11-06-2003, 03:58 PM
Yeah but Arctic Blast at level 20(+) has range of a whole screen, when I was testing out a level 99 (excuse me!) with no equipment I had no problem killing things (with help from grizzly, ~15 points in summoning) with -100 resist and 0 points in vit. Sure I had problems, but far easier than a melee character.
Also consider high cold resistants, while even with 99% cold resist the cold duration should be 1 frame, so AS always slows things down. While hurricane if it has say 1/8 duration won't slow down monsters a lot, and they easily run out of radius.
I've noticed though that with Oak Sage (which you have to cast a lot, obviously) and with most points in vit I'll have huge hitpoints (300 under level 20, just started a ladder Druid), so standing next to monsters (tanking even, with help from CA) shouldn't be a problem, and then Hurricane will be good.
You can easily though with level 20 AB hit just as many monsters on average as Hurricane (not an expert or heavily tried theory though), and you can chill monsters all over by shooting with it crazy (like a water hose, it's so much fun :D).
A shame you couldn't do say 20 OS and 75% block, if only AB was un-interuptable, block messes that up all the time. :(
I used this which is updated for 1.10f, I might of connected some numbers to wrong places though?
Edit > The damage for Hurricane in-game I'm pretty sure displays per-hit damage, as if it hit once per second; it hits once per 0,8 secs though (20 frame delay), or if you will 75 times per minute.
Also if you're tanking monsters even a level 1 AB will be good, since even with insane cold resists you'll chill them every frame, meaning in cases where Hurricane would chill them 10-20% of a second, AB even at level 1 would chill them 100%.
Also consider high cold resistants, while even with 99% cold resist the cold duration should be 1 frame, so AS always slows things down. While hurricane if it has say 1/8 duration won't slow down monsters a lot, and they easily run out of radius.
I've noticed though that with Oak Sage (which you have to cast a lot, obviously) and with most points in vit I'll have huge hitpoints (300 under level 20, just started a ladder Druid), so standing next to monsters (tanking even, with help from CA) shouldn't be a problem, and then Hurricane will be good.
You can easily though with level 20 AB hit just as many monsters on average as Hurricane (not an expert or heavily tried theory though), and you can chill monsters all over by shooting with it crazy (like a water hose, it's so much fun :D).
A shame you couldn't do say 20 OS and 75% block, if only AB was un-interuptable, block messes that up all the time. :(
I used this which is updated for 1.10f, I might of connected some numbers to wrong places though?
Edit > The damage for Hurricane in-game I'm pretty sure displays per-hit damage, as if it hit once per second; it hits once per 0,8 secs though (20 frame delay), or if you will 75 times per minute.
Also if you're tanking monsters even a level 1 AB will be good, since even with insane cold resists you'll chill them every frame, meaning in cases where Hurricane would chill them 10-20% of a second, AB even at level 1 would chill them 100%.