Just wondering two things basically. 1) I currently have a Wizard who is specializing in fire. Is there a major difference in playing wizards that are other elements, say water or air instead? Or is it largely flavor with little real difference?

2) It seems like Wizards are currently designed to be entirely bolt based.. yet their CS for warding can be pretty strong from what I have been able to research. But other than chromatic circle there seems to be like one or maybe two other spells useful for hunting that are cs based? Is it just a really insane idea then to build a wizard to be a non-bolter?