
Some people might think the downside of nova is its weak vs bosses. You end up 1-hit killing every single thing act 1-2-3, and it simply takes 2-3 hits to kill anything in act 4-5 Turns out the average life monsters have in hell is also around 7k This means you deal 7k dmg on the whole screen each cast. Maxed dmg build, you can look at 3.5k average nova damage, with all monsters having -100 res

I've been carefully testing all imaginable builds on d2 with hero editor, for testing what is the fastest possible clear speed in the game.Ĭomes out the nova sorc is #1, and by far (yes I was surprised) I think this kind of sorc is commonly not even considered as an option.īut let me tell you that if you run 1 player games, you might have missed something.
