Just to chime in:
My Ice/Ice tanker is level 36 now. Before I3 I'd retired it as unplayable but didn't delete it because I like the toon and thought someday maybe the'd get come help (much like my Mind controller). Post I3 I play my Ice tanker all the time, grouping whenever possible. I'm very used to having to tell teammates either what I can do (because they've never teamed with an Ice tanker before) or that I can't tank for them as well any any other tank could. In general my Ice tank is about equal to an Ivn tanker who's about 4 or 5 levels lower than I am. This is derived from game play experience on teams with other tanks, watching, as a lvl 36 Ice tanker, a level 32 Inv tanker run into fights that would kill me instantly and emerge without a scratch. Actually, as playing last night showed me, an even level Inv scrapper is almost as good a tank as my Ice tank.
Circeus' posts have done a good job illustrating the numbers, but game ballance has to be more than just raw numbers (I point this out after having applied to the Ballancer/Tuner position Cryptic had listed on their web site). I find it quite strange to see any power in the Ice set referred to as "quite massive, and probably still too powerful". Playing an Ice tanker, or just speaking to a few, should be enough to point out that the set needs help, not caps. My experience with EA has been that it's not worth the effort of hitting unless you're surrounded by more than 5 enemies, the End cost is huge and I'm already running an minimum of 4 toggles, and occasionally I might want to attack too.
Sadly, after all the complaining about changes to Inv, taking them from the best tanker by far to.. the best tanker by far, I don't know that tanker feedback is considered anymore. Ice is the weakest set, has been, and still is. EA's a decent power takes the weakest set available and makes them, for 25 seconds, still the weakest set. If you feel you have to give it a cap for some reason that only makes sense on a spreadsheet do so, but if you're really interested in doing something with the Ice set, do something constructive. The one thing it used to have going for it was mobile mez protection, an now everyone has that, and even when they didn't, the set was still so weak no one played it.
