To transition from sorcerer Hydra Ice Orb to Blizzard, when how and why on Diablo 2 Resurrected!

When and why to transition to Blizzard?

The Ice Orb Hydra sorcerer makes it easy to manage immunes with very little equipment. However, with good equipment, you will be more effective with Blizzard due to the damage of the spell, even if you lose your ability to kill cold immunes. Here are the crucial objects before transitioning:

1. A solid mercenary, he will be your only source of anti-cold
   • Eth Insight CV - Lifesteal Helmet - Treachery - Call to Arms CTA (same tier 1)
2. The two crucial objects for playing cold
   • Death Fathom and Nightwing, take low stats to start with, also consider cold 4/4 gems which are very affordable
   • I remind you that you must have his items to considerably boost your damage

Statistics

Here are the character stats:

skills

Here are your final skills:

Detail:

• Ice Blast hits much harder than Ice Spike (or Ice Bolt)
• Ice Spike just allows you to apply even more control effect and remains of little use
• Use Blizzard for packs and combine with Ice Blast for bosses and elites

Blizzard Sorcerer Skills

Equipment

Here are the Blizzard Sorcerer Items:

• Helmet: Nightwing Nightsail with Cold RBF Jewels
• Shield: Spirit 35 fcr
• Armor, belt, amulet: Tal, with topaz on the armor
• Weapon: Death Fathom DF with cold RBF jewels
• Gloves: Trang Oul
• Boots: Sandstorm or Waterwalk or War Traveler or Infernal March
• Ring: two resistance or MF rings
• Switch: CTA 1 or 2 and Spirit
• Charms: non-sorcerer torch, annihilus, resistance and MF charms

Mercenary, choice, equipment and leveling

Choice of mercenary:

• Act 2 Power, then Act 5 Frenzy

PvP version

This build is also very strong in PvP, you can easily kill your enemies with a Blizzard, the hardest part being hitting them!

Next equipment

Although you can do P7 on a large number of instances, here are the next steps for equipping:

• A sorcerer's torch
• Better DF and NW
• Change your Tal Rasha gear (upcoming update)
• Possibly cold damage charms

Gameplay

Here are some examples of instances that can be easily done with the sorcerer:

• P5 Tomb, Summoner and Mephisto, you can also do it in P7
• P5 Diablorun
• Speed ​​Diablorun
• Uber Diablo, you will also very easily be able to kill it even with several people in the game

History

• 1.0: creation

By Alchemists, March 2022