06-15-2004, 04:50 PM
of course, hiring a bow merc in normal will have better life, better resist and better damage, however, leveling her up to 7X level will be really a pain.
bottom line is, I believe the importance of the damage from merc is much less in 110 than in 109. And mostly likely, they will die in 1 or 2 hits no matter what level of difficulties they were hired from.
As for the fireball PVPer suggested above, I really can't see how it may work. 92% absord is a HUGE difference than a 95% abosrb es sorc.
Your life base is already very low, taking extra 60% of the damage (5% vs 8%) is extremely dangerous in PVP. Also, I can't see what is the benefit you can gain from dropping a fosties by using a magefist.
You will have a huge drop off on you mana pool, the extra +1 skills and mana regen is nice, but I don't think it can compensate that.
If a ES sorc will be using fireball, she will face 2 major problems :
1. not enough skill points, at around lvl 80, you can only max 2 skills other than the basic requirement for ES. If you go Fireball and say max fire bolt, and say you have extra 10 fire GC to boost your fire mastery, your damage will still be pretty low in a PVP stand point. Any charater with decent resist and maybe a little bit of absord will take you out easily.
2. Fireball also required to aim and that could be a problem. If a sorc will cast something in PVP which required to aim, IMO, she better max block, otherwise...., if she max block, again, the efficiency from the protection of ES will be going down.
If anyone will really serious think about making a PVP ES sorc, as of now, I think a frozen orb sorc maybe the only choice left.
bottom line is, I believe the importance of the damage from merc is much less in 110 than in 109. And mostly likely, they will die in 1 or 2 hits no matter what level of difficulties they were hired from.
As for the fireball PVPer suggested above, I really can't see how it may work. 92% absord is a HUGE difference than a 95% abosrb es sorc.
Your life base is already very low, taking extra 60% of the damage (5% vs 8%) is extremely dangerous in PVP. Also, I can't see what is the benefit you can gain from dropping a fosties by using a magefist.
You will have a huge drop off on you mana pool, the extra +1 skills and mana regen is nice, but I don't think it can compensate that.
If a ES sorc will be using fireball, she will face 2 major problems :
1. not enough skill points, at around lvl 80, you can only max 2 skills other than the basic requirement for ES. If you go Fireball and say max fire bolt, and say you have extra 10 fire GC to boost your fire mastery, your damage will still be pretty low in a PVP stand point. Any charater with decent resist and maybe a little bit of absord will take you out easily.
2. Fireball also required to aim and that could be a problem. If a sorc will cast something in PVP which required to aim, IMO, she better max block, otherwise...., if she max block, again, the efficiency from the protection of ES will be going down.
If anyone will really serious think about making a PVP ES sorc, as of now, I think a frozen orb sorc maybe the only choice left.