body armor for frozen arrow/lightning fury zon?

[acceleration turkey]

body armor for frozen arrow/lightning fury zon?

first i wanted to make a FA ice zon, then i wanted to make a faith/dream strafe zon, but i heard that the torch lags the game really bad with strafe.

so now im back to making ice but i still feel that FA + physical isnt enough to play by myself. so i want to have lightning fury.

my question is that, could a 4 x -5 cold facet body armor be useful? ice already has -20% cold, which is strong, but it seems that with all the +damage from nightwings, ice itself, and +skills, additional resist cut would help more than the +2 to skills from chains or the cold damage from duress.

would a body armor with -20% cold res be a dumb idea, simply because the additional mods on chains overwhelm the fact that the resist cut would provide a huge damage increase against resistant foes?

 

[DBaron]

I dont know much about FA, having never used it, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Only reason I am answering is because I made a LF javazon and had to start paying attention to monsters immunites. Hopefully if I am wrong, someone will correct me.

Looking through the Arreat Summit, it seems that a lot monsters either have tons of cold resistence (to the point of being unbreakable in solo play), or little at all. Baal's minions are an example of this, either 33, or over 130!!What you already are getting would seem to be enough already for most monsters as it is.

Also, since you are using lightning fury, and I assume some of the passive skills as well, it would seem you would be better served by the additional +2 skills and benefits from chains than by using 4 cold facets, but thats just my opinion.

BUT...if you want I have 3/-5 cold facet i'll trade ya if you really want to try it out. :thumbsup:

 

[acceleration turkey]

I dont know much about FA, having never used it, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Only reason I am answering is because I made a LF javazon and had to start paying attention to monsters immunites. Hopefully if I am wrong, someone will correct me.

Looking through the Arreat Summit, it seems that a lot monsters either have tons of cold resistence (to the point of being unbreakable in solo play), or little at all. Baal's minions are an example of this, either 33, or over 130!!What you already are getting would seem to be enough already for most monsters as it is.

Also, since you are using lightning fury, and I assume some of the passive skills as well, it would seem you would be better served by the additional +2 skills and benefits from chains than by using 4 cold facets, but thats just my opinion.

BUT...if you want I have 3/-5 cold facet i'll trade ya if you really want to try it out. :thumbsup:

you are right about res vs immunity when it comes to different elements.

monsters who are fire cold or poison "themed" tend to have super high unbreakable immunities. lightning has always seemed a relatively low res by comparison, which is one of the reasons i made a single player tesladin with a lower resist charge wand.

so your point is taken about cold...if they are immune, its not going to matter if i have another -20%.

 

[Veilside]

i know this isnt what you're asking but a faith/dream strafer really doesnt need torch, mine's level 82 at the moment and butchers everything incredibly fast in hell. if you do come up against the occasioal pi/li then just switch to magic arrows and the insane attack speed that faith enables you to have will make short work of the monster. with a strafer you dont particularly need anymore + skills because it adds a such a pathetic amount of dmg to your total, only reason i would use one would be to cast level 27 valk easily because it is THE best tank imo.