Doom = Best Orb Wep?

[Bushball]

Hi, Im new to sors and I was planning on making a new pvp orb sor. I was thinking bout using a death fathoms becuase of its nice mods until my friend brought up this point of using the Doom Runeword. Not becuase of its +2 skills or -resist but becuase of Holy Freeze. Accord to the Arreat Summit Holy Freeze does the following:

"Cold Resistances and Cannot Be Frozen Items will not affect Holy Freeze. "

Now, if I use Doom will stacked resist or any resist be totally ignored while they are frozen by Holy Freeze and make orb do tons more damage? Or does this statement only affect Holy Freeze and not any other cold skill?

I am not currently able to test this but I would like to know if anyone has and tell me if this is true or not. Thx.

[Shade]

It means that the slow effect of Holy Freeze cannot be reduced by any means. Cold damage will be affected by resistances as normal (including the cold damage dealt by Holy Freeze, in fact).

[inkanddagger]

It means that the slow effect of Holy Freeze cannot be reduced by any means. Cold damage will be affected by resistances as normal (including the cold damage dealt by Holy Freeze, in fact).


is holy freeze affected by cold mastery?

[VaL]

yes all cold damage is

[UeberAlles]

If I put Doom on my merc, does it lower the monster resist againt my sorc cold spells as well? or only that dealt by my merc?

[Shade]

If you put Doom (or any -resist item) on a mercenary it will only affect the merc's attacks - not your sorc's.

[Dia]

In response to the title of this thread: No. Death's Fathom = Best Orb Weapon.

[Syvis]

Your cold mastery already has -res, so you need % damage. If you had % damage like fire mastery and lightning mastery then you would be needing - res since % does almost nothing.