Anyone made a Blizzard/Chain Lightning hybrid?

[BattleQueen]

Anyone made a Blizzard/Chain Lightning hybrid?

Just wondering if anyone has built a viable hybrid using Blizzard as primary attack & Chain Lightning as secondary (against cold immunes). Comments on skill pts allocation wd be gd. Thanks. :wave:

 

[GenXCub]

The problem here is that both of these skills traditionally are the dominant skill-point investments in a build. I think it would need to keep CL as the dominant skill and Blizzard as the one that suffers.

If I built this, I would do Max CL/L/LM/Bliz, Enough to get 17 in CM and the rest in Ice Blast.

 

[Miladys-Knight]

It could be a very viable 2 tree build and would probably be a lot of fun to play. With fairly easily obtainable gear:

Shako
Maras
Occy
Viper magi
Lidless
Mage fists
Arachnids

you would get +9 to all skills

you should really have a pair of sojs on this build for +11

and an anhilus for +12 to skills

with this gear I would go with:

Fire tree:

Warmth (1)

Cold tree

Frozen Armor (1)
Ice bolt (1)
Ice Blast (1)
Frost nova (1)
Glacial Spike (20) 447-473 cold damage and 2.233 seconds freeze length in hell diff for crowd control
Blizzard (20) 2625-2753 cold damage
Cold mastery (5) with this gear gives -100 to monsters cold resist. (doubling your cold damage)

Lightening tree

Charge bolt (1)
Static field (1)
Telekinesis (1)
Teleport (1)
Lightening (20) 7-4916 damage (good for bosses)
Chain lightening (20) 5-2493 (good for packs)
Lightening mastery (1)

This build would be complete at level 82 and any skill points gained there after would go into lightening mastery

 

[melianor]

Lightening tree

Charge bolt (1)
Static field (1)
Telekinesis (1)
Teleport (1)
Lightening (20) 7-4916 damage (good for bosses)
Chain lightening (20) 5-2493 (good for packs)
Lightening mastery (1)

Hmm, Lightning and CL damage rely alot on masteries. THe more the better. This could done, but i would rather set the points like this:

15 Lightning
20 Chain Lightning
5 Lightnign Mastery

Will give you more CL damage while L is still very usable. This build will have problems doing 8p games alone, but no problems up to 4p agmes :thumbsup:

 

[BattleQueen]

Thanks for the tip! :thumbsup: I knew I could count on you veterans! :thumbsup: I'm just toying with this build since I like both CL & Blizzard. Right now my blizz lightning sorc is lvl 51, whooping a$$.

I could be wrong here but I seem to come across cold immunes more often than lightning immunes. Statistically, do cold immunes spawn more often?

And I haven't done the maths yet but which one will give u better cold dmg bonus to Blizzard?: 11 % cold dmg Ormus + 3 Ice Blast or a Skin of Vipermagi?

 

[melianor]

Thanks for the tip! :thumbsup: I knew I could count on you veterans! :thumbsup: I'm just toying with this build since I like both CL & Blizzard. Right now my blizz lightning sorc is lvl 51, whooping a$$.

I could be wrong here but I seem to come across cold immunes more often than lightning immunes. Statistically, do cold immunes spawn more often?

And I haven't done the maths yet but which one will give u better cold dmg bonus to Blizzard?: 11 % cold dmg Ormus + 3 Ice Blast or a Skin of Vipermagi?

WEll the +3 Iceblast is nice for Iceblast itself, but that is about it. It wont count for synergies. Still Ormus would be better. Just adding +1skills will not raise Blizzard damage by 11%! Resistance reduction is taken care of by CM, so adding % damage would be good!

BUT then you loose +1 skills on your Lightning tree and that is NO good. You need all the +skills you can get there.

So stick with Vipermagi!