Gravestorm

Wow! It's cool to the see the suggestion I've been trumpeting for a couple weeks endorsed by Statesman. (swapping CE -recharge for -dmg). Glad to know they scour the boards. (And yes, Umbra was technically the first to actually post on the matter.)

Of course, like everyone else I'm still very concerned about the mitigation imbalance that seems to exist in I5 between Ice and the other sets against higher level foes. On test the best defense I have seems to be the knockdown of my axe. I feel a lot like my DM/DA scrapper, where the important thing is to kill ASAP rather than absorb a lot of attacks.

Just wanted to add that changing Chilling Embrace from 25% -recharge to 20% -dmg would significantly reduce the number of one-shot Ice Tanker deaths without making them mitigate any more damage than they currently do. (Hadn't seen this argument made in this particular thread)

Of course, while this would resolve existing problems on live, it would not alter the fact that 33% S/L def and 0% fire def on test is so low one wonders whether Ice will be able to compete with the mitigation that other tanker primaries can still crank out.