Quote (darcanegel @ Fri, Jan 25 2008, 03:59am)
ok, so i'm thinking -thinking- of making this character (mostly because, you gotta admit, it's one of the sexiest looking chars ever...sorc w/ pb = teh secks). however, i got a few questions.
-you say to use an rfrost vs cold sorcs, but almost every melee char uses them, giving them cold damage...which will chill you and slow you down. so don't you need them, like, all the time vs melee?
-why treachery? its definitely more economical than a 4/90+ armor, but if you socketed the armor w/ 3x 15/15 jewels and used the last for ber or cham (personally i'd go cham because of the above-mentioned rfrost issue) you'd still get a nice res boost, dr% isn't really a big deal w/ high ES sorcs, the life > fhr (use 4x fhr scs = -80 life...but 90+ > 80). plus you don't need to get hit 20 times to get the fade to proc. only other thing i see is venom, but that's not a big deal i suppose. and a lot of ppl (myself included) see procing fade before the duel as bm.
-how well do you do vs melee characters? does it have much of a chance vs bvcs and smiters? i guess you've got that aura, so worst comes to worst you can just tele until they're worn down. but 40 fcr isn't that great
help meh
I chose treachery because it has absolutely everything I needed and wasn't too expensive. The 45% IAS is more than I need to hit the last breakpoint (65%), the fade adds some DR and resists (although applied after ES) and the venom adds a little bit of poison damage, although it doesn't add much. You don't have to get hit 20 times to trigger, I just stand on a fire outside Act 5, no one has complained to me that it is BM, although I only played in public duels. The extra 100 or so life would be nice, but if you're planning on making this caharacter on ladder, you'll be spending like 600fg+ on the armor alone.
Against any real melee character like a BVC, smiter or zealer, you do have a chance to win, but you have to play a lot more conservatively than against any casters. I've had success in the past against them, but it is a much more difficult duel than against a sorceress. The only positive to using 95% ES is that when your mana and life get low, you can teleport around, letting the aura hurt the enemy, while the high warmth regenerates your mana and you can go in for another attack. And the 40% FCR is fairly adequate for this build, you won't find yourself tele'ing a whole lot, usually just a couple times. Just get close enough so that they're on your screen and teleport on them and zeal quickly. If you think 40% FCR is low, check out the other stickied zeal sorc guide, it has ZERO!
Hope that helps you out! I encourage you to try this character out, it's really fun. Feel free to ask if you have any more questions. Quote (darcanegel @ Fri, Jan 25 2008, 04:16am)
oh yeah, btw are those damage totals averages or max damage? cause i'm doing some calculations and i don't see the damage being nearly that high on average...chant and firemastery are only like level 29 (bo lidless cta spider torch anni mages) which means like 4-5K damage...and the aura is around 1-51K, so that's gonna be a little over 30K average damage w/o prebuff =/
Yeah, they're maximum damage, the average damage is much less.