Boy, is that cold...

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Hi,

I was playing around with my bowazon (SP level 63 in NM Act4) and boosted
up her Freezing Arrow with a bunch of cold damage charms. About 12 one
second charms + 2 seconds from FA + 4 seconds from Duress armor make about
18 seconds of freezing time..

Oh well, did I say that NM Hellforge just gave me an UM for that Duress
armor?

Anyhow, I read somewhere that freeze duration is cut down in Hell diff.
Anybody know by how much? Or have a link for info on this?

It's just too cool to shoot some FA on a bunch of monsters and still find
frozen ones after quite some time much farther away <g>.

Thanks,

Oliver

 

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Hi,

"~misfit~" <misfit61nz@hooya.co.nz> wrote in news:4255c685@news01.wxnz.net:

> Oliver Wenzel wrote:

>> Anyhow, I read somewhere that freeze duration is cut down in Hell
>> diff. Anybody know by how much?
>
> One quarter of normal time.

so, if I have 10 secs in charms, the cold lasts 2.5 secs in Hell? Well,
I'll have to look for items with some longer duration.

Thanks,

Oliver

 

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"Oliver Wenzel" <ouuch@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I was playing around with my bowazon (SP level 63 in NM Act4) and boosted

You have to post "When hell freezes over"

> up her Freezing Arrow with a bunch of cold damage charms. About 12 one
> second charms + 2 seconds from FA + 4 seconds from Duress armor make about
> 18 seconds of freezing time..
>
> Oh well, did I say that NM Hellforge just gave me an UM for that Duress
> armor?
>
Sweet..

> Anyhow, I read somewhere that freeze duration is cut down in Hell diff.
> Anybody know by how much? Or have a link for info on this?
>
> It's just too cool to shoot some FA on a bunch of monsters and still find
> frozen ones after quite some time much farther away <g>.
>
Do you have fire or poison to kill cold immunes, or what have you got up
your sleeve?

> Thanks,
>
> Oliver

 

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HI,

"Jesper Madsen" <balls@mail.stofanet.dk> wrote in
news:4257928c$0$22689$ba624c82@nntp04.dk.telia.net:

> "Oliver Wenzel" <ouuch@t-online.de> wrote in message

>> It's just too cool to shoot some FA on a bunch of monsters and still
>> find frozen ones after quite some time much farther away <g>.
>>
> Do you have fire or poison to kill cold immunes, or what have you got
> up your sleeve?

they'd have to be cold/physical immune to pose a problem. And that'll only
get a real problem in hell diff.
At level 75, my merc could use Reaper's Toll with Decrep, and that defeats
most (if not all) PI's.
Perhaps I'll try a Lawbringer sword on weapon switch, as it has a higher
Decrep. But I would have to get quite close to the baddies...


Regards,

Oliver

 

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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Oliver Wenzel wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I was playing around with my bowazon (SP level 63 in NM Act4) and boosted
>> up her Freezing Arrow with a bunch of cold damage charms. About 12 one
>> second charms + 2 seconds from FA + 4 seconds from Duress armor make about
>> 18 seconds of freezing time..

Find a 6-socket bow (siege/colossus) and put 6 PSapphires in it.

That bow, on switch, with Freezing Arrow skill halts crowds even in
hell. I then switch to Lycander's Aim and recover the Mana used to stop
them.


--

USEast HC Ladder: Rockstomper

 

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"Brian Brunner" <brian.brunner@verizon.net.prophet> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Oliver Wenzel wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was playing around with my bowazon (SP level 63 in NM Act4) and
boosted
> >> up her Freezing Arrow with a bunch of cold damage charms. About 12 one
> >> second charms + 2 seconds from FA + 4 seconds from Duress armor make
about
> >> 18 seconds of freezing time..
>
> Find a 6-socket bow (siege/colossus) and put 6 PSapphires in it.
>
> That bow, on switch, with Freezing Arrow skill halts crowds even in
> hell. I then switch to Lycander's Aim and recover the Mana used to stop
> them.

While reading old guides on Diabloii.net (not the best source for truth) I
saw something about how multiple poison sources didn't just add they
squared, so 2 poison sources in a weapon would get 4x the poison, 6 would
get 36 times the damage, was this true in some past version and does it
still work, and in this case would it work with cold sources as well?

 

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Hi,

Brian Brunner <brian.brunner@verizon.net.prophet> wrote in
news:0n5m51pd9n3tj44ga6at71iqnkrmjh35pm@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Oliver Wenzel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was playing around with my bowazon (SP level 63 in NM Act4) and
>>> boosted up her Freezing Arrow with a bunch of cold damage charms.
>>> About 12 one second charms + 2 seconds from FA + 4 seconds from
>>> Duress armor make about 18 seconds of freezing time..
>
> Find a 6-socket bow (siege/colossus) and put 6 PSapphires in it.
>
> That bow, on switch, with Freezing Arrow skill halts crowds even in
> hell. I then switch to Lycander's Aim and recover the Mana used to
> stop them.

I did some testing with my normal bow and a bunch of cold small charms
and the freezing time seems to be okay so far. I have 2 second cold in my
WWS bow (jewel with cold and max damage) and 4 secs from Duress armor and
about 8 secs from charms.

But I guess 4% mana leech isn't enough. I had about 10% before my current
Hell gear setup and that worked much better. I'll have to find some more
mana leech items..

Regards,

Oliver
>
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