As one of the most popular builds in D2R Ladder, Blizzard Sorceress is always being consider as the best map clearing build and perform pretty decent in the boss fight as well. So today I would like to give a quick guide on Blizzard Sorceress Build, hope it could be assistance.

First of all, let's kick off with gears you should farm.

Gears List:
Helm: Nightwing's Veil / Harlequin Crest

Weapon: Death Fathom / Heart of the Oak / Doom

Shield: Spirit

Armor: Chains of Honor / Skin of the Vipermagi / Ormus' Robe

Gloves: Magefist / Trang-Oul's Claws

Belt: Arachnid Mesh / Snowclash

Boots: War Traveler / Rare resist boots

Amulet: Mara's Kaleidoscope / Magic +3 Cold skill+FCR(+10%) amulet / Crafted FCR(+20%) +2 skill amulet

Rings: Stone of Jordan / Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band / Rare FCR ring

Swap: Call to Arms & Spirit

Cold spell Sorceresses share the same equipment build, as their goal is to maximize the damage of their spells. As the Cold Mastery skill reduces enemy cold resistances, it goes perfectly with the Sundered Charm: Cold Rupture.

Due to Cold Mastery and Cold Rupture, the build is powerful even without the aforementioned equipment, but it is quite expensive to set up the endgame builds as the items' supply doesn't meet the demand.

The main attribute for cold Sorceresses is +x% to cold skill damage. That being said, the key equipment is the Nightwing's Veil and the Death Fathom.

Death Fathom raises the damage of cold skills by 15-30%, and Nightwing's V eil raises cold damage by 8-15%.

Ormus' Robe grants 10-15% cold skill damage and has +3 to a random Sorceress spell. If you can find one with Blizzard or Frozen Orb, it will give you a good boost.

Meanwhile, you should use Rainbow Facet jewels which grant additional cold skill damage and cold resistance reduction as possible as you can.  All those aforementioned D2R Ladder items could be found in MMOWTS in cheap price.

Skills:
The basic Blizzard build can be completed when player reached level 76, you need to distribute more skill points on the Cold Mastery skill, up to reduce 195% to enemy cold resistance, including the extra all-skill bonuses. After finishing your Cold Mastery, you should spend your remaining skill points on Warmth or Static Field.

Mercenary:
Helm: Andariel's Visage / Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest / Vampire Gaze / Crown of Thieves

Armor: Fortitude (ElSolDolLo) / Treachery (ShaelThulLem) / Gloom (FalUmPul)

Weapon: Insight

Since you have Cold Mastery, you won't need to use Infinity on your mercenaries, so you'll want to equip Insight. Insight grants Lv. 12-17 Meditation, which will be your supply of mana. Find a good elite ethereal polearm to work your Insight.

Andariel's Visage and Fortitude should always be your priority choice. The additional attack speed and life steal from Andariel's Visage, and the enhanced damage from Fortitude is too excellent to ignore. Make sure you make a socket on Andariel's Visage to equip a Ral rune or a jewel with plus 30% fire resist and 15% attack speed to make up for the 30% fire resist decreasing.