It performed well as a boss killer, the act bosses were relatively easy as a result, just toss the merc potions to face-tank and keep blizzard raining and add a few hydras for the bosses vulnerable to fire. The synergy allows both elements to do maximum damage simultaneously, so while each does about half with not all the synergies maxed, together the damage output - especially for a single target - was very high.

Hydras act like hunting dogs too, you can cast them in front of you and they will fire at anything nearby.

If anyone cares, since I know it’s not popular, blizzard and hydra synergize really well as you can fire off hydras while blizzard is raining and cooling down. I got lucky that he had good armor and an insight polearm with a pretty decent base damage.įor gear I only used what dropped to a newbie char and the game was hard, but not impossible, somehow 20 years ago doing this felt impossible. Merc face tanked the last one (who was fire/cold immune) with me tossing him a few potions. I used no cheese on the ancients, didn’t bug the merc, I used very few potions, just kited them through a never ending rain of hydras and blizzards. The ancients were the hardest fight in the game. Loved the automatic fire of both elements, and single element immunes were no problem.

It’s an unusual build but did what I wanted so I thought I would post. My first char in 20 years just soloed the whole game, killed baal at lvl 81.

Blizzard sorc build diablo 2