06-26-2004, 03:41 AM
I have mixed feelings about the amount of skill points I put/am putting into Teleport. I have two great defenses though:
1. I started this character sorc as my first ladder character; no friends do bum items off of, no stuff to mule. I would not have made it to the point I am right now (wearing near perfect MF sorc equipment) if I had not been able to cast Teleport for only a few mana. My mana pool would have been drained before I got to meph/andy, if I had not put extra points into Teleport. Most characters don't notice the mana that tele sucks out of you, usually because they've got +10ish skills and lots of enhanced mana, but take my word for it; untwinked, it hurts.
2. Having teleport cost only a few points of mana saved me from Meph several times. I used energy shield for that sorc, and when Meph chucked his ice ball of doom at me and I didn't manage to dodge it, I was left with only a few mana points, enough so that in most situations, I would not have had enough mana to teleport away.
For the untwinked character, it I highly recomend it. Also keep in mind that where else are you going to put points? 20 cold mastery, frozen orb, and ice bolt is 60 points. You can reasonably expect most characters to have more than 90 skill points in a few days.
1. I started this character sorc as my first ladder character; no friends do bum items off of, no stuff to mule. I would not have made it to the point I am right now (wearing near perfect MF sorc equipment) if I had not been able to cast Teleport for only a few mana. My mana pool would have been drained before I got to meph/andy, if I had not put extra points into Teleport. Most characters don't notice the mana that tele sucks out of you, usually because they've got +10ish skills and lots of enhanced mana, but take my word for it; untwinked, it hurts.
2. Having teleport cost only a few points of mana saved me from Meph several times. I used energy shield for that sorc, and when Meph chucked his ice ball of doom at me and I didn't manage to dodge it, I was left with only a few mana points, enough so that in most situations, I would not have had enough mana to teleport away.
For the untwinked character, it I highly recomend it. Also keep in mind that where else are you going to put points? 20 cold mastery, frozen orb, and ice bolt is 60 points. You can reasonably expect most characters to have more than 90 skill points in a few days.