How much CM do I want on my blizzard sorc? What base level or -resists do I want to be shooting for -135? or what? Thanks all I really appreciate it. Just want to make sure im not overspeccing CM and wasting points. Haven’t played d2 since I was a kid when windforce and grandfather sword were dope.
It depends on your intended play style. I would do whatever I could to get those hell mode mob resists down to ZERO (not below), especially so if I intended to play multiplayer online because the more people in game, the harder the mob. So while a -70 to a hell mobs cold resist might be sufficient if you are playing on a solo instance, a -70 to a mobs resistance is a lot different and possibly inadequate for a 8 person hell mode game, especially with a spell that now has spell timers on it. (early D2 you could spam spells like blizzard and fo and they would stack, now theres a refresh timer on the spell)
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I just checked with Mrllama on his stream he said ideally he wants 26 total max in CM. But with d2r being bugger where cold immunes are being broken by CM he said to MAX it.
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If you do that, you are going to have to choose to sacrifice A type of a shield, whether it is energy shield or a cold shield, or sacrifice your secondary element, or sacrifice warmth, or sacrifice the added synergy bonuses you get by loading up one of your other ice spells after your blizzard is maxed.
I’ve mostly just been farming pindle, andy, meph, pits,ancient tunnels over and over. Sacrificing a second element isn’t too much of a worry for the stuff im mfing. Only troublesome farm spots are Chaos Sanctuary and Baal.
I don’t think it’s a bug; seems intended. It was just returned to how it used to behave in 1.08.
the Cold Mastery’s formula is the same as Conviction’s.