Better for nova sorc, ormus or vipermagi?

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So just came across a random ormus that rolled +3 nova, 12 to lightning skill damage.

I’m playing self wield inf nova sorc, and i would have to swap out my soj to make up for the 10fcr difference, but would the 3 to nova make that big of a difference?

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So you gain 1 skill (maybe “.5” skill since you lose +2 to lightning mastery) but the 12% bonus lightning damage will easily give Ormus the damage advantage…whether losing the resists and trying to regain it elsewhere is worth it will be up to the whole build.

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Vmagi for sure. 1 to all skills is reflected into your CTA or ES or TS or Warmth or whichever cold shield you have. The +2 to nova isn’t worth it in the least IMO. Maybe if the +light damage was -light res, but it isn’t. Then on top now you’re losing another +1skill with the lack of the ring.

You could try the setup, but I think you’ll wind up with nearly the same damage between the ormus to vmagi, but you’re losing all the vmagi other benefits as well as the soj.

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A perf ormus with a 5/-5 socket allows a little more max damage but vmagi is overall better for ES and survivability

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Viper is better choice most of the time as it guarantees more faster cast rate resistances and improves all of your skills not just songle one.
12% for lighting is nkt that much as you probably have like 200%+already from mastery. So it is actually like +1 to lighting mastery. You need specific items for it to be better

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Does it? Both get facet 5/5 right? So let’s go beyond that

+2 skills that applies to nova + BO + BC + lightning mastery (2 skills b/c SOJ instead of 10FCR)
vs
+3 nova that just goes to nova

My guess is that it winds up being a wash at the cost of a lot of better stats on top of it. I actually don’t even think the ormus winds up even winning in damage, though maybe it does if you’re only using an ES staff memory?

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https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/dx940gri

not hard to look up

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Chains of Honor 20 characters.

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probably, but it’s a dead forum, why not ask here?

Eloba, CoH is nice but wouldn’t work with this build

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Vipermagi also has up to 13 MDR, which is significant if you’re running ES. For a Nova Sorc, I would choose it every time over Ormus’s Robes.

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CoH is probably the worst option you can go for.

Vipernmagi if fcr. Enigma if no fcr needed or 20/-20 and ormus are all better than coh