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Quote (respeconize8 @ Oct 1 2021 06:18am)
Too much synergies

Literally maxed 3 skills and pump cold mastery and theres no areas i have to skip


dont have to put everything in it for it to be good. unless you're doing a5 stuff, in which firewall is gonna suck
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dont have to put everything in it for it to be good. unless you're doing a5 stuff, in which firewall is gonna suck


I had no problem soloing matriarch. Firewall melted even ancients, it melts everything pretty fast and i only have to worry about hitting 63 cast for teleing
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I had no problem soloing matriarch. Firewall melted even ancients, it melts everything pretty fast and i only have to worry about hitting 63 cast for teleing


whatever floats your boat
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whatever floats your boat


Ok? I lay down a firewall and just about anything is dead in a literal second. I prioritized gearing my merc so hes able to tank and keep things still, tals mask/trech/insight
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Ok? I lay down a firewall and just about anything is dead in a literal second. I prioritized gearing my merc so hes able to tank and keep things still, tals mask/trech/insight


lol chill, im saying do whatever works and is fun for you. i was just saying what i liked and to give it a shot if you wanted.

tons use the firewall/orb, i was just seeing if others wanted to try it.
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Quote (Brock55 @ Oct 1 2021 06:28am)
lol chill, im saying do whatever works and is fun for you. i was just saying what i liked and to give it a shot if you wanted.

tons use the firewall/orb, i was just seeing if others wanted to try it.


I like hydra, i had a legit 99 hydra sorc in .09

But at the start of this reset not enough gear for all the synergies imo compared to my firewall being almost 7k with mediocre gear

Like i only have dual spirits, enlightenment, and lore for +skills atm
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I had no problem soloing matriarch. Firewall melted even ancients, it melts everything pretty fast and i only have to worry about hitting 63 cast for teleing



Me too. Hit matriarch with the build no problem. The CI harpies are the only pain in the butt to kill in Throne of Destruction. Otherwise, it worked very well. One of the best pindle and ancient tunnels runners I’ve had. Firewall melts a cold immune pindle. Even then I don’t think the sorc is as good as a trapsin or Javazon at pindle killing.

The extra warmth points are very nice for teleporting in MF gear too.

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Quote (respeconize8 @ Oct 1 2021 06:21am)
I had no problem soloing matriarch. Firewall melted even ancients, it melts everything pretty fast and i only have to worry about hitting 63 cast for teleing



Oh yeah. Best Andy runner too. Orb one shots most everything around and she dies In one firewall.
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Oct 1 2021 05:32am
I think everyone here ignores one major thing: conviction and lower resist only work at 1/5th effectiveness when it comes to breaking immunes. So an infinity can only break a resistance of 116% or lower (base resistance - 85/5).

If cold mastery can pierce them I'd imagine it'd work the same way with some resistances being simply too high to pierce through due to basically operating at 1/5th power.

Haven't tested it yet, don't even own a sorc in D2R yet, so I could of course be talking out of my ass.

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I've done extensive testing, it's pretty straightforward:

-ANY SOURCE- of -enemy resistance can now break immunities at 20% effectiveness just like conviction and lower resist. When it breaks them, it doesn't remove the "Cold Immune" text which is odd/buggy.

Easy to confirm: throw any cold facet into your gear and go to the cold plains, where the cold immunes have exactly 100% cold res. You'll scratch them with cold damage even if using a single facet and no cold mastery!

Here's the "gotcha": most monsters that are cold immune have stupidly high cold res. Probably because when balancing Blizzard was considering Cold Mastery and didn't want it to roll hell if it broke immunities.

So even with maxed cold mastery there are many, many monsters you won't pierce.

Average monster lightning resists is much lower, that's why infinity/griffons do so well.

Oblivion Knights have like 180% cold res, for example. You'll never break that.
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