My never having played thoughts

[Treesh]

The frogs I didn't like because they targeted more like charged bolt in D2.

In D2 you could be certain to hit a target with CB if you were standing right in front of it (memories of my CB sorc before they nerfed it ), though – judging from my limited experience and the gameplay videos I've watched, at least, this just isn't the case in D3, neither with Plague of Toads nor with Shock Pulse. It rather put me off those skills; I'm fine with having to use them at point-blank range for maximum effectiveness, but if I'm hugging a monster and they're still missing considerably more often than they hit, well, they're just not worth my time then.

I didn't stand point blank with my charged bolt girl. I placed the mouse pointer partway between me and the monster and cast that way. Kind of like how multi-shot's spread changed depending on how far away your mouse was from your character. But the similarity between D2 charged bolt and unruned plague of frogs is that if you actually target the monster you want to die, your frogs will miss almost every time. Very aggravating for me so I fell back on my charged bolt tendencies (mouse partway between you and the critter) and then that worked.