do you put your sunders in your cube until use?

I'm nearing lvl 75(

Frozen Orb-mana shield sorc), itching to play with my cold sunder(pretty crappy 73), i don't think i be using it all along?
seems waste of defense to put on, unless i got them cold immunes on me- in which i

Teleport to put the charm.

whatcha do in such cases?

On my side, I wear it all the time and have enough compensating charms to still be at 75. Too annoying to swap.

The time it takes to swap after you notice your random target champ pack ended up spawning immune costs you way more time than just sacrificing that one extra GC to use it full-time.

Gear switching in general is highly overrated imo.

rikus wrote: 7 months ago

do you put your sunders in your cube until use?

No.
As a matter of principle, I only use the weapon swap supported by the in-game hotkey ("W"). So no Treachery pre-buff and so on. When I use Sunder, I just live with that negative res.

I'm in the same boat as the others posting before me.

yikes..
another question:

do you think cold absorbs are good defense too?
(I'm guessing on Xplayers=1)

like two

Raven frosts and

Frostburn? its like 60 or more absorption? and with ES of sorc..?
guess it depends on your gear

just asking about their effeciency when using sunders(the elemental absorption)

I'd never run multiple layers of absorption unless the specific gear was dual purpose somehow, but I don't like to swap gear at all so if I'm going absorption I'd go different elements like maybe

Dwarf Star,

Thundergod's Vigor, and

Raven Frost.

Absorb really shouldn't be necessary outside of potentially PvP or while severely under-geared against ubers or souls.

Soon as you get decent gear and your resistances up to the 75ish mark, no PvE content requires any form of absorb to easily plow through.
(Hardcore players may disagree for the added safety net I guess)

That having been said,

Raven Frost is a brilliant ring for many a class/build..not because of the absorb though.

Schnorki wrote: 7 months ago

That having been said,

Raven Frost is a brilliant ring for many a class/build..not because of the absorb though.

you mean because of the cannot be frozen? that's the only thing i see for a cold sorc..and small + for mana..

phantomotap wrote: 7 months ago

'd never run multiple layers of absorption unless the specific gear was dual purpose somehow

in context of sunders..
I'm trying to get as much MF as i can..so 173 drop to cold res is ouch

rikus wrote: 7 months ago

Schnorki wrote: 7 months ago

That having been said,

Raven Frost is a brilliant ring for many a class/build..not because of the absorb though.

you mean because of the cannot be frozen? that's the only thing i see for a cold sorc..and small + for mana..

Usually very useful to any melee or physical. For casters, much less indeed.
As for cold res, it depends on what you use but between Spirit, possible

Tal 3 or 5, possible Trang Gloves, charms, Anni, torch... 175 is not that hard to reach without sacrificing that much mf.

rikus wrote: 7 months ago

phantomotap wrote: 7 months ago

'd never run multiple layers of absorption unless the specific gear was dual purpose somehow

in context of sunders..
I'm trying to get as much MF as i can..so 173 drop to cold res is ouch

173 drop to cold res? Am I missing something important with sunders? I through the drop to res was the straight number on the charm?

Knappogue wrote: 7 months ago

rikus wrote: 7 months ago

phantomotap wrote: 7 months ago

'd never run multiple layers of absorption unless the specific gear was dual purpose somehow

in context of sunders..
I'm trying to get as much MF as i can..so 173 drop to cold res is ouch

173 drop to cold res? Am I missing something important with sunders? I through the drop to res was the straight number on the charm?

I think they're just adding the -100% resistance penalty in hell

Which with

Anya quest only drops to -70, btw, so 140-ish to make up for. If Torch and Anni have 40 res, only 215 to go to reach 75.

do you put your sunders in your cube until use?

I do sometimes, depends on the character. For instance with my melee characters which are never that strong, when I want to be able to clear some physical immunes. Hotkey to open the cube and shift click, it's pretty fast although it can be annoying in the long run.

rikus wrote: 7 months ago

Schnorki wrote: 7 months ago

That having been said,

Raven Frost is a brilliant ring for many a class/build..not because of the absorb though.

you mean because of the cannot be frozen? that's the only thing i see for a cold sorc..and small + for mana..

I wasn't talking about sorcs really. They also don't need the cannot be frozen, seeing how cast speeds aren't affected by being frozen.

The combination of CBF + massive AR + solid dex though is quite brilliant for many non-caster builds.