Fireball/meteor MF advice needed

[Jaax]

Fireball/meteor MF advice needed

Hi folks !
I have a lvl 87 pure fire sorc. I use it to mf so my gear is the typical mf gear.
I have maxed firebolt, fireball, meteor and fire mastery. after that I have 1 pt tele, teleport, static, warmth

this means that I have 5 unused skillpoints
And that is my question
Where should I put them ? and if i gain some more lvls where do you recommend me to put those skillspoints ?

rgds // Jimmy

 

[darzog]

Well, I would recommend putting 2 of those points into getting Shiver Armour. Its exact capability depends on your +skills, but assuming you have +9 to skills (just to get a round number) you get +99% defense and you chill anyone that even swings at you.

So for 2 skill points you can just about double your defense and anyone that is close enough to swing at you gets chilled automatically (which helps you teleport out of reach without getting mauled).

After that you could go for inferno to improve your meteor burn damage. Anything else you do would be underpowered enough that you'd never use it. Except maybe a couple points in teleport to make it cheaper to cast.

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[Jaax]

Hi again
Well thanks for the advice.
My thought was either putting points into static field so I wouldn´t have to get soo close to the enemys.
but I have also thought about the shiver armor.
On my previous sorcs I have always put points into shiver armor.
But since I have 5 skillpoints left right now I had so much in mind that I didnt know what too choose.

Is putting points into static a waste ?
Is putting points into inferno helping my meteor dmg that much?

well alot of questions but no answer.
Of course I could always try it out on singleplayer but I thought I should ask you guys about it to get another point of view.

Well thanks for the input anyway

rgds // Jimmy

 

[SnOwBLiFe07]

well inferno adds +3% Average Fire Damage per Second per Level so it would help a little as its burning on the ground... but it doesnt help much... im currently building a pure fire sorc myself. shes only lvl15 right now but im workin on her now. i plan to do the same thing as u (max firebolt, fireball, meteor, and fire mastery) so im gonna keep an eye on this thread for some1 who already knows what to do wit the extra skills... dont know if this was much help (the facts above) but im sure some1 else knows more about it then me...

 

[darzog]

Well, as it stands, you should be getting an average of 1305 burn damage per second. If you add 5 points to inferno (to make it 6 hard points) the burn damage goes up to 1494.5, an increase of almost 200 points per second. That doesn't really compare to the 16k impact damage meteor does, but it helps.

And increasing the range of static could be useful. Adding those 5 points into Static increased the radius from 9.3 to 12.6, about 30% radius increase (that's an 83% increase in area). I normally just teleport right into a group to place my merc and static from there so my radius doesn't need to be huge.

By the way, all the calcs were done using this calculator and assuming +9 to skills again, just to have a starting point.

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