nice guide

thx.

well there are a few things that could be improved on this guide.

most def the stratagies.

as far as playing defensive vs a druid. you really dont need to.

i will be usen a word such as teletop. that involves namelocking the character with right click and then clicking teleport onto your right click quickly switching to iceblast and shooting them. to chain them you reclick their name with rightclick and as they run away you switch to teleport and thats a chainlock. reinse repeat.

vs druid sence your ice blast dmg should be 9k+ if not higher. basically 2-3 shots of that and the cyclone armor is gone.

getting past wolfs well gspike is usefull. vs bear iceblast is better.

get the druid chasen you. out nl the druid top him and shoot your iceblast down. combo that with a blizz ontop (if they know to run away from the fhr lock) otherwise spam ice blast down on them renl if they try to tele away before their cyclone is off. destroy them.

really played right when you know how to do it. you wont lose to a druid unless it has a snowclash on. but even at that you have cold mastry therefore sorb is useless unless the player keeps the resistance >75% after -res from cm.



vs hdin you need a mix of offence and defence. yes i agree with the blizz nl'n them. reading the desynch that xpac hdins do. which is damn easy. take your time in the duel. get the nl. sence your a ES sorc with 86% fcr when and ONLY when they are chargen north. teletop them and break their synch. cast iceblast down. and you should break their synch. done right. they will call you AA and you can laugh at them.

vs hybrid/ghost difficult duel for es sorcs yes. but not impossible with your -res from cm.

i agree with defensive again. but you dont always have to play defensive. most hybrids will be super aggressive and unable to stack/sorb you without losen their break points. therefore avoid the traps. avoid the triww. and blizz them as they ww. keep them north of you. and iceblast south of you(away from them) and hope they make a mistake by doing a long dod instead of a good short triww. dont play too defensive but dont play too offensive.


vs bowzons this is where you should destroy 95% of them because you should be able to keep them in a dodge/evade lock.
you do this by getting close to them and staying ONTOP of them. iceblast and blizz. they will try to mass spam w to desynch away. but if you stay ontop of them by chain locking them as you attack. you should do fine and they shouldn't be able to attack you at all.

vs javazonseasy duel. stay ontop of them and just out tank them your dmg is > then their life. iceblast/blizz them to death. frankly they are a joke. if you can keep them in a dodge/evade lock.

vs bone necroschain lock them with ice blast. ice blast is > then blizzard. however if you are havn problems catching them use blizzard to fhr them and then top with iceblast and chain.
if they use cold immune revives. use glacial spike as its a blast dmg. so it hits all targets in the area of effect.

vs psn necrosbest strat vs these is to just stay away from them. and not duel them. but if you must. you out range them. most of them will try to nl top you. which means they will nl you. tele and be standing above you. beat them to the punch and get the nl first. let them top you. and shoot iceblast NORTH. which will send them into a fhr lock because you hit first. and even if it doesn't well. you'll still destroy them. they lose too much trying to sorb/stack you dmg wise.

vs smiterssamething as a hdin. you blizz them and iceblast top. if they are sorbing it wont be easy for you. but if they arn't well it should be a cake walk. you dont need to teletop them going north. because they will end up comming to you. so get a nl blizz blizz. if they live past that teletop with iceblast and finish them off.

vs fury druidsstay away from them blizz/iceblast them. try to land them all. but stay away or face fhr lock. if they catch you. walk away and then tele to break the fhr action from their attacks.

vs bvcvery difficult duel. if they are sorbing you probally wont win. period. if they arn't well your going to demolish them if you dont get cought. stay south of them as it gives your blizz more range. try to get a nl blizz but dont get leap-fhr locked. if you dont your libal to get chain ww'd. if that happens break the chain by getting off the auto map screen. it breaks the chain lock. and get back in and try to land a quick blizz. dont blizz yourself as thats saying. HEY ATTACK ME RIGHT HERE. which a good bvc will leap you out of that and destroy you. stay moving.

vs cold sorcif the cold sorc knows what they are doing it will be useing ice blast vs you. combo with blizz. they will try to combo the blizz or iceblast and then teletop you. which is exactly what you should do. when you manage to nl and teletop renl if they tele away. to do a chain lock.

if they breat you to the tele top. walk south. and tele out once the fhr action is broken. you can also retop them if you dont think they've had time to nl you back. and get the advantage.

vs fire sorcif its a 105% fcr fire sorc. its probally a es sorc. play it exactly like a cold sorc however if they manage to hit you with a few fb's get away wait for your mana to regn and then bam go back in and try to avoid getting hit. being as they do more dmg then you. toppping without full mana will more then likely get you destroyed. if its a 200%fcr sorc. it'll be a long duel aim to blizz them as they are teleporting away as most of tehse are very defensive because they are very squishy. stay on them avoid the fb spams's and you should win the duel. just dont get hit.

vs lit sorca vita lit sorc si a joke because of your -cold mastery which means they cant sorb you. a few hits of iceblast or blizz and they are dropped. vs a es lit. you should play it exactly like you play a cold sorc. try to top them and then chain them across the map usen ice blast as your main attack skill. if you are having issues catching them nl blizz and then ice blast once the fhr action has happened. you outrange them therefore you should win period. if you get hit. back off let your mana regn and go back in once its back.

vs bvbjoke kill them with blizz/iceblast they shouldn't catch you. they dont have teleport. knock them down and steal their gold. if you lose to a bvb. you need to fucking uninstall.

vs chargerthey have no resistance. destroy them with blizz. get a namelock and then blizz the fuck. shoot iceblast when blizz is on cooldown. keep the namelock at all times. even if they are synching. you will hit them with iceblast and it will break their charge. fhr action ftw.

vs trappera good trappper will be super offensive vs you. they are a bit more versatile then a hybrid/ghost as they can get a bit of stack/sorb on without losen the 102%fcr bp. so you need to play a bit more careful. take your time land a blizz on them then top with iceblast. they dont have claw block. and if they arn't sorbing a blizz/iceblast top will take them down pretty quickly.



theres your strat part of your guide.


i dont like your armor. vmagi > ormus on a es sorc due to the 13mdr which acts as magic sorb. do the math with 95% es and a the % sorb from spirit shield its about a total of 2.2k total dmg taken all by mana instead of the 5% into life. anything over 2.2k dmg goes into life though. but vmagi > for vs necros as they only do dmg to your mana. it also helps vs hdins basically anything that does Magic dmg. the resistance is needed on a es sorc too. people who dont use resistance are idiots if they think they will stand up to a decent sorc. yeah its 5% dmg but 5% of 1.5k is alot of dmg when your opponet is shooting 24k fb's or 57k lightnings.

also sence your a blizz sorc and your dmg is way high. to help you with mana and to help you with surviveablilty. its better to sacrafice a bit of dmg for mana. so take the +5/-5 facets out of your gear and put psaphs in them. its about 70 mana after bo. which is pretty decent for a sorc.

also your doomz for vs pali's if thats the only way you can beat them. you need to stop playing cold sorc. sorry. but with nl blizz lock you should rape them in synch.

yeah it helps. but its also bm. which imo if you bm first with mana pots or doomz then i pray to god they bm you back

and a paladin can do it. easily a 205% cr shield ontop of a snowclash and 2 ravens and that means goodnight if they have a decent charm setup.

learn your sorb/stack equiptment and basically you can nullify any elemental dmg with a paladin. PERIOD.

a ormus setup works but imo a iceblast ormus is > then a blizz ormus because iceblast > blizz 100% of the time. period end of discussion.



guide raten 3/10 for bad strat section and usen 9prebuff gcs. as well as bm gear.

go back to pubs.

Edit: DO NOT USE THE HI RUNE SUR. A SUR 5% TO MANA IS NOT BO-ALBE therefore you only get 5% increased mana which is less until you hvae 4.5k+ mana BEFORE BATTLE ORDERS. until then you use psaph for the +38 mana

This post was edited by UnEvilManiac on Apr 28 2009 10:29am

nice guide allready post in here it still need max block...

nice guide / bookmarked

hello,

I won't comment the strategy part, cause It's up to the player to play as he wishs. ( as I said ).
Though... " Viper > Ormus " is TOTALLY wrong. Why ? Because you loose about 3 k Dmg by using Viper wich is very annoying, isn't it ? Moreover when es blizz has already low dmg ...
But, I agree : Res is important. You won't achieve Max Res with my guide but positive Res, wich is enough for 95 Es Sorc.

Also, Telling Psaphir > 5/-5 makes you dumb. Indeed, facets are an important part of the build : basically a 5/-5 facet = 1 Cold sk. I Agree Psaphir > facet @ es fire/light, but it's wrong and again wrong @ cold sorc, period.

I use Doom vs Pala to make them easier, though I can take them with Df without problem, too. And Imo it's not that BM.

all in all, thx for your constructive comment.

This post was edited by maximus_le_roi on Apr 28 2009 10:43am

its wrong? a cold sorc blizz iceblast orb whatever you want to make it as. already lacks sufficant dmg. the only thing they have over other types of sorcs is surviveability. gg characters arn't the ones that dish out the massive amounts of dmg they are the ones that take the high amounts of dmg and keep going.

and your dmg doesn't come from the blizz it comes from the COLD MASTERY. your little puny 14k blizz as you say you have may not be the 18k i bleieve is max. but its still plenty adding in the -resistance from COLD MASTERY. not to mention you CANNOT lower someones resistance below -100 in any difficulty. therefore in gm duels your cold mastery is enough to do that. period. hence-forth psaph > facets.

and if your usen facets in a fire sorc/lit sorc your dumb anyways.
vita or es. 9/15's > facets
psaphs > facets.
ect ect need i continue?

Edit: you need a strat section to make a proper guide as your trying to teach someone how to play a blizz es sorc as well as tell them the gear to get. so to leave a strat section out. or uncompleted as you did. makes your guide useless as they might think that spamming blizz from town is the best way to get kills.

oh and doomz is bm on all the realms i've played on so if you use doomz vs my hdin i throw on 205%cr shield topping that with my 11x 20/11cr's basically makes your -res useless adding a snowclash to my already 10 hard points into cold aura makes you heal me.

This post was edited by UnEvilManiac on Apr 28 2009 10:57am

stoped read there :



befoor criticize, read my posts properly please.

i did read your post preperly. if you agree psaph is > facet then dont say i'm wrong to tell you to change your guide to use them instead of facets.

dont flame me for pointing out the flaws in your guide. and then say thanks for critizien me.

gg guide