Thinking Weather Witch?

So I'm blowing the dust off D2 again and looking for a fun build to play singleplayer on /players8 with a theme of a Weather Witch focusing on, hopefully, CL, Blizz, and TS just for flavor

Now first and foremost, I'd like min/maxing to take a backseat if I can finish my goal of say, finishing NM on /p8, I'd be happy. I'd be okay with just being able to hang in Hell on /p1 even

So, Weather Witch, completely untwinked, with skills of

20 Chain Lightning

20 Lightning Mastery

1-10 TS (again, flavor, roleplaying etc)

20 Blizzard

20 CM? IBlast? Or split it 10 CM/10 IB?

Issues: Which would net more damage as a synergy for Blizz, CM or IBlast?

My Plan B is to drop Blizz entirerly and pick up FO/CM and the rest spent in more CL synergies but I'd like to see how far the other build will get first

So my question to you all is: As an estimate, how far could this build go with no twinked gear on /p8? Otherwise, any suggestions?|||You may want to have a standard build for leveling or magic finding and then re-assign your points using the new Reset Skills/Attributes feature introduced in patch 1.13. At later levels, a skill investment in Thunderstorm won't be as damaging to your ability to proceed and would help with flavor aspect you are going for.

Your focus should be mainly on the Lightning skills. Frozen Orb is a very capable skill without any synergies, while Lightning skills generally have to be pumped to do large amounts of damage. Blizzard is synergy-dependent and I would not recommend trying to juggle the synergies of both Lightning and Blizzard unless you have very good equipment.|||agree. frozen orb/fireball works too, even to the point of being able to solo /p1 in hell up through chaos with crap gear, assuming the levels are high enough to get the synergies up.