Blizz Sorc D2R
20 each for Ice Bolt/Ice Blast/Glacial Spike/Frozen Orb/Cold Mastery; 1 in Static Field/Telekinesis/Frozen Orb/Warmth; rest in Frozen Armor.
With a cold sunder charm, cold immunes have 95% cold resistance, instead. Any reduction to enemy cold resistance afterwards is only 1/5th effective. This means that to get to -100% cold res for formerly immune monsters, you need to effectively have -975%, which is a pipe dream. With two perfect rainbow facets, you will reduce the enemy passive resistance to 85%, which is still way too high to reduce to minimum possible. Therefore every point of cold mastery helps.
This of course only goes for natural cold immunes. Creatures with no resistance by default can be bottomed out with just a level 17 Cold Mast…
What Diablo 2 did right, what Diablo 3 did wrong, and worries for Diablo 4
When Diablo 2 first came out, I was about 10 years old. I remembered sitting next to my older brother, watching in excitement as he whirlwinded through hapless fallen and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. After countless hours of cajoling and whining, I finally got to create my own character, a lowly Paladin, and gasped in shock when my life points ran out and my knight fell into a sad little heap.
Diablo 2's gameplay left an indelible mark on me. From that point forward, all rogue-like games I played would be unconsciously measured against its experience--and inevitably, I would find most wanting.
What my 10 year old mind couldn't absorb, however, was the story. I wasn't old enough to appreciate things like voice acting, art direction…
Summonmancer Notes
This is the first time I've seriously tried a Necromancer. Notes below.
- 1 Stats
- 2 Skills
- 3 Gear
- 4 Observations
Same as practically everyone else, with just enough str to wear equipment (156 str for Spirit monarch), nothing in energy, and everything else into vitality. Most builds seem to indicate that getting max block is fairly pointless. Given that you'll have literally more body shields between you and the baddies than any other build in the game, I agree.
- 20 in Raise Skeleton (max first)
- 20 in Skeleton Mastery (1 point, then max second)
- 1 point each in: Clay Golem, Golem Mastery, Summon Resist, Raise Skeleton Mage, Blood Golem, Iron Golem, Revive, Amplify Damage (8 total)
These are the essential requirements for the build, leaving us with 62 skill …
Blizz Sorc Notes
So this is the first build I've tried in years! Hopefully it'll be fun.
Blizzard is the highest cold damage sorc skill, so accordingly it's a popular build. Apparently, the blizz sorc deals extremely high damage, but as it only deals cold damage, it can only be used in very specific parts of hell.
General strategy is to blizz everything that moves, but using glacial spike as a panic button if you teleport into a monster pack.
- 1 Breakpoints
- 2 Stats
- 3 Skills
- 4 Equipment
- 4.1 Helm
- 4.2 Amulet
- 4.3 Weapon
- 4.4 Body
- 4.5 Shield
- 4.6 Gloves
- 4.7 Rings
- FASTER CAST RATE BREAKPOINTS
Teleport / Glacial Spike / Static Field
9 Frames = 63 FCR
8 Frames = 105 FCR < Optimal Performance
7 Frames = 200 FCR
- FASTER HIT RECOVERY BREAKPOINTS
9 Frames = 42 FHR < Spirit Runeword alone provides 55
8 F…
Best affixes for crafted items
Collecting thoughts on what I should look for when I start crafting my items.
- 1 Weapons
- 2 Helms
- 3 Armor
- 4 Shield
- 5 Belts
- 6 Gloves
- 7 Boots
- 8 Rings
- 9 Amulets
The short answer is that I don't think it's worth it. There are so many affixes for weapons, and so many of them that are pretty useless, that it'd take an insane amount of tries to make anything good. Could create amusing results though.
All the helm recipes are essentially not relevant for the late game, with the possible exception of blood helms for their deadly strike mod. The relevance of crafted helms is further hurt by the fact that there are many very strong options for rare, unique, and even set helms, not to mention circlets that can be gambled to have a variety of strong mods.
Helms have a baffli…