I'm making my first Blizzard Sorc and I was wondering what level of Cold Mastery to go with. She will be for PvM if that makes any difference.
Is the resist reduction from Cold Mastery capped and how does it work alongside cold facets?
Also, I guess Infinity isn't needed for a Blizzard sorc so I should go for Insight or eReaper's Toll ..or will the conviction aura from infinity still be useful?
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Pif|||The max reduction is -150% (I always assumed that cold facets do not go past this point. So if you've got say a -5% facet, plan your mastery level to be -145%). I don't know how conviction aura interacts with infinity.
If you are going to be full blizzard, then there is no reason not to max this. It's very good, especially against bosses. I've tried to moat trick with a fully synergized meteor in the past and a hybrid with blizzard just did it faster and better.
Infinity is always a good asset to any sorceress, but I don't think that it breaks cold immunity that easily (whereas lightning immunities are easier to break - I think). I don't have that much experience with Infinity, as I never have the required runes to make it :P
Both Insight and Reaper's Toll are very good. I seem to lean towards insight, because I find using potions frustrating when you're constantly teleporting, but that decrepify can greatly help against certain bosses, like Baal and Diablo.|||The only -res cap is that monsters can't have less than -100% resist. D-Clone has 95% res and the highest after that is 75% (Meph etc) so you don't really need more than -175% (or level 32). Facets stack with CM (as does conviction), thus every -5 facet is one less level of cold mastery that you need.
Infi is an option as you can get away with only level 15 CM, but there's not much else you can do with the points. If you drop a couple of points from a synergy you can easily get a 20TK/1ES build if that's your thing. Also if using this you'll have to position your merc so the mobs are in conviction's range. Don't count on it to break any immunities.
I prefer Reaper's on any sorc I can reasonably accommodate it on. With decent gear and/or a couple of points into energy Insight isn't really needed on a blizz sorc.
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The max reduction is -150% (I always assumed that cold facets do not go past this point. So if you've got say a -5% facet, plan your mastery level to be -145%).
Nope...|||Great! Thanks for the replies guys. I think I'm sorted!
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Pif|||yeah if you really wanna bring a world of hurt to meph, that 175 res cold mastery is the only way to go|||I don't play on BNet, so no DClone for me. Absent that, 27 (28?) with +skills is the most you need, and 17 with +skills is enough for questing. I generally aim at 17, but if you are just targeting Meph you could go higher. Meph will go down pretty fast well below the optimal number though, so I wouldn't pump it all the way unless you have points to burn. Cold Mastery uses +skills well and synergies require hard points so as long as you have synergies to pump it's better to put the points toward the synergies after a certain point, assuming significant +skills gear.|||I've got a semi-related question:
Could one of the reasons that Frozen Orb seems weak (in comparison), be that since people choose that skill with an eye towards being frugal on point allocations, it suffers when people aim for only +17 CM after added skills?
What is Frozen Orb like with maxed Cold Mastery... does it fair better against Meph and Baal, or would it still be a few 2-3 min fight like it normally is with Orb? >.>|||@Knarlfist:
The only reason Blizzard wins over FO in those cases is because more points can be put towards it. At an equal amount of points FO is always a better boss killer IMO, even more so at Baal if you don't keep him locked down with slow.|||Quote:
I've got a semi-related question:
Could one of the reasons that Frozen Orb seems weak (in comparison), be that since people choose that skill with an eye towards being frugal on point allocations, it suffers when people aim for only +17 CM after added skills?
What is Frozen Orb like with maxed Cold Mastery... does it fair better against Meph and Baal, or would it still be a few 2-3 min fight like it normally is with Orb? >.>
you can get kinda 18k blizz or 1800 orb... and 18k bilzz basically insta melts most packs of monsters in p8, the strongest skill in the game immunes aside, but orb you really got ta aim well for that effect even against single mobs|||matter of opinion, but I think orb is much more fun than blizzard
so you max orb, max ice bolt and get 17 in mastery and you'll do just fine
what people forget is that orb is damage per shard, not per orb
and its just more fun
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