Curious, do you end up using Ice Blast to fight in hell games, or is it just there as a synergy for Blizzard?Originally Posted by hubb
Well, I'm considering a dual build.
Because it allows me to use Doom. With a Defiance merc, you got both Defiance and Holyfreeze. It also allows me to sue Chilling armor instead of frozen armor which improves defense even further. Well to be honest I actually already tried this, and the killspeed was slow as hell.
Infinity on merc really has no good alternative. Was that dual lightning/cold ? I think that would make lightning too weak, fireball/orb will be better in any dual build.
Lightning has the huge advantage that all lightning immune packs are breakable, and there are no lightning immunes in baal minion waves. There are plenty of unbreakable cold and fire immunes in both chaos and throne of destruction.
Yeah I tried a cold/fire build, with Forb being my main skill and fireball the other, it was too weak without Infinity, the killspeed was insanely slow compared to pure lightning so i switched back, imo pure lightning is the ebst in terms of killspeed, I'd never change back again unless of course that I couldn't afford infinity. Full tals is cheap, what costs with this build is p-spirit, infinity and efort, the rest of the items are highly affordable.
Yep, Ice Blast is pretty much a necessity for the single monsters that are hard to hit with Blizz, and spamming that in between Blizz casts makes a huge differences against bosses and the like.
@diabloplayer: Playing a dual-tree build without Infi and expecting it to be comparable to any build with it is very silly.
Hmm gheeds. Thinking of junking them. Crunching the numbers, even a plain light GC adds more than a perfect gheeds. If I want the MF, replace CoH with Enigma, adds 70MF. For resists, tri resist boots (45FRW from Enigma makes this easier), or aldurs, and occy (+2/10ammy) or hoto resists become maxed.
For the space it takes up, gheed's is easy mf/gf. Not to mention the vendor bonus helps when gambling. I've never needed so many gcs on a pvm sorc that I felt the urge to throw it out.
Yeah, I'm with you on this. MF is actually the least important thing about gheeds to me. Gold find and reducing vendor prices are both huge benefits to gambling over the long haul. And gambling for rare rings and rare amulets are really where it's at as far as I'm concerned. Or even if you're crafting amulets it helps because you'll be best off gambling for the amulets you're going to craft. Again, gold find and reduced vendor prices keep this at a high level as well.
For the gold find makes sense. But for vendor you would keep it in the stash or on another character wouldn't you ? You have to go to your stash to get your Edge bow anyway.
Even with Infinity it still sucks compared to pure lightning.
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