I don’t know how others are experiencing this, but the lighting sunder charm does so little, it may as well do nothing at all…
I get it… it reduces the >100% resistance down to a 95% resist which means I only do 5% damage… but lightning damage has an extremely wide range of damage.
Doing as little as 4, to over 10.000 damage. that means that 95% lightning resistance might as well be infinite resistance, especially considering most mobs in hell self-regenerate.
If I have even 75% lightning resist… glooms can’t touch me!
Don’t have a solution for you, but the “Crack of the heavens” charm might as well not exist.
This is the way ALL sunder charms work. The idea is to get other items to lower the resistances, like was mentioned in earlier posts. I have tried using sunders with multiple builds and they all work great, but you have to get the resistances lowered using other items, and there is a lot of them to choose from. The best of course is the cold sorceress as she has Cold Mastery which provides cold resistance so you do not have to worry about getting res gear, but cold sorceress has its other challenges.
What other challenges do cold sorceresses have, especially Blizz sorcs?
As far as I can see, their cold damage pierces cold sundered monsters like butter thanks to the mastery. Don’t really need to invest in Infinity. Keep insight for budget QoL or other weapon choices.
they can freeze monsters that they would normally not be able to freeze like the mobs in ice caves in act 5. Your merc literally can’t die if you just spam glacial spikes/ice blasts in between blizzards. The only thing that can possibly hurt you and your merc is uniques/champions (Unfreezable) and even they are slowed by your cold spells. Merc can just use the might aura instead of holy freeze for even more physical dmg of their own since you can now freezes all mobs you encounter with any of your cold spells.
Blizzard’s usual difficulty of hitting small scattered monsters can be fixed by just using glacial spike / ice blast to snipe the single monster that seems to escape blizzard. It works out greatly since glacial spike and ice blasts are all synergies.
The ability to freeze virtually all monster types is so strong that it’s not even funny. In addition to such OP QoL, the fully synergized blizz dmg is still respectable and with good gear, it shatters everything in sight with a bit of help from glacials and blasts.
Do you not know about crescent moon (shael um tir crystal sword) being a best in slot item for lightning sorc, and one of the better options for nova? Make that one change and make your break points work with it - should be doing about 8x the damage you currently do to sundered immunes. You’ll hit a fair bit harder too against non immunes.