07-17-2003, 03:24 PM
I forgot to mention... Depending on how Blizzard decides to leave cold mastery, cold skills might become the skills of choice or people will abandon them in favor of other skills.
If the cold mastery continues to behaive in 1.1 as it does in beta, as straight substraction akin to Lower Resists, instead of taking a % of resists, like it does in 1.09, then people will be able to minimize any cold damage by putting on high amounts of cold resistances.
You might say that in ladder, people won't find the uber items that will allow them to counter cold mastery. Well, all they need is a 4 socket armor with 4 thuls, and a 3 socket shield with thuls; all easy to get items. And if the sorceress would be pure orb, she would be, well, screwed.
Of course, the Blizzard might change their mind, and the listing on Arreat might still be true about cold mastery lowering by %. But several things would not make sense then. For one, all the items which reduce enemies cold resistances will be somewhat useless, since the cold mastery will bring everything near 0 resists anyway. Also, a sorceress would never have a problem with cold immunities, since -100% resists would always de-immunize them. Such a build would be simply broken.
In short, if cold mastery remains as it is in 1.09, you should probably go with some cold skill. If cold mastery becomes akin to LR, you might want to look around before making the final decision.
If the cold mastery continues to behaive in 1.1 as it does in beta, as straight substraction akin to Lower Resists, instead of taking a % of resists, like it does in 1.09, then people will be able to minimize any cold damage by putting on high amounts of cold resistances.
You might say that in ladder, people won't find the uber items that will allow them to counter cold mastery. Well, all they need is a 4 socket armor with 4 thuls, and a 3 socket shield with thuls; all easy to get items. And if the sorceress would be pure orb, she would be, well, screwed.
Of course, the Blizzard might change their mind, and the listing on Arreat might still be true about cold mastery lowering by %. But several things would not make sense then. For one, all the items which reduce enemies cold resistances will be somewhat useless, since the cold mastery will bring everything near 0 resists anyway. Also, a sorceress would never have a problem with cold immunities, since -100% resists would always de-immunize them. Such a build would be simply broken.
In short, if cold mastery remains as it is in 1.09, you should probably go with some cold skill. If cold mastery becomes akin to LR, you might want to look around before making the final decision.