ISO: FB/ES Sorc Skill/Stat guide

[atenza]

ISO: FB/ES Sorc Skill/Stat guide

Hey, decided to go with a FB/ES... Just wondering how the points are gonna work.

Gonna try to hit lvl 90 giving me 101 Skill points.
I don't need max block so I'm going for enough str for gear then maybe 50 vital and then rest to energy. (Getting over 300 Life from charms)

Not sure if thats the right way to put my stats tho and I also want to know how my skill points should go.

For prebuffing ES I have anni, torch, battle command, viper, sorc ammy, circlet, soj, arachs, memory for a total of +20 ES.

How should I put my skills into the following?
XX Firebolt
20 FB
20 Fire Mastery
XX Meteor
XX Telekinesis
XX ES

 

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Get lvl 40 ES with all the +skills, and max TK.

Rest into FB / Meteor / FM

Pump all into Energy and no Vita. Get 105% FCR, with magic / physical sorb gear such as +3 lightning / 23 DR ammy, sol'ed Viper, etc. etc.

All ES Sorcs benefit greatly from 95% ES. Some people don't seem to get this.

 

[Jackson]

Fire Mastery should be maxed last, IMO.

Not sure if you're doing this, but a +3 Lightning Amulet/ Circlet would be nice.

 

[Lyrs]

As jackson was saying, max fire mastery last. The synergies attained from firebolt and meteor outweigh the affect of fire mastery.

 

[Neuroff]

No, fire mastery is applied after synergies, it adds way more dmg.

 

[Nab]

Get lvl 40 ES with all the +skills, and max TK.

Rest into FB / Meteor / FM

Pump all into Energy and no Vita. Get 105% FCR, with magic / physical sorb gear such as +3 lightning / 23 DR ammy, sol'ed Viper, etc. etc.

All ES Sorcs benefit greatly from 95% ES. Some people don't seem to get this.

can you tell me what realm and (PM if not an allowable item on this forum) let me know what amu gives 23% dr?

 

[Jackson]

There is no percent sign. It's the "damage reduced by XX" mod.

And.. about the whole fire mastery thing. What I meant was... fire mastery can always be boosted by +skills, whereas synergies are not. There wouldn't be a point in maxing fire mastery first if the synergies were not already maxed.

Try it out here:

http://diablo2.ingame.de/spiel/skills/calc/index.php?char=sor&lang=en


Max Synergies, and have one point into Fire Mastery. And then max Fire mastery, and one point into 1 of the synergies. I think you'll see that the damage is greater when Fire Mastery has 1 point only. As you increase the overall +skill, the point into the synergy makes the difference.

 

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

can you tell me what realm and (PM if not an allowable item on this forum) let me know what amu gives 23% dr?

Powered Amulet of Everlasting...

Not % sign, read my post clearly.

It can go up to 25 as well I believe.

 

[Nab]

my bad for assuming

 

[Lyrs]

No, fire mastery is applied after synergies, it adds way more dmg.

Go play with the d2skills planner. Fire mastery can be increased via +skills, synergies can't.

 

[Jackson]

Yeah... that's what I was trying to say as well.

"fire mastery can always be boosted by +skills, whereas synergies are not. There wouldn't be a point in maxing fire mastery first if the synergies were not already maxed." (Me)

As Neuroff said, Fire Mastery applies to the damage given by the synergies and the original skill Fire Ball, therefore, using simple calculus, we can tell that the maximum occurs when Synergies> Mastery.