Frrost Nova Sorcie - opinions please ?

[Rohar]

I have a quick question about this. Frost Nova, fairly low damage in the begining... did the synergy bonuses help at all? Does anyone know what kind of damage it would do with all of those maxed? (Including maxed Cold mastery and Frost Nova?)

'Cause the only things I can even contimplate killing with Frost Nova are Quill Rats on Normal Difficulty =/

Well, so far .... Elemenara is clvl 24 and her character skills are as follows

Frost Nova @ 9
Fireball @ 7
Warmth @ 4
Nova @ 1
Pre-regs @ 1

She therefore doesn't even have a point in Blizzard yet - her next few levels of her skill plan, up to about 30 are as follows:

23 Fireball @ 7
24-25 FN @ 9-10
26 Fireball @ 8
27 Fireball @ 9
Iz - GS @ 1, Blizzard @ 1
28 Fireball @ 10
29 Frost Nova @ 11
30 Frozen Orb @ 1

So no, at the moment she doesn't have help from any synergy bonuses at all, and won't do til killing Izual.
So her damage is a bit limited at the moment - I usually have + 2 or 3 FN bonuses from her equipment, so her FN damage is in the mid 20's to 30's.
I'm not too surprised at your comment - I had serious doubts about going down this route for a fair while for that same reason. However, It's been surprisingly effective so far, although I foresee her having a bit of a tough time killing stuff with the lack of damage and the mana drain in late Act III and Act IV. That's why I've got Fireball along - to provide a less mana intensive/more efficent damage attack , as well as for when I start bumping into cold immunes.
Hopefully once she gets Frozen Orb in Act V, her damage should get quite a bit better - I plan to max Frozen Orb and probably pump Cold Mastery some, but I'm not sure about Blizzard, given I'm going for a tri-elemental build and will want to consider at least some Fire Mastery for the synergy effect on Fireball, if nothing else. I'll hopefully be reporting more, probably End of Act III or IV.