element choices PM

[goodspeed]

What 2 elements seem to work out well with a PM? I went fire and force, though I gotta say, so far force kinda sucks ay lv 8. Was thinking about changing the force to acid. Any thoughts?

[Waylayer]

What 2 elements seem to work out well with a PM? I went fire and force, though I gotta say, so far force kinda sucks ay lv 8. Was thinking about changing the force to acid. Any thoughts?

Personally, I am happy with cold/force on my PM; however, he is level 17 and has more spell choices.

[kernal42]

I'm planning to go just cold on my PM, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Cold has:
Nuking power - large variety of spells to cycle; polar ray
AoE - Cone of Cold, Otiluke's, ice storm
DoT - Ice Storm, Biting Cold

That covers all your bases, short of things immune to cold (and even there ice storm can be effective), which is pretty rare. I'll probably boost fire with 1 AP for +20% to firewalls, dbf, meteor swarm, but these are somewhat rarely used. I don't see the need to spend more AP boosting this.

Depending on what you're looking for, electric could be an excellent second-spec. You get more AoE (chain lightning) and the other DoT (eldar's surge), allowing you to do good dps against devil bosses.

-Kernal

[richieelias27]

Any element you wish to use will work equally well as with any other Wizard. Pale Master gives no bonuses or penalties to any specific elements, only to negative energy damage.

I'm planning to go just cold on my PM, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Cold has:
Nuking power - large variety of spells to cycle; polar ray
AoE - Cone of Cold, Otiluke's, ice storm
DoT - Ice Storm, Biting Cold

That covers all your bases, short of things immune to cold (and even there ice storm can be effective), which is pretty rare. I'll probably boost fire with 1 AP for +20% to firewalls, dbf, meteor swarm, but these are somewhat rarely used. I don't see the need to spend more AP boosting this.

Depending on what you're looking for, electric could be an excellent second-spec. You get more AoE (chain lightning) and the other DoT (eldar's surge), allowing you to do good dps against devil bosses.

-Kernal

All skeletal undead are immune to cold and some are immune to both fire and cold, so as a Pale master with only cold spells and a few fire spells you'll have a rough time with those.