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Originally Posted by SolarSentai

You can enter Praetoria from Pocket D at the Studio 55 portal (there's an icon on the map).

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

IMO Ice Control on a Controller vs on a Dominator are two wildly different experiences. I have two Ice trollers and one Dominator at 50.

Ice Controllers are very low--possibly ultra low--damage characters for most of their careers. Prior to the 40s, I would probably peg them as the lowest damage characters in the game. They are primarily support characters. Very late in their careers they can do pretty well on their own. Ice Controllers rely on their pet to some extent and unfortunately the pet kind of sucks comparatively speaking, especially next to Earth Control.

Ice Dominators have an entire secondary devoted to damage. Because of this they skirt the lack of soloability issue faced by Ice Controllers. They also get mezz protection built in via Domination. I am currently working on a build for my lvl 50 Ice Dom to retain perma Domination as low as level 30, for exemping on Task Forces and such. On the whole Ice Dominators do not have a large number of powers that benefit from Domination, but the ability to instantly hold a boss never gets old. Unfortunately Arctic Air is one of the powers that does not (directly) benefit from Domination. This means the Confuse duration from the power is shorter for Dominators than Controllers and the power overall somewhat weaker, assuming both characters have mezz protection.

Ice Control itself is a somewhat lopsided set, IMO. It's fun, but it leans hard on acquiring some sort of defenses and (IMO especially) mezz protection. There is also conflict between knockdown and the AoE immobilize and the knockdown that I personally wish didn't exist.

There is some debate in the community about power selections, especially as they relate to Ice's PBAoE slow/confuse/fear aura, Arctic Air. I am of the mind that skipping this power invalidates a reason to play Ice Control. Other people have different opinions, which you can see around the boards.

As for your secondaries:

Cold Domination is a late blooming buff and debuff set. It is ok out of the box and excellent with lots of IOs but average and possibly even weak prior to the late 30s. A well IOed high level Cold Dom can pretty much ignore endurance costs altogether. Cold is a very highly sought after teammate for task forces and trials no matter what your primary is.

Icy Assault is a mixed ranged/melee assault set with fairly average values across the board. Power Boost increases the duration of some powers. Icy Assault animates quickly and does very high DPA against bosses but eats endurance very, very fast. Paired with Ice Control, you will need to seek out lots of endurance boosting abilities in order to avoid flat lining.