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I'm currently making a cold sorc on D2R for the first time, is it not worth maxing Cold Mastery with a Sunder equipped? To maximize the -res even though it's 1/5 effectiveness?

And what would be best armor? I'm currently running Tal's with the amulet and belt for the set bonus. Death's Fathom and Nightwing's are also on.
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Nov 15 2025 04:26am
Out of the two, full tal set +1
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Nov 21 2025 10:42am
Both setups are very bad tbh.
But if I was forced to pick one I’d go with the first one.

You don’t need mf for countess, you farm keys and runes

You don’t need mf for cows, you farm bases, crafting supplies, runes and charms

You don’t really need mf for chaos, you do the seal pop trick and you get all drops from 0% mf anyway

Mf can make sense in the other areas you listed, IF it’s early ladder. Those setups really don’t make sense for end game where the value of all the common sets/uniques you’ll drop from increased mf is turned to shit. Density destroying TZs on high player count should be your goal for end game. That’s when you drop your mf to around 100-135% and you aim for fast clear speed on p8.
So you’d be looking to either respect to something else than blizz… or to build a high dmg blizzOrb setup with either Doom or DF


Tal set is not bad at all dude

If anything probably the best set in the entire game
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Nov 21 2025 11:14am
Tal set is not bad at all dude

If anything probably the best set in the entire game


I have nothing against tal set
Obviously pretty solid for the price
But op asked what’s best end-game gear to farm best drops

Running meph nonstop with a tal sorc is more an early ladder goal, not something I’d advise op to do regarding his question.
He should run TZs on high player count, with lower mf.
Blizz tal sorc just isn’t great at that
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Nov 24 2025 05:55am
I use a similar build to the second on single player offline players 5-8 and it does fine IMO. not sure your goal. I saw someone mention botting with it. You need to add ancient tunnels to your list of farming spots. It’s a great cold sorc area to farm.

Your resist seem low though; however I see you don’t have torch and/or Anni listed. Also no gheeds.

Mine is something like,

Shako
Tal ammy
Tal armor
Tal belt
Occy / hoto sometimes though it adds 10 more fcr so can swap things like a ring
Spirit mon
Travs
2x nagel (fcr ring with hoto)
Mage/trang (chance with hoto and fcr ring)
Cta/spirit

Torch
Anni
Gheeds
2x cold fcr
Sunder (when needed)
Cube/tomes/ket
Few mf/res and life scs that have been found


I thought I was somewhere around max res and like 500’ish mf with this and decent kill speed for p5+

Keep in mind this is offline single player so not like im out buying gear with fg or trading, its limited to whatever I’ve found over time

This post was edited by cky24 on Nov 24 2025 05:56am
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Tal Set. Following is just a copy/paste of a Light Sorc, however switch to Cold Mastery and change FCR for Blizzard build, also, you adjust inventory charms for the build, there is no need for MF charms at all, keep to damage, res & life (Anni / Torch / Sunders and maybe Gheeds in inventory).



Following Setup: Tals Set / Magefist / 2x FCR rings / Spirit Monarch (35% fcr) & War Travs

Skills: +2 All Skills +6 Sorc Skills / +1-2 Cold Mastery (each skill [Cold Mastery] = 12% Cold Skill Damage = 112% or 120%)
FCR: 125%
Resistences
...Light 143% with 3x Anya Quest / Perfect Anni n Torch
...Cold 110% with 3x Anya Quest / Perfect Anni n Torch
...Fire 075% with 3x Anya Quest / Perfect Anni n Torch
...Poison 070% with 3x Anya Quest / Perfect Anni n Torch
Mana: +268-291 (+10 Energy)
Life: +317 (+32 Vitality)
FHR: 80%
MF: 183-218%
-15% to enemy Cold resistance
3 Socketable items (add 3x 5/5s)
... -15% to enemy cold resistance / +15% cod skill damage

Note: I altered Lightning to Cold from the pasted version.

So with the set, the MF is very good, so you don't need the inventory for extra MF.

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Jan 1 2026 02:07am
3 tal armor is prolly better with shako and hoto
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