08-17-2003, 11:29 AM
I played a bit around with the Sorceress synergy calculator by MadScientist (check this thread).
The question seems not to be wether you should choose Fireball & Firebolt or Meteor & Fireball*, but rather how many points can I afford to invest in a single tree if I want a useful secondary spell?
My advise would be to invest not much more than 45 points in a single tree, while making a 20 Firebolt/20 Fireball/20 Fire Mastery (or Fireball/Meteor/Mastery) build will give you an impressive attack it will also leave you more or less useless against any Fire Immune. IMO you should always put points into prereqs for both your main attack and your secondary attack before pumping any synergies.
*Meteor does more than twice the impact damage of Fireball with an equal amount of points invested including prereqs and some nasty afterflames (which have synergy with Inferno) but it also has a casting delay(built in dodge timer :P)
The question seems not to be wether you should choose Fireball & Firebolt or Meteor & Fireball*, but rather how many points can I afford to invest in a single tree if I want a useful secondary spell?
My advise would be to invest not much more than 45 points in a single tree, while making a 20 Firebolt/20 Fireball/20 Fire Mastery (or Fireball/Meteor/Mastery) build will give you an impressive attack it will also leave you more or less useless against any Fire Immune. IMO you should always put points into prereqs for both your main attack and your secondary attack before pumping any synergies.
*Meteor does more than twice the impact damage of Fireball with an equal amount of points invested including prereqs and some nasty afterflames (which have synergy with Inferno) but it also has a casting delay(built in dodge timer :P)
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