Hydra Fireball Sorceress
Teleport
Transform into lightning becoming Unstoppable and surging to the target location dealing 25% damage around you upon arrival.
Ice Armor
A Barrier of ice forms around you for 6 seconds, absorbing 30% of your Base Life in damage. While Ice Armor is active, 5% of your damage dealt is added to Barrier.
Flame Shield
Engulf yourself in flames for 2 seconds, Burning surrounding enemies for 40% damage per second.
Fireball
Hurl an exploding ball of fire, dealing 60% damage to surrounding enemies.
Hydra
Summon a 3-headed Hydra for 10 seconds. Each head spits fire at enemies, dealing 14% damage. Maximum 1 active Hydra at a time.
GEAR VIEW
| Slot | Gem | Aspect/Unique | Aspect/Unique | Gem | Slot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Harlequin Crest Gain 10% - 20% Damage Reduction. In addition, gain +4.0 Ranks to all Skills. | Melted Heart of Selig Gain 60 Maximum Resource. 75% of incoming damage drains 2 Resource for every 1% of Life you would have lost instead. |  |  |
 | | Raiment of the Infinite After using Teleport, Close enemies are pulled to you and Stunned (CC) for 2 - 3 seconds, but Teleport's Cooldown is increased by x 20.0%. | Ring of Starless Skies Spending resources reduces your resource costs and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to 40%. | |  |
 | Conceited Aspect Deal x 15 - 25% increased damage while you have a Barrier active. | X'Fal's Corroded Signet Your Damage over Time effects have up to a 50% chance to erupt, dealing # damage of the same type to Nearby enemies. | | | |
 | | Tibault's Will You deal x10 - 20% increased damage while Unstoppable and for 5 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource. | |||
 | Esu's Heirloom Your Critical Strike Chance is increased by 20 - 30% of your Movement Speed bonus. | ||||
 | Serpentine Aspect You may have 1 additional Hydra active, and Hydraâs duration is increased by 14 - 24%. | Battle Caster's Aspect When your Conjuration skills hit you have up to a 30 - 40% chance to gain +1 Rank to your Conjuration skills for 12 seconds. This can stack up to 3 times. |  | ||
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PARAGON GLYPHS AND BOARDS
Invocation
- For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, your Conjuration Skills gain + 8% (lvl 1) - 28% (lvl 21) Critical Strike Damage.
- Enemies damaged by your Conjuration Skills deal 1% reduced damage to you for 6 seconds, stacking up to 15%.
Conjurer
- For every 5 Intelligence within range, Conjuration Skills gain + 3% (lvl 1) - 15% (lvl 21) increased damage.
- Conjuration Skills have a 20% increased duration.
Flamefeeder
- For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + 2% (lvl 1) - 10% (lvl 21) increased damage to Burning (DoT) targets.
- You deal x 10% increased direct damage to Burning (DoT) enemies.
Destruction
- For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + 4% (lvl 1) - 20% (lvl 21) increased Critical Strike Damage.
- Critical Strikes increase all damage the enemy takes from you by x 2% for 10 seconds, up to x 12%.
BUILD AND PARAGON BOARD VIEW
BUILD EXPLANATION
Overview:
This Hydra Fireball Sorceress build is primarily a Hydra build, but Fireball is used as a secondary skill to spend mana quickly in order to conjure additional Hydras with the Hydra Enchantment. However, Fireball still deals a good amount of damage on its own.
This endgame build easily clears T-100 NM dungeons and bosses like Duriel, but it is by no means a meta build or highest damage output build. It is mostly for the fun of using Hydra, my favorite skill from D2. The skill tree as it is shown requires a Shako in order to free up additional skill points to put elsewhere, since it gives +4 to everything as a base (specifically, Ice Armor and Meteor are given for free).
Playstyle:
When engaging a mob or boss, put two Hydras down. Then, spam Fireball to deplete mana quickly and raise additional Hydras. With some good Lucky Hit to Restore Primary Resource, and help from the Seneschal, you can use Fireball essentially endlessly. With the Enchantment Master paragon node lowering the mana requirement to 167 and the Conjurer glyph adding 20% duration on top of the Serpentine Aspect duration boost, you will have 4 active Hydras at all times, sometimes 5 for a short period. The usual Sorceress defensive skills are available (Teleport, Frost Nova, Flame Shield, Ice Armor) to use as needed, especially Flame Shield or Ice Armor to remain protected while staying still to spam Fireball.
Hydra is obviously the first Enchantment slot. The other can be switched depending on the current task. Fireball for clearing dungeons or mobs, for the quick clear speed caused by the explosions. For bosses, switch out the second Enchantment to Meteor to get plenty of Lucky Hit procs on the single target.
Essentially all items / paragon nodes / glyphs are used to increase Conjuration skill damage or fire damage generally. This build is still viable without the Uber Uniques of course, and I would suggest replacing them with either Aspect of Three Curses, Elementalist’s Aspect, Aspect of Fortune, Frostblitz Aspect, or Aspect of Disobedience – as you see fit.
Season 3:
The Seneschal is used primarily to bolster your own character, with quick attacks to replenish your mana or amplify your damage.
QUICK SKILLS VIEW
| Skill | Rank |
|---|---|
 Fire Bolt | 2 |
Fireball | 5 |
 Enhanced Fireball | 1 |
Destructive Fireball | 1 |
 Devastation | 1 |
 Elemental Dominance | 3 |
Flame Shield | 1 |
Enhanced Flame Shield | 1 |
Mystical Flame Shield | 1 |
Teleport | 1 |
Enhanced Teleport | 1 |
Shimmering Teleport | 1 |
 Glass Cannon | 3 |
 Elemental Attunement | 1 |
 Frost Nova | 1 |
Enhanced Frost Nova | 1 |
Mystical Frost Nova | 1 |
Hydra | 5 |
Enhanced Hydra | 1 |
Summoned Hydra | 1 |
 Conjuration Mastery | 3 |
 Precision Magic | 1 |
 Align the Elements | 1 |
 Mana Shield | 3 |
 Protection | 3 |
 Icy Veil | 3 |
 Inner Flames | 3 |
 Devouring Blaze | 3 |
 Fiery Surge | 1 |
 Soulfire | 3 |
 Esu's Ferocity | 1 |