Barbarian and Assassin

[GriffonSpade]

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!
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Frozen Orb is probably the most versatile skill a sorceress can get; it can be affective with only itself being maxed and a point in mastery(after +skills), or it can be a massively powerful primary attack, but getting the full potential out isnt easy; like meteor you have to aim, you'll want the orb to blow up right on top of a middle or rear monster (The orb seems to do more damage than the shards, possibly because multiple shards are hitting what it's flying through, and when it blows up on top of a monster it hits them with large number of shards, doing probably something like 10 times displayed damage).
Its most affective range is a bit further than nova(most spells you want as far from the monsters as you possibly can), but only covers the area in front of you affectively.
It also has a massive chill duration that make it an affective opening spell in most situations, even if you arent doing much damage with it.
Probably the most flexible, reliable, and useful sorc attack spell there is.

Also, the general damage is like this: Base spell damage * Synergy damage bonus * Mastery damage bonus / Monster Resist for any who don't know.(and not Base spell damage * [Synergy bonus + Mastery bonus] as some people told me)