thx

id do 60//60 armor

why..
only need 45 in some item
then passion gives 25

no

if you want pure damage, light skill GCs are better due to how damage is calculated from skills. also light GCs increase the damage done via holy shock and thunderstorm, and they help you reach lvl 40 ES

Skill-based: (Base Damage) * (1 + %Boost/100)^2
Nonskill-based: (Base Damage) * (1 + %Boost/100)

lets say you have lvl 34 lightning mastery
Lightning Mastery (lvl 34) = 446%

with 3x 2-99 lightning damage charms the damage you gain is
min non skill lightning damage = 6*5.46 = 33
max non skill lightning damage = 297 * 5.46 = 1622
average = 827


But say with those three slots i get a lightning skill charm. Which increases both non skill and skill damage via lightning mastery.

(this includes the 1-50 light damage from passion, 2-24 damage from sojs)
min non skill lightning damage = 3 * 5.58 = 17
max non skill lightning damage = 74 *5.58 = 413
average = 215

(this is with lvl 30 holy shock from 2 dreams and lvl 35 light mastery)
Holy Shock Min = 1 * (5.58^2) = 31
Holy Shock Max = 1668 * (5.58^2) = 51936
average = 25984

(this is with lvl 30 holy shock from 2 dreams and lvl 34 light mastery)
Holy Shock Min = 1 * (5.46^2) = 30
Holy Shock Max = 1668 * (5.46^2) = 49726
average = 24878



so lvl 34 light mastery with the 3 lightning damage charms yields
24878 + 827 = 25705 average lightning damage

lvl 35 light mastery with the light skill GC adds
25984 + 215 = 26199


so as you can clearly see using lightning skill charms is better than 2-99 damage charms

however, you can still have 10x small charms while using the maximum amount of lightning skill GCs

but that's a bad idea since you really need 20life and 17mana from each small charm space. You won't crack 3k mana if you go with 2-99 scs over 20/17 scs

and besides, 50k maximum lightning damage is plenty for dueling

This post was edited by prickster on Feb 18 2010 08:10pm

Ive built this char from this quide.
Gave me 1.5k Life, 2k Mana with maxblock ~12k Ar.


I tryed to build it with Frosts/1x Soj/Metalgrid instead.
That gave me:
1.3k Life, 2.7k Mana with maxblock, ~8.5k Ar.

With that set up id only have 20fcr tho. Wud that be enough?

This post was edited by vandalen on Mar 29 2010 12:16pm

Dose she still work in 1.13?

" Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way. "

Wow thats nice

Need 2 know this, too

still working in 1.13, same calculation (see prickster's post).

what is fixed in 1.13 is the bug allowing you to stack Holy shock level and get unlimited damage from dreams.

1) to all worrying about 'poor' AR in pvm : dont forget level 12 conviction from merc also inflicts -83% defense on monsters, so with a nice level (90+) you'll have nearly 95% chance to hit everything, even with 2-3K AR.

2) about bear-form vs zeal : its only a question of style i must say. zeal hits 6/7/7/7/11 frames, bear can be 4 frames (ask only some kick-sin or wolves to be faster than bears).
bear gives %life but not mana, so its some waste for es-built, better try it with vita build i guess. no-tele on bear is really a pain !!

3) mana-burning monsters are the only danger for es-sorc, but if you just watch for them, you must not have so many problems. i reached lvl97 with my es-melee sorc (last ladd), self opening baal runs. As far as i remember, i just died 1 time between level 95 and 97. Tank bosses (and minions) after you checked if are/arent mana burning.

4) other gears possible to my eyes :
CoH + 20ias/stats/res gloves + Highlord + Treks better res, 8%DR, enough ias for bp, 86%fhr with few 5fhr sc
Twitchroe (1xup) / strong jewel (15ias/15@) + Bloodfist (2xupped) + Mara more style, more fhr, more block (or more mana if you use less dext), you'll miss some res, but not so important with 95%es

5) is not so expensive build, unless you try to get a 4sx 100life cham + 45ias/45@res. perfectly viable with 50-100 fg max (most for good torch and anni).

6) with 1.13 and maiden gone, another funny pvm melee sorc is :

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=40761313&f=87


regards

edit : gz 25K views !! nice guide i forgot to say (but it was obvious

This post was edited by feanur on Apr 6 2010 04:38pm

meh forget my suggestion, too tired to think..

This post was edited by brett20308 on Apr 21 2010 05:45am