Orb or Blizzard?

[TheAlfheim]

Hey....

I'm building up my sorc, and she's primarily a fire sorc. Ive maxed meteor, fire mastery isnt far behind, and fireball is healthy. So, with all 3 skills maxed, I'm looking for the next skill to pump.
I'm about do to Baal runs in NM, so I'm expecting a few levels soon.

I dont want to put more into the fire tree, as the fire imunes bother me atm.

Ive been reading over the sorc guides, and blizz/FO seem to be the two favourites. Each has their own benefit, for sure. But I'm undecided.

What does everyone think?

I see blizzard has more damage, but a longer cast delay
FO has less damage and a shorter range, but a shorter cast delay

Cheers,
TheAlfheim

[pcgamermofo]

i like FO alot more.

[psyadam]

i like FO alot more.

FO is better, esp for noobs

[TheAlfheim]

Doesnt the extra damage of blizzard offset any values of orb?
I'm interested in the reason why, as well as the answer......

Who mentioned noobs?

[pcgamermofo]

FO is better, esp for noobs
watch the attidude, *****.

[psyadam]

watch the attidude, *****.

Sorry I was just trying to make a light joke. No harm intended. ~psy

edit: seriously though blizzard is prob a better skill for someone who wants to be pure cold and duel.

[ZounceHC]

Yes, Blizzard is better for dueling due to its high damage. But my understanding is that Blizzard does not hit all the time whereas Orb does. This would explain why blizzard has a lot higher damage.

[Sammyboyz2]

the best choice i find is orb. blizz does great damage, but only if the synergies are pumped a bit. also, it has to be aimed a lot more than orb. blizz hits an area of the screen, orb basically covers it, very few things do not get hit. but, it DOES NOT ALWAYS HIT! neither does blizzard, but orb hits more often. it easier to use, if u find aiming hard. some people can just point and kill with blizzard, but if ur like me, and are too lazy/not skilled enough, use orb. although the damage looks small, it can hit heaps of times. remember, every shard of the ball does that amount of damage, so it can kill really well if aimed properly, and at the right distance. ive taken out hell Meph in three shots of perfectly aimed orb, so it can do just as much damage as blizz.
go orb, is my suggestion

[xanth]

blizz is better when fully synergied but since ur also a fire sorc, orb is the way to go..orb is great with only 20 in fo and some in mastery (with +skills). I think that orb has the potential to do as much dmg as blizzard but only if you have it perfectly aimed and are at the right distance, otherwise, the dmg from blizzard is better

go with fo...its really ur only choice with the amount of skill points you have left...

uve spent 60 in fire right? fireball, meteor and mastery.... so uve got 40 at most assuming u get to 99 which is horribly unlikely...ive only gotten to 86 myself...so thats 20 in orb..about 5 for prereqs, some in mastery and ur set...basically u'll be making a meteorb build....blizzard really needs its synergies to be good

[baneman]

Definitely FO since you want have 'nuf points to really make Bliz effective, IMHO.

[TheAlfheim]

Thanks fellas!

Very divided opinions on this topic!
I'm still deciding (I have a few levels before I max fireball to decide). I'm leaning towards FO though. Xanth's right: I dont have a huge number of points left in this character, so I'm really after "bang for my buck".

Cheers,
TheAlfheim

[super_gray]

Im a sorc who is primarily fire, just got into Hell. Act1 was a Nightmare (ahem) because they was all fire immunes :/. Ive not put a point into Orb, altho now i wish i had, i have somethin like a lvl 19 blizzard but it is somewhat hard to get on target, and its slow.

Whereas you can never miss really with Orb, which is good, but im lvl 75 now, i just need 1pt to put into Lightning/Thunder and then i may consider Orb.... But dont know if its too late to actually do anythin about it now since lvl'ing is harder

[fractalbit]

Hello all, this is my first post.

I am curently playing a sorc allying with a friend of mine that is a druid and he mainly uses the werebear form. I chosed to play with fire and cold skills. From the fire tree i will only max firewall and put some points (4-5?) in fire mastery, nothing else (although by mistake i wasted 2 points in fireball and 1 in fireball).

Now for the cold skills i dont really know what path to follow.

1. Max glacial spike and blizzard (due to synergies) and some on cold mastery or
2. max frozen orb and cold mastery?

If i take route 1 i will have a good damaging and chilling spell (bliz) and 1 fast cast spell that freezes and does good damage.

If i take route 2 am i going to do more damage than blizzard? Is orb really more useful than blizzard? I have never used frozen orb so i dont really know if it is usefull and feels well in gameplay.

In your reasoning consider that i will always play with a bear in front on me so i dont have to care about monsters running on me. So what do you think i should do?

Thanks in advance.

[HipHop Automust]

Hello all, this is my first post.

I am curently playing a sorc allying with a friend of mine that is a druid and he mainly uses the werebear form. I chosed to play with fire and cold skills. From the fire tree i will only max firewall and put some points (4-5?) in fire mastery, nothing else (although by mistake i wasted 2 points in fireball and 1 in fireball).

Now for the cold skills i dont really know what path to follow.

1. Max glacial spike and blizzard (due to synergies) and some on cold mastery or
2. max frozen orb and cold mastery?

If i take route 1 i will have a good damaging and chilling spell (bliz) and 1 fast cast spell that freezes and does good damage.

If i take route 2 am i going to do more damage than blizzard? Is orb really more useful than blizzard? I have never used frozen orb so i dont really know if it is usefull and feels well in gameplay.

In your reasoning consider that i will always play with a bear in front on me so i dont have to care about monsters running on me. So what do you think i should do?

Thanks in advance.

Well, you'll always have a tank in front of you... Blizz would be a great choice, if you're a purely Cold sorc. Since you're mainly going to be behind a tank... FO/Static is always a good choice.