Early-mid Blood Mage Build help

I was running a minion build which was really underperforming against mobs and even worse against bosses, so I switched to a cast on freeze comet build which wasn't really popping off too well since it was still pretty early in to the build. Right when I started getting cast on freeze procs off, it got nerfed. I am really struggling to progress right now.

Any build suggestions? I'm currently mostly in spell aoe/crit on the tree with just a bit in to cold damage so switching to something else shouldn't be TOO expensive.

The only builds I could find post nerf was hexblast but I've also seen a lot of people say its not that great and its unfun.

Maybe I should just reroll? Blood Mage itself seems to be in a pretty bad spot right now.

Hexblast might work, or maybe bonestorm.

Cold doesn't feel great (poor clearspeed while still having to click coldsnap about 200 times per map), and since I can't respec to other elements, I don't have other suggestions at this time.