Shiver Armor gives you a bonus to armor. Beldandy, my level 60 sorceress, has over 1500 armor with that spell enhancing her armor. (3-4 skill points are OK)

Chilling Armor: DON╢T use that because it is too expensive and ineffective. Warmth indicates the speed of regenerating mana: it╢s good to have lots of warmth, but don╢t put too many skillpoints into that. (The power of your spells is more important, you should have lots of mana/rejuvenation-potions with you anyway).

Glacier Spike freezes the enemies (for a short time) and damages them (not only the one you hit, but also the ones standing next to them).

Blizzard reminds me of the Warcraft II spell of the same name: an ice rain goes down damaging all enemies within that area.

Frozen Orb is a great attack spell in higher levels and for player duels. Cold mastery is not too important in Nightmare, but in Hell many monsters have a high (cold) resistance (well, they like it hot in hell, isn╢t it?). So put at least 3-4 skillpoints into cold mastery to reduce their restistance to your Ice spells. Tough enemies you can kill with Glacier Spike (freezes them), some Blizzards (more Blizzards at the same place: damage will be added!) and static field. The only disadvantage of Ice Magic is that a Necromancer (there might be one in your party) can╢t revive cold-killed monsters.

Static Field is one of the most important spells to kill the bosses: all enemies in range will loose 25% of their (actual!) lifepoints. So weaken the boss with four Static Fields and then give it some Glacier Spikes. More skillpoints in Static Field will only make the range better, not the percentage, about 3-4 skillpoints in Static Field is enough.

Some players suggest teleportation: I didn╢t like it. My tip is get a wand with Teleportation and test it if you like it before wasting skillpoints on it.

Manashield: a nice addition to shiver armor. Here╢s a nice trick (c) by Christian Wizzard *smile* buy a staff with manashield (only go for manashield-3!) at Ormus in Act-3. (go to him, and if he hasn╢t got any just use the waypoint and back to Kurast and ask him again). Before going out of town for battles, equip this staff, use Manashield (EnergieSchild in German) and equip your normal staff again (should be a +1 staff or an +Glacier Spike / +Blizzard / +Frozen Orb staff). Now you have without wasting important skillpoints a level3-manashield. (it gets stronger when you have skill+1 items equipped.) It╢s worth the work and looks cool.

Don╢t put any skillpoints into other spells and only one spellpoint into those spells you need for getting the right ones in cold spell path. Why do I tell you this? Well, most beginners like fancy spells like Fireball or Charged Bolt (that one was great in Diablo1). But in Nightmare and Hell you will encounter lots of monsters with hundreds of hitpoints, and those spells won╢t help you even on high levels. If you like to use a spell without spending skillpoints, use staffs!

Stats: where to put my character-points for a sorceress? Yes, energy is important but not the only thing. My first points go into strength (then you can use some nice basic armors) and vitality. In all playing Diablo2 I never invested into Dexerity (Sorceress)! You just don╢t need it, there are nice weapons you can get without much dex (beginners should try and trade or somehow lend the "Iron Jang Bong", a +1skill-staff with good damage). After advancing some levels you should then upgrade your mana and life.

I╢ve read in many newsgroups that a Sorceress doesn╢t need good armors because she won╢t fight in melee combat. Sure, I wish that too, but there are so many situations you won╢t be able to avoid getting hit. (ever spared with Duriel? ;-) And I don╢t have to talk about that baaad lag in BattleNet (time-stops in that the monsters keep hitting your poor cute Sorceress while you sit in front of the monitor (frozen game), wait and say "please let me do something!"). Good (not so expensive in trading) beginners-armor are Viadlas-Armor, Arctic-Armor (many green SET-items).

If playing in closed BattleNet try to get that during your first levels. (the uniques "Hands of Broc" and the Death-Set-Belt are nice items for a beginner Sorceresses, too) I recommend not to go over 70/80 in strength, for that you can trade armors up to 700 AC!! (additional trading tip: try to trade some worthy items like nightsmoke, magefists or even wormskull and frostburn and trade those for a GOOD armor). Nice mageplates should have AC from 200 - 400 (not only AC is important but try to get a rare armor with additional stats like +life and good resistances).

Stuff your Sorceress will need:

- boots of fastest going / running

- items which give fast(est) cast rate

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