Question for enchantresses

[Miladys-Knight]

Do any enchantresses out there use Frost Nova as a second spell? It has the longest freeze length of any of the spells in the cold tree (9 seconds at skill level 20 in hell diff) and it doesn't cost you any skill points for prereqs.

I was thinking that 20 points here, a barb merc, and a point in static might kick some tushy. Give ya the time ya need to kill the fire immunes with kingslayer.......

What do you enchantresses think?

[Zarhrezz]

Do any enchantresses out there use Frost Nova as a second spell? It has the longest freeze length of any of the spells in the cold tree (9 seconds at skill level 20 in hell diff) and it doesn't cost you any skill points for prereqs.

I was thinking that 20 points here, a barb merc, and a point in static might kick some tushy. Give ya the time ya need to kill the fire immunes with kingslayer.......

What do you enchantresses think?

Frost Nova would be perfect if it would indeed freeze, but it merely chills. Useful too, but not useful enough for 20 points spend.

[TheMadOnion]

As said above, it only chills instead of freezes; it's hard to justify 20 skill points for even a fairly lengthy chill duration IMO. A Holy Freeze mercenary would accomplish largely the same effect without any investment of your own skills. I think they're better spent elsewhere.

I do think Static is a great idea, though; my ranged enchantress has maxed Static and I wouldn't take a single point of those back; in a party situation it keeps her incredibly effective even against Fire Immune monsters.

I put my remaining points in Teleport - this build Teleports more than any other sorceress build I can think of, and without any kind of energy investment constant teleporting can be hard on the blue orb sometimes. Having a basically "free" Teleport is pretty useful.

Anyway, back to drinking... :drink:

[Miladys-Knight]

Ok, never mind. I'ts been along time since I USED frost nova as an offensive spell and I had forgotten that it chills instead of freezes. I thought they had changed it with patch 1.10. I looked at the Arreat Summit again. It says in the spell description that it chills but in the text says PVP players are chilled instead of frozen. Cornfused me :scratch:

[general_tso18]

Frozen Orb works well as a secondary attack for enchantresses. It deals with groups of fire immunes very well, and cold mastery helps both it and your vengeance. The only problem is that it has 5 prereqs.

[prion]

Forst Nova and Frozen Orb have the exact same chill duration at level 20. difference is, orb does real damage