I haven’t had the expense of owning one yet, does it BREAK cold immunes now or is it still the same?
Most cold immunes in Hell have a very high cold resistance (like +150.) Sadly Infinity can’t break them. However Infinity works perfect for Lightning immunes as they only have like 100-120 Lightning resistance.
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Anyway you could stack it with Cold Masterie that reduces cold resistence of an enemy, right?
Conviction aura isn’t a guaranteed immunity break. In fact with cold specifically there are a lot of monsters it won’t break their immunity. Lower resist is more effective at breaks and you can combine the two. Even with both methods it’s not always going to work though. Lightning and fire immune monsters break easier, just an FYI.
I think they patched it so CM only works on non immune enemies again. I might be wrong though
itll break some cold immunes.
its better at breaking lightning immunes
idk much about fire
Yes it can break cold immunes but only if the monster’s immunity is 115% resistance or lower which only account for 1-2% of the monsters. You won’t break immunity for the remaining 98% even with the lower resistance (wand) + infinity (conviction).
Edit: technically 116% or lower but there aren’t any monsters with that resistance number.
I think fire is fairly about cold immunes up to lightning ones! So light is easier to break, just Infinity and some jewels and there we go!
Conviction level 12 reduces enemies resistance by -85%.
To break an immunity, resistance reduction is 1/5 effective UNTIL the resistance is 100% or lower.
Infinity is only effective with immunes that have 115 or below resistances, and with a 115% resistance will still be a high 90%.
If my math is right, a cold immune monster with +105% cold immunity for example, level 12 conviction would bring them down to +40% cold resistance.
Does Cold mastery apply after Infinity breaks cold resistance?
The short answer is, yes to some, no to most.
MrLamaSC explained it well. There is an imbanalce of immunity, Both in amount of monster with immunity, as well as level of immunity, with Lighting getting the long stick, while Fire & cold the short one with more monster well over cap to break it with level 12 conviction.
Thats why lighting is so good with Infinity.
I think its an oversight but I am not sure the dev will want to fix it, or players open to the idea for balance.
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It should work, but seens CM doesn’t work at immune mobs… so it can’t be stack with Conviction… that’s bad new to cold sorceress.
I know cold mastery used to only pierce resistances but why does it actually say minus’ cold resists now if it doesn’t stack.
Kind of a bummer.
AFAIK it always did.
Totally agreed… but it is what it is! Sad.
u can’t break light immun on some monster
Act 1 - some cold immunes will break on normal monsters with Conviction.
Act 2 - Same as Act 1. Some break, some do not.
Act 3 - Same as Acts 1 and 2.
Act 4 - Could not break cold immunities with Conviction. Tried Conviction + Lower Resists and still did not break cold immunes.
Act 5 - Same as Act 4. Could not find any mobs who I could break cold immunity on with Conviction and Conviction + Lower Resists.
I could not find any Champions or Unique monsters who I could break cold immunity on in any acts.
Edit:
Tests were done with level 14 Conviction and level 5 Lower Resist.
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It seens like conviction aura doesn’t stack with any other reduce resist skill that you have! It just stack with some equips, runes or jewels, like -5% ligthning resist to enemys… So you can’t break immunities only with Conviction, as far as your lower resist skill just lower the resist from mobs isn’t immune.
I don’t know, but I can test it later. I would imagine -% resist would work like Cold Mastery does though.
It’s logical that’s work same way, cause all says “lower enemy resistance”, but seens like 25 point on CM lower enemy Cold Resist in 150%… with Conviction Aura any mob, I say ANY mob would have immunities breaks as rules says. But it isn’t!
So, light immunes can all be break with Conviction (-85% resist) and 4 (-5% light jewel), so it’s -105% and break almost all lightning mobs immunity! Keep in mind light immune mobs has something like 100-110% resist…
But following same rule to Cold Sorceress, CM should give you -150% and mobs should have 150% cold resist at 25, so, just max CM should almost break immunity, if you equip Infinity, it should break ALL IMMUNES mobs! But it isn’t… so it isn’t work that way or it doesn’t stack up. Who knows? Guys saying different things on internet about it and nothing that really explain what happens in this case.
So…how I understand how this works is…
If a mob is immune. Conviction will reduce that mob’s resistance by 1/5 of the actual amount. Example: Conviction reduces resistance by 50%. On immune mobs, it would only reduce resistance by 10% of the element they are immune to.
And because cold immune monsters have insanely high (150%+) cold resistance, it doesn’t break immunities on cold immune, but it does on lightning immunes, because lightning immunes tend to only have 100-110% lightning resistance.