vouch that. cbf is extremely important to any melee character. its one of the base needs.

when you build a PvP zealer, first 2 things that you generally thing of are : Do i have at least 45%DR? and do i have CBF?

if you dont, you need to rethink the setup. cold seriously slows down any zeal attack. a 4 frame rate zeal will be slowed down to about the same speed as zeal without ias.

This post was edited by sonicgundam on Aug 6 2007 10:48pm

Here's some videos of my melee sorcs. So far none of these guides are my build.
How do you expect to melee without max block? I have 2k+ life and 3k+ mana with max block.
Some of these duels are on d2pk(the ones where maphack is used) I made it there first untill I figured out the exact gear/stat/skill distribution I wanted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_A3ySHJffY At the end of that is a 95% light res pally with 2 wisp on, just to show you how much sorb will hurt you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1unw4QwvgM This is just a video of a bear sorc showing what they can do. You can actually get 1 frame faster attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wked3KW3M1k Vs. Hdins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zy1orPwjLg Vs. Necros/pallys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07mceILrZA Vs. Druids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQVtr45V98 Vs. Barbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Hedybe7vw When I first made her and didn't know what I was doing.

This post was edited by ThatWasShockin on Aug 6 2007 11:10pm

gg aside from the noob zealer in the necros/pallys one that had no cbf. thats exactly the problem with no cbf.

Could you explain me, how do you get that you only got 15k fire dmg, 1-3k melee dmg, and like 90% of the rest 50k dmg is lighting.

I'd love to know how it works, cause i only managed to get my melee sorc up to 9-10k fire dmg, and zero lighting dmg, and which made it to fuck up bronto.

another flaw....... altho you 66k dam with zeal...... your ar is only 20k...... ar/lifers is the best way to go for GCs
and anther thing my bearess did 56k dam @ 38kar with around 5k vita... and had full res..... my aura from my dreams would pawn this build as soon as i walk out

Lightning damage charms I beileve, coupled w/ lightning mastery.

what is best weapon for passion, pb i assume?

nice guide but melee sorcs suck @ pvp especial ur one

if u wanna pvp try storm maxblockbuild with single dream
that would effect 30k dmg max dr max res max block

I can tell by those videos your sorc is built poorly. you have high TS damage, and you don't tank very much. I'd say you're a max chant/ts/tk/es/light mastery sorc with around 30% FCR and low IAS. 2X dream/passion/twitch/arach/2 raven/frosts/fcr ammy is my guess. for a bug mana sorc it doesn't seem to tank much at all

This post was edited by marvel. on Sep 4 2007 03:46pm

intresting guide