Barbarian and Assassin

[Baylan]

Don't max Cold Mastery.  Just put 1 point into it for now.  It suffers from serious diminishing returns and isn't nearly as effective as its Fire and Lightning counterparts.
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I'm afraid that is no longer true. It appears that now Cold Mastery takes a *flat* rate off of a monster's resistance, and it goes up at a rate of 5% per level, starting at 20%. So at slvl 1, it takes 20% off of the monsters resistance, at slvl 2, 25%, and so on and so forth.

So the way it now works is that if a monster has 75% resistance, and you have a slvl 1 Cold Mastery, the monster will receive damage as if it has 55% resistance.

So maxing Cold Mastery is now an effective, and recommended thing to do, but only after you've maxed Orb. (And in my case, my secondary killing skill, fireball).

I'm in love with my new sorcie, that I've been playing in Amazon Basin games. It has been a blast on HCLEast. :-) Been playing since Saturday and she is already a conqueror, at clvl 63!