Cold Mastery Fixed. [Can't dmg immunes anymore]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo_2_Resur ... ame=iossmf

Looks like they fixed

Cold Mastery. Wah wah waaaahhhh.

well that's a shame
interesting things could be done with a high end cold sorc

Good that they fixed it, however change to fix it with no patch notes, or anything.

Guess I'll respec my blizzard-sorc a bit... maybe.

so thats what broke the servers lol

WIPLOCK86 wrote: 2 years ago

so thats what broke the servers lol

its a small indie company guys. pls have patience. xD

Saturate wrote: 2 years ago

Guess I'll respec my blizzard-sorc a bit... maybe.

didn't change anything for me. I started a Blizzard Sorc without even knowing about the

Cold Mastery Bug. She still pancakes her way through most of the game and Emilio can handle the cold immunes.

Emilio is the boss

Saturate wrote: 2 years ago

Good that they fixed it, however change to fix it with no patch notes, or anything.

Guess I'll respec my blizzard-sorc a bit... maybe.

This drives me nuts. No communication, no patch notes, come on guys.

Good thing I just found a good ethereal weapon for my act 2 merc, he's slapping the cold immunes around for me.

What's tragic to me is that this was getting any attention to begin with. The damage was abysmal so unless killing a cold immune monster in 30 minutes was an improvement for anyone, it really didn't make a difference.

I tested it on single player with some hacks charms. If you had 99skil point into all skills for blizz synergies and

Cold Mastery you were able to kill cold immune monsters in pit lvl 1 and 2... It was so overpower guys.

Like you know... These monsters which my bnet

Frozen Orb/ fire ball sorc is one shotting with

Fireball xD

Morph21 wrote: 2 years ago

I tested it on single player with some hacks charms. If you had 99skil point into all skills for blizz synergies and

Cold Mastery you were able to kill cold immune monsters in pit lvl 1 and 2... It was so overpower guys.

Like you know... These monsters which my bnet

Frozen Orb/ fire ball sorc is one shotting with

Fireball xD

ya i honestly thought from all the crying and outrage that once i got my

Cold Mastery high enough i was going to not even need to worry much about most cold immunes. but boooyyy was i wrong. lol. Emilio still did 99% of the damage to cold immunes.

Yeah I was told

Cold Mastery was going to let me break cold immunes in hell with a blizzard spec. Sure did not seem to be the case.

by stacking infy, Doom and lvl 40 smth CM you could actually damage almost all mobs in the game, and the damage was acceptable, at least for FORB, P1.

KrassusD2 wrote: 2 years ago

by stacking infy, Doom and lvl 40 smth CM you could actually damage almost all mobs in the game, and the damage was acceptable, at least for FORB, P1.

some guy did extensive testing on reddit and said ONLY the highest amount of -res was actually piercing immunes. they don't stack. doesn't matter anymore though lol.

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

some guy did extensive testing on reddit and said ONLY the highest amount of -res was actually piercing immunes. they don't stack. doesn't matter anymore though lol.

uhm not from what I could tell. you don't need extensive testing, there was 1 simple thing to do. go to a cold imune without infy, see if you damage it. if not, put infy on the merc, try again. mob will still be imune. if you damage it, they stack. if they don't, try again with another mob that maybe has less CR.

but anyway, sad, and you're right, doesn't matter now

KrassusD2 wrote: 2 years ago

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

some guy did extensive testing on reddit and said ONLY the highest amount of -res was actually piercing immunes. they don't stack. doesn't matter anymore though lol.

uhm not from what I could tell. you don't need extensive testing, there was 1 simple thing to do. go to a cold imune without infy, see if you damage it. if not, put infy on the merc, try again. mob will still be imune. if you damage it, they stack. if they don't, try again with another mob that maybe has less CR.

Guy talking about it in the comments of the thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comment ... _immunity/

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

Guy talking about it in the comments of the thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comment ... _immunity/

i think you are misinterpreting "It appears ALL sources of lowering enemy resists can

Pierce. Basically, instead of just the largest of

Conviction/LR trying to break, the largest of ANY -res you have seems to try to break. Verified this by putting two cold facets in my armor with 0

Cold Mastery points and no merc, and could barely scratch cold immune monsters in the

Cold Plains that had EXACTLY 100% cold resist."

the fact that 2 facets bring the mobs down to 98 res does not mean other sources do not bring them down further.
furthermore, conv/LR DO stack. Whichever is applied first does the -res at 1/5 effectiveness, if the immunity is broken, the other is at full effectiveness (the aura goes first generally, but you can cast LR before the merc comes close) If the immunity is not broken, the the second source comes in at 1/5 effectiveness as well.
-res from all sources (

Cold Mastery and gear) was added together and considered a third source, only taken into account when the attack actually touched the monster

KrassusD2 wrote: 2 years ago

the fact that 2 facets bring the mobs down to 98 res does not mean other sources do not bring them down further.

go battle out the specifics with those guys. i didn't care enough to do testing or research. its irrelevant considering you needed crazy endgame gear to even attempt to test it and its still was underwhelming. lol

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

KrassusD2 wrote: 2 years ago

the fact that 2 facets bring the mobs down to 98 res does not mean other sources do not bring them down further.

go battle out the specifics with those guys. i didn't care enough to do testing or research. its irrelevant considering you needed crazy endgame gear to even attempt to test it and its still was underwhelming. lol

no but it was quite nice really.
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Baal the highest CI were the harpies with like 160, and they have low hp, orb did short work of them, and I suspect blizz would have as well.
but you're right, underwhelming for the level of investment, nice for p1, trash for anything else.

KrassusD2 wrote: 2 years ago

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Baal the highest CI were the harpies with like 160, and they have low hp, orb did short work of them

Really, how many Orb casts to kill them? What was your +to skills?

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

KrassusD2 wrote: 2 years ago

at

Baal the highest CI were the harpies with like 160, and they have low hp, orb did short work of them

Really, how many Orb casts to kill them? What was your +to skills?

let me share the planner with you, this lil test was done on SP
https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/qq0106k7

I might be missing smth but you get the gist