PhoenixStriker Help/Question

[NvincibleTorque]

PhoenixStriker Help/Question

So Im making a Nats Set Phoenix Striker type build, was going to max Phoenix Of Course, and put only 1 into ClawBlock (I have 4 GCs and + Skills should put it to 60~) and 1 into BoS/DragonClaw (Going c/c btw)

My big question now is, Why do most everyone suggest using Fist of Fire and Claws of Thunder Synergies? Is there a Reason Blades of Ice isnt a good choice? I was debating using FoF and BoI instead of CoT. Just cuz the Cold damage and Slow seemed like a great idea as opposed to the option of which lightning type charge to use (all 3 are different and could be a pain to time the attacks right to get the right number of charges, and having to do the same for pheonix already sucks, but being able to hold down attack to fully charge PS for Ice seems MUCH easier in laggy games)

I looked at the full Bonus from all Synergies and I dont see a huge damage difference or anything, so Am I totally overlooking something? I'm quite new to using Sins, but since I found Nats claw, and got a Torch from last Ubers, and a few GCs, figured id make.

 

[oakienko]

you shouldn't play pheonix in laggy games, period.
for pheonix sins to shine meteors will shower one after another (think of sorc's meteor before castdelay) and chain lightning will actually chain when they are timed right.
the reason people don't synergize chaos orb is because:
a) it's the third charge (minor)
b) low damage with full synergy, in comparison to meteor and cl
c) it only hits once, cl can hit twice, and meteor stacks its burns

it is a good crowd control, but you don't have to synergize to get that.