the result of the best testing is that chilling armor does NOT block projectiles by any means
its simply gives a clientside effect that makes it look like its dodging missiles, because of desync.

any missiles that appear to hit you on clientside will shoot off a bolt. On serverside, in reality, the attack never struck you and the ice bolt doesn't even exist (never fired back)

so a guided arrow might appear to fly towards you and hit you, and deal no damage, whereas in reality it actually flew right past you and never hit you. On clientside it looks like it got blocked. Without chilling armor, you'd take no damage either way

ok great, 1 more question. im tryin a new build (may restat a few times) and ive maxed orb. i only have enough pts to max ice bolt or cold mastery, which should i max?

shouldn't that be obvious?
cold mastery

ice bolt is the last thing you want to max on an orber, after es & tk.
the synergy to ice bolt is not even used on pvm orbers like on classic, because its so incredibly low.
you're probably better off going 20 warmth and 0 ice bolt actually, but that depends on your playstyle (ie if ur goal is to widdle someone down while immortal)

really? max warmth? does it really help that much? cause right now its at like lvl 20 with just the 1 pt

ok i will restat and max cold mastery. thanks

Enough points for level 17 Cold mastery (after gear)
Rest into something other then a cold skill

huh.

also, if i use infinity on my merc, will it break enemy cold resistances?

this is a pvp sorc?

well if its an es orb pvm sorc, you need to remake more than just ur char

I didn't read that he was planning for PvP. My bad.

Also the first post says this



This post was edited by D1eoX on Feb 17 2011 10:09pm