This guide will give you a tiered ranking of Runewords, and Unique along with other items for Helm, Shield, Weapon, Belt, Glove, Ring, and Amulet slots. Ranks depend on the current usage one of the S-Tier Sorceress builds.

1. Harlequin Crest Shako

+2 To All Skills

+ (1.5 Per Character Level) 1-148 To Life (Based On Character Level)

+ (1.5 Per Character Level) 1-148 To Mana (Based On Character Level)

Damage Reduced By 10%

50% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

+2 To All Attributes

Shako is easily the most popular caster helmet, especially with PvM and Magic Finding in your mind. It has a maximum +2 to any or all skills and strong ancillary stats like Life, Mana, and Magic Find. Unlike class-specific helmets (+ Skill to Sorc only), All Skills grant additional skill buffs for your battle orders for further life/mana. This comes in at our top spot because of the flexibility, general availability, usefulness, and usage of PvM content. Consider socketing by having an Um (resistances), Ist (Magic Find), or Cham (Cannot be Frozen) based on your needs. Socketing having a Facet can also be an option for further damage, however, Shako isn't considered the perfect helmet to increase pure damage for just about any Sorc variant. Buying d2 resurrected items and diablo 4 items can help boost your gear in D2R Ladder, which benefits physical damage dealers and specs that benefit from scaling.

2. Griffon’s Eye Diadem

+1 To All Skill Levels

+25% Faster Cast Rate

-15-20% To Enemy Lightning Resistance (varies)

+15-20% To Lightning Skill Damage (varies)

+100-200 Defense (varies)

The most effective Lightning Sorc selection for Helm (BiS), offers a substantial boost directly upping your lightning-based damage, and decreasing enemy resistances. The additional 25FCR may be the highest you will get in the helm slot, greatly aiding you to definitely hit the 105 FCR breakpoint or even the 200FCR breakpoint. A Lightning facet may be the standard jewel for that socket to help maximize lightning damage output.

3. Nightwing’s Veil

+2 To All Skill Levels

+8-15% To Cold Skill Damage (varies)

+90-120% Enhanced Defense (varies)

+10-20 To Dexterity (varies)

+5-9 Cold Absorb (varies)

Half Freeze Duration

Requirements -50%

The best Cold Sorc damage optimizer (BiS), Nightwing offers +2 to any or all Skills, in addition to direct boosts for your Cold Damage. Ancillary mods include, dexterity, and cold absorb (that ought to help mitigate the -negative resistances from the Cold Sunder charm. Notably, this helmet doesn't offer FCR, precluding the potential of 200FCR when utilizing this helm (without having to sacrifice other core gear)

4. Circlet, Coronet or Diadem (Rare or Magic)

Unfortunately without any Unique or runeword helms exist for that Fire Sorc equal to Griffon’s or Nightwing’s. Given this, Shako is really a popular option for PvM. However, if you’re opting to optimize damage output, an uncommon or magic coronet with a few variation of those stats, would function as the BiS option (with one or two Fire Facets socketed)

+2 to Sorc Skills or 3 to Fire/Lightning/Cold Skills

+20 FCR

+one or two sockets

+Additional mods like stats, life, mana, resistances

This is a good helm selection for Fire Sorcs who want to increase damage and FCR.

5. Lore Runeword (Ort+Sol)

+1 To All Skills

+10 To Energy

+2 To Mana After Each Kill

Lightning Resist +30%

Damage Reduced By 7

+2 To Light Radius

Lore is definitely an awesome ladder starter / low-level runeword and one of the few items which provide all skills. The reward base and runes can be simply acquired on normal difficulty.