Okay, the reason why I say some into fire skills is for when you get done with lvling all the rest you can use the fire up against Hell Cow King. I have ran into him at times were he is immune to both ice and lightning. It's just good to have some fire ability if you need it is all. as for the ice maxing, it's quite simple. remember that when you get all the other stuff your min item skill bonus will add on +8 to +14 bringing any 10pt. skill to 18pts.-23/24pts. no real big difference so it doesn't matter. If you wanna add more points, then do it if you like. but it beats spending all your points into one thing and find out you could have used it more in another.

The energy shield is still good tho. Granted it takes away from your mana, but then what would be the point of putting +4 to warmth and boosting it up to 8-14pts thru items when you aren't going to use it???? Most ppl out there go for lidless shields against meph, believe me, so did I. But I found that combining a rhyme luna shield and tals armor, plus charms can really boost your resist def. rhyme shield alone has 25% resist to all, plus tals armor can put up some good resistance too. with this I easily maxed out my cold and lightning resist and that's all you really need against meph.

As for my orb attack count, I never really counted it. it doesn't matter to me. As long as meph dies and I am alive, what's the prob? The only real times he kills me is on really laggy days, and there is nothing I can do about that.

As for the question of weither when you use LS on meph for MF, I only have this to say. I think it would be pointless if LS didn't allow the addition of MF finding to it. I mean even if you do make it less powerful and your FO more, there is still a chance that lightning will kill him first. In fact most of the monsters in hell are more resistant to ice than lightning.

But I degress. We could be arguing about this for a long time, then it all get changed with the new 1.10v patch. IF the rumors are true about the new patch making it harder for spellcasters, then we may have to think up all new setups anyways.

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