In this post, you will find a handy Diablo 2 Resurrected Lightning Sorceress Build cheat sheet. There are skills, attributes, important breakpoints, equipment, mercenary, and farming locations suitable for the Lightning Sorceress Build.
For your convenience, we have made a table of contents with links to navigate this page.
Skills
Maxing Skill order (reaching skill level 20):
Lightning > Lightning Mastery > Chain Lightning > Charged Bolt > Nova
Useful skills (put at least 1 point here):
Teleport, Frozen Armor, Thunder Storm, Static Field, Warmth and Telekinesis.
Attributes
- Strength: Allows you to wear heavy weapons and armor, and increases the damage you deal with equipped weapon.
- Around 100-120 points for equipping gear, max required STR is 156 (for Monarch shield).
- Dexterity: Affects Attack Rating (your chance to hit) and Defense Rating (monster’s chance to hit player with physical attack). It also increases chance to block, allows to equip certain weapons (javelins, daggers, claws, and ranged) and their damage.
- None, not needed for gear or max block.
- Vitality: Increases the amount of Life and Stamina (yellow bar, energy for running) your character has.
- All other points (350+), for extra Life points.
- Energy: Determines the amount of Mana your character has.
- None, you’ll get enough mana from equipment.
Important Breakpoints
Breakpoints are the values at which spells, attacks and other animations become a frame faster or slower. Values must meet or exceed numbers to achieve that breakpoint or will cause no change until you meet or exceed the next breakpoint.
- Faster Cast Rate (FCR): 78% (13 Frames) or 117% (12 Frames)
- Increased Attack Speed (IAS): 0%
- Faster Hit Recovery (FHR): 60% (8 Frames) or 86% (7 Frames)
- Faster Block Rate (FBR): 0%
Equipment
Weapon
Alternatives:
Eschuta’s Temper
Spirit Runeword (Starter)
The Oculus (MF)
Shield
Monarch
Alternatives:
Lidless Wall
Splendor Runeword
Ancient’s Pledge Runeword (Starter)
Helm
Alternatives:
Harlequin Crest
Magic/Rare Circlet with +X to Sorceress/Lightning Skill Levels and Faster Cast Rate
Peasant Crown
Lore Runeword (Starter)
Body Armor
Alternatives:
Skin of the Vipermagi
Ormus’ Robes
Skullder’s Ire
Stealth Runeword (Starter)
Tal Rasha’s Guardianship (MF)
Belt
Alternatives:
Rare/Crafted Belt with Resistances
Tal Rasha’s Fine-Spun Cloth (MF)
Gloves
Alternatives:
Magefist
Trang-Oul’s Claws
Boots
Alternatives:
Sandstorm Trek
Aldur’s Advance
Amulet
Alternatives:
Rare/Crafted Amulet with +X to Sorceress/Lightning Skill Levels and Faster Cast Rate
Tal Rasha’s Adjudication (MF)
Rings
Alternatives:
Rare Rings with Faster Cast Rate, Resistances, Life
Nagelring (MF)
Sockets
Alternatives:
Ist Rune (MF)
Perfect Topaz (MF)
Charms
Additional:
Grand Charms with +1 to Lightning Skills (extra stat as + to Life / Faster Hit Recovery is a great bonus)
Small Charms with Resistances (extra stat as + to Life / Faster Hit Recovery / Better Chance of Getting Magic Items is a great bonus)
Gheed’s Fortune (MF)
For swap weapon setup use Call To Arms Runeword Weapon with Spirit Runeword Shield for Battle Command and Battle Orders buffs, but don’t forget to recast them.
Mercenary
A player can hire NPCs as mercenaries to fight alongside them. Only one mercenary can be active at a time and hiring a new one results in the dismissal of the current one. Weapons (related to merc type), body armor, and headgear can be equipped on the mercenaries, and they become much more useful with proper gear.
Important note: Ethereal items (have better base stats, such as damage or defense and lower requirements) do not lose durability when equipped on a Mercenary, greatly boosting their stats.
Mercenary: Desert Mercenary (Act 2), Offense: Might Aura.
- Weapon
- Best: Infinity Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher)
- Alternatives: Insight Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher or any other Polearm for starter)
- Body Armor
- Best: Fortitude Runeword (Ethereal Sacred Armor)
- Alternatives: Any armor with high Defense and Resistances/Life
- Helm
- Best: Andariel’s Visage (Ethereal, with Increased Attack Speed jewel)
- Alternatives: Any helm with high Defense, Life Stolen Per Hit and Resistances/Life
Farming Locations
Below are mentioned good farming zones for this build, with less (or none) monsters’ immunity to main skills damage.
- Act I
- The Countess
- The Pit
- Andariel
- Act II
- Arcane Sanctuary (Summoner)
- Act III
- Ruined Temple
- Mephisto
- Act IV
- Chaos Sanctuary
- Diablo
- Act V
- Eldritch the Rectifier
- Shenk the Overseer
- Pindleskin
- Drifter Cavern
- Nihlathak
- Worldstone Keep
- Throne of Destruction (Baal)
We hope this post was useful to you and found the best ways to build your Lightning Sorceress.