Meteorb, did i mess up?

[SephirothX89]

I wanted my meteorb sorc to be more cold based than fire based so instead of FB/Mete/FM/Orb i did Mete/FM/Orb/CM, was that wise? she does great with orb, but at 71 with full tals, meteor is only doing 4k =/

[Zroc]

I wanted my meteorb sorc to be more cold based than fire based so instead of FB/Mete/FM/Orb i did Mete/FM/Orb/CM, was that wise? she does great with orb, but at 71 with full tals, meteor is only doing 4k =/

Well, you are level 71, so you're still going to have a lot of points left.
How many hard points have you spent in:
FB
Mete
Orb
CM

The typical build is 20 in Orb, roughly 7-8 in CM, then maxing FB and Meteor, with your remaining points going roughly 3-1 in Fire Mastery and Fire Bolt...

[melianor]

I wanted my meteorb sorc to be more cold based than fire based so instead of FB/Mete/FM/Orb i did Mete/FM/Orb/CM, was that wise? she does great with orb, but at 71 with full tals, meteor is only doing 4k =/
Indeed you messed up, sorry to say so :(

The reason why CM is not maxed with the Meteorb build is, that you will rarely need that high Cm when you have a second tree. Maxing Cm is only worth it, when you go for single-tree cold builds!

Now that your Fireball is not maxed there is no synergy for Meteor and so you lack damage. Also if you would have maxed FB you would have ahd a very nice 3rd spell to use! FB would have around 6k damage with some +skills and meteor would do about 12-14k damage....

That build and its skills were chosen for a specific reason!!!
What you have now is basically a FO build with a low-damage Meteor spell as backup :/

[Tanatus]

You still can be ok if you reorient fireball as your secondary attack
Max fireball then meteor keep FCR above 63 and as long as you ball damage will over 2-2.5k you be just fine in hell against those persky cold immune guys

[Zroc]

Indeed you messed up, sorry to say so :(

The reason why CM is not maxed with the Meteorb build is, that you will rarely need that high Cm when you have a second tree. Maxing Cm is only worth it, when you go for single-tree cold builds!

Now that your Fireball is not maxed there is no synergy for Meteor and so you lack damage. Also if you would have maxed FB you would have ahd a very nice 3rd spell to use! FB would have around 6k damage with some +skills and meteor would do about 12-14k damage....

That build and its skills were chosen for a specific reason!!!
What you have now is basically a FO build with a low-damage Meteor spell as backup :/

So true. Well, if he's already maxed Orb and CM, then it's not the ideal Meteorb sorc, for sure, but he can still recover.

You'll basically want to turn her into an Orb/Fireball sorc.
Assuming you've already maxed Orb and CM...
Get your Fireball and Meteor maxed.
From then on out, but the rest into Fire Bolt and Fire Mastery...pay attention as you add points to see which one pumps your FireBall more (fire mastery is post-synergy, so you'll it's more than the stated 7% in effect).

Max Orb with max CM is still a very decent killer...you will just be using Orb-Fireball-Fireball-Orb tactics instead of Meteor-FB-FB-FB-Meteor tactics. I have one of these type sorcs - Orb/Fireball - and she IS good, particularly against mephy and Lister's group.

Seph, if you post back, let us know exactly how many hard points you've invested in those skills I asked about. You're only level 71...you still have time to recover nicely.

Hell, I built my meteorb correctly, and I now find I use Fireball WAY more than meteor anyway ;)

[Zroc]

Hehe, SO ditto, Tanatus ;)

[HipHop Automust]

Yeah I decided to do more of a balanced build as well.. putting ColdMastery at slvl 17 with items. Though her Meteor doesn't hit 11-14k, it's hitting about 8k and I still have 1 more point to max firebaal and 10 for mastery. That should put me around the 10k ballpark which is satisfactory to me.

I'm enjoying the more balanced orb/meteor build much more than my old meteorb build... but that could just be me. :scratch:

[sorcyone]

I wanted my meteorb sorc to be more cold based than fire based so instead of FB/Mete/FM/Orb i did Mete/FM/Orb/CM, was that wise? she does great with orb, but at 71 with full tals, meteor is only doing 4k =/

You should max fireball before putting more than 1 point into FM. Then max FM, then get CM up to level 17 with + skills, then remaining points go into firebolt for synergy.

[SephirothX89]

slright heres my stats, with +7 all skills

Meteor- 27
Fire Mastery- 19
Fire Ball- 9
Orb- 27
Cold Mastery- 20

[Tanatus]

slright heres my stats, with +7 all skills

Meteor- 27
Fire Mastery- 19
Fire Ball- 9
Orb- 27
Cold Mastery- 20
From now on put all points into fireball @~slvl 12-14 (in about 3-5 lvls) you'll recover.
from personal exp...
FO to be efficient killer need do ~400 per shard @ -75% enemy resist at very least (better -100)
FB to be efficient killer need either 2.5-3k@105FCR (machine gun) or 4-5k@63FCR (Chain gun) - bear in mind you will need massive mana pool to do this
Meteor start actually scratch anything past 7K damage a pop and become decent primary attack only after you hit mark 10k a pop
P.S. CL/L @~3.5K per arch not even scratch anything (-25% to enemy resist btw)

[Zroc]

Yeah, just max out your fireball from here on out...you should hit that by level 89 (assuming you're already done all your quests).

Actually, you should end up with a rather healthy meteor and fireball...you've only over-invested in cold mastery by about 5 points. Those are going to ramp up QUICKLY as you put points into fireball, as you already have a good amount in fire mastery.

After fireball's done, put the rest in firebolt.

You can still be a good meteorb...I'm guessing your meteor will end up roughly 9-10k? Basically, your fireball/meteor will be a little weaker, while your orb's a little stronger...

[SephirothX89]

thx alot for the help, or i would just kept screwing myself :p

now at 78 i have a 430 ish orb with same cold mastery, 2.2k FB,6-7k meteor. so im doing much better :)