Nerf Glacial Cascade OR....

...buff pure elemental spells instead already to be in-line with GC, EK, BV etc.

Freeze Mine, Cold Snap (Seriously, these two skills are an insult)
Frost Nova
Vortex
Fire Trap
Ice Spear

Only to name some of the worst casualties of power creep. Now im NOT saying that all of these skills and basically 60% of all pure elemental spells are unusable. They are just incredibly underwhelming and are outclassed by a few spells in basically every regard.

Vortex is fine. Ice Nova is also fine, it's basically the easiest skill in the game to use, it doesn't need to be stronger.

Ice spear has lots of uses, but could do with a threshold jewel.

Freeze Mine, Cold Snap and Fire trap, 100% agree. Fire trap still is pretty useful in some situations, and works fine for early levelling.

if they would of released the fire trap threshold we had in 3.0 beta, fire trap would be the strongest thing right now.

cold snap needs to be more like lighting strike, fast, fairly large area, and such.

Vortex should of been a channel skill think of the super coolness that would of been.

the problem with all the spells you mentioned though that are a bit "OP" is they are physical based and have way more options to be boosted and converted for even more boosting. They are the current version of double dipping to say.



freeze mine was a meta build when it first came out, but has fallen off as vortex and other skills have been more effective to use. Then it took it's value hits with the new freeze setup, and well it's aoe took a bit of a hit with aoe changes.

The problem is with the double dipping setup though.