Having a paladin with Conviction aura or a necromancer with the Lower resist curse can greatly increase your damage output. The build is capable of dealing an insane amount of damage in parties, and others can help protect you in difficult situation. Playing in a party: In parties, members can take advantage of your fast teleporting ability to reach bosses quickly. In case you face a dual immune monster, you can still tele-stomp it and let your mercenary kill it via physical damage. Playing solo: You can solo the entire game, as you will deal damage from two different elemental damage skills. Having a skill point on Warmth, Insight runeword on merc, or prayer aura on your merc can help this issue.

Uses a lot of mana, so need mana or rejuv potions.

Solo Baal or Chaos runs are doable within 3-4 minutes in high-end gear.

Fun to play with and skills can be used in versatile ways.Super fast clearspeed, high single target damage and high area damage.As with all sorceress build, the downside is it’s fragility, and because of that i do not suggest it for Hardcore unless you are very skilled at teleporting away from Mobs. Baal and Chaos runs will be doable in 3-4 minutes, and you will be able to deal with Uber Diablo, however you will have difficulties at Uber Tristram.

Your are damage and single target damage will both be amazing. You can also use Glacial Spike to Freeze targets, which comes handy in many situation. However you can also efficiently combine Frozen Orb with Fire Wall or Hydra. The most common type of hybrid is a combination of Frozen Orb with Lightning/Chain Lightning, or Frozen Orb with Meteor. Frozen Orb is a cornerstone skill in both builds, as it deals a great amount of damage and has only one synergy skill. Hybrid sorcs are usually Cold Skill + Fire skill or Cold Skill+ Lightning Skill variants. It’s a great ladder starter, can effectively farm any area even in budget gear, deals a great amount of single target and area damage, can have very high magic find % while still dealing decent damage and can also achieve very fast casting speeds and teleport, so it really is a jack of all trades. The hybrid sorc is one of the most popular and efficient builds in D2.

Diablo 2 solo sorceress build