In player 1, there is no difference. You could hydra or meteor shower Mephisto for all I care. Try to do the same in player 8. You’d see the difference between blizzard and frozen orb. Blizzard lets you cast from afar or corners, with orb you have to be close to aim properly. It all goes well until extra fast mosters are cold immune or your merc dies to mephisto because you can’t kill him fast enough.
Same with diablo, his ranged attacks are more dangerous than his closeups. With blizzard you can stay next to him. With orb, you need the distance to hit him with the full orb.
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We looking from different angles in terms of killing power. Static go all way down and scales with number of players. You need Orb just to chill Mephisto - Static is what shredding him in less then several seconds. I give you that, you DO need invest more than 1 point into SF to hit 2 screen range 14.3x14.3 squares. But much like CB - SF the only skill that scales properly with number of players.
Same goes with Diablo - you chill with Orb and zap to the death with Static and btw nothing preventing you from hitting targets with Orb from point-blank distance
Static zap also disrupt current action … spam of SF … do the math. Imo one of better things about Orb it chills right after you cast it … not so much with Blizzard and those few second could make huge difference