What is the max damage that is attainable for the frozen orb? I want to build one, but i want to be sure it will be effective in hell.
Frozen orb is an end game skill that can kill with 20 invested points. I've seen it go up as high as 1k per shard; however, 400 per shard is enough.
what would be the best gear for a frozen orb sorc?
read the guide
that info is in there
depends on alot, pvm or pvp? ES or not? want block? any backup skills? budget? :azn:Originally Posted by UrbanHeroics
On a sidenote: According to my calculations maximum damage would be 1642-1714 per shard! But that gear wouldn't be the best in all other purposes :rolleyes:
Frozen Orb is a wonderful skill. It can kill without any synergies and without any good gear. A slvl 20 Orb with 1 in Mastery and maybe +5 or +6 skills will still take out monsters in Hell.
It's hard to get a good damage estimate on Orb, because it's power lies in the ability to spray shards EVERYWHERE. If it's doing 350 damage per shard (slvl 25 Orb, no synergy), that may not look like much... but if the orb explodes inside a monster it gets hit by 13 shards, which means 4550 damage. Plus he'll probably get hit by several other shards on the way in, bringing the total shards up to maybe 18, for 6300 damage. Plus all of his monster friends are getting hit by incidental contact, and Cold Mastery is making sure that the shards are dealing at least full damage, if not double. It's not inconceivable for a measly little slvl 25 Frozen Orb with decent Cold Mastery to deal 20,000 damage per cast (almost half that to one monster, and the rest spread about among all of his friends). Then again, if you aim it poorly, that same Orb might deal as little as 5,000 damage.
I can assure you, Frozen Orb will be quite effective in Hell, even with really cheap/junky gear. The biggest trick is going to be learning to aim it properly (you want as many shards to hit as possible- and if at all possible, you want the orb to explode inside of an enemy). Outside of that, don't worry so much about synergies or l33t gear- Frozen Orb is more than capable of killing all by its lonesome.
You're a little bit off.
Perfect Nightwings w/ PFacet, Perfect Dimensional Shard w/ PFacet, 4PFacet Monarch, Perfect Ormus w/ PFacet (total of +95% Cold Skill damage, +5 skills), combined with +3 Cold Skills ammy, Arachnid's, 2x SoJ, Torch, Anni, 9x Cold GCs (+19 more skills, total of +24). That's a slvl 44 Orb, fully synergized, with +95% Cold Skill Damage, for a ridiculous 1683-1755 damage. Bear in mind that you'll also have a Slvl 37+ Cold Mastery, which is enough to guarantee that anything not CI has -100% cold resist (except for in PvP, of course). That means each shard is really doing 3366-3510 damage (except against cold immunes, against whom the shards do nothing). If you can get an orb to explode in the middle of a monster and nail them with 15 shards, that's 51,570 average damage. Not too shabby, all things considered. That's better than a comparably geared Blizzard Sorc could manage unless she hit a monster with 6 shards, and the Frozen Orb Sorc requires 40 fewer skill points, to boot.
I got this a while ago... includes +1 skills from CtA switch.
how hard is it going to be to get ahold of a fathom in non-ladder? how expensive are they if i can get one?
Ah, thanks, forgot all about that fancy schmancy CtA. Back in my day, if we wanted Battle Commands, we partied up with a barb... *grumble grumble grumble*
Like I said before, the beauty of Orb is that you don't need great gear for it. I wouldn't even bother spending anything to get a Fathom- dual spirits will work beautifully, instead. I don't know how hard those are to buy Non-Ladder... but you could always make your Orb Sorc on Ladder, you know! Like I said, her independence from high-end gear is really impressive. Orb Sorcs make PHENOMINAL first characters to make your fortune with.
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