Yes, you have slow protection with Wet Ice, but more importantly, you have it with Energy absorption. You get something like 20% slow and -recharge resistance per enemy hit, so you don't need Permafrost for the slow protection.
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Having gone totally crazy with my Ice/Fire Tanker about this very issue, I can tell ya how it works.
Wet Ice (it keeps me from tripping during an earthquake!): -60% Slow Effect
Permafrost: -20% Slow Effect
Energy Absorption: -20% Slow Effect if you hit more than zero targets.
-% Slow effect combines additively, not multiplicatively.
Wet Ice + Permafrost gives 80% slow protection with this system (Effect*(1-(.60 + .20))/100)
while multiplicative combination would give 68% slow protection (Effect*(1-.60)*(1-.20))
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I've been away for quite some time, and now that I'm back I noticed that permafrost says it grants slow protection. Maybe it has always granted slow protection, but I also see wet ice grants it too, though I don't see it as a combat attribute.
I guess my question is, do I have slow protection with wet ice? Or do I need to respec into permafrost to get the needed protection?