based on this thread, I started a fire tree sorceress. She's at level 46 now, and has fire bolt and fire ball maxed with 1 point into warmth, Meteor and fire masteries, and +5 skills from equipment. She basically owns everything until encountering a fire immune, or someone like say, Mephisto, who is her current challenge. She can't even make him wince.

Not very useful if she gets stalled at every major boss in the game, so is this going to be a trend?

I've also seen several comments about TK, but even maxed, it's damage is pathetic (although consistent) compared to the others. Is this really viable?

Hope this is in keeping with the subject and not a hijack.

Multi-player 2-3 people. A2 merc with prayer and insight, some other good gear, but he's insta-gibed anyway.

Yeah, one of my pet peeves with player build recipes and most advice is that it involves twinked gear or already being in the 90's level-wise. What you seem to be saying is that TK is great under one of those circumstances, but since I don't twink, and i'm only level 46 (oops, 45), and would be just starting to put points into TK it probably isn't going to help.

mana and health regen. I've got so much fcr that it's worth it to have a matching regen. I've been playing with energy shield as well, which is something I haven't used in the past. I intend to play all the way to 99, so long term advice is good. I just don't like the assumption that I'll have this exact list of equipment at lvl 20, another at level 40 or what ever. Nonsense if you play the game straight.

I guess I'll have to work on the -resis. thanks.