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Currently my Chinese character is up to level 18 and full int with a bow/lightning skills.

I originally thought that good magic damage and bow skills would go hand in hand, but it looks like I may have been mistaken after reading the messages here a bit.

I can normally kill an even level monster before it reaches me, and on champions/giants/party monsters I can still solo by using my level 12 frost skill to slow their movement (and give me time to run back and do my imbued arrow chain again).

IMO you might want to think about changing to a spear or a S/S nuker.
Since using one of these weapons with nukes will do more DMG then your bow+bow skills, or nukes. And when you use one of these other weapons you can also either stun (spear) or KnockDown and Stab(Sword&Shield) which will help you to survive.

SpoT^

The earliest nukes are at level 30 (I think?) so I should probably just wait until then to specialize in S/S or spear instead of bow?

i dunno pure int ice/light bow are good this guy was awesome he did ice nuke light nuke strong bow repeat and did very high damage for lvl 52

pure int bowers are the fastest leveling chars up to level 30. Then there come the nukes and being a bower is a bit over the top then.

Pure int bower is an option for a build, however youre weapon doenst have as much magical attack power as a spear or sword. And you lack the defense of a shield or the HP bonus if you go spear.