Will blizzballer be powerful enough for Meph Runs?

My new character is a blizzballer, 20 blizzard, 20 Cold master, 20 Fireball, the rest in pre reqs, utilities and fire synergies. I plan on running not only Hell meph for MF, but also runs like countess, summoner, pits, and possibly baal. Is this going to be enough or will my unsynergized blizzard be too weak to take down Mephisto effectively?|||20 CM is too much, you only need -175 after +skills for Meph and less for everything else you've mentioned. You should have enough for some blizz synergies, balance your points between FM and your blizz synergy and check the Sorc forums for advice.|||Quote:








20 CM is too much, you only need -175 after +skills for Meph and less for everything else you've mentioned. You should have enough for some blizz synergies, balance your points between FM and your blizz synergy and check the Sorc forums for advice.




I'm showing I need skill level 35 to acheive that. I'm not too sure how likely I am to get better than 15 CM from skills.

Do you feel that the skill allocation I've proposed will leave my fireball too weak vs blizzard?|||I've used a Blizzballer on single player for players 8 baal running, and it works well, but I'd recommend using something else unless you have top endish gear. On mine, I had 20 fire ball, 20 fire bolt, 1 FM, the rest Blizz/synergies (with enough in CM to get -150% after gear/Battle Command). It was basically a Sorc that used Blizz whenever possible, only using Fire Ball as an immune killer.

In your recommended set up in the first post, Blizzard will be very weak. If you were going to just use that few of points into a cold skill, Frozen Orb/Fire Ball will work much better. I like Orb for actual boss killing more than Blizzard anyways, and it takes less fewer skill points to be effective. In general, though, I'd recommend beefing up the cold skill as your primary since it's going to be more useful than Fire Ball in most cases.|||On mine 2 seasons ago I ended up maxing Blizzard, Ice Blast, Firaball and Fire Bolt. Spent some points in CM and after that put some to Ice Bolt. Max CM won't be helpful if your Blizz is too weak. I recommend maxing ate least one synergy before investing in CM. I used mine the same way as Liquid, with enphasis on Cold as primary attack and FB for immunities. It was more than enough for Meph, though I find Meteorb a little better for this specific task.|||i think FO would be more superior to Blizzard with only 40 points spent in cold tree.|||Blizzard is still superior against high damage monsters packed in small groups, which is the majority of cases in Hell. FO is superior against single targets and large numbers of low HP monsters scattered around the screen like Devilkins i.e.|||remove the ball keep the blizz|||If you're planning on doing the moat trick then a maxed out blizz and cold mastery is fine.

If you want a more versatile build I'd go for Meteorb as you can also do pits. Pits monsters will have the chance to drop anything in the game but are filled with dual immunes making meteorb a generally safe build. You'll kill meph slower but you'll be able to go more places.|||One recommendation would be that go for full blizz, but put one point in firewall and fire mastery. Given you have moderate +skill items (which isn't that hard to farm) and merc with some sort of tolerable weapon you can easily take down typical cold immunes with ease.


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Blizzard is still superior against high damage monsters packed in small groups




If there's one thing where blizzard wins it's the nature of the spell. Ignoring some very rare moments you can just stay as far away as possible and still bomb them with spell without any real danger, or simply tele away, cast blizz, tele away, cast blizz and see when that extra fast extra strong fana mob just basically kills itself by following you, so in its own ways it's alot more safer + it's easy to get highish damage with blizz early on even as untwinked.

Sure it's not great issue on softcore though