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Recently hit 99 on a cold sorc this season (wound up 121 on SCL), didn't have enough Wealth to transition to lit sorc early so just had to go with it. You guys know those moments, you could save your runes and potentially never get there or spend them and at least get going with something half-decent.
Anyway, I didn't find CM nerf much of an issue in P8 games through 94/95 because with a full party of various classes cold immunes get blasted like everything else. But once I started solo'ing TZs on P8, that's when the nerf hit me pretty hard in certain TZs. Noticeable like everyone thought but still manageable. Even at 14k dmg w/ 3 cold facets I would occasionally skip certain mob types for efficiency on P8 whereas before in S2 it was a steamroll.
The thing is, if cold sorc wasn't so nuts last season I don't think the nerf would have bothered me - I think it's only that recent comparison in my mind affecting me because compared to pre-Sunder days, cold sorc is in a much better state.
Like S2 cold sorc had it all - relatively cheap gear, easy 105FCR, so fast out of the gate. The cost of DFathom and Nightwings for example compared to lit sorc gear is just so much cheaper. And it's much harder for lit sorc to gear with both expense and FCR shenanigans. Teo this season went main-hand 2H Infinity Scythe, zero FCR in weap/shield slots, Um'd vipers,it was hilarious but it was a lit sorc and still carried. 3 Bers is a chunk. I think he was 10 hours faster than Llama was hitting #1 in S2 and Llama had pretty close to BIS cold gear, broken Cold Mastery, and a better FCR BP.
So cold sorc is back to being a stepping Stone to lit sorc for competitive ladder - that's what Teo just did but as I keep reminding myself, it's much better than it was before sunders and there are meme builds aplenty like xbow sorc and so on. If I could lobotomize that small portion of my brain that remembers how good cold sorc was in S2 I might just pull the trigger ^^
And given that cold sorc was so cheap and powerful in S2 and then nerf'd - will Blizz do the same to S3 builds like Mosaic sin. Mosaic is incredibly cheap with Gul Mal and Backes was top in HC ladder using it. Will they nerf Mosaic sin before S4 and create yet another new cheap powerful build for hype. Is that the new cycle. Are they really going for balance or are they going for cycles of imbalance and hype.
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Anyway, I didn't find CM nerf much of an issue in P8 games through 94/95 because with a full party of various classes cold immunes get blasted like everything else. But once I started solo'ing TZs on P8, that's when the nerf hit me pretty hard in certain TZs. Noticeable like everyone thought but still manageable. Even at 14k dmg w/ 3 cold facets I would occasionally skip certain mob types for efficiency on P8 whereas before in S2 it was a steamroll.
The thing is, if cold sorc wasn't so nuts last season I don't think the nerf would have bothered me - I think it's only that recent comparison in my mind affecting me because compared to pre-Sunder days, cold sorc is in a much better state.
Like S2 cold sorc had it all - relatively cheap gear, easy 105FCR, so fast out of the gate. The cost of DFathom and Nightwings for example compared to lit sorc gear is just so much cheaper. And it's much harder for lit sorc to gear with both expense and FCR shenanigans. Teo this season went main-hand 2H Infinity Scythe, zero FCR in weap/shield slots, Um'd vipers,it was hilarious but it was a lit sorc and still carried. 3 Bers is a chunk. I think he was 10 hours faster than Llama was hitting #1 in S2 and Llama had pretty close to BIS cold gear, broken Cold Mastery, and a better FCR BP.
So cold sorc is back to being a stepping Stone to lit sorc for competitive ladder - that's what Teo just did but as I keep reminding myself, it's much better than it was before sunders and there are meme builds aplenty like xbow sorc and so on. If I could lobotomize that small portion of my brain that remembers how good cold sorc was in S2 I might just pull the trigger ^^
And given that cold sorc was so cheap and powerful in S2 and then nerf'd - will Blizz do the same to S3 builds like Mosaic sin. Mosaic is incredibly cheap with Gul Mal and Backes was top in HC ladder using it. Will they nerf Mosaic sin before S4 and create yet another new cheap powerful build for hype. Is that the new cycle. Are they really going for balance or are they going for cycles of imbalance and hype.
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