11-10-2003, 01:19 AM
Truth to tell, my Orb damage is quite sad. That is, the Orb damage displayed is quite sad. The max is around 360-380, don't know exactly. As I noted before, for all purposes it would have been better to max IceBolt instead of Thunderstorm + Lightning mastery, but anyway.
The incredible thing about Orb is cold mastery. Right now I have -140% to enemy resists, meaning that ANYTHING that is not TOTALLY cold immune (resistance 100%+), takes AT LEAST 500 points of damage from my orb. (This is according to the info Jarulf posted, that states that cold mastery is a flat reduction of resistances). Those without cold resist take ~ 850 damage. And mind you, that is PER SHARD. Now our little friend Mephisto is quite a huge monster. I estimate about 6-8 shards hit him each time. It is just silly how fast he goes down. Again: anything that is not totally cold immune cannot resist the power of an Orb sorc, even one without any synergies. No wonder everyone and their mother is playing Fireball/Orb sorceresses these days :)
Good luck for the monarch :)
The incredible thing about Orb is cold mastery. Right now I have -140% to enemy resists, meaning that ANYTHING that is not TOTALLY cold immune (resistance 100%+), takes AT LEAST 500 points of damage from my orb. (This is according to the info Jarulf posted, that states that cold mastery is a flat reduction of resistances). Those without cold resist take ~ 850 damage. And mind you, that is PER SHARD. Now our little friend Mephisto is quite a huge monster. I estimate about 6-8 shards hit him each time. It is just silly how fast he goes down. Again: anything that is not totally cold immune cannot resist the power of an Orb sorc, even one without any synergies. No wonder everyone and their mother is playing Fireball/Orb sorceresses these days :)
Good luck for the monarch :)