Pure Melee Sorceress

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Interesting. 

"You're confusing "Spells" with the "Range" of an attack."

Well, that would be true if the opposite of "melee"  actually was "ranged."  Really, the opposite of melee would be to not fight at all.  So, a ranged or melee attack is much more similar linguistically than you portray in your argument.

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?  How passive is that?

If your argument of ranged and not ranged is so brilliant, what about static?  Static is not a ranged spell.  It would be a radial spell.  There are many of those, too.

For the record, she's a sorceress!  They are all spells.

And by the way, as for the puritanical comment, it is you who made the assertation of PURE.

Well I don't think I'm going to convice you of my point of view. I find your arguments both on the defintion of melee/non-melee, and passivity kind of circular and confusing:

"Really, the opposite of melee would be to not fight at all."

"Which one kills faster? How passive is that?"

A "passive" skill is supposed to make a character more effective. In this case, fire mastery will make Enchant, a melee skill, more deadly. It could of course just as easily boost Firewall or Meteor, which are ranged attacks. The fact that a Mastery influences ranged attacks (as well as melee), doesn't mean it can't be applied to a pure melee build.

I do agree with you about Static. That utilizing it would definitely be going outside the pure melee build. I'm not sure whether that'll be incorporated in the final build or not (it wasn't mentioned in my original post). I just said I liked Sir_Die_alot's idea about having one point in Static (or an orb with +skills to Static) to deal with end-of-act bosses . This would be a last resort in case I can't make it past Diablo, for instance.