The most popular builds are the Frozen Orb, Fire Ball & Blizzard sorceress in both single-player and multi-player and are argubly the most effective builds of this class. Melee Sorceress: Focuses on Enchant however Lightning Mastery being the focus point.Weatherwoman: Equally focusing on Blizzard, Meteor and Thunder Storm (the skills that seem to strike from above).Fire Wall Sorceress: Focuses on the Fire Wall spell, often in combination with another Cold or Lightning Spell.Enchantress: Focuses on the Enchant spell, often in combination with a spell such as Energy Shield or Shiver Armor.Notable for having one timered and one spammed spell at all times, against all enemy types. Blizzball Sorceress: Similar to Meteorb, focuses on Fire Spells and Cold Spells, with the Blizzard spell and Fire Ball spells as the apex.Meteorb Sorceress: Focuses on Fire Spells and Cold Spells, with the Meteor spell and Frozen Orb spells as the apex.

In PvP, this Sorceress build is the most feared, as the blizzard sorc can teleport around and instantly cast death on its enemies with the right equipment.

Blizzard Sorceress: Focuses on Cold Spells, with the Blizzard spell as the apex.

Chain Lightning Sorceress: Focuses on Lightning Spells, with the Chain Lightning spell as the apex.

Frozen Orb sorceress often develops Energy Shield as a secondary skill making her more vital than other builds In PvP, this sorceress build are the most common due to the Frozen Orb's huge AoE (Area of Effect), however they deal less damage than other builds.

Frozen Orb Sorceress: Focuses on Cold Spells, with Frozen Orb spell as apex.

However, this build is very weak against high amount of Fire resistance, as very few points are spent in non-Fire skills. It appears to deals most damage of all sorc-builds and can rain destruction from several screens away, which makes them very powerful. Fire Ball Sorceress: Focuses on the development of the sorceress skills: Fire Ball, Fire Mastery, And other fire skills to increase the Fire Ball skill with additional bonuses.Despite this disadvantage, they are considered one of the best, if not the best, PvP class due to their ability to move quickly across the map with teleportation and ranged attacks, which makes them ideal for Hit-and-Run tactics. The Sorceress, most valued for her high elemental damage output and ranged AOE attacks rather than her teamwork, is great against large groups of monsters however, since they deal elemental magic damage, they are less efficient in PvP combat due to elemental resistances.

Diablo 2 sorceress leveling build 1.13