For solo? Chilblain all the way. I personally haven't found any real use for frostbite on my ice/ice. It stops the knockdown from ice slick and stops the flee behavior from arctic air, so it interferes with your two biggest sources of mitigation and thus isn't very useful in most fights. You might be able to use it to keep a group of foes at a distance or around a corner while you run away/finish off another pack/etc, but solo you just don't run into enough mobs at once for that to be important, imo.
Chilblain, on the other hand, is very good for immobilizing bosses/EBs so that they don't run up and smash your face in, and requires little slotting given its accuracy bonus (instead of a penalty), long duration, and relatively low end cost. Also, if you can spare an extra slot or two for damage and endredux, it can supplement your attack chain against bosses/EBs who are too dangerous to melee.
For a primarily soloing ice/ice, I would go with chilblain over frostbite every time.
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Cool, now I'm wondering what are other good combos for doms for soloing now that I15 is out?
I am wondering the same thing, but that's a 98% different topic than the subject of this thread. You probably want to start a new thread with a subject like "What's the best solo dom for I15?" or something like it.
Mind/Nrg is really nice for solo play. A hold, confuse, a sleep and stun from your attacks will make handling small mobs fairly easy. Powerboosted Aid Self can make the self heal very worth your time as well. I'm working on mine as we speak and the I15 changes have made Nrg a solo powerhouse.
I have found that mind/anything and plant/anything make good solo dominators. The first for the plethora of long lasting single target controls and the second because of seeds of confusion. I suspect that anything/energy will solo ok now as well with the improvements to that set, although energy plays a lot more like a blaster/blapper.
Most of my soloing so far has been at lower levels (pre 30) and obviously with many of the primaries when you get your pets things will change, however I have never been a huge fan of the 'suck till level 3x, then be awesome' school of thought so I tend to prefer sets whose performance is spread out evenly. Admittedly in many cases its more 'not as hot until 32, then rocks' instead of sucks till 32.
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I've been having a blast with my new mind/fire. Even with just SO's right now he solos really well.
I have a mind/ice at 43 and it is very soloable thanks to confuse - i was running the GW patron arc and found confuse uber handy in taking Numina down (confused longbow ftw) - plus the dam from BiB and it all worked well.
Still al ot of fun on teams but not having any major issues solo as of now. Course, 10 lvls ago was a little different :/
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I'm making an ice/ice dom soloer, I was wondering if frostbite is worth taking for solo or should I just take chilblain?