Quote (Worrywart @ Jun 27 2016 12:46pm)
Regular nova benefits from a high damage thunderstorm and easy access to 95 es without prebuff. It reaches max potential with only 2 skills maxed leaving room to max TK TS and warmth.
Frost nova only gets better if your opponent is some ladder self-found char who you can drop to -100 cold resist. In that situation you could have just let your a1 merc kill him.
whats more likely to see, enemies with stacked resists or enemies with tgods? Lightning stack is more common given all the FOH/java/auradins etc people stack for, everyone has a tgods. Since only cold sorcs need cold stack and you can outplay their spells unlike auradins/foh/fc, not as many people bother with the cold stack gear. Granted, most probably will.
If the enemy has 85 resist and 20 sorb vs nova, nova deals no damage. If the enemy has 75 resist after stacking vs cold mastery, frost nova deals no damage
either way, you've got a build that folds to being sorbed/stacked and does pretty well if it doesn't. That is, assuming infinity breaking their resists, because nova against 75% resist / 0 sorb is shit damage. Lightning build has TS and doesn't have to prebuff much for ES, but if it wants to deal any damage at all needs infinity, which is still likely to get stacked, and then forfeits shield. Cold build can go vita mb/dr and have shiver armor to punish bvcs and sky high defense and has a backup orb at 73% power and underpowered blizz, but can't easily go ES
both however stand in stark contrast to trying to kill people with 750 damage guided arrows, putting his HLD on par with LLDs
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 27 2016 02:33pm