synergies fmast vs. fbolt

[jambaaa]

I am in the process of making a meteor/orb sorc..

Now i have orb/fball/meteor-maxed

just curioius as to what would be the better choice... maxing fbolt because i usually use fball as my second attack instead of meteor..

Fbolt gives 14% per level to fball whereas the mastery gives something like 8%.

my question is does mastery increase huge by the time it is maxed? or would maxing fbolt be the way to go.

thanks

[AnimeCraze]

Neither. The correct answer lies somewhere in between, depending on the amount of +fire mastery you have in your gear. Use calculus or a skill calculator to figure that out. I believe it is something like your total synergy points is 10 more than your mastery lvl or something like that.

[TrubbaNot]

Randall explains it pretty well here. (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=5045194&postcount=14)

I'm playing untwinked, so I won't know my endgame +skills from gear by the time I've finished maxing FBall, so I'll be putting a few points into Fbolt before messing with mastery.

[kohlman]

I would assume that fire mastery would be a better option because it also boosts your other fire skills.

I did some quick calculations with a skills calculator assuming that you had 15 to all skills (not that hard with charms ammy's and torch) and here are my results:

Max FBall, Meteor, Fmastery (1 point in FBolt)
FBall DMG = 6,662-7,271
Meteor DMG = 15,797-16,460(1,749-1,836/second)

Max Fball, Meteor, FBolt:(1 point in FMastery)
FBall DMG = 7,126-7,778
Meteor DMG = 14,762-15,383 (1,117-1,173/second)


Of course this is without facets and special +dmg fire skills and such, this is only skills with 15 plus to all skills. Therefore it is a rough number but gives you an idea of whats going on.

[PhatTrumpet]

Randall explains it pretty well here. (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=5045194&postcount=14)
Well I explain it pretty well here (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4695769&postcount=12) and here (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4695769&postcount=12) (split into two posts because the guide was too big for one post).
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[jambaaa]

Well I explain it pretty well here (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4695769&postcount=12) and here (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4695769&postcount=12) (split into two posts because the guide was too big for one post).
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cool thanks guys.. that last post really puts it into perspective

i would l ove 15k dmg thats unreal

[AnimeCraze]

Never noticed someone wrote a guide on this. I was away for several months......

Anyways, your explaination is "horrible" since you only explained 1/2 of your guide. Check your links, since they link to the same post. http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?p=4695769 for the complete thread.

[PhatTrumpet]

Where were you 9 hours ago when I could still edit my post... :tongue:

The second "here" was supposed to be this post (http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4695772&postcount=13), which is really the meat of the whole thing (especially the summary at the end for those who could care less about the details behind it).