Cold-immune monsters are affected by cold skills with points in cold mastery in hell in D2R. This effectively makes cold tree de-facto OP skill tree, with ability to ignore immunes. I believe this is a bug and it should be fixed.
It is a bug, it does not work on EVERY cold immune. Maybe in xpac with +20 skills it might. But yes, a known bug. I am sure it will be fixed sooner or later, loving the bug playing classic though lol
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currently cold mastery applies the exact 1/5 value of lower resist or aura when attempting to break the immunes, so higher than 120 will not work. No one knows for sure if its a bug, or it was a bug in OG D2 and they fixed it, the devs will surely explain this when they fix the stability issues. Until then enjoy.
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i would also think this is intended.
the pala have his aura.
the necro his curse.
the sorc this skill.
maybe the barb with battlecry to reduce phys immunes?
maybe druid heightened senses
and so on. each class should have a skill to break immunes.
shhhhhh!!! hahaha they will prob fix it but it doesnt really make it op in hell even if you break a mobs immunitie it can take like 15 orbs or 8 blizzards to kill it like that
no ty, 10 chars required
Actually every monster have a diff value in order to break immunities, for instance lighting immune are the easiest to break and with some certain gear you can break the most of but a few, i could see that âbugâ stay it only breaks the small immunities and even then it doestn mean you oneshot anything it takes too much time and mana to kill a broken cold immune mob with frost spells, actually the only benefit in a cold sorc is that she can freezes more mobs while she either escape or if she is a hybrid kills with the other school of choise. Its not bad to stay
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I agree, this needs a fix.
cold mastery at say lvl 15 is something like -120% cold resistances so cold immune is 100% resistant, so yes a mastery that reduces resistances by more than 100% removes the immunity.
it doesnt increase damage like the other masteries, but you 500 dmg ice orb will hit a cold immune for 20% damage. so you do some damage but not great deal. if your cold mastery was say 150% then you will hit them for 50% orb/blizzard damage.
Its not broken, its intentional
either way an act 2 nm defensive merc with lvl 12 conviction aura infinity collosus voulge is all you need. then you do your full damage to all enemies
Barb has the ability Berserk, it can kill phycial immunes. I only play classic and have 1 skill into it and am able to kill physical immunes that I have to with out issues.
My sorceress has max cold mastery it says â-210% to enemies cold resistanceâ. And yes- I do break immunity on foes. The blue âcold immuneâ disappears and it is easy to kill them.
BUT on that 
trash-zombies in hell it does not work. They have 120 resistance. I cant clean the den of evil in hell, because there are these zombies, which kill my merc very fast⌠On my last try the last zombie was immune to cold and physical damage⌠
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You do more damage, because you lower the resistance under 100%.
Imagine
I do 100 cold damage and have -150% to enemies cold resistance, okay?
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Monster has 150% cold resistance
I lower the resistance from +150% to 0%
My cold spell would hit for 100 damage. -
Monster has 100% cold resistance
I lower the resistance from +150% to -50%
My cold spell would hit for 150 damage.
I tested some things at home with a necro (in hell, naked, no inventory, just one weapon with infinity)
My lovely Zombies have 120 resistance on hell.
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Testing Level 1 of âlower resistâ (-30 resi). The curse should lower to 90% and break the immunity. But it does not.
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Testing Level 12 of conviction (-85%). It should lower to 35%. But does works not too.
But both together is working⌠There is more wrong as I wish, or could somebody explain it to me?
If thats the case, lower resist must be buggy as well.
Nothing in the description tells something about immunity breaks but it does it anyways.
However⌠it also doesnât break every monsters immunity.
Sure. So, If monster has 100+ resistance, ANY resistReduce lowers resistance at rate 1/5
i.e.
Monster has 110 lightning resistance. Yorâre tesladin with conviction, say -150% at lvl 25.
110 > 100. So we divide -150% res from conv by 5. Itâs 30%.
110 - 30% = 80%
you deal 100% - 80% = 20% lighning dmg
You hit for 5k lighning dmg. You deal 1k dmg.
P.S.
It was that way back then in d2lod.
P.P.S.
And back in LoD Cold Mastery didnât break immunities. At all.
Upd:
Rainbow facets, gryphon Eye and all other â-% enemy resâ donât break immunities as well. ONLY Conviction and Lower resist. Though, if you broke res with one of previous two, other â-% resâ will work normally, since resist is already below 100, i.e. not immune.
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