This is the second page of the sorceress section of my Complete Character Set-Up Guide in ebay.  The character which I am going to discuss is the most commonly-used one - Magic Finding Blizzard Sorceress.

For the ease of your reading, I use summary format to describe all the details, (1) basic information, (2) stats distribution, (3) skill allocation, (4) gear requirements, (5) inventory, (6) hirelings, (7) Strategic Advices and (8) best magic finding locations.

(1) Basic Information

Many Diablo 2 players have at least one blizzard sorceress in their account because they believe that it is not hard to set up a decent one and the gear is not so expensive and rare.  There is right or wrong for or against this argument.  I personally would advise you to build one but would not recommend you only use blizzard sorceress to do magic finding ("MF").  Having one MF hammerdin on top of a blizzard sorceress will be an excellent choice among all. 

(2) Stats Distribution

• Strength: Around 156 points on strengths (inclusive with the boosted stats points from items you wear and charms you carry in the inventory) is just good enough for the sorceress to wear all necessary items, such as ISTed stormshield or 4xISTed Monarch.
• Dexterity: 75 points on dexterity(inclusive with the boosted stats points from items you wear and charms you carry in the inventory)
• Energy: Around 100(also inclusive with the boosted stats points from items you wear and charms you carry in the inventory)
• Vitality: The remaining points of your stats should be put here to boost her life.

(3) Skills Allocation

• Ice Bolt = 20 (before any skill point added by your gear)
• Ice Blast = 20 (Ditto)
• Glacial Spike = 20 (Ditto)
• Blizzard = 20 (Ditto)
• Static = 1
• Teleport = 1
• Warmth = 1 or few points more on your own preference.
• Energy Shield = 1
• Prequisites for above = 1 for telekinesis, 1 for chain lightning,1 for lightning,1 for charged bolt,1 for frost nova.
• Frozen or shiver armor = I personally don't recommend you add any point on these two as your act 2 hireling will be able to freeze your enemies and protect you against cold-immune monsters PLUS that the points you save from here can be added to other more-important skills, like cold mastery and warmth, which enhances your chance of survival.
• Rest to be invested on Cold Mastery

(4) Gears Requirements (Best Option)

• Helm - Harlequin Shako socketed with perfect topaz or ist rune
• Amulet - Perfect 30% mara, fletch amulet, +2 to cold amulet with 35% mf and resistances OR tal rasha's amulet
• Armor - Enigma runeword archon plate armor is the best.
• First Set Weapon - First weapon = Perfect 30% cold damage Death Fathom Dimensional Shard(socketed with IST rune)  or Occulus Orb (socketed with IST rune) is a low-cost choice
• Second Set weapon for switching = at least 4-6-2 call-to-arms runeword ("CTA") flail or crystal sword (battle order must be +6)
• Shield - First Set shield = ISTed Stormshield (with Death Fathom or Occulus Orb) and second shield for switching = Lidless Grim shield or Spirit Runeword Shield(with CTA flail or crystal sword)
• Belt = Perfect 15% magic find tal rasha's mesh belt(because of the magic find % boost and the +37% damage to mana(so that you don't need to invest a lot of stats points on the energy shield)
• Gloves = Up'd frostburn gauntlets or Up'd magefist gloves.
• Boots = Perfect 50% MF war traveler battle boots
• Ring 1 = One legit Soj
• Ring 2 = raven frost ring because of the "cannot be frozen" stats or one nagel ring with perfect 30% mf.

(4) Inventory

• Good Annihilus & sorceress hellfire torch (at least 3/16/16) - better get one with higher resistances
• Some small faster hit recovery charms with +20 life and some small 7% magic find charms with 5% resistance to all
• at least 4 cold skill charms with 12% faster hit recovery

(5) Hireling

• Nightmare Act 2 Defensive with holy freeze skill
• Equipped him with close-to-perfect ethereal infinity runeword cryptic axe (with such conviction aura in this weapon, it helps your sorceress even the cold-immune beasts!)
• Equipped him with ethereal fortitude runeword armor (this boosts his damage by 300%)
• Equipped him with ethereal andariel visage helm (10% life stolen per hit) or ethereal Crown of Thieves (12% life stolen per hit); if possible, add a jewel with the mods of faster hit recovery plus resistances to all.  I personally prefer Crown of thieves because it gives higher life stolen per hit, 50 to life and without lowering down the original fire resistances.

(6) Strategic Advices (Below just few suggestions)

• Cast Blizzard and back off from the group of monsters or demons.  Don't be blocked by monsters into narrow places, corners, caves or tiny places
• Teleport away if you got stuck with loads of souls and immune creatures, that is, reposition yourself when your blizzard skill cannot hit your enemies.
• Cast battle command, energy shield, battle order and again battle command (in this order) before you enter the battlefield.
• use F1-F8 function to preset up your skills so that you can switch skills easily during your killing

(7) Best magic finding locations

• Andariel and mephisto - it will give decent drops such as medium to high elite uniques.
• Pindleskin - good for getting good elite unique items but no high rune.
• The countess - not only for finding keys but also a good place to find majority of runes, like um, mal, ist and even vex.  However, it seldom drops any high rune above vex.
• The pit - good for finding good elite open-socket items like 3-socket high defense archon plate, ethereal berserker axes and cryptic axes.
• Baal - good mf drops, worth to do it often.  I got many ohm, um and zod runes from him.

With all the above and your own wise strategies, your sorceress will be powerful enough to do magic finding and her hireling will also be good to back up your character.

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