Barbarian and Assassin

[TheKingofKewl]

thanks for the tips.

I'm building a Cold & Fire sorc to. I'm going to put 20 in frozen orb//cold mastery, but I'm wondering how to spend the rest in Fire. I've already put 10 in fireball and i'm thinking of maxing it and maxing Meteor as well. But should I max Fire Mastery or just put 5 or 10 points and depend on the rest with skill items. And should i put the rest in Inferno to get bonuses to meteor or put it in firebolt and get bonuses to fireball :-)
dilemmas.

As a very general rule you won't find that many points in Claw Mastery result in substantial gains in AR or damage per additional point.  Since the real answer though is "it depends,"  I suggest checking for yourself by leaving your damage setup the same, but switching one thing out for more or less +Shadow Disciplines.  That will give you a rough idea of what you can expect from every further point in CM.  (Or you could just plug the numbers into PeterPaulRuben's calculators.) 

The other issue with CM of course is that it doesn't help at all with anything but claws...and there are a lot more great BF options available in other weapon types.

Generally people get high sentry damage by having high +skills and several synergies maxed.  Usually when people are talking about damage ranges, they're referring to Lightning Sentry.  It has more potential damage per lightning volley, and an automatic 10 shots.  The lightning damage of DS is just a nifty side-benefit--the main value of the trap is the corpse explosions, and the main value of maxing it is synergizing Lightning Sentry and simultaneously increasing its own CE radius.

I hope that is helpful.
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