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 ==Frostmaiden==
-Frostmaidens focus their build initially on doing massive cold damage. They max the cold skills Ice Arrow and Freezing Arrow. At times they even max Cold Arrow for the early levels, but that's an extreme. They try to get as high as a freezing length with these skills as they can. This is done by using more cold damage gear and more cold damage charms than Magazons. Since Frostmaidens should be able to spawn Freezing Arrow without having to switch to alternative skills, they need a good balance between manaleech and physical damage.
+Frostmaidens focus their build initially on doing massive cold damage. They max the cold skills Cold Arrow and Freezing Arrow. At times they even max Freezing Arrow, but that's an extreme - it adds precious little to Freezing arrow, only increasing it's freeze length (and 20 points for a quarter second of extra freeze length in hell isn't worthwhile). They try to get as high as a freezing length with these skills as they can through the use of some items and charms.  Since Frostmaidens should be able to spawn Freezing Arrow without having to switch to alternative skills too often, they need a good balance between manaleech and physical damage.
-One can pick high manaleech and less emphasis on physical damage by using Magewrath bow and some other manaleech gear like Gloom's Trap belt, Crescent Moon amulet or a manaleech/dual-leech helm like Darksight, Vampiregaze (also good cold damage), Tal Rasha's Mask or Stealskull. For this (15+% manaleech) some critical strike and a low total dexterity value of about 200 is enough.
+One can pick high manaleech and less emphasis on physical damage by using a decent bow and some other manaleech gear like Gloom's Trap belt, Crescent Moon amulet or a manaleech/dual-leech helm like Vampiregaze (also good cold damage), Tal Rasha's Mask or Stealskull. For this (15+% manaleech) some critical strike and a low total dexterity value of about 200 is enough.
 One can also pick more physical damage and use only one source of manaleech (less than 10% is possible). For this the better exceptional bows (Lycander's Aim, Goldstrike Arch) with a dexterity value of about 300 is good or an elite bow (Eaglehorn, Windforce) with a dexterity value of about 200.
-Ice Arrow is mainly used on physical immune creatures and the skill used on cold immunes is either Strafe or Multiple Shot, some opt for Guided Arrow.
+Cold Arrow is mainly used on physical immune creatures and the skill used on cold immunes is either Strafe or Guided Arrow.   Strafe is used more for a PvM oriented Frostmaiden, while Guided is used if she expects to play PvP.
-For dual-immune cold/physical creatures, the Frostmaiden is forced to use either lightning, fire and poison damage charms or switch to a bow that does good fire, lightning or poison damage. Kuko Shakaku, Skystrike, 6 Emerald socketed Bows, Venom bows, or magical bows with good fire or lightning damage mods are often put on weapon switch.
+For dual-immune cold/physical creatures, the Frostmaiden is forced to use either lightning, fire and poison damage charms or switch to a bow that does good fire, lightning or poison damage.  Either that, or she must rely on a mercenary doing these sorts of damage, or one with the ability to remove the physical immunity, perhaps by use of the unique Thresher, Reaper's Toll.
 ==Immozon==