Frost Nova, does it have a use?

[lextalionis]

Frost Nova, does it have a use?

Frost Nova, has a huge area of effect. I believe its the same size as a Druid's Hurricane.

Its chill duration is actually pretty long, so I was thinking that it might be worth casting in many builds, just for that. Maybe we are all missing that trick. How often and when to use it would be good questions.

Damage, fully synergized at level 40 it does: Cold Damage: 830-937. Which isn't good, but the area of effect is? It is of course spammable.

I know there is probably no use for the skill, but I was noticing it working well at low levels just for chill.

 

[lextalionis]

Bump. I'm surprised no one had a comment on this at all. Does anyone ever use Frost Nova???? Maybe a Melee Enchantress?

 

[FrozenSolid]

I remember some guy posted a thread about this b4. iirc he built a Frost Nova sorc for fun, and even with MANY +skills and fully synergized the dmg just didnt cut it in hell. Heck a Nova sorc would do better...

 

[Mandator]

I see two raisons why frost nova is not use :

1) Low damage

2) Synergized frost nova allow you to have 2 better skills (blizzard and frozen orb). Frozen orb with full cold mastery is already powerful enough.

Enchantress with frost nova (dont max synergy and CM it wont increase cold length) ... humm dont know give it a try and let us know.

 

[Jek]

It's awsome at low levels when you still runs around whacking monsters with your staff, it makes mobs easier to spot in dark areas, safety, safety and some more safety.

it's not a killing spell, I more consider it like Teleport, Telekenesis and Warmth.. Albeit not as strong (baring Telekenesis)

 

[Lunatic]

In 1.09 I used it alot on my nova sorc to chill everything in nova's range. And ofcourse at lower levels it has it's uses. But like Jek said , it's more a utility skill , not a dmg skill.

 

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Lmao my friend made a frozen nova sorc once.
lvled her to 23.
Got sick and tired and deleted.

- Dennis

 

[melianor]

Frost Nova, has a huge area of effect. I believe its the same size as a Druid's Hurricane.

Its chill duration is actually pretty long, so I was thinking that it might be worth casting in many builds, just for that. Maybe we are all missing that trick. How often and when to use it would be good questions.

Damage, fully synergized at level 40 it does: Cold Damage: 830-937. Which isn't good, but the area of effect is? It is of course spammable.

I know there is probably no use for the skill, but I was noticing it working well at low levels just for chill.

With maxed CM and about 10-12 +skill this will actually be ~1660-1874 damage, which is really not bad. You will get Blizzard and Frozen Orb in addition and so have some spell power backup. Without synergies though Frozen Nova is useless for its dmage and only useful for its Chilling.

You could certainly make a different alternative cold build with this kind of setup, though it will not be as powerful like a pure Blizzard or Orb Sorc. You will certainly be able to make it thorugh all difficulties with some Merc company.

 

[Liliel]

I'd say for an enchant or nova centred build, it's definitely worth it. For a mere 1 point you can chill anything around you for 8 seconds, allowing you to pick off particularly annoying targets, lessen the amount of missiles being shot at you, and if need be, run the hell away. And the mana cost is pretty negligible. It should remain useful all through normal and probably a bit through nightmare too, making your life easier until you can find decent gear.

But if you're not using a close-range build you may not have so much use for it, except maybe as a synergy...

 

[Uzziah]

I always found frost nova to be good with other characters as a ctc spell. it has a good radius and works well to slow attackers down. Any melee build could get %ctc frostnova from crafted items and with a charged item of FO or blizzard they could make the ctc greater for a bit more damage. Frostnova is a defencive utility skill though so a build based on it would likely be played quite defencively a melee enchantress with the synergy and CM filled would do well to have ctc frost nova when struck. IIRC you can get 19% ctc from crafted items and the right affixes.

 

[prion]

i use Frost Nova as a utility skill on all my sorc builds. Even at high levels if I tele in to pop off a few statics I'll also hit frost nova for the chilling effect.