The post straight up starts by stating that exact 1/5 mechanic is where the entire idea for using Doom came from. Plus values for CM at 1/5 are in my calcs for sundered mobs.

If I didn't know the 1/5, this post wouldn't exist because then it would just be 'sunder + cold mastery = everything is at -100 res, doom is pointless'.

pretty much the results expected

as a furhter benefit, with doom, you don't really need to sink more than a point into CM, so you can max synergies and get to end game spec sooner

downside is that due to lack of fcr on doom, its hard to stack as much mf

For PVP: 35-5 fathom
For PVM: light sorc if you can afford a doom

The rest is bullshit min maxing.

This post was edited by babun1024 on Mar 17 2023 06:03pm

another plus for doom is the safety factor, that cold aura slows down enemies considerably and gives you more time to react to attacks and missiles. that alone would be worth a look if you have that issue.

for the purposes of this though, either should be easily able to pvm everything safely with the exception of uber trist (probably would have trouble there).

Good shout on the skill allocation, as a blizz-orb that would open up being able to 100% fully synergise both skills after a rather than a fully synergised orb and only ~70% synergised blizz (at the cost of 19% -ECR vs immunes, so better blizz damage in all situations but worse orb damage vs immunes which sounds like a definite worthwhile tradeoff).

Loss of space for utility stats is definitely a major hit for sure, I suppose you could intentionally lean into that aspect and deliberately stash the Gheeds etc to make the build specifically focused on hunting bases.

Interesting

Did you try this in game or just theorized?
I've tried both df and doom setups, tweaking some other gear to reach 105 fcr. Kill speed difference vs cold immunes was barely noticeable. So I settled for df in the end because it significantly increases dps vs all monsters. My only grief with the df setup is that you don't get that sexy holy freeze aura.

thoughts on Wizendraw???

Sounds like loosing both weapon slots to get -35% enemy cold res.

It's gosu