Whoa!! I've been playing for about two weeks now, and I must say that this is the first time I've been able to pry myself away from the screen long enough to make more than one post. That may be due to the fact that the servers have been down since I got home today, and have played Starcraft for the first time in weeks. (I wasn't exactly playing it before I got the beta anyway)

      Anyway, since I have barely even touched the other charecters (Except for a certain lvl 23 hardcore necromancer which died last night thanks to Andariel, her poison nova attack, and a certain Rat Man I missed on the 3rd levels of the catacombs) I'll only be focusing on my adventures with my 3 sorcereses, and my 1 hardcore sorc that died at level three when my mouse pulled a wierd stunt and broke and came on again when my sorc died to a SINGLE fallen shaman.

(btw I don't have any good screenshots, but I'll probabally take shots of the other chars I play with)

Fire Tree-

   Warmth - This skill is a must. Level 5 at the very least if you have items which steal mana. (A ring that steals mana is better than a sword, because you can shoot a herd of shaman and get your mana back pretty fast =] )

    Firebolt - Don't waste points in this except for a prerequisite for fireball, which totally dominates Andariel

     Inferno - This is so much fun. I brought mine up to lvl 15 and had a staff with +3 to it, I was shooting Andarial on the other side of her chamber.

     Blaze - I'm currently pumping this one up, level 5 right now, it's tons of fun to just run around in the Catacombs leaving a trail of fire behind you =] I wouldn't suggest it in the full game however, unless your a fire sorc, which is imho the most powerful except for a fire/cold sorc. If your a fire sorc your going to want firewall, at atleast level three to get some damage in over a big area for a low mana cost. (Keep in mind your touching 250 mana by the end of act 1, with a pretty high mana regen rate)

     Fireball - This is easily the best skill in the beta for the sorc, except for telekenis which is fun in the blood moor (the first place you go after the Rogue Camp in the game) vs zombies, fallen and quill rats, all which have 2-3 hitpoints. Probabally a good thing to get in the final game, because you'll probabally play a few pub games, and those pub lamers don't need to get those set items, even if they DID kill the boss that dropped it =] )

Lightning Tree

      Charged Bolt - If you wanna have some fun, pump up this to level 2 and then pump warmth up to level 8 (You'll be fine, your level ten before the end of tristram) and then just spend the rest of the time pumping up charged bolt. Level 12 charged bolt and lvl 8 warmth means your not spending mana fast enough, atleast I'm not.

     Static Field - Infinitely useful, but don't bother vs lightning enhanced monsters, they'll rip you to shreads if your close enough to use this =]

       Lightning Nova - Cool graphic, but overall useless. Just too high a mana cost with too little an effect.

     Telekenis - Get this, even if your not gonna use it you are gonna want Teleport.

      Lightning - Level 5 or so and this is about as powerful as level 2 lightning last game.  Still usefull though, but you'll probabally want to stick with charged bolt in the first act and first part of the second act until you get chain lightning and Glacial Spike

Cold Tree -

    Frozen Armour - Why bother? I'm not gonna be walking up and shaking hands with any monsters, I'm frying them before they get to me! Duh..... (Same goes for Shiver armour)

    Ice Bolt - Get this if your going cold or fire/cold. Fire Bolt just doesn't cut it.

     Ice Blast - Overall my favorite skill, used it with my first sorc, had it at level 9. Killed Andarial in a few quick shots =]

     Frost Nova - Get this even if your not using the cold tree, because if those monsters get to close, and your putting too many points into energy (Say like 5 out of 5?) and not enough into vitality (Bah, hp are for wimps!)  your gonna die faster than you can say "Not enough mana".

Tommorow if i feel like it, the servers are back up, and I'm not playing diablo, I may post something interesting about the Amazon.

And I'll have some screenshots for you to drool over. BTW- raters, don't rate this, because it's not a report (duh)