I just put 15 points there, on atc 5 Nightmare atm, lots of cold immunes here, and they take 0 damage from blizzard and cold blast. It seems like its a waste of talent points?
It does not, only reduces enemy resistances. In hell you will see even more cold immunes so it’s nice to have some other element like fire to deal with those when needed.
so it makes this talent useless by far.
It’s not useless because it can reduce the cold resistance of an enemy to -100%
So there is nothing that can break cold immunity, even after will max it up and for example +6 points after maxed out?
Lower resist, amplify damage and decrepify curses can break immunities as well as conviction aura. Even those can’t break some of the immunities though, as it depends on what % of resistance a specific monster has.
https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Immune_Monsters_(Diablo_II)
so where is logic actually, LR, AD, decrepify, conviction all of these reduces resistances and by that way breaks the immunity as i understand, but Cold mastery does not ?
Curses and auras are active lower resistance they can break immunity with 20% effectiveless.
Cold mastery and equipment lower resist, on the other hand, are passive lower resistance, they will not break immunity.
This is just how the game setup in the past.
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CM will break cold immunitys in D2R but most monster have very high cold resist.
Basically if you have -200% cold res for example, on cold immune mobs, it will only -40%
The bad thing is that all cold immune mobs have very high cold res, like 140-160%, so after -40%, it is still immune
Just skip them, don’t be stubborn
It no longer works because it was a bug and bliz has hotfixed it