Peregrine said:
Except fortitude gives you a good secondary attack with multi or strafe, giving you good leech and a way to kill cold immunes. And that's not even counting the massively better defense of Fortitude or the extra life given. The only benefit COH has is the +2 skills, which don't make up for the lost physical damage. And if I wanted that trade, I'd use Enigma and get the teleport/frw.
Yes Fortitude does give u a lot of damage + defense! COH give a nice boost to str, dr, resist! For a Magezon it's witout a doubt the better option! Yhej key is Infinity on merc! Without infinity its hard! Try teleporting with an amazon using enigma! :lol: Rule out teleport and you might have a nice armor! But for a Frostmaiden COH>Fortitude>Enigma!
[/QUOTE]Again, I disagree. I have near-base energy (never rushed the character, so had a few early points), and have no problem keeping up a steady supply of freezing arrows. As long as I'm actually shooting them at something, I never have mana problems. And even when low on mana, a quick strafe or two is a complete refill.[/QUOTE]
There are manapots for this! But of course switching back to strafe u leec back some mana! This requires ML on helmet and a dual leech ring! life/mana and frw/mana sc are usefull here! I Consider Kiras Guardian NOT an option for this build! Besides for PvM your Valk and Merc should tank in front of you! Thus meaning u dont need to have those uber resists!
[/QUOTE]Of course they are. But getting a good pair of gloves is much more expensive. They're just not really cost-effective, it's much better to get LoH (nearly free) and save your currency for more important items like the Ice bow.[/QUOTE]
Yes LOH are good but we are talking about the best here! It's a matter of opinion whats costeffective or not!
[/QUOTE]That's why I'm not sure about the change. I'm undecided about whether going from 7 frames to 8 on freezing arrow is a good price for the good physical damge increase.[/QUOTE]
MB is the better bow! Since you dont rely too much on the phisical damage its good to shot freezing arrows faster!
[/QUOTE]In general, you really underestimate the value of physical damge. It's extremely useful to have a second attack for dealing with spread out targets (inefficient splash damage for mana cost) or cold immunes. And with leech so badly reduced in 1.10, you need decent damage to leech from if you're going to keep up the freezing arrows.[/QUOTE]
Yes a secondary attack is necessary! But a strong merc using infinity, valkyrie should do the trick for a Frostmaiden! If I want PI damage i build a pure strafer or even a Multi shot Faith amazon using freezing arrow as backup for PI monsters! Infinity merc does allow you to take down monsters faster thus less mana consumtion!
I will build my Frostmaiden soon and i will post how she is doing!
/Dec
