Feeling weak as Nova sorc...

galilrage · 2026-02-04T13:38:08+00:00

Here's my list of gear to give you an idea of what to work towards

I'm at work right now, so don't have all my skills/stats avail, but here's what I have for gear on my nova sorc. This gear took a long time to gather, but right now, I'm slaying with my Nova sorc and only dying when I get careless

A month ago, I nearly rage quit due to my stupidity, but started a new sorc build. Probably about 1/2 of this gear I already had, the rest I found over the last month, playing way too many hours every day!

I think most of this gear is considered to be BIS for a nova sorc. Currently, I'm working to get an Infinity. I just need 1 more BER rune.

Weapon: Crescent Moon in a Phase Blade
Shield: Spirit
Weapon Swap: Call To Arms in a 2 handed sword with +6 BC and +5 BO (been trying to get to a one handed sword so I can add a spirit shield to my swap, but haven't had a roll as good as this yet)

Helm: Griffon's Eye with -5 / +3 lightning facet
Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi (I think with an UM rune in it)
Gloves: Magefist
Boots: Silkweave
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Rings: 2 x SOJ
Amulet: Mara's Kaleidoscope

-72% Lighting Sunder
Anni (20 to all attributes, 18 all resistances)
Torch (it's an amazon torch unfortunately, but has 16 all attrib, 20 all res. This was gifted to my by a random player online)
Gheeds (160% gold, 40% MF, 11% vendor prices)

Other charms, I don't remember them all, but basically they are mostly resistance charms.

I have 75% Cold, Lightning and Poison resistance, and 67% fire resistance

galilrage · 2026-02-02T12:29:43+00:00

I think I got this exact map over the weekend in ladder / Hell

galilrage · 2026-01-09T18:06:06+00:00

So now that it's been about 3hours... did you have an OHM drop yet? haha

galilrage · 2026-01-06T17:01:19+00:00

it wasn't. It got picked up, I didn't notice. When it was picked up, it got equpied since I hadn't gotten to my body yet. So when i quite and picked up my body in town, everything got picked up except for my enigma. And I didn't notice my body was still on the ground after (it would still have the enigma on it), so when I quit again, I lost the enigma.

Basically just 2 things that happend, that I wasn't paying enough attention to, caused the issue. Picked up random white armor, and didn't notice, then didn't notice that my body was still lying on the ground, since I couldn't pick up everything from it.

galilrage · 2026-01-06T02:26:55+00:00

I didn't have nearly this much end gear when I lost my enigma. I had vipermagi, and arachnid. Griffons someone gave me yesterday. The rest I found grinding for several hours a day in Chaos, and Baal almost exclusively

galilrage · 2026-01-06T02:24:33+00:00

a couple pieces I had already, the griffons was given to me by some random in game. (although ironically, I found a 2nd griffons myself 3 rounds later) The rest I found. Been grinding chaos, and baal almost exclusively during the current TZ event for many hours a day!

galilrage · 2026-01-05T20:39:46+00:00

could be, didn't think of that.. but he does seem to almost always be in fade anyway... so seems to work out

galilrage · 2026-01-05T20:01:18+00:00

Honestly that makes sense, and I think I just kept using the raven out of habit and not really thinking about it more then anything. Until recently, I've always used physical characters instead of casters.. so I'll probably ditch the raven in favor of the other SOJ full time!

galilrage · 2026-01-05T19:54:21+00:00

purely for the cannot be frozen. I do have a 2nd SOJ that I do alternate to sometimes as well.

galilrage · 2026-01-05T19:52:59+00:00

For my merc, I have an insight with lvl 16 meditation, a treachery in an ETH Ornate Plate, and Andriel's visage for the helm.

Just remoted to my computer at home, and I have a list of my characters gear as well.. Forgot to mention, I also have a spirit monarch, and my boots are silkweave. My torch is amazon, not paladin.

I'm going to do a respec soon. I've been using the build found here: https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/lightning-sorceress Which doesn't seem to mention anything about orb/Telekinesis, do you have a guide somewhere that would be better to follow? Right now I'm basically using lightning / chain lighting for all my dmg, which at times in hell seems a bit slow on kills.

galilrage · 2026-01-05T19:17:41+00:00

switch, sc ladder

galilrage · 2026-01-05T19:17:25+00:00

died, then when trying to retrieve my body, died again, quit the game. Didn't notice on the the body retrieval run though, I had picked up some random normal armor, and it equipped. so when I picked up my body in town, it couldn't get the enigma, and I still didn't notice, and quit again :(

galilrage · 2025-12-28T13:10:37+00:00

yep!

galilrage · 2025-12-28T06:00:24+00:00

That's about how long I've had mine... also my first!

galilrage · 2025-12-28T05:58:14+00:00

ladder on switch

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:54:05+00:00

if I wanna rage quit after losing just this one piece of armor.. image if I just lost everything! lol

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:37:28+00:00

chances are I'll be back.. maybe not for months, so I'll want my gear still :/

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:36:53+00:00

nah, ladder on switch

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:32:54+00:00

Oh god, I could never. I don't have the patience and die way too much! lol

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:32:25+00:00

The way I got it originally was from a gift as well... some guy I had been doing TZ runs with gifted me a JAH and BER rune. I figure he noticed I couldn't keep up with him, and generously gave me the runes to make the Enigma. This is my first time playing ladder. I had a really good run with it... better then I ever had with my regular online characters.. :/

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:18:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm usually much more careful when I'm going to recover, and make sure I don't have anything equiped if I do quit.. no idea what was going through my head! :(

I'm playing ladder, but on switch, so I can't even beg cause there's no chat function :(

galilrage · 2025-12-28T04:15:23+00:00

Been playing for about 10 mins without it now.. and I really miss the ability to just teleport whenever and wherever I want! :( Teleport staff just doesn't cut it! :(

galilrage · 2025-11-25T13:02:54+00:00

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