This is for a Blizzard Sorc
I have a skill/item setup, but I don't really know about stats. Well, here goes.
Skills:
20 Icebolt
20 IceBlast
20 Glacial Spike
20 Blizzard
5 Cold Mastery
1 Frozen Orb
1 Frost Nova
1 Frozen Armor, 1 Shiver Armor, and 1 Chilling Armor
1 Warmth
1 Static Field, 1 Telekinesis, and 1 Teleport
This requires 94 skills, and if you do all the skill quests, you should be a lvl 82 by now. After this, max cold mastery, as it PWNS because of the -resistance.
For stats, I am sort of winging it, but this seems good
Str: Enough for Equipment
Dex: Enough for Max Block
Vit: 2/3 rest of points
Energy: 1/3 rest of points
Items
Helm: Harlequin Crest; Delerium
Armor: Ormus's Robes; Chains of Honor; Enigma
Weapon: 1-Hand Eschuta's Temper; Death's Fathom (ladder).
Weapon: 2-Hand Ondal's Wisdom; Mang Song's Lesson (ladder)
Sheild: Lidless Wall
Belt: Snowclash; Arachnid Mesh
Ammy: +3 Cold Skill w/ Mf; Mara's Kaleidiscope
Rings: 2x Soj (2x Nagels for MF)
Boots: War Traveler
Gloves: Upgraded Chances
Switch Weapon: Gull Switch Sheild: Rhyme, 4ist Monarch (for you rich people)
This build should give you a decent +skills and if you use Ormuses' Robes:
Defense: 371-487 (varies)(Base Defense: 361-467)
Required Level: 75
Required Strength: 77
Durability: 20
+10-20 Defense (varies)
+20% Faster Cast Rate
+10-15% To Cold Skill Damage (varies)
+10-15% To Fire Skill Damage (varies)
+10-15% To Lightning Skill Damage (varies)
+3 bonus to a random Sorceress skill*
Regenerate Mana 10-15% (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)
The Percentage to skill damage is very good.
And don't count Tal Rasha's Wrappings out either. It helps out cold a lot more than it does anything else (+15 cold skill; partial set bonus of his orb).
Alternate build with Tal's, I have used this and it worked very well with my hydra/orb 1.09 sorc.
Helm: Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest
Armor: Tal Rasha's Guardianship
Weapon: Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye
Sheild: Lidless Wall
Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth
Ammy: Tal Rasha's Adjudication
Rings: 2x Soj (2x Nagels for MF)
Boots: War Traveler
Gloves: Upgraded Chances
If you socket an ist rune into the orb and the sheild and topazes in the armor and helm, your magic find should be 356 (358 with ists in helm and armor) if everything is perfect (65% set bonus). And if you switch on perfect nagels it would be 416 (418). With some 7% charms, that is pretty good mf without sacrifing damage/runtime.
I hope someone posts a Lightning and Melee Build. I may come back and type up a Hybrid one.
Thanks
It has been a pleasure writing this up. Post your thoughts, HandOfHeaven.