Every other Cursed skill can be used with all melee weapons, not just axes.

The most important thing is a high stun resistance, cold resistance does not help against freezing attacks or stuns. You may also use a movement inscription, but it usually has a low duration. Another trick is to increase your global speed (boots of speed or speed rune for example, but not both); this may help to reduce the duration of a freezing attack.

Against Wrathroot, I don't mind the freezing spell if he is distant: you may be able to avoid the bolt, and his other attacks are only close range attacks (distance <=3 for the spells). A deadly combination is a close range freeze attack (Ice Storm spell for example) and stuns.

Try getting stun resist up or increasing physical saves. If you still have a hard time you can just skip the dungeon. There are now enough dungeons you can skip a few of the harder ones.

I've seen Icy Icy arrows before.

Actually, I've realised that bosses aren't that hard if you use Stunning Blow continuously. Usually I put lots in CON, but in that particular game I put a disproportionally large amount in STR so I could use the stralite greatmaul I picked up really early. I'm really a sucker for the fast-regen talents, too, and I tend to max them out as soon as I'm done maxing the basic two attacks.

Godspeed man, hope everything goes well for you, and see you soon!

Bosses are a serious threat, even if all the "mooks" in the dungeon up to that point are just cannon fodder. The worst mooks in the old forest are the snake pits, and they're just a matter of not getting mobbed in the open and keeping an eye on your regen. Wrathroot is a whole order of magnitude more difficult, especially if he's got regen.

I hate Wrathroot. He just pretty much oneshotted my Level 12 Berserker with a freeze-stun-knockback combo. Seriously, I was on full health beforehand, and I had absolutely no chance to react. No turns to do anything. 300+ HP with maxed Fast Metabolism. It was my last life too :'(

 The bosses need toning down, everything else could actually use an increase in difficulty.

Don't know how it is in the very newest version, but in .18 I would simply lead her back behind the pillar where you start out, and then teleport away. She would stay there while I could clear a path through the crypt at leisure. Worked well enough.

Had an archmage in .19, by the way, who somehow reached level 30 when quest was first offered. And he _failed_, the acolytes had too many hitpoints to kill in the timeframe. I did not run to heal or anything, stood bravely and poured spells into them, had an area spell too but to no avail. R.I.P girl.

I saved her with my Summoner (being careful to have a few summons before going down the stairs).

But while I had a heal other talent, instead I used the talent to reveal the map from afar. Then it was a simple but tedious case of tunneling to the stairs.

I was on top of the world with my level 19 zerker. He was unstoppable, until some unsavory knockback landed him into the sand and sealed my fate.

My first time ever being to that place, so now I know for next time.