The Heart of the Oak - HOTO is a great weapon for casters, offering the most effective combination of skills FCR,, and resistances that any single-handed weapon available in the
D2R Items game. It's not going to do as much damage as CM generally, but the abilities still give an impressive damage boost and if you're not hitting the 117 FCR breaking point or If your resistances are weak enough to cause difficulties with survival the HOTO weapon is the right weapon for you. Depending on what you're farming and the equipment you own, one option I like is to employ HOTO as the primary weapon, but keep CM in reserve to take care of those with high resistance to lightning or damaged lightning immunes.
Eschuta's Temper is technically one of the strongest damage weapons that can be used by a light sorc. However, the damage from lightning skill on Eschuta's is not a significant impact on your overall damage output. It's added to you Lightning Mastery, which will increase by 400% by the end of the game So a flawless Eschuta's can only boost the damage of your lightning by less than 4. The small increase in damage from even a perfectly functioning Eschuta's won't be worth the sacrifice of resistances that come with HOTO. The only reason to choose Eschuta's instead of HOTO is if you're looking for an more mf (by connecting the Eschuta's using the is) as well as you do not want the random teleports on Occy.
Mang Song's Lesson Obsession - Show off with an amazing rare and expensive two-handed staff. Mang's has some expertise and FCR, which are enhanced by a bit of -enemy small Res. Mang's skills aren't great considering its rarity, and is beats out HOTO and Spirit combination. Obsession is a brand new runeword that will be available in patch 2.4 that offers all the benefits of HOTO and comes with the 25 FCR Spirit Shield. Obsession as an appropriate base with the proper skills can greatly increase your damage base numbers and if you're able to locate or afford it, you'll have no trouble finding -enemy res from a flawless Griffon's, with 5/5 light-facets. It's not clear if a great Obsession is the most damaging however I'm certain it's enough, and at that cost, it's all about the style.
Infinity is a wildcard choice is a way of taking an Crescent Moon method to its maximum. If you use Infinity yourself, you will receive the -45 to 55% resistance to lightning from enemies in addition to that Conviction aura. Infinity can only be obtained with a polearm. It isn't able to provide other benefits for casters, which means you'll have to forfeit your Spirit shield and give up a variety of capabilities like FCR, mana and resistances, possibly too many sacrifices in the majority of scenarios. Perhaps you'll be able to hit the 105 FCR, which is the most effective weapon for an Nova PvP build IDK. If you're really keen to master Infinity discover all your other gear , and do the damage calculations yourself to
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