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Feb 11 2023 12:33am
Following the patch notes for the season 3, what do you guys think will be the best class for farming cows, chaos, baals and terror zones, rush services etc

Cold sorcs were always the best on ladder reset, even more the last season with sundering charms which made them break cold imunes and reduce the res to 0.
But now with the 1/5 cold mastery effectiveness nerf, does that mean that are way less viable?

Trap sins had major buffs, allowing them to use -res % on gear since they now work for traps. The only problem is they dont have teleport until later when enigma is affordable. Also the martial art looks fun but also not really viable.

Ofc hdins are op, but not really a budget option on ladder reset.

Do you guys think cold sorc still kings or should we reroll for something else?
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Feb 11 2023 12:51am
1/5 cold mastery is only against inmunes. Cold was king even without damaging inmunes.
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Feb 11 2023 02:46am
Kinda pointless nerf imo, bcoz Cold Sorc has been out damaged by other chars / builds. I understand the way how they ” fixed ” Infinity’s Conv aura to effect only 1/5 against broken immune by Sunder Charm, but this is stupidy.

Anyway another point, why they haven’t yet change Fire and Light Mastery to works like Cold Mastery does ? In this case if every Mastery works same way then this 1/5 effect against broken immunity makes some sense.

But even after this change Blizz Sorc is still very effective Boss runners at start of reset, if you have correct mind set to make thousands of Andy and Meph runs at NM / Hell :p

This post was edited by Soppamies on Feb 11 2023 02:47am
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Feb 11 2023 03:12am
Quote (Soppamies @ 11 Feb 2023 09:46)
Kinda pointless nerf imo, bcoz Cold Sorc has been out damaged by other chars / builds. I understand the way how they ” fixed ” Infinity’s Conv aura to effect only 1/5 against broken immune by Sunder Charm, but this is stupidy.

Anyway another point, why they haven’t yet change Fire and Light Mastery to works like Cold Mastery does ? In this case if every Mastery works same way then this 1/5 effect against broken immunity makes some sense.

But even after this change Blizz Sorc is still very effective Boss runners at start of reset, if you have correct mind set to make thousands of Andy and Meph runs at NM / Hell :p


*not just the mind set, many free time also 😃
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Feb 11 2023 03:19am
Quote (Kaos234 @ Feb 11 2023 07:33am)
Following the patch notes for the season 3, what do you guys think will be the best class for farming cows, chaos, baals and terror zones, rush services etc

Cold sorcs were always the best on ladder reset, even more the last season with sundering charms which made them break cold imunes and reduce the res to 0.
But now with the 1/5 cold mastery effectiveness nerf, does that mean that are way less viable?

Trap sins had major buffs, allowing them to use -res % on gear since they now work for traps. The only problem is they dont have teleport until later when enigma is affordable. Also the martial art looks fun but also not really viable.

Ofc hdins are op, but not really a budget option on ladder reset.

Do you guys think cold sorc still kings or should we reroll for something else?


hdin is a budget option. dual spirit and lore helmet give a lot of skills and fcr for very low investment, charge is a great mobility skill. so hell chaos runs are doable with mediocre gear. of hdin gets a big boost with enigma, but it is definitely playable without
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Feb 13 2023 03:20pm
Quote (PiXi31415 @ Feb 11 2023 04:19am)
hdin is a budget option. dual spirit and lore helmet give a lot of skills and fcr for very low investment, charge is a great mobility skill. so hell chaos runs are doable with mediocre gear. of hdin gets a big boost with enigma, but it is definitely playable without


I’d say the FOHdin is even better than the hammerdin for budget clears. Super safe and you can almost play it naked. Clears chaos super fast at ladder start with almost nothing but spirits and lore.
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