FOrb. To synergy or not to.

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To the Orb sorcs out there.

  I have a sorc that had maxed orb and cold mastery that does about 325 dmg but I never synerged it with ice bolt due to the only 2% gain.  I can go thru normal and Nm with no problem the way it is now but slow way down in hell, but I gess thats the point of hell monsters.  Even thou my sorc is 87 atm I think it is a bit late to start doing ice bolt now but I am thinking of making a new one.  I gess my point is, is it worth it to spend the 20 points in ice bolt?  If you were to make a new orb sorc would you ice bolt your orb or not?  This will be a realm sorc also.  thx in advance

Sirbub
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Maxing your ice bolt is actually kind of useful if you like frozen orb a lot and find yourself using it on anything that moves. 20 points gives you 40% enhanced damage, not bad when you combine that with the - resistances. That means you actually multiply your cold mastery and your enhanced damage (I really hope I'm right). I can see a pure frozen orb sorc now just for fun. 6 facet crystal, cold ormus w/facet. Lower resist wand on switch, infinity. I dont think anyone can be that cold immune.

My opinion, don't bother maxing it unless you really want to try it out. Frozen orb is a good enough skill without synergies. Just multi skill and get something else in there, like fireball. Or chain lightning, just make sure you get a fast weapon.