Frozen Aura has nothing to recommend it whatsoever. The nicest thing I can say about it is that it left a slot free to pick another power. Changing it from a Sleep to an Immobilise would instantly make it a very attractive power more in keeping with the set than an extra chunk of damage, IMO.
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or even a group hold that would be wicked and equiavalent to disorient aoe from handclap which can be a good timebuyer. Perhaps frozen aura would be better encasing foes in ice for 10 secs i find the sleep idea on a tanker just weak and pointless atm.
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I have been looking at other tanker sets a bit to try to imagine what i would think lacks fairness.
It could be judged as fair changing frozen aura to an ice sword circle OR even Greater ice sword circle. Sleeping groups around a tanker in a team is a pointless attack 99% of the time i say 99% incase your teamed with people with no cones etc (which imoafaik is never) or you primaries break the sleep anyway. i have a mind controller and mass sleep is just an battle calmer if we are overwhelmed. 10ft frozen aura pbaoe is way less than mass hypnosis 25ft+ though.
Frozen aura can ("i guess a little") be a something of a power to prevent ambushes from being too bad but so can ice patch be and ice patch has a greater area of effect. Like i say most sleeps are immediately broken by mr trigger happy on the team. Also ambushes can be avoided using taunt to move groups from their spawn point.
Never seeing an ice melee tanker with frozen aura myself says two things - i may be inaccurate of my idea of this being a poor lvl 38 power to give the tankers ice melee set.
I do imagine its a poor power that you can easily live without and for most people may not of really achieved anything really useful in the game i cant see it being in balanced for usefulness like other other tanker secondaries in short atm.
Has anyone used it in pve or pvp anyway?
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