ill rape that sorc on any of my chars. pm me game.

lol I bet thats what they said when people made the first BvC

Good catch! you are correct sir, it is 112.5%, dunno how I missed that one, but again this is easily made up for by base warmth mana regen and the fact that you dont want full mana with 0 life when dead. Thanks tho!

Also about the res gear, the listed gear is obviously only a suggestion (although the pieces ive suggest give both life and decent res as well as dtgm) and can be improved upon. For example, as tommyvv stated up to 12% dtgm can spawn on jewels and 'ith' gives 15% in armor/shields/helms. So you could easily swap gear and socket items with any needed dtgm.

The miniguide isnt about a specific character build, I'm hoping the use of dtgm will take off in a variety of builds, for example an infinity carrying nova sorc usually has problems with taking melee damage. Its hard to get enough mana to go full ES and almost impossible to get full DR%. By going vita/es hybrid it would give approx 60-70% dr vs melee and almost all points could be dumped in vita! Same with blizz sorcs who have terrible precasts and are short on skill points! Just trying to contribute something new that can be used across builds.

This post was edited by hankspimpin on Mar 16 2011 09:33am

Well the point about the res gear I was making is that i cant see high res being viable on this character as the more resistance you have the more DTM you need to break even, and ideally you do want to break even as the mana on the character will be lowish.

Not quite sure what you mean, but dtgm only works vs physical melee (and zerk apparently) res would play no role in the amount of mana returned.

Yeh my post is kinna silly, was gonna edit b4 u quoted

Basically I meant you NEED high res gear for this to be viable vs casters as your es is lowish. But to get this res gear you may need to sacrifice DTM from your other eq meaning you might have to make it up elsewhere

One option would be to use a wizardspike instead of a suicide branch tho

This post was edited by Jeebus666 on Mar 16 2011 09:41am

Well, since DTM dossent work vs elemental dmg, high res are not a problem in anyway

Exactly, there are many possibilities for improvements. I still think hoto would be best but I just suggested cheap gear vs melee only to simplify the SAMPLE build. I still think dtgm will really shine on many other builds including infinity nova, blizz, and my favorite, Vita/es zeal or bear sorcs

DTGM has nothing to do with the kind of damage you take (physical, fire, light, cold, magic, even poison).

The only thing that matters is the source of the damages.

ex :

DTGM works vs Berzerk but not vs Hammers.

DTGM works vs Fire golem but not vs Fireball.

In this build, the high res problem concerning ES and DTGM still exist against zeal-sorc, auradins ...

so whats the point of loosing 900 life and 1500 dmg pr attack, instead of go full vita or full es?
here you go with 20 to telkinesis like and es build, so you will sacrefice some skills there.
just go pure vita imo with best possible dr, and max res, wouldn't that be almost the same?
Pls gife me serious answer, since i really like the idea of this build, but not 100 get it yet

The idea is to help sorcs against some of their toughest matchups. Barbs and smiters. His calculations show why this is theoretically better than full vita with max DR. This is mostly theory crafting though, but it wouldn't be expensive to try. Najs armor and Nightsmoke are the only items needed really.