Earth Only - Pyromancer - Any good?

[Xaq]

I am playing around with an earth caster, putting points in the mana pool and int.

I figure I can put a ton of useful points into Earth for a long time (especially playing the Underlord Mod as I am).

Is this a good way to go? Gotta love torching shit

I put a couple points into Rupture and Ring of Flame to start with and I am going to max ring of flame now asap to blast away at the mass of mobs in act 1.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks guys, you are all awesome (or "special" in your own way)

[dutch81]

I'd say no sooner or later you will max out the skills in the earth tree that you like ... then you will end up taking stuff you don't need and at the same time making your toon weaker. Even if you don't build out the second tree greatly at least pick one at some point so you can pick the benefit of higher STR, INT & DEX there is no requirement to actually buy the skills of the second tree just go up the tree.

[LittleJoeRambler]

You can go for quite a while with just the Earth tree; Rupture + synergies, Earth Enchantment + synergies, Core Dweller + synergies, and Volcanic Orb/Eruption + synergies are all huge point sinks. I don't recommend staying with just the Earth mastery though; it's not the greatest mastery for either health or energy (giving the least amount of energy of all of the "caster" masteries), meaning you'll be sucking potions every 16 seconds for the rest of your playtime, and the Core Dweller, while great at offering protection, can't stand on his own against mass Machaes, so you'll see him die a lot in Act 4. His resummon cooldown is so long that you'll have to find a nice, quiet, preferably dark corner in which to hide until you can resummon, assuming you don't die very soon after he does.

[claudius]

You could just fill up the 'thermometer' of one of the other masteries to get the health/int/mana and otherwise play pure earth??

[Tyr]

A well built pure Earth actually facerolls everything until Legendary. Everything (seriously, well leveled VO + Eruption + Core Dweller). There's even a vid of it in youtube. He will struggle a bit in Legendary though.