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It's all about playstyle but I would have to disagree with Dreamthief on acouple of points.
I would always advise Leaping pool for Fire/, melee characters need to bo mobile - hover doesn't cut it in my opinion.
Burn - i would take it with any Fire/ you cant always make best use of it (dependent of secondary) but it does give supplementary damage and also mitigates damage to you - while the mobs are running in and out of the patch they attack less. The main reason people look at it in a bad light is that doesn't do the damage that is used to - but think of it as a secondary damage aura that also negates damage to you and its great.

Hi,

I found Fire/Ice very doable and great fun; while leveling I was often amazed out how well it performs. It starts out a bit slow as do most alts but once you get the IP/burn combo you can tear through mobs - through the twenties I could take on mobs that my other tanks and scrappers wouldn't dream of.

The only downside to it that I found was that you are more susceptible to bad teams - your main damage mitigation apart from your shields is Ice patch - controllers tend to drop cages with -KD and others push mobs off of the IP/burn reducing your effectiveness.
Also Fire/Ice is great at AoE damage (IP/burn)- chew through minions and lts but due to a lack of ST damage are poor against bosses.
In regards to your build:
I would get boxing instead of kick - don't want the KB
Get Hasten earlier - a fire tanker lives and dies on recharge - you need HF and IP up as much as possible for survivability. FE and burn also on a recharge - the more they're up the more damage you do.
All in all a fun combo - easily the most survivable Fire tank and with decent damage.

Hi, just a quick post to let you know that due to time constraints I've deleted some alts and freed up some names.
If anyone is interested I've released:

Cold Justice and Quicksand.

Have fun

Hi Bastard2k,

Thanks for the response, couple of quick questions.
Did you need Taunt or was blazing Aura enough to pull the mobs into a tight enough area to use Ice patch effectively?
Did you use Fiery Embrace and is it worth it as your using Burn for most of your damage?

Thanks

Hi Bastard2k,

I'm going the same route as you, the Ice patch + Burn combo. Currently I'm using Blazing Aura to augment the low damage of ice.
How well does the Ice patch + Burn combo work?

On a side note, how the devs should fix the Fire Tank:

1. Put an immob into one of the shields, from a concept point of view it would make sense that you are able to burn through the immob effect.
2. when you drop Burn you are superheating the ground. It would make sense to put disorient and slow effects into the patch as the ground becomes sticky/tacky and the heat effects the mob.
This would allow Burn to both do some extra damage and reduce the amount of damage taken by the Tank.
3. Put -Knockback in the Burn patch due to the Sticky effect of the heated ground.

It wont happen of course!

Hi,

I've got a Fire /Rad that I remade from a kin to a rad a few months back. He's parked at L7/8 I wouldn't mind joining your SG, who do I send a tell to for an invite ?
His name is Firemaster, should be on tonight at about 10pm.

What's the best way to join?

Send a tell to who ?

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll keep an eye on the forum to see if a Controller SG gets started.

On a similar note how about a Rad only SG made up of Rad\* Defenders & */Rad Controllers.
I read an interesting thread on the American forum and the general concensus was that an all Rad team would be the ultimate, based around stacked AM.
Even at low level AM would be permenant and the damage massive not to mention the debuffs.
No need for the fitness pool, maybe not even a travel power if you're happy with running.
A case of the whole being greater than the sum of it's parts!
Any thoughts ?

Hi,

I'm looking to join an SG.
Are their any all Controller SG's or even better */RAD */KIN Controller SG's on Defiant?

Thanks