Which would give more blizzard damage? Perfect fathom OR +6 blizzard oRB??

Pvm - df
PvP - orb 6cold mastery

Orb 6bliz without cold mastery - junk

This post was edited by tytik1992 on May 27 2023 01:10pm

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Any other opinions?

I agree mostly

Explanation: with cold mastery monsters will already be at the maximum -res value so the additional -res from a cold mastery orb would go to waste while the + cold damage from fathom would be useful still.

For pvp I think either would work but in different situations.

For pub games where people aren’t usually rocking a cold stack setup, the cold mastery rare or magic orb would be better since the -res would likely be put to use. If the person just barely had max cold res then the rare orb would be overkill though and fathom would be better.

In the case of someone rocking full cold stack then fathom might also be better if you can’t bring their resistances below max even with the rare orb.

Tldr for pvp fathom is better in more situations but a really good rare or magic orb could be better vs players with moderate-high cold resistance but not low or very high resistances.

This post was edited by Void511 on May 27 2023 02:52pm

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Won’t be pvp just for a pvm sorc, so it sounds like DF would be best for PVM?

Yes for sure. A really good rare or magic orb would be insanely expensive and the extra -res would be wasted.

DF would do a lot more damage in pvm

This post was edited by Void511 on May 27 2023 02:50pm

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How about Doom ?

e: Didn’t Blizzard nerf cold mastery to work only 1/5 against broken cold immunes ( sundered ) so even your cold mastery give -150% cr it only affect by -30% against monsters which have been cold immune ?

This post was edited by Soppamies on May 27 2023 03:26pm

Oh yea I think you’re right. Doom or mastery orb might be better in that case but it would involve some calculations which I’m too lazy to do atm : /

Fathom would still be better vs non immune monsters though so it would depend where you’re clearing as well.

I think doom would be best in areas with a lot of cold immunes with a sunder charm since the -60 from doom isn’t penalized after being sundered

This post was edited by Void511 on May 27 2023 04:15pm

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