06-23-2003, 09:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2003, 10:09 AM by Hammerskjold.)
Passive as in once you put a skill point in it, it needs no selection and consumes no mana.
>For all those asserting that a mastery is a "passive" spell, try this: Make a sorceress with zero Lightning mastery and take her round act 5 nightmare with a Baezil's Vortex. Make a sorceress with lightning mastery and do the same. Which one kills faster?
And I can go with two barbarians armed with (insert favorite affixes) Swords. One with Sword Masteries and the other without. I would make a safe guess that the one with the Sword Mastery invested has some advantage over the one without.
>How passive is that?
Well all skill points does -something- at one level or another. So if you want a skill\spell that does absolutely nothing, I guess they would be the skill\spells that you do not have.
>For the record, she's a sorceress! They are all spells.
Well that's half right. Technically any skills that consumes mana can be considered spells. Amazon Jab, spell. Barbarians Whirlwind, spell. Paladins Zeal, spell. Holy crap, D2 is pretty much full of spellcasters!
If I had any technical ability to mod the game, I'd make the fighters class of D2 base their Skills that has a physical component on Stamina, instead of Mana. But I'm kind of lazy right now, so I think I'll just wait for 1.10 instead.
>For all those asserting that a mastery is a "passive" spell, try this: Make a sorceress with zero Lightning mastery and take her round act 5 nightmare with a Baezil's Vortex. Make a sorceress with lightning mastery and do the same. Which one kills faster?
And I can go with two barbarians armed with (insert favorite affixes) Swords. One with Sword Masteries and the other without. I would make a safe guess that the one with the Sword Mastery invested has some advantage over the one without.
>How passive is that?
Well all skill points does -something- at one level or another. So if you want a skill\spell that does absolutely nothing, I guess they would be the skill\spells that you do not have.
>For the record, she's a sorceress! They are all spells.
Well that's half right. Technically any skills that consumes mana can be considered spells. Amazon Jab, spell. Barbarians Whirlwind, spell. Paladins Zeal, spell. Holy crap, D2 is pretty much full of spellcasters!
If I had any technical ability to mod the game, I'd make the fighters class of D2 base their Skills that has a physical component on Stamina, instead of Mana. But I'm kind of lazy right now, so I think I'll just wait for 1.10 instead.