Heya Fragbait,
Been playing a bit more, and actually the first half of the council, up in Travincal, went down quite easily. One or two tight spots where I almost died, but for the most part, Elemenara didn't have too many difficulties. I suspect the second half of the council, in Durance of Hate level 3, might be a bit more difficult.
As for how I'm doing my damage, I'm still using a quite a lot of Frost Nova, but I'm using a fair bit of Fireball also, because despite having quite a lot of mana gen from warmth and items, mana drain is still a bit of an issue at times. I've also got a +2 bonus to Ice Blast from an Orb, so that gets used sometimes as well. And she's also for some reason got a reasonable to hit chance (about 70-80%, depending on the exact monster, so I'm even meleeing a bit. (Hmmm, after hearing about Zyr's experiences and reviewing my own, I think both Frost Nova and Enchant at high levels might be an attractive combo).
I've basically decided that while I want to use Frost Nova mostly, since mana drain is looking like always being an issue, I'm going to employ any skill in my arsenal that might be helpful.
Bosses are actually probably not going to get handled by Frost Nova much though, or at least not til synergys start kicking in, because of the lack of damage and mana drain. Mephisto will be dealt with Fireballs (I'll be using the old wake him up and then run round the pool of blood to safety trick, which rather rules out FNova) , then Diablo with Fireballs and slvl 1 Blizzard (might use frost nova a bit to chill him) Baal, I'll wait and see what my damage with Frost Nova is nearer the time before deciding on my exact tactics (by this time, I suspect FOrb will be playing a part in my arsenal too). Some of the other superuniques might get handled by Frost Nova, with the exception of Izual (It would be a nice case of poetic justice to use Frost Nova mainly on him, but I think it would take forever, so I'll probably use a combo of Frost Nova and Fireballs).
In reply to your query about would Frost Nova would still rock with BlackJade, I suspect if you started to climb the cold skill tree and then invest points in Blizzard/FOrb, you'd find it still would :)
Been playing a bit more, and actually the first half of the council, up in Travincal, went down quite easily. One or two tight spots where I almost died, but for the most part, Elemenara didn't have too many difficulties. I suspect the second half of the council, in Durance of Hate level 3, might be a bit more difficult.
As for how I'm doing my damage, I'm still using a quite a lot of Frost Nova, but I'm using a fair bit of Fireball also, because despite having quite a lot of mana gen from warmth and items, mana drain is still a bit of an issue at times. I've also got a +2 bonus to Ice Blast from an Orb, so that gets used sometimes as well. And she's also for some reason got a reasonable to hit chance (about 70-80%, depending on the exact monster, so I'm even meleeing a bit. (Hmmm, after hearing about Zyr's experiences and reviewing my own, I think both Frost Nova and Enchant at high levels might be an attractive combo).
I've basically decided that while I want to use Frost Nova mostly, since mana drain is looking like always being an issue, I'm going to employ any skill in my arsenal that might be helpful.
Bosses are actually probably not going to get handled by Frost Nova much though, or at least not til synergys start kicking in, because of the lack of damage and mana drain. Mephisto will be dealt with Fireballs (I'll be using the old wake him up and then run round the pool of blood to safety trick, which rather rules out FNova) , then Diablo with Fireballs and slvl 1 Blizzard (might use frost nova a bit to chill him) Baal, I'll wait and see what my damage with Frost Nova is nearer the time before deciding on my exact tactics (by this time, I suspect FOrb will be playing a part in my arsenal too). Some of the other superuniques might get handled by Frost Nova, with the exception of Izual (It would be a nice case of poetic justice to use Frost Nova mainly on him, but I think it would take forever, so I'll probably use a combo of Frost Nova and Fireballs).
In reply to your query about would Frost Nova would still rock with BlackJade, I suspect if you started to climb the cold skill tree and then invest points in Blizzard/FOrb, you'd find it still would :)