KiNgBrAdLeY7: And i always wanted one of those sorcs (mainly for magic find). I keep dying like fly on sh*t, though, somehow, continually, especially on populated games. What spells work well for sorc fast killing, fast leveling and adequate surviveability? How to play sorc in hardcore?

hohiro: to survive hell you need a dual sorc with a good merc, so i would choose FO and Meteor as main skills

phaolo: True, I had a meteorb too.
She was unstoppable, even if Meteor is a bit frustrating spell.
For lightning, you just need a few levels of Static Field ; )

hohiro: Oups forgot the sorc part .... lightning only really is good with very good eq, then they are unbeatable. FO is quite weak compared to blizzard, but needs less reqs .... to survive hell you need a dual sorc with a good merc, so i would choose FO and Meteor as main skills ... just read guides for meteorb sorc .... with infinity on merc you could go pure lightning sorc.

KiNgBrAdLeY7: I never use trainers

phaolo: Why are they even called trainers?
I doubt that cheats train anything.. O_o

Klumpen0815: Because they train your character so you don't have to.
I've seen this possible for WoW in exchange for money in the Battle.net-shop on Blizzard's homepage at some point. Some level 70 boost for a lot of money.
Spending money so you don't have to play...

KiNgBrAdLeY7: Damn, all that slowing... No one can do anything against my army! Bhaal was like an old lady in hospital!

awalterj: Magic find is a catch 22 thing: In order to have a high MF percentage you need to have good gear but in order to find that kinda gear in the first place, you ideally already have high MF...

Personally, I don't see how one can even get 300 MF in untwinked singeplayer and I think killing speed and resistances are way more important than high MF - especially if you're playing hardcore. I don't play hardcore as I consider it a masochistic obsessive compulsive thing rather than anything remotely fun. The EXP penalty from dying in hell mode is already incentive enough to try keeping your character alive imho.

I see playing on hardcore as an artificial hormone rush creating device but unlike in a really dangerous situation, you're still sitting in front of your computer in comfortable safety. Therefor, the questions arises whether this messes with the brain chemically because you keep putting your mind on edge way beyond natural frequency especially if you play lengthy sessions - this could potentially kill off many dopamine receptors and ultimately make people more numb. If a player needs to play in hardcore mode, it's possible that they already grew too numb to get excitement from playing the game normally, of course this doesn't automatically mean there's a health problem in the brain and it also doesn't mean that people who casually play Candy Crush are more chemically balanced brainwise.