I haven’t fully read through the details of all the patch notes….
Looks like cold Sorc got the nerf tho, so is everyone back to playing lightning sorc? Just rocking infinity themselves on a scythe or something?
Thx dudes
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I imagine everyone who played ladder built both cold and light. I guess cold took a bit of a nerf, light is still good as ever.
As far as self-wielding Infinity, I watched one of Cooley’s videos where he had a Brandistock on a trapper. (Trap laying speeds based off IAS, and Brandistock is like the normal Mancatcher.) It’s just a few points more dex, easily covered by torch and anni on a sorceress, and it gives you an out to move Infinity over to a trapsin if you want to goof with that.
TLDR Brandistock is an alternative to Scythe.
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Yes Cold mastery got nerfed.
“Cold Mastery is now applied at 1/5 effectiveness after an immunity is broken.”
a cold sorc without any skiller has normally level 35/36 cold mastery, so it’s -195 res.
Against cold immune monster, it’s only -39 res in the new patch.
Cold sorc can still be very strong, because Doom and Rainbow facet didn’t get nerfed.
If you have a Doom -50% cold res. with level 35 cold mastery, you could have -89 cold resistance.
So I think in the new patch, cold sorc will not use Death fathom anymore, everyone is going to use Doom, or the cheap Voice of reason (-26 cold res).
Since more people are going to make doom and plague. I think the price of Cham will increase a bit.
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thought of getting back to my sorc after a few months with the cold sunder release on NL.
didnt see the CM nerf. lol
So mercenary will be barb with 2x voice of reason for starters?
edit: also, is cold sorc still doeable against ubers, just saw a video made 4 mo ago with cold sorc with only Tal rasha set but with the nerf can it still be done?
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Only sunder got nerfed. Ubers are not immune, so cold mastery is still 100% effective and gears don’t change. Unless you talk about the mobs around Diablo, they’d be harder to kill
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I have the same understanding as Zhongli. I did a quick test yesterday and my blizz sorc just killed as fast as before (p1 hell meph, diablo, baal) in full mf setup. Cold immunes are handled by static field and merc.
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I tested with a -70 cold sunder and when equipped my cold res drops from 75 to 5 against every monsters, however against previously cold immune monsters it drops again to -50. Is it normal that the char has double penalty?
As far as I am concerned it is useful in particular situations (e.g. make wave 2 easier in throne) and I would carry it in the cube most of the time.