I'm not all too good, but I think the best cold sorc is to focus on blizzard, so:
Skills:
-20 in blizzard
-20 in cold amstery
-1 teleport
-1 static field
-1 telekenisis
-20 frozen orb
-20 glacial spike
-rest in ice bolt/blast
Stats:
- Strength: Enough to wear dusk shroud armor, so about 60 base strength
- Dexterity: From what I know of, don't even touch this stat
- Energy: Don't touch this stat either, your gear will give you plenty of mana to use massive spells
- Vitality: All points in hear that haven't been use yet (so basically all points apart from the 50 needed to make the base str. 60)
for gear, I think its something like this:
-Shako
-Fathom's (Something?)
-Ormus' Robes (make sure its good cold skill modifiers, and +blizzard or cold mastery)
-Arachnid's mesh spiderweb sash, or something of the sort. It adds +1 to all skills.
-Lidless shield? I'm sure there's better, but I'm not sure right now.
-Magefist light gauntlets
-2x Stone of Jordans
-+3 cold skill, +mf/fcr amulet
-War Travelers for boots, not 100% sure though.
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One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
I personally perfer Orbing because A) you can get a little from another to supplement your orbs like fire or lightning, and if you hit your enemy dead on where the ball splits into 21 pieces, then it should take the damage from all 21 pieces. Thats 800 damage times 21, making 16800 damage. Even with 75 cold res thats a decent 4200 damage from one orb, with a decent build, and that is only 20 in ice bolt, 20 in frozen orb, and 5 in cold mastery, leaving you with a really good attack as well as enough points to go into something else of another tree to kill those annoying cold immunes.
Mind you, this is all off the top of my head, so it may be fuzzy.
Oh, and as for stats, everything in life and just enough dex and str to equip your shit and no more.
what exactly should i build my character stats too? more in mana and life? etc..
what weapon / combos are the best for this?
Skills:
-20 in blizzard
-20 in cold amstery
-1 teleport
-1 static field
-1 telekenisis
-20 frozen orb
-20 glacial spike
-rest in ice bolt/blast
Stats:
- Strength: Enough to wear dusk shroud armor, so about 60 base strength
- Dexterity: From what I know of, don't even touch this stat
- Energy: Don't touch this stat either, your gear will give you plenty of mana to use massive spells
- Vitality: All points in hear that haven't been use yet (so basically all points apart from the 50 needed to make the base str. 60)
for gear, I think its something like this:
-Shako
-Fathom's (Something?)
-Ormus' Robes (make sure its good cold skill modifiers, and +blizzard or cold mastery)
-Arachnid's mesh spiderweb sash, or something of the sort. It adds +1 to all skills.
-Lidless shield? I'm sure there's better, but I'm not sure right now.
-Magefist light gauntlets
-2x Stone of Jordans
-+3 cold skill, +mf/fcr amulet
-War Travelers for boots, not 100% sure though.
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
orber is better for duels
Blizz is better for mfing and glitching
(blizzard can be amazing in duels but requires practice)
Mind you, this is all off the top of my head, so it may be fuzzy.
Oh, and as for stats, everything in life and just enough dex and str to equip your shit and no more.
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