1. Heart from the Oak (Mace/Staff base, Ko+Vex+Pul+Thul)
+3 To All Skills
+40% Faster Cast Rate
+75% Damage To Demons
+100 To Attack Rating Against Demons
Adds 3-14 Cold Damage, 3 sec. Duration
7% Mana Stolen Per Hit
+10 To Dexterity
Replenish Life +20
Increase Maximum Mana by 15%
All Resistances +30-40
Level 4 Oak Sage (25 Charges)
Level 14 Raven (60 Charges)
HOTO is one of the best sorceress weapons. While you have multiple Orb choices to improve your damage, not one of them has defensive qualities for example HOTO’s huge boost for those resistances. If you want to possess a sort of weapon that not just has great offensive qualities, but could improve your survivability too, HOTO is definitely an optimal choice. Oak sage charges are an additional benefit. Buying d2 resurrected items and diablo 4 items can help boost your gear in D2R Ladder, which benefits physical damage dealers and specs that benefit from scaling.
2. Eschutas
+1-3 To Sorceress Skill Levels
+40% Faster Cast Rate
+10-20% To Fire Skill Damage
+10-20% To Lightning Skill Damage
+20-30 To Energy
The best damage selection for Fire and Lightning variants, providing the same + skills (3 max) and FCR as HOTO with additional fire and lightweight damage. The tradeoff would be the stats, Replenished life, and resistances that will detract from your survivability. The huge bonus to energy on Eschutas is usually overlooked but is extremely valuable for increased survivability for Energy Shield variants.
3. Death's Fathom
+3 To Sorceress Skill Levels
+20% Faster Cast Rate
+15-30% To Cold Skill Damage
Lightning Resist +25-40%
Fire Resist +25-40%
The best damage selection for Cold Variants. Boosting your cold damage considerably, too by offering some FCR too as Lightning and Fire resistance. With the mixture of Death’s Fathom and Nightwing’s you'll deal considerable damage but tight on FCR obtainable in Helm and Weapon slots compared to Fire and Lightning Sorcs. This means the 200FCR breakpoint is unavailable to meta Cold Sorcs.
4. Oculus Swirling Crystal
+3 To Sorceress Skill Levels
+5 To Mana After Each Kill
All Resistances +20
25% Chance To Cast Level 1 Teleport When Struck
+30% Faster Cast Rate
+20 To Vitality
+20 To Energy
+20% Enhanced Defense
50% Better Chance Of Getting Magic Items
A fantastic all-rounder, that's easier to find compared to the top 3 mentioned. When compared with HOTO, the raw stats don't compare favorably. However, the large boost to MF provided by Occy makes this the best selection for magic-finding builds, no matter the skill tree choice. Given that this is actually the BiS item for that specialized reason for farming items, the Ist rune is usually socketed to help optimize for you.
5. Infinity (Polearm/Spear base, Ber+Mal+Ber+Ist)
50% Chance To Cast Level 20 Chain Lightning When You Kill An Enemy
Level 12 Conviction Aura When Equipped
+35% Faster Run/Walk
+255-325% Enhanced Damage
-(45-55)% To Enemy Lightning Resistance
40% Chance of Crushing Blow
Prevent Monster Heal
0.5-49.5 To Vitality (Based on Character Level)
30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Level 21 Cyclone Armor (30 Charges)
Infinity is the greatest mercenary weapon with regard to offensive qualities. While it deals a decent amount of harm, additionally, it provides Conviction Aura which reduces monster resistances by 85% and may often break monster immunities. While Infinity is generally considered a runeword for mercs (given it is only able to be made in 6 socket polearms), the Self-wielding Infinity is typical among Lightning Sorcs, who would like to free up the Merc weapon slot while retaining Conviction Aura (Conviction is integral to successful Hell farming). This is generally built in a non-ethereal lower requirement polearm which allows you to use the Cyclone armor charges and repair them). This build is mainly used on the Nova / Energy Shield variant using the Merc-wielding Insight. Meditation Aura offers substantial survivability benefits to have an ES Sorc. The lack of defensive stats from the Shield in this instance is mitigated through the increased survivability from ES.
6. Spirit (Sword base, Tal+Thul+Ort+Amn)
+2 To All Skills
+25-35% Faster Cast Rate
+55% Faster Hit Recovery
Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage
Adds 3-14 Cold Damage 3 Second Duration
+75 Poison Damage Over 5 Seconds
7% Life Stolen Per Hit
+250 Defense Vs. Missile
+22 To Vitality
+89-112 To Mana
+3-8 Magic Absorb
Spirit may be the budget version of HOTO when used like a weapon and is definitely an awesome weapon for ladder starts or lower-level characters. It is adequate for that end game too, and incredibly few weapons provide more useful stats than the usual Spirit sword. The runes can easily be acquired after Normal difficulty, and you will find a sword base in Normal Cow Level. A very low-quality option that can be produced early in your leveling phase. The stats are extremely good for any gap filler, and also you receive a rarely-seen weapon mod (FHR)
7. Insight (Staff/Polearm base, Ral+Tir+Tal+Sol)
Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped
+35% Faster Cast Rate
+200-260% Enhanced Damage
+9 To Minimum Damage
180-250% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 5-30 Fire Damage
+75 Poison Damage Over 5 Seconds
+1-6 To Critical Strike
+5 To All Attributes
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
23% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Insight is one of the best mercenary runewords for any sorceress. Not only does it give a huge amount of harm, additionally, but it also grants Meditation Aura that takes care of your mana needs and helps make the gameplay experience much faster and smoother.