I wanted to thank everyone that responded to my last post. Everyone gave good advice, and hearing that everyone hit a wall they had to just grind through helped a lot.
Took my sorceress and mixed things up. Didn’t focus on one element, and tried to match attributes in the skill tree instead of elements. Still have hydra as my main focus, but I rely very heavily on chain lighting and frost nova. I was actually able to finish act II.
Again, thank you all for the awesome words. You guys a super swell!
Hell yeah! Good work on getting past the wall. Making things vulnerable is super key to dealing good damage in Diablo IV so make sure you concentrate on those, especially as a sorc.
If frost nova is your jam, highly recommend you seek out the aspect that gives you two frost nova charges. It might put you off at first due to the 30% increase in cooldown per charge, but it’s immediately made up by the fact that the 2 charges give you 2 cooldown timers that overlap, so you’ll be able to put down frost nova way more frequently. Also, invest into the Elemental Attunement passive so that your lucky hits have a chance to reset your cooldowns. With my ice shards build, I have a really high chance of resetting my frost nova, so I am basically applying Frost Nova once every 5 seconds on average.
Also, another thing to note is that hydra will not be as good endgame, so don’t heavily skew your builds towards it because it will get outdated. It will be less effective as a damage dealer and become more of a means to apply Burning. It’s great for < lvl 50 though.
The news about hydra in the end game makes me sad. In D3 I loved just throwing two of my hydras in a room before I opened the door and watch them clear the room and I mop up the elite. Guess I’ll have to focus on zapping people after I freeze them.