Killing The Ancients In Hell

[reincarnation_hell]

I am having a hard time with this. I built a sorc and around level 67 I attempted to kill the ancients. of course I pulled a dumass and put all my skillpoints in fire skills, not knowing talic was immune to it. ten levels of brutal genocide later i find myself with ten skill points but im not sure exactly what skill is the quickest and most effective skill for chiseling away his hp while maintaining a safe distance to prevent me from overusing potions, and consequently getting my ass handed to me. I almost was gonna put them in lightning, but its reasonably diffucult to turn and aim at him. on top of that the time she takes to stand in one spot and channel the spell leaves me as an easy target. I really want to put the few points i have into something practical, but what?

[Gabriell]

i'm sure you know it but i feel must to tell you.don't you use static field.you know it's the best for a sorc in any situation.use it as much as you can and live the rest to your mercanary.
it's a light advise i know but i can't find anything else.

[reincarnation_hell]

i have one problem with static field, as long as ive been playing d2 im still not very clear on exactly what it is static field does. the whole concept is real edgy to me. if you can please explain in detail how the damage system works and any other effects it might have

[Gabriell]

static field is more likely hp reduction than damaging.you reduce your enemy's life in a single moment with a certain percent.For different difficulties,there are different limits.I'm not so sure about the numbers right now but for hell,it's about %50 percent of your target's life.this means you can suddenly reduce your target's hp to half of it(in 2 or 3 times).for sorc,this is the most important skill because even bosses don't have any speciallies or immunities against this skill.
But lightning resistance is a parameter,don't forget that.
static field always reduces the same percent.even at the 1. level.with saving skill points on it,you only change it's range.so 10 is very enough if you want to use.
You should only get used to switch quickly between static field and teleport...

[reincarnation_hell]

Is static field effected by lightning mastery at all?

[Gabriell]

no because there is no certain damage for static field.it depends on to the target's life.so it doesn't recieve any bonus from masteries.

[skilla215]

Aight, Bucko heres what ya do... You get ice orb + tele you place tele on secondary atk(where your spells norm go) and you place ice orb on Primary atk and you hop around them and rape them basically it may take like 1 min but it will work more than static field trust me

[dexterpowa]

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