Oh and for the record I do have a shivan on my Ice Dom, duo'd the base back in I6, but solo I'd not have managed it
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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Ice Blast has DS 0.86 ( Ice Bolt is 0.65, Ice Sword is 1.23 and, for comparison, Impale is 1.18).
EDIT:
Actually, looking at it again, those damage scales must be wrong. However Ice Sword does more damage than Ice Blast at all points of the game, and did so even before the melee damage boost.
[/ QUOTE ]Did you factor in different melee and ranged modifiers?
Oh, and wasn't there something about some dom attacks using rage instead of melee, or vice versa? Or am I just making sutff up again?
They were actually from nofuture's power list, which aspires to be a database of freshly tested damage scales. I just started to wonder about the scale used because Ice Bolt or BI 2.7778 is normally 1 on damage scale. But those numbers are normalized damage scales and have the dominator melee/ranged modifiers already factored in. So it's all correct after all. They match the numbers I got when I tested them earlier this year, except that Ice Sword is on a better damage modifier now.
Not sure what you mean with the second paragraph, really. Bridger posted a list of dominator attacks that are considered melee around when Issue 7 was on test. Some of the others were a bit surprising but Icy Assault is really pretty clearcut.
Oh back OT for a second, forgot to mention teamed with a level 50 dom on monday, I know its friday now, but I'm old anf forget things
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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Oh, and wasn't there something about some dom attacks using rage instead of melee, or vice versa? Or am I just making sutff up again?
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I think you are making stuff up again. 
Certainly in Icy Assault Ice Sword, Ice Sword Circle and Greater Ice Sword use the melee value and the others use the ranged value.
I really should do something about this signature.
I had Ice Blast up till level 40, when I felt I neaded more aoe power.
I use Ice Sword (the most end efficient power in the set)and Ice Bolt on turrets (both slotted 2 acc, 3 damage), but I still run out of end and have turrets respawning before I can destroy them.
I really should do something about this signature.