06-17-2004, 07:04 PM
To be quite correct, I seem to recall a post where someone said the dammage is physical, and thus blockable and affected by might/fanatism, but it is converted to Magic dammage before resists apply. I am however to lazy to go search several message boards to find that thread again.
The point however is that its not elemental dammage, so your elemental resist wont matter one way or the other.
As for firewall, yeah it might give more dammage, but its a pain to position and you cant chain cast it while casting orb. Both are probably nice tho. The level fireball i describe above will equal about 1k dammage per cast, and with at least 63% faster cast (sacrificing a little mf for killing speed) you should do fine against cold immunes in 1-2 player games. I only mf bosses in 1 player games so thats no problem.
The point however is that its not elemental dammage, so your elemental resist wont matter one way or the other.
As for firewall, yeah it might give more dammage, but its a pain to position and you cant chain cast it while casting orb. Both are probably nice tho. The level fireball i describe above will equal about 1k dammage per cast, and with at least 63% faster cast (sacrificing a little mf for killing speed) you should do fine against cold immunes in 1-2 player games. I only mf bosses in 1 player games so thats no problem.