until both of them are immune to either one fire or one cold it took my source only a few attempts to get infector of souls vulnerable to cold and lord deceased vulnerable to fire at this point you should be able to clear the cow's sanctuary and kill diablo [Music] the hell ancients is probably the most difficult fight in the game as a sorceress due to the immunities and just how much damage they can deal so before you start you may want to drop a bunch of extra potions just in case you need them when you spawn the ancients quickly check and see if any of them are immune to both cold and fire if any of them are make a town portal to reset them once all three of them are not immune to both cold and fire now you want to check them for magic resistant spectral hit and fire enchanted if they have at least one of those they're going to take much less damage from your spells if none of them are lightning enchanted your mercenary should be able to live if you're fighting one at a time once you've got good affixes drag them to the bottom left of the summit and then teleport to the other side really quickly if none of them follow slowly walk towards the area in the bottom left until you aggro one of them if more than one aggro group them up again and repeat the process you must know you should be able to survive just one at a time but if you can't you might have to bug them out so you can actually get maddock and corlix stock to make them easy kills but talak is going to be the hardest probably with the right positioning on this pillar here on the bottom right of the summit madok will get stuck throwing his axes into the pillar which will allow you to safely hit him with either your meteor or firewall with corlik place your cursor on the specific brick right here that you can see on the map on the ground and then teleport there [Music] when corolla goes to leap on you teleport behind the top left pillar this will probably take you a good amount of tries but eventually he will get stuck on the right pillar and from there you can meter in firewall just like maddox for talik you can't actually bug him but he's actually pretty easy to kite with frozen orb he's only an issue though if he has an extra fast modifier making his whirlwind super fast and very difficult to avoid once you've defeated the hell ancients congratulations the hard part is over at this point the only thing you have to worry about is teleporting into a pack of souls on your way to the throne room if you get to the throne room it's not too much to worry about as long as you're playing it nice and slow otherwise really it's just souls and dolls possibly that can kill you if there's cold immunities you might have to leave but if you are meteorb just simply kill them with your fireball bales minions and the throne room shouldn't be too difficult otherwise and honestly bail is pretty easy as well you just have to make sure your cold res is up through gear and thawing potions and he just takes a little longer that's it so once you've killed hell bale you've now beaten the game and you might be wondering what's next well you can either stay meteor and fireball and start magic finding anywhere you want or what most players do including myself respect into blizzard and then magic find in specific areas that are really good for items so if you're going blizzard i recommend andorial mephisto the ancient tunnels which is found in the lost city and the mausoleum which is found in the burial grounds these four areas are really great for magic finding and once you get some better gear then you can possibly respect into something else i find meteor and fireball to be the most fun because you can do chaos sanctuary you can do bales thrown room without issue you can farm the frigid highlands with eldritch and shank um but again if you want to do much faster runs then blizzard is the best but it's really up to you what you want to go the only other build that i can see recommending is lightning if you end up finding two burr runes for an infinity which is ladder only so if you are on single player you can't actually craft this so because of that lightning and fire aren't really worth going um so overall that's the guide here i hope you guys enjoyed the guide i hope it found it useful and i'll see you hopefully on my next video i can't carry any more the last of the three has fallen i am impressed you have overcome the greatest challenge this world has ever faced and defeated the last of the prime evils however we are too late to save the world stone bale's destructive touch has corrupted it completely given enough time the world stone's energies will drain away and the barriers between the worlds will shatter the powers of hell will flood into this sanctuary and eradicate your people and everything you've labored to build therefore i must destroy the corrupted world stone before the powers of hell take root this act will change your world forever with consequences even i cannot foresee however it is the only way to ensure mankind's survival now mortal i have opened a portal that will lead you to safety may the eternal light shine upon you and your descendants for what you've done this day the continued survival of mankind is your legacy above all else you have earned a rest from this endless battle so [Music] you

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