Quote:I had never paid much attention to Frost Nova until a few weeks ago, when I equipped my then 20-something SC Ladder Enchantress with Malice in a +2 Frost Nova, +1 Shiver Armor, +1 Fire Ball battle staff-- just in time for the Act III jungles.
Wow, what an eye-opener! Fetishes, Flayers, and especially Soul Killers and their Shaman firebreathers had meant inevitable multiple deaths for my earlier sorcs. Not so for this Enchantress! Frost Nova not only stopped them in their tracks, making them easy targets, but painted them blue, making them even easier targets. I took savage glee in shattering Stormtree by whacking him with a stick... The Kurast sewer and temples and the Durance were a breeze...
Ok, back again - reporting on Elemenara's progress - I was originally going to wait til beginning of Act IV to report back, but given it's been a fair while and I've got a couple of things to say - I'll do a mid Act III report and then not report back til killing Diablo at least.
Elemenara is currently venturing through the Flayer Jungle, and it's going well - she's completed the early quest. After Zyr's post in which he said the above, I was looking forward to trying out FNova at high levels in the Kurast Jungles. And my anticipation was not disappointed - Frost Nova at slvl 12-13 meant that any flayer hordes coming in close proximity, were swiftly punished and reduced to puddles of melting ice when they got into Elemenara's range. For the tougher creatures, I found that even though Elemenara wasn't built for melee, chilled opponents could be dealt with quite easy via melee when I hit low mana. So far Elemenara is still death free - the only character I've ever had that I can remember ever still deathless at this point. A HC Frost Novaress is looking more and more attractive by the minute :)
Ok, that's it from me - I'll report more later :)