Cold mastery

[raver_lost]

not sure if this is off topic, but how does cold mastery work? can i do dmg to cold immunes? does it raise the dmg of cold attacks like orb and blizz? please clearify these for me.

 

[t.A.T.u97]

It lowers the enemy's resists, so if its -220%, they need 220+ resists to not have it hurt as much. And it does not work on cold immune monsters, but works on regular monsters and very well in pvp

 

[Puppy]

I love cold its the best ^-^

 

[Khull]

Cold mastery basically lowers the cold resistance of non cold-immune enemies, thus allowing them to take more damage.

Sadly it deosn't work on cold immunes, it'd be nice if it did though

 

[ChrisH36]

It will reduce the cold resistance of the targeting monster when you cast your cold spells. It will not work against monsters that have Immunity to Cold. Get a necro with Lower Resist or a Paladin with conviction to help you with this (vengadins)

 

[drax]

I've heard that cold resist CANNOT be removed, even with -220% resist + max conviction and max lower resist. Dunno, never been able to try it though.

 

[ChrisH36]

It can. At max Conviction drops by -125%. Then Lower Resist on that -67%. There you go! Unless its a "special monster" (Banished) and its Possessed (cannot be cursed).

But don't resistances go to -100%?

 

[djnat]

Conviction and Lower resist work at 1/5 of their effectivenes against immune monsters.

So, a maxed conviction (-150%, lvl 25) would subtract only 30% resist from immunes, and a very good lower resist (-65%, lvl 26) would subtract only 13% resist from immunes.

So, you can subtract a total of about 43% from immunes.

In hell, tons of immune to cold enemies have very high resist to cold. For examples, in act IV and V:

IV

Grotesque: 160% cold res
Grotesque wyrm: 160% cold res
Stygian hag: 150% cold res
Stygian dog: 150% cold res
Oblivion knight: 180% cold res

V

Blood boss: 150% cold res
Blood bringer: 120% cold res
Blood lord: 125% cold res
Bone mage: 160% cold res
Cave leaper: 100% cold res
Dark archer: 140% cold res
Dark lord: 135% cold res
Death brigadier: 145% cold res
Death clan: 165% cold res
Death slasher: 135% cold res
Enslaved: 130% cold res
Flesh spawner: 145% cold res
Foul crow: 120% cold res
Frozen abyss: 210% cold res
Frozen creeper: 150% cold res
Frozen scourge: 170% cold res
Frozen terror: 160% cold res
Ghoul lord: 130% cold res
Grotesque: 140% cold res
Hell clan: 155% cold res
Hell lord: 135% cold res
Hell whip: 160% cold res
Hell witch: 145~160% cold res
Ice boar: 140% cold res
Ice spawn: 150% cold res
Infidel: 150% cold res
Invader: 160% cold res
Lasher: 130% cold res
Night clan: 135% cold res
Oblivion knight: 140~145% cold res
Overlord: 145% cold res
Overseer: 120% cold res
Pit viper: 145% cold res
Plowling dead: 175% cold res
Reanimated horde: 150% cold res
Rot walker: 130% cold res
Siren: 125% cold res
Slayer: 130% cold res
Slinger: 150% cold res
Snow drifter: 150% cold res
Spike fiend: 100% cold res
Tomb creeper: 120% cold res
Vile witch: 155% cold res

And so on...

As you can see, only a minor part of cold immune monsters, in the critical acts of hell, can be deprived of cold immunity. Even with the conviction + lower resist combo...

 

[ChrisH36]

Wow, its like mostly every monster you will ever face is a cold immune bastard in hell. At least I don't have a sorceress .