Frostbound

Chris

With both my affinity and my new Wind Law, it was time to upgrade a skill that was in desperate need of it.

I had held off on upgrading [Hail(C)] precisely because I didn't have all the pieces yet. If I hadn't waited, I would have had to upgrade it along its current path and tread deeper along either its ice creation or have it affect a bigger area.

While both were decent upgrades, that wasn't the direction I wanted to go with it. The skill had fallen off as I leveled and got more powerful ones and it was now only used for ice generation mostly.

When I first read the description and bought the skill, I imagined an area denial skill or an area of effect around me that made fighting me up close difficult. While it started that way, the skill hadn't really lived up to my expectations of it as I grew.

I didn't have enough in intelligence or the mana capacity to spend on the skill to make it effective against the enemies I was fighting. My mana was better spent elsewhere and [Hail(C)] got left behind.

There was no need to get rid of it though, there were always ways to push it into what I wanted, I just needed patience.

And that patience was about to pay off.

There were two main things I wanted to push for during the skill's upgrade and I had both of those pieces in hand now.

The first thing I wanted was to add Wind to the skill. So not only would it hail, but it would blow the ice around as well, turning it into a Blizzard.

I could have done that when I got my Wind Law but I wanted a touch more before I went ahead. I waited until my affinity upgraded to add an Arctic touch to it.

I didn't only want Wind and Ice. I wanted the debilitating cold Northern Winds and the Arctic touch of bone chilling Cold to go along with the Ice. A small difference but a distinct one.