puba187

Originally Posted by PHlRE

couple of suggestions.....
i'd definitely make a team build and a separate solo build

personally, i'd reserve Tornado for a Solo build only....
its extremely notorious in chain-pulling aggro on the team, which may cuz a teamwipe or just REALLY annoy everyone including your tank. You cannot control it at all, so the best usage in attacking are in specific isolated attacks. Most likely you're not going to be the damage dealer of the team to handle that effectively so......


some tactics built around Thunderclap (if you plan to get it)
I'd go the Dark Mastery route and pick up Oppressive Gloom - running into a group of mobs w/ OG on and casting Thunderclap should stun out mobs around you, including bosses (if both power scores a hit). Cast down Snowstorm to slow down their stun movements. Thunderclap recovers so fast that you can keep a decent-sized group about perma-stunned.... thats serious control. The recovery on TC is about fast enough to be used on every group.

You can cast FR on that mezzed out group your in the middle of. Then cast out Soul Drain which should easily hit w/ FR -def the mobs, and should max out the power's damage buff for you (whats that like +105% or something for 30secs?). Hit aim and cast Ice Storm, then Blizzard. Hello blaster-like, and more nuking damage! Hit a blue and hit Dark Consumption before mobs fully die.... voila

Freezing Rain - slot that up for recharge and damage procs. The -resist in FR will crank up their damage, and if you gonna nail a whole herd with FR, like 20+, quite a few will get zapped, even with stacked procs. Recharge is a must, so you can do it as much as you can, group to group if possible, if your global is really high. If it is enough, you can "Layer" your FR upon itself, double-stacking itself.

If your hero's recharge is fast enough, you can do a "layered" FR towards the latter end of your Blizzard. If you like to see those hp bars melt down...... successfully casting another FR that stacks over a previously casted FR during your Blizzard will make those hp bars ZIP!!!!