2010-01-17, 01:58 AM
It really depends though. In Single Players since the maps don't change unless manually rerolled, you can simply reroll until you get a good map and then any character that can kill fast and safe will do. Heck, I run Hell Meph with a summoner necro until I found all the non-armor parts of Immortal King Set (got lucky with the armor as I found it off a random mob pile in Travincical), which I used to make a barb as my current Meph runner. Summoners are good to MF run with anyways since you can literally sacrifice every single gear for MF due to the fact that you hardly take damage at all.
Sorceresses still shine in spots like Countess though, where there are five maps to go through, which means teleport is still a noticable improvement in speed no matter how good the maps are, and it's nigh impsossible to get five good maps anyways. Other than that I just don't like how little they have in way of defensive abilities. Speaking of which...
Energy Shield is a rather bad idea in general PvM no matter how you put it. For dedicated ES sorcs, you need to max Telekinesis to make the shield efficient whcih means less points to synergize attacks with, and you need to invest in Energy to ensure that the bulb absorb things. This is bad when Mana Burn mosnters show up, as due to a bug they do 256x the mana damage they're supposed to be doing (512x if they drain life or stamina as well), which means the bulb empties instantly BEFORE energy shield comes into play at all, so now you have half HP to take attacks with. Without telekenesis or mana investment, using ES basically amounts to giving everything around you mana burn. Sure it could potentially save you from something like an Extra Strong Frenzytaur while you're under Amplify Damage or something, but it's too much trouble to mantain. Not to mention it eats up three extra points due to prereq. A sorc with a lot of points in Vitality can take most attacks just fine anyways (unlike how squishy mages are in MS without Magic Guard).
Sorceresses still shine in spots like Countess though, where there are five maps to go through, which means teleport is still a noticable improvement in speed no matter how good the maps are, and it's nigh impsossible to get five good maps anyways. Other than that I just don't like how little they have in way of defensive abilities. Speaking of which...
Energy Shield is a rather bad idea in general PvM no matter how you put it. For dedicated ES sorcs, you need to max Telekinesis to make the shield efficient whcih means less points to synergize attacks with, and you need to invest in Energy to ensure that the bulb absorb things. This is bad when Mana Burn mosnters show up, as due to a bug they do 256x the mana damage they're supposed to be doing (512x if they drain life or stamina as well), which means the bulb empties instantly BEFORE energy shield comes into play at all, so now you have half HP to take attacks with. Without telekenesis or mana investment, using ES basically amounts to giving everything around you mana burn. Sure it could potentially save you from something like an Extra Strong Frenzytaur while you're under Amplify Damage or something, but it's too much trouble to mantain. Not to mention it eats up three extra points due to prereq. A sorc with a lot of points in Vitality can take most attacks just fine anyways (unlike how squishy mages are in MS without Magic Guard).