Sorceress

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Amazon Assassin Barbarian Druid Necro Paladin Sorceress A rebellious woman who has wrested the secrets of magic use from the male dominated Mage-Clans of the East, the Sorceress is an expert in mystical creation ex nihilo. Though somewhat lacking in the skills of hand-to-hand combat, she compensates for this weakness with fierce combative magic for both offense and defense. Solitary and reclusive, the Sorceress acts based on motives and ethics inscrutable to most, and sometimes seems capricious and even spiteful. In reality, she understands the struggle between Order and Chaos all too clearly, as well as her role as a warrior in this battle. History The female mage clan of Zann Esu is one of the oldest of the ancient clans, although little is actually known about them. Centuries ago, the fourteen powerful covens of Esu witches convened for the first time in generations. What they discussed is not known, but the witches left behind their former lives and, as a group, disappeared into the Eastern jungles. The exact location of their community is a mystery. Until recently, their only contact with the outside world occurred during the recruitment missions. Once every seven years, the Zann Esu visit certain families across Sanctuary. These families have only one thing in common - they each have a seven-year-old daughter. Always good-natured and polite, the Zann Esu visitors meet the girls, ask a few questions and then leave. A select few of the girls are visited a second time and offered apprenticeships. The families of those chosen enjoy good fortune for many years. The Zann Esu, or Sorceresses as they are generally known, are on a quest for the "perfect" magic in its purest form. They feel that the other disciplines of magic are haphazard, and have instead chosen to focus strictly upon elemental magic. They mold the base elements into whatever magical forms they need - threatening all other magic disciplines with obsolescence. In order to achieve perfection in these elemental transmutations, they choose only those daughters of Sanctuary with the highest level of attunement to the magical elements. The Sorceresses believe that it is through the search for perfection that they will attain ultimate purity and ascend to their destined role as the most powerful mages in Sanctuary. For centuries they have studied in secret, perfecting their art and biding their time until the Emergence of Evil. Then, they will face their greatest challenge, either proving the purity of their magic or fading from existence. The Zann Esu oracles have decreed that the time of the Emergence is at hand. The destruction of the Prime Evils is to be the great test of their clan. Recently, Sorceresses have appeared mysteriously throughout Sanctuary to do battle with the minions of Evil wherever they are found. Attribute Attribute Level 1 /Level /Point Strength 10 Dexterity 25 Attack Rating 75 +5 Defense 6 +0.25 Vitality 10 Stamina 74 +1 +1 Life 40 +1 +2 Energy 35 Mana 35 +2 +2 Point: Attribute point invested, or bonus (+ Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Energy, and All Attributes) from items equipped and charms in inventory outside the Horadric Cube. Base defense is Dexterity/4, rounded down to the nearest point. Displayed life and mana are rounded down to the nearest point, but actual life and mana are rounded down to the nearest bit (1/256 point). Skills Athletic, affable, and self-assured, Sorceresses hardly seem like scholarly bibliophiles hidden away from civilization. Sorceresses possess many of the same skills as the male members of the Eastern mage clans, but excel at the use of Elemental magic. Like most mages, they consider melee combat vulgar, and use magic almost exclusively to fight their enemies. Fire Bolt Warmth Inferno Blaze Fire Ball Fire Wall Enchant Meteor Fire Mastery Hydra

Charged Bolt Static Field Telekinesis Nova Lightning Chain Lightning Teleport Thunder Storm Energy Shield Lightning Mastery

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1. Ice Bolt
2. Frozen Armor
3. Frost Nova
4. Ice Blast
5. Shiver Armor
6. Glacial Spike
7. Blizzard
8. Chilling Armor
9. Frozen Orb
10. Cold Mastery

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Movement

Attack rate

• TitanSeal, Attack Speed Calculator (inDiablo.de)
• Sorceress attack rate

Block rate

The table below lists the minimum Faster Block Rate required to reduce the number of frames in the blocking animation and thus increase its speed. >140 FBR is beyond reach in the unmodified game.

State	Frames
	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2
Sorceress				0	7	15	27	48	86	200	4,680
Werebear	0	5	10	16	27	40	65	109	223	1,320

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• Sorceress can become a Werebear by using Beast Rune Word's Werebear oskill.

Cast rate

The table below lists the minimum Faster Cast Rate required to reduce the number of frames in the casting animation and thus increase its speed. Action frame is the frame in which casting actually takes place: when the animation is interrupted before this frame has displayed then casting does not occur, so the earlier it occurs the less likely the animation is to be interrupted before casting.

Frames	19	18	17		16	15	14		13	12	11
Action	7			6				5				4
Lightning and Chain Lightning	0	7	15	20	23	35	52	63	78	117	194	200

• Inferno uses the same casting animation as Lightning and Chain Lightning, but its cast rate cannot be changed.

Frames	13	12	11	10	9	8	7
Action	7		6		5		4
All other skills	0	9	20	37	63	105	200

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Hit recovery

The table below lists the minimum Faster Hit Recovery required to reduce the number of frames in the hit recovery animation and thus increase its speed. >594 FHR is beyond reach in the unmodified game.

State	Frames
	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4
Sorceress	0	5	9	14	20	30	42	60	86	142	280	1,480
Werebear			0	5	10	16	24	37	54	86	152	360

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• Sorceress can become a Werebear by using Beast Rune Word's Werebear oskill.

Strategy and guides

• The Master Sorceress Thread (Sorceress Room)
• Relic, Gouda, the Orb/Ranged Enchantress
• Skie, The Tao of Magic Find
• ThePlatypus, Perpendicular Pyromania - How to use Fire Wall effectively

Reference

• Sorceress (Arreat Summit)
• Paladin Blocking as Werebear (Technical Discussion)
• Librarian, Stairway to Heaven - Status Tables for all Classes (FAQtoids)
• Nefarius, CharStats.txt (Phrozen Keep)
• RTB, Animations'n'stuff'n'stats (GamersOasis.net)
• TitanSeal, FAQ - Bewegungs- und Animationsgeschwindigkeiten Teil 1 (inDiablo.de)