Aett_Thorn

Ice/Ice Tanks can be plenty survivable. They definitely were pre-IOs, and can be made even better with them. Will it take some money or time? Yes, but it shouldn't be too bad.

The main things you'll want to do is try to get to the Defense soft-cap either before accounting for Energy Absorption, or with only one enemy in range of EA. To do this, you'll need your base armors, weave, combat jumping or something like it, and a few set bonuses.

Ice Armor's basic armors give you 17% Def to S/L/E/NE, which are the ones that you want anyways. With Weave's 5% on top of that, you're at 22%, and slotting for the ED cap will give you about 34.32% Defense with just those three powers running. Add on Combat Jumping's 2.5% Defense, and you're less than 10% away from the soft cap against those damage types. That should be easy to pick up with some set bonuses. And if you've got the cash, buying a Steadfast Protection +3% Def IO will put you at 39.82% Defense with minimal IO slotting.

Since you're got Weave in this build, you'll also have Tough, which will give you about 23.4% Resistance to S/L which isn't great, but can definitely help. Combined with all of your other survival tools, it's just another layer of protection.

You combine all of this with Hoarfrost, Chilling Embrace, and if you really need it, Hibernate, and you'll be a very survivable Tanker with great aggro control. Like you said, you won't have great damage, but you'll do fine. Ice Melee's greatest strengths are control and the fact that cold damage isn't resisted by many enemies.

Marketing departments are what brought us the "sugar is sugar" commercials paid for by the Corn industry. Yes, it is, but sugar is also what is making this nation incredibly fat, and that includes your high fructose corn syrup. I am actually happy that the marketing team here finally learned that people want to make informed decisions when it comes to their money. I wish more companies would actually admit the truth of their product, and let customers make informed decisions.

I've often had the same thought, and the only argument that I've come up with as to why have the limits is that it forces you to choose sometimes between sets with good bonuses, and sets with good enhancements. While this isn't always true, let's take a look at PBAoE sets. Many of them have good bonuses at the 5 or 6-slot level, but most offer horrible endurance reduction. So you have to choose between good EndRed and those set bonuses.

Now, if you added 4 inventions to each set, those PBAoE sets would likely get more endurance reduction, making them the best sets hands down for those powers, instead of it being better to frankenslot them if you're having endurance problems.



HOWEVER, I still would like to see this, especially in certain areas. I think that for a lot of people, some sets just aren't as good because the effects aren't great for the powers they have. For instance, an Electric Blaster. They likely slot damage sets in all of their powers, with maybe an enhancement here or there from the EndMod sets. But what if you added some damage to the EndMod sets? Well now a Blaster could slot those sets, and get some EndMod slotting while still getting some good damage and acc out of them, giving them more options.

Same for DefDebuff sets, Buff sets, and Status effect sets. Right now, if I'm a damage character, there's little reason to slot for secondary effects. Add some damage enhancements to those sets though, and now I've got a few more options.

The two Reed kids are probably some of my favorite side characters in the books, and I'm sad to hear that they might not be in the show as much, but I'll have to see. Just finished book 5 last night, and finally was able to look at this thread. I'm been amused by some of the theories being presented here, and have one question based on them.

Isn't the prophecy about Azor Ahai that Melissandre made that he would be born of fire and salt? And that's where she got the idea of Stannis being possibly the reincarnation, and where Daenerys could also possibly be him as well. But how would Jon fit into that prophecy? What about his history would fit the salt? I get that if he was indeed Rhaegar's son, that would be the fire part, but if his mother is Lyanna, that would be snow, not salt.



Also, does anyone else think that Bran is going to be the one to find the Horn of Joramun? After all, wasn't he named after Bran the Builder, who built the wall? Wouldn't it be sort of poetic if he is the one to bring down the wall? I don't know if it would stop the Others, or allow them into the realms of men, but I can see him doing that.

There's still too large a range. Are we talking Lethal damage sets against Robots, or Carnies? Because the same set would kill a minion of each group at a much different speed. And are we talking about AoE-heavy sets, or single-target specialists? Because the AoE-heavy toon might take out a lot of minions quickly, but the ST-specialist will take down the boss faster.

The Devs usually use reward-over-time to determine if sets need a boost (among other metrics, I would imagine). As such, it's not kill speed against certain targets that matter, but kill speed over time against a wide variety of enemies.

You're going from Kinetic Melee to Energy Melee, because of animation times? Isn't Energy Melee even worse than KM in this regard?

I want a Fire/Pain Controller, so would love to see this happen.

Elec/Dark Controller is indeed a lot of fun and great support. Nothing attacks back, and if they do, it's usually at their own guys.

If the Hulk was flailing his arms around every time he jumped, it would look pretty dumb.

As an alternate animation? Sure, I guess. As the new norm? No thanks.

Posting an idea is fine. Having a debate is fine. Saying that your idea is "easy" just because, even though the Devs have said otherwise, is going to get you the SCR stuff. The Devs are looking into this kind of thing, but apparently it's not as easy as you think, or we'd have it already.

The tribal shield might slightly resemble a picnic basket if you did it right.

And that's why it's a great place for a KD IO.

Must...resist urge...to fix...punctuation and grammar issues. Gaaaaahhhh

Guys, take a look at the original date of this thread. This thread was massively necro'd.