[0.96] A whole lotta awesome

That sounds good enough to me. I was only bashing the new mobs because they're all pineappleing ice resist! I can't even go there until Chaos patch! At least I/Ls have CL to hit the mobs with, which they were going to do anyway.
But Arans? We have to turn off Snow Charge and lose the x1.35 boost on all skills, thus making us weaker than the other warriors (and a lot of other classes for that matter) on top of Smart Knockback not even working.

Party an I/L! Or ask one to ID mule for you. However, on a more serious note if you were considering this, an I/L's ID only has the one-step weaker ice effect for the level 1 five seconds so it would be unlikely for her to constantly spam ID for you.