arzenal22

I wondered why they gave such high XP. hahah, I was exploiting and didnt even know it

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Arzenal22, any blaster can kill swarms/monkeys easily, in fact so can many classes. That does not mean you have an AOE character. It is simply a loophole which, by the way, is fixed on test. As I said right in the opening of my guide, I did not base any of the advice on exploits, things that I knew would get nerfed. Underlings are getting nerfed, as everyone knew they would. Now when the patch goes live, suddenly your 'AOE' blaster isn't anymore. But the AR/Fire blaster is still AOE-ing packs because they truly are AOE blasters.

Its no different than fire tankers. Everyone with half a brain knew that they were getting way too much experience through a loophole that the developers hadn't anticipated. Everyone knew they were going to get nerfed. And they did. Now we have a glut of fire tankers all complaining about how useless their characters are because they based them on an obvious exploit. You may try to claim you are an AOE class because of a loophole, but that doesn't make it so. As soon as the patch goes live, go back and AOE your monkeys for 20 exp a kill and tell me how well an Ice blaster is at AOE exping.

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monkeys are a loophole? Since when? Its not like im using some obviously broken power like pre-patch burn or caltrops. Im using frost breath. I had to 5 slot it to do any decent damage

Are you saying monkeys are supposed to be harder?

I wanted to finally dispel Robinsons notion that Ice cannot AoE at higher levels. Here is his quote "Just as Ice
gets Frost Breath which will not kill a pack and nothing else to
follow it up with."

Please dont try to come off as the end all blaster champion because clearly you dont know what you are talking about sometimes.

I just spent lvl 33-35 in Crey's folly fighting monkeys on rooftops. With a 5 slotted ice breath, and build up, I can drop groups of 15 lvl 34-36 monkeys in one shot. Thats right, one shot. Thats 230+xp per monkey or about 3500 per group. And there are TONS of groups Took me about 20 mins to gain a full pez.

And dont say "well thats not AoE" because it is. And I have seen packs of monkeys up to lvl 37. So Im pretty sure I can do this for a long time.

I have a lvl 32 Ice/Ice and you're pretty far off on your Ice comments

1) Ice Secondary has at least 3 good powers, maybe 4. Buildup, enough said. Chillblain can hold extremely well, Ice Patch is very useful for bosses. If they arent aggro'd on you, walk up and drop a patch on him. They wont attack again. Shiver is the best AoE slow in the game. Groups of mobs wont even move after landing it.

2) Ice doesnt do AoE? How about Ice Storm, Frost Breath, and Blizzard? All AoE attacks. Granted Ice Storm and Blizzard dont do massive AoE Damage but they Slow, Debuff, and panic. Frost Breath can take even lvl mobs down to half health in one shot.

3) Our attack animations are the fastest in the game. I can get Ice Bolt, Blast, and BiB all off before a fire blaster or energy blaster can get thru their 2nd attack. So in essence, I can deal damage faster. My animations have 1 second activation.

Oh and did I mention I can hold bosses by myself with 2 holds?

Granted, Ice has the worst ultimate of all..blizzard is godawful. Nova and Inferno flat out own it, but I hope the Devs will adjust it soon

Ice is underrated by you dramatically