04-11-2003, 07:33 PM
NERDmanWhippy,Apr 6 2003, 08:40 PM Wrote:Ill have the 81% cold absorb @ 95% cold resist with one raven on...is this enough to gain health from FO?Read again, and very carefuly the link Tommi posted. With legitimate gear, you cannot achieve more than 40% cold absorb, but you can achieve some +8x absorb (with 1.08 Blackoak Luna).
On of the most thorough researches of cold absorb was made by Zharous and posted on dii.net sorc forum:
http://forums.rpgforums.net/showthread.php...threadid=123355
You can also use his PvP sorc calculator on his site.
As a practical result:
- In Hell difficulty, no amount of legit absorb will make you immune to Frozen Orb with high CM. With 2 Ravens, you'll still take considerable damage and with 2 Ravens+Blackoak, you'll still take some.
- In lower difficulties, it will heal you (esp. on Normal) - this is why PvP communities typicaly restrict absorb (because there's no point of dueling if sorc can't damage you, but they also restrict sorc defensive options)
- Cold resistance is useless (read below). Use your equipment slots for something else
Why is CR useless? Let's say you're dueling in Hell and you have 90% cold resistance there. That's 190% minus 100% difficulty penalty. However, CM (say 90% - pretty modest for PvP) does this:
1. Lower your 190% resistance by 90% to 19%
2. Apply difficulty penalty -100%
=> Your final cold resistance is -81%