05-05-2006, 12:03 AM
Well, first off, the max is somewhere like 1.5k damage (1.4k-1.5k, I think it is), and you have to realize that that's 1.4k damage per shard MINIMUM of the Frozen Orb. You also have to take into account Cold Mastery, which lowers your targets' cold resist by a certain a mount, I think it can get higher than -150. So, you have a spell that has a very large area of affect, is very hard to dodge (if you're not far away enough), and deals quite a lot of damage when you consider just how many shards are being produced, and the amount their resistances are being lowered.