200fcr Ice Sorc PvP
Once I get the gear together, I want to make a 200fcr Sorc.
But I'm wondering why all builds advocate using fire instead of ice attacks.
Using this builds gear, you get a total of +25 to skills. Which amounts to 19,500 fire damage per fireball.
If you use ice attacks, using only +24 to skills (can't count magefist), you have a 6000 damage ice blast. But, you have to factor in cold mastery (with 3 hard points to bring to level 27 for -150 resistance)
So as I understand it, take a dude with 75 resists to all
Fire damage (75 fire resist): 19500/6 = 3250x.25 = 812.5
Cold damage (-75 cold resist): 6000/6 = 1000x1.75 = 1750 close to twice as much
Would need 269 total cold resists for equal damage by both builds.
Someone with 95 resists to all
Fire damage (95 fire resists): 19500/6 = 3,250x.05 = 162.5
Cold damage (-55 resists): 6000/6 = 1000x1.55 = 1550 nearly 10x as much
Would need 334 total cold resists for equal damage.
Plus you get a 800 damage orb and 6300 damage blizzard which are much better auxiliary skills than meteor. You could even fully synergize blizzard (8300 dmg) if you wanted to go all the way up to level 96 (95 if you don't use warmth). Yes both of these skills don't care about FCR (neither does meteor) but they are still nice to have.
So am I missing something painfully obvious? I think this is the way to go if you have the gear. If people are going to overstack that much against you they must be sacrificing serious killing power.
Once I get the gear together, I want to make a 200fcr Sorc.
But I'm wondering why all builds advocate using fire instead of ice attacks.
Using this builds gear, you get a total of +25 to skills. Which amounts to 19,500 fire damage per fireball.
If you use ice attacks, using only +24 to skills (can't count magefist), you have a 6000 damage ice blast. But, you have to factor in cold mastery (with 3 hard points to bring to level 27 for -150 resistance)
So as I understand it, take a dude with 75 resists to all
Fire damage (75 fire resist): 19500/6 = 3250x.25 = 812.5
Cold damage (-75 cold resist): 6000/6 = 1000x1.75 = 1750 close to twice as much
Would need 269 total cold resists for equal damage by both builds.
Someone with 95 resists to all
Fire damage (95 fire resists): 19500/6 = 3,250x.05 = 162.5
Cold damage (-55 resists): 6000/6 = 1000x1.55 = 1550 nearly 10x as much
Would need 334 total cold resists for equal damage.
Plus you get a 800 damage orb and 6300 damage blizzard which are much better auxiliary skills than meteor. You could even fully synergize blizzard (8300 dmg) if you wanted to go all the way up to level 96 (95 if you don't use warmth). Yes both of these skills don't care about FCR (neither does meteor) but they are still nice to have.
So am I missing something painfully obvious? I think this is the way to go if you have the gear. If people are going to overstack that much against you they must be sacrificing serious killing power.