Would this work? Orbinfinity

[:1]Was just wondering if this would work, since even with infity nova sorces they dont really do that much damage.

Gear:

Nightwings

Infinity

orb ormus

arach

magefist

3 cold 10fcr amu

soj soj

9 cold skillers

10 fhr sc's

Skill distr: 20 orb 20 cold amst 20 orb synergie, 20 telekenesis rest in energy shield.

Just pumping that cold res to an absolute minimum will make these shards rip you in pieces? Need some input here.|||Quote:








Was just wondering if this would work, since even with infity nova sorces they dont really do that much damage.

Gear:

Nightwings

Infinity

orb ormus

arach

magefist

3 cold 10fcr amu

soj soj

9 cold skillers

10 fhr sc's

Skill distr: 20 orb 20 cold amst 20 orb synergie, 20 telekenesis rest in energy shield.

Just pumping that cold res to an absolute minimum will make these shards rip you in pieces? Need some input here.




Scratch this -.- Orb ormus, what am I thinking..

Redo:

Nightwings with open slot

Infinity

Viper magi Shaeled

Arach

Amulet: Bahamuts life of everlasting ideally 120 mana 25 PDR (Or 2/20 amulet combined with frostburn)

Soj Soj

Treks for fhr and poison

Magefists

9 Cold skillers, torch anni. 10 5fhr sc's

FCR: 70

FHR: 90

Would this work at all?|||Have you considered that a good Doom roll with a faceted shield gives you *as much -res without the hassle of getting your opponent in range of Conviction?|||A doom with a facet shield would give 5% less -res even on a perfect roll, but you would gain a possible 20% cold skill damage. With a maxed cold mastery with plus skills you should have more than enough -cold res to handle any opponent that doesn't stack res. Also frozen orb has a casting delay so I dont know how much additional FCR will help you. I would switch the infinity for a Death's Fathom for additional cold skill damage, and then you could go with a cold facet shield if you wanted too.|||5% more you mean. You forgot Cold Mastery |||Oh dang, didn't even think about the +2 skills that doom gives XD|||Quote:








Scratch this -.- Orb ormus, what am I thinking..

Redo:

Nightwings with open slot

Infinity

Viper magi Shaeled

Arach

Amulet: Bahamuts life of everlasting ideally 120 mana 25 PDR (Or 2/20 amulet combined with frostburn)

Soj Soj

Treks for fhr and poison

Magefists

9 Cold skillers, torch anni. 10 5fhr sc's

FCR: 70

FHR: 90

Would this work at all?




you don't need infinity on a cold sorc because:

a) almost all chars can't stack res to the extent that they nullify cold mastery

b) the only chars that can outstack cold res is paladin

c) paladins also have holy shield, which means they are almost always max block

d) which means they have more than 136 dex

e) which means they can throw on a grief pb

f) which means they can eat you up since you can't block with your infinity polearm

so.

1. you don't perform as well vs other chars like zons/barbs/druids/sins

2. the whole point of having conviction is a moot point because the only class that you need conviction for also has the ability to throw on grief which serves as a VERY painful charging weapon with conc/fana

3. orb has very little real damage. even without res stack, a paladin can easily eat 3-4 well-aimed ones. and like a billion badly-aimed ones.

4. while you, can only eat max 2-3 charges. once he holds down his chargelock, you're it. especially with your low fcr.

so what exactly is the point of this build again?

nova infinity sorcs KIND OF work because of how nova fires. it shoots twice. and it has raw damage, which is augmented by the lowering of res. the mechanic doesn't work with cold sorcs.



for the finer details:

you're an es sorc with fhr? what's the point? if your life takes a hit to the extent that fhr kicks in, you just lost anyway. use crafted mana boots instead.

and poison res? poison necs use lower res, so it's pointless. with infinity, hybrid sins/ghosts will just chew through your mana anyway without block. and there's your 2 biggest poison damage dealers right there.

lesser seen poison chars:

against sidewinders, they won't even need to use poison jav. they'll just shoot ga-s at you until you die.|||Thank you elation for your post, it was very usefull to me

I miss the point about the chargers though.. Smiters chargelock any char without max block, be it this build, a nove sorc or some kind of vita caster build.|||vita casters are generally 200fcr. which makes them much faster and much more maneuverable. if you're going to use timer-ed spells for your main spell, there are plenty of options that still allow you to hit 105fcr with stormshield/whitstans.

nova sorcs can actually spam their novas. which means that against unprepared or badly built smiters, they can actually race damage with the smiter. using orb means that even if you can land a really nice orb, the smiter won't die, and with your spell on cooldown, you will need to tele off. it's a simple comparison between a machine gun and a single shot musket rifle.