Through the test of Diablo 2 high-level players, it is found that coldMastery has the problem of actively reducing the resistance of monsters, and can kill monsters with high cold resistance through infinity. Is there a problem with this? Whether it violates the original mechanism and whether it needs to be repaired
??? I donāt get it. What is wrong with it? It is the original mechanism doing what it should be doing.
It has been this way for 20 years.
Conviction Aura and Lower Resist meant to increase the teamās spell damage by decreasing resistance.
Cold Mastery meant to increase sorcererās cold damage by decreasing resistance.
Btw, Conviction Aura and Lower Resist can break some monsterās immunity.
You say it was found that there is a problem and you asked if there is a problem with it? Which is it? Either you know or dont know.
And if you know, can you actualy desribe the issue.
I mean active reduction, while Coldmastery is passive reduction. This needs to be clarified
Please read carefully the introduction to cold mastering techniques. Cold mastering skills under the redemption aura will not cause high damage to it. Please understand this.
Sorry but this line doesnt make any sense.
Conviction is an Aura. Of course, it needs to be activated. Coldmastery is a passive skill so it doesnāt need to be activated.
I donāt understand what is the issue here.
1st of all, what do you mean cold mastering skills? There is a skill call āCold Masteryā but I never heard cold mastering skills.
2nd, of course, it wonāt do higher damage with Redemption Aura. Redemption aura doesnāt decrease the resistance. I donāt understand what is the issue here.
Here is the link to all these three skills:
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/skills/sorceress-cold.shtml#coldmastery
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/skills/paladin-offense.shtml#conviction
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/skills/paladin-defense.shtml#redemption
Having a hard time understanding your google translate paragraph, but cold mastery only gives passive cold pierce (cannot break element immunity) and is intended to be that way, conviction and lower resist curse directly subtracts monster elemental (cold, fire, lightning, poison [lower resist only]) resistance, which has the ability to break the element immunity of monsters, that is also the intended function of those skills.
EDIT: When I say or mention intent in the game, I speak of the current patch version 1.14d ruleset.
Reference on immune monsters, and what monsterās resistances can be broken with conviction and lower resist: https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Immune_Monsters_(Diablo_II)#Immunities_in_Hell
Actually, the immunities came with LOD expansion. Before the expansion the game was still difficult, but cold mastery was the reason cold skills were broken. They should have made it like the other two masteries and just increased damage.
To be honest, the entire cold tree is silly. They have three similar projectile attacks and three similar armor abilities. They could have given you two projectile attacks, one with single target and the other with area of effect. Then give you two defensive abilities. That would leave two skills for something different.
Utilizing two abilities from other classes to break immunities is stupid. They never originally broke immunities, because immunities never existed. They also didnāt break immunities when the immunities were introduced, they were changed later on.
Cold Mastery was an unbalanced ability. It canāt break immunity and just increases damage anyways. It was the original reason cold skills were broken, they could have easily just changed that ability and the game would have been fine.
Well for one, I wasnāt implying that anyone use the skills in conjunction to do so, thatās just happens to be on the wiki, since itās something easy to reference. I would normally suggest they look through game data, but that isnāt exactly user friendly.
Iām speaking as of the current latest patch 1.14d on how they function with those skills which presumably is the purpose of those skills. But you could be right, if weāre talking about the original intention of the abilities of those skills in previous patches.
The original developers left before those patches were added. The changes were based on what the new team could think up at that moment. The direction they went changed the entire game a few times, each time the game became something else entirely.
Heās asking if stacking was intended. Because once you break the immunities, you can use lower resistance with other things like cold mastery for good damage. Heās testing the game at the moment and noticed this.
No, itās not a bug. They stack.
It is an odd decision that Cold Mastery lowers resists while Fire and Lit increase damage. As stated this decision was made before they introduced immunities and thus has led to an imbalance with cold being able to break immunities with the help of other things like conviction and LR and Fire and Lit unable to.
Was it intentional to give cold one benefit and the other two a different benefit. In the beginning it probably was, but over time with the āskill balancesā it creates a big difference that makes them unbalanced. I donāt think this was intended.
Should they changed the masteries to either all increase damage or lower resists? IMO yes they should make them equal so one doesnāt have an option to break immunities while the others do not.
Which way should it be? I donāt know. As you canāt really break the immunities unless you have the help of either a Pally, Necy or really high end gear, perhaps itās fine to let all masteries lower resists. I would ask at what level of cold mastery you need to actually break the Hell immunities. Is it attainable through + to skills at all without help? How many + to skills/facets do you need?
Should they make the changeā¦I would vote yes.
Honestly, I would just take out immunities and make enemies with 90% resistance. Give them a special title that makes lower resistance work with 1/5 effect. Then change cold mastery to increased damage and rebalance lower resist, conviction and a few unique items to make more sense.
Another way would be to keep immunities and remove the ability to break resistance all together, but then add pierce resistance effects within the game. Then people who use elemental damage would have another equipment option to consider. You would still change cold mastery to increased damage.
I personally prefer how the masteries, immunities, and the breaking of immunities function in the current patch. Sure it might suck that you have limited options for places to farm with cold sorc, like AT, Bosses, etcā¦ but Iād still use a cold sorc any day to boss (particularly meph), cause the damage is pretty decent for that, and for pretty cheap.
EDIT: Iām just using the cold sorc for the sake of an example, just to be clear. I am aware it effects other classes who use their respective element types. It still doesnāt change my stance on masteries, immunities, and the breaking of immunities
Itās not only the sorceress who has these problems. The amount of common enemies with fire and cold immunities is apparent, especially most enemies within act one. Almost every waypoint location in act one, has half of the enemies immune to cold and the other half immune to fire. Thereās basically one map that has lightning and poison immune monsters. The game basically forces the sorceress to farm bosses.
But which do people like better Fire Master or Cold Mastery?
Lets not derail this to another thread of bashing immunities, the Masteries function differently, one makes big numbers happen on your damage sheet the other doesnāt look as impressive on the damage sheet but can pull off things when combined with other skills.
Both masteries donāt break immunities, so the results are the same. Increased damage.
Many cold immune monsters canāt be broken anyways due to super high resistances.