01-10-2004, 06:42 AM
Quote:Bear in mind that the LCS⢠is correct for melee damage, but is misstating your EA damage (the Fire Mastery, by testing, is not applied a second time *ranged*, but the screen shows the damage as if it does).
I knew that, this is exactly the reason why I was surprised to find out that the enchantress killed faster than the fireball sorc. The enchantress also has trouble with the zero-fast-cast situation (lev 22 teleport is only fun if you can hop at least twice an hour you know ;). The really funny thing is killing ghost packs, with the 5+ times applied splash damage :)
I totally agree with you about the ranged enchantress being more of a zon than a sorc. My idea for my character that she'd play like a teleporting ZealRanger; most of the time shooting from behind my defiance merc (4k defense really matters some actually), and against tough bosses whatever she'd teleport around and Zeal for the fire mastery bonus. I am sorry to report that Zeal swings seem just s fast as normal swings for Sikh_Bastard (she uses 35% off-weapon IAS totalling 60% ias with a Passion Phase Blade), so she basically just "gain" zeal-lock with Zeal... I guess I'd be better off with a SHAEL phase blade... we'll see.
(It has been suggested in MongoJerry's Enchantress Guide thread that Berserk might convert elemental damage to fire damage - well, at least for an enchantress, it does not seem to be the case.)
I actually found cleg's gloves to be enormously powerful for an enchantress, not only for the koncback, more so for the slow. Sikh does not use it (it intervenes with Zeal), but she used to have it and she really misses the slow effect of those gloves.
This would also lead me to think that bowazons sould rely on all the special effects they can get their hands on (hit blinds target, freeze, flee, knocnback, slow, etc), but for me it still feels that (assuming solo play) they got beaten with the nerf stick hardest of all the classes (I used to quit playing ms zon since she was too powerful to be fun - now she's too weak to keep me interested. Then again, maybe if I redesigned her... Ah heck, I'll just make a ladder enchantress.)