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I agree. I think it's one of those things that would take a lot of work to do to not make it suck up server resources, and in the end won't give them much bang for the buck. Maybe I'll be proved wrong, but I highly doubt something like this would happen.

Nope, checked with support...name wasn't taken. This was like two years ago, though.

Again, there's too many characters to do this to, though. The city would be buried in plaques before the day was over. And how do you propose the art team does this if they're permanent changes to the landscape?

If this was done, it would likely be one or two places throughout the city, and it would show your character only to you. Everyone else would see themselves as the statue. That's probably the only way it could realistically be done, which isn't what most people who suggest this want.

No, we were never promised this in any way, shape or form. It comes up every once in a while as a player suggestion, but I don't think I've ever seen a Dev comment on it. also, where would this statue go? If it was in the game world, it would be constantly changing with all of the people on needing to be recognized.

Haha! Yeah, that guide probably does need updating. The really sad part is that I lobbied for close to three years to get /Ice Melee fixed, playing my Ice/Ice Tanker the whole time. As soon as it got fixed, I stopped playing him as much, even though he was much better. I think I was just tired of the set by then. I could probably still update the guide, though.

Okay, now to the points at hand:

1) GIS is fine if you need it for the attack chain, but as you get better IO slotting that will allow you to chain powers better, drop it as quickly as you can. It's really the only truly bad power left in Ice Melee. If you need another attack, take Air Superiority. It's better. Especially if you just need a chain filler. GIS is horrible DPA for little benefit. At least with AS you get the knockup.

2) As mentioned above, Fire/Cold defense isn't all that necessary. Yes, you will come up against some pure fire-using enemies, but most of their attacks contain some sort of S/L component to them, so you're good there. The only attacks I've seen enemies use against you that are pure cold is Frost, and that is EXTREMELY rare. All other cold attacks have some sort of S/L component as well, and you're 90% resistant to cold anyways, so you're good there.

3) Icicles (and other damage auras) are deceiving. Each hit might be for a small amount, but if you look at combat logs for the whole mission, you will see that if you're facing enough foes, Icicles actually does a large majority of your damage. That's because it's constantly ticking away at foes, even if your teammates are destroying enemies. Also, having the two taunt auras is one of Ice Armor's strengths. It's why Ice Tankers are kings of aggro. However, I can certainly understand why you might not want it, just trying to give you the counterarguments.

4) Frozen Aura is great AoE damage, and helps you maintain aggro on foes. Damage is a key component of Threat, so if you can do AoE damage, the better off you are keeping AoE aggro. Also, if you're not taking Icicles, then when you're solo, you can actually leverage the sleep component from Frozen Aura to some extent. As long as the enemies aren't flopping away on your Ice Patch, the minions will be slept, meaning that you take 0 damage from them until you want to.

So, if you're not getting Icicles AND Frozen Aura (which is what I do recommend), then you should at least take one of them. Once you're level 26, endurance is not a concern for Icicles anyways, since you have Energy Absorption. Though, if you're only taking one or the other, take Frozen Aura. The animation alone is freakin' awesome.

You have to buy it from the market first

I disagree with 25% of this.

Item 1: survive collision of galaxy.

Hmmm...this might take a while.

Tyrion is the Lion. He's grouped in with Connington because he was traveling with him during the time the propechy was made. As such, it made sense to group them. After Tyrion was captured by Jorah and Connington's group discovered how late they truly were, they met up with the Golden Company and sailed west instead of east.

However, the prophecy being spoken like that makes it unlikely that Tyrion is the mummer's dragon, since it's listed as a different person.

Of course, I don't know why Dany listens to that woman anyways. It seems like by not trusting anyone, she's pretty much screwed herself.

Yes, but that is very out of date (notice that Tundara mentions that Frozen Aura doesn't have a damage component).

There should be other builds and guides out there, but I wouldn't used that linked one because it is very old and a lot has changed since it came out to Ice Melee.

Edit -> This thread should be a good start: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=279338

What, that upset people?