The Freezadin?

[Jedi Knight]

The new HF is really useful - when maxed, it adds like 300 damage to your attacks and chills the whole screen. My brand new pally (act1/NM now) uses HF and Conversion. It works really well since you don't need a strong weapon, but you need AR and speed. So, I'm using Isenhart's set - haven't found the shield yet, but anyways, Isenhart's Lightbrand is very fast and adds to AR when you have another item.

The wonderful thing is, I stumbled upon a nice Razor Bow and made the Zephyr runeword. Razor is very fast for pally, and Ort + Eth is easy to come by. Now, add 25% IAS to an already very fast bow, with HF slowing monsters by about 50%, AND the damage the aura adds to your attacks... it kills FAST!

So, sure, a ranger with Holy Freeze is a dangerous man - and when HF is maxed, just dump points in Resist Cold ;)

But I think the hybrid has more potential to survive - boss packs are tough to deal with in NM, especially when they're Extra Fast. Conversion gets the job done in this situation. Vengeance will help in Hell with like 1/3 of the monsters immune to cold - then your points into Resist Cold are not wasted since it'll boost Vengeance as well. :)