Frrost Nova Sorcie - opinions please ?

[Rohar]

Oh, thank you very much - this advice is wonderful :D ! I'll definitely look into making a Stealth Armour - I already have a Tal rune dropped from slaying the countess, so hopefully, I'll find an Eth soon ... :) Might not come in time for Andi, since clvl 17 usually comes after facing her. However, I currently already have about 22 % poison resistance and I'm still looking out for Andi fighting apparell (always a priority of mine in Act I), so hopefully she won't be too much of a problem (I'm probably going to try a mixture of frost nova & fireballs - slow her first, then run away and pound her with fire while she's chilled). I'll look for the runes for the other runewords too - and I'll probably look into a sapphire socketed armour/skull socketed helm til I get any of the runewords :).
I'll hope that an good orb drops too, although I'll probably resign myself to using a staff unless that happens, and maybe go staffless and hope the drop in skills doesn't affect my damage capacity too much, if I desperately need resistances from a gem/rune socket shield.
I'll look into crafting caster boots/belts once I have the Horadric Cube and a perfect Amythest (note to self: must remember to store up Amythests for conversion in the HC, instead of selling them, like I usually do) - I'll have a look at the formulas on Arreat Summit so I'm well informed. Once again, thanks muchly for all the great advice ! :)

Rohar