All about skills, stats and equipment for the Diablo 2 Firewall Sorceress build
The Fire Wall Sorceress is a build based on the Fire Wall Spell.
The high bonus granted by the Fire Mastery grants is making Fire Wall deal extreme amounts of damage. Also, it has some synergies with Warmth spell (+4% damage per level) and Inferno (1% damage per level).
Still, the Inferno only grants a small boost, so it’s valuable to focus on other skills too.
When Fire Wall is maxed out or at a high level, it is capable of doing excessive amounts of damage each second. However, the spell deals DoT (damage over time) in a set area. This is the main weakness of the build. An enemy can avoid its damage by simply stepping out of it. As a result, this build isn’t made for PvP. It’s more effective versus monsters though.
In addition, most monsters in Hell mode are Fire Immune. Because of that, a Fire Wall Sorceress usually follows one of the following paths:
Regardless of the route, you’re going to follow, invest a point to each of the following skills: Teleport, Static field, Enchant, Frozen Armor (try to keep this active all the time) and their prerequisites. As the Fire Wall requires a lot of mana, it’s recommended to max out Warmth and Fire Mastery too.
Strength is useful only for enabling you to equip the proper items, so you shouldn’t invest more than that.
Keep Dexterity at the base.
To increase your sustainability, you have to invest a lot of points to Vitality.
With the aid of the Warmth spell supplying you with mana, you shouldn’t invest more than a few points to Energy.
Fire Wall Sorceress usually plays as a hybrid, so finding the proper items isn’t a piece of cake. The most suitable items are those that grant bonus Fire Damage or bonus to all skills, such as the following items:
Helmet: a rare circlet with +2 to all Sorceress Skills
Amulet: Mara’s Kaleidoscope
Weapon: Eschuta’s Temper
Armor: Ormus’ Robes
Shield: Spirit (+2 to all skills)
Gloves: Magefist
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Boots: Sandstorm Trek
Rings: Bul-Kathos’ Wedding Band
Weapon Swap: Call to Arms, Spirit
Charms: Annihilus and Hellfire Torch
A defensive mercenary (from Act 2 Nightmare) with Holy Freeze is the best company for a Fire Wall Sorceress.