The Heart of the Oak - HOTO is a great weapon for casters. It has the highest combination of +skills as well as FCR and resistances that any single-handed weapon available in the
D2R Items game. It's not going to do as much damage as CM on average, however it still provides an impressive damage boost and if you're not hitting the 117 FCR breakpoint , or when your resistances are low enough to cause problems with survivability it is the weapon you're looking for. Based on the type of game you're farming and the equipment you are using, one method I like is to employ HOTO as your primary weapon, but keep CM on the side to deal with opponents with high resistance to lightning or weak lightning immunity.
Eschuta's Temper is technically one of the most damaging weapons that can be used by a light sorc. However, the +lightning damage of Eschuta's is not a significant impact on your damage output. It's added to you Lightning Mastery, which will be over 400% at the end of the game So a flawless Eschuta's can only boost the damage of your lightning by about 4% or less. A small amount of damage boost from even a perfectly functioning Eschuta's won't be worth the sacrifice of resistances of HOTO. The main reason to go with Eschuta's instead of HOTO is to get an more mf (by connecting the Eschuta's using and is) as well as you do not want the random teleports that Occy has.
The Oculus The Oculus Skills, FCR, res Vitality/Energy, Mana Per Kill, and 50 percent Mf. Occy is the ideal weapon for mf... but if it didn't have the chance to send you teleported to a random direction whenever you are hit. In the case of lightning, you'll tend to stay in the same spot and blast until the entire thing is dead, and so you'll typically get more hits (and therefore be frequently teleported) in comparison with casting Blizzard and bouncing around throughout the cooling down. If you are able to tolerate the random teleports, it's difficult to surpass I'd Occy for the mf.
Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye (4-piece Tal's) The reason for this is that, as we've mentioned earlier the 4-piece Tal's are an excellent option for a sorc with a small amount of power who wants to stack plenty of Mf (with an incredibly high loss trade-off). Three pieces of Tal's aren't sufficient FCR or -enemy resist for a small sorc however, the bonus of 4-pieces for Tal's Lidless Eye provides a good 15% lightning resistance for enemies as well as a total of 165% mf throughout the entire set. It requires Spirit Magefist, Spirit, and 2 FCR rings in order to achieve 117 FCR. You can use the orb and put PTopaz inside the armor, along with an shako for nearly 300% mf prior to charms. Griffon's could provide an impressive damage boost
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