although my Ice tank is just 11, i'm not even thinking about getting it... As far as I know it is the less usefull power of the set.
My Ice tanker is currently L33 and I'm doing fine without Permafrost. Probably you should go for Medicine (Aid Other+Aid Self) instead.
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AFAIK Permafrost provides you with resistance to 3 things.
1) 20% Cold Resistance, as Frozen Armour, Wet Ice and Glacial Armour each also provide 30% cold resistance for a total of 90%, this is of barely any use as 90% is the resistance cap for tankers. Also there is very little cold dmage in the game too.
2) Slow resistance, Wet Ice also provides slow resistance, with just Wet Ice I've found I could pretty much ignore caltrops.
3) 12.5% Fire Resistance, Frozen Armour also provides 12.5% fire resistance. I've found that the lack of Fire Protection is not a real issue against any opponents I've come across.
So of the 3 things, one is completely pointless. One is probably unnecessary and the other is covering a slight hole in your defences. It is the most missable power in the set, the second most missable being Icicles.
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Thanks all, so ive took the assesment from this that it is totally worthless, so im just gonna skip it...and take group fly. . .yeah. . .Hehe ill probably take aid self it seems a good choice.
Thanks again.
If you go PvP i'd advise picking up perma frost for the slow res. Slows stack, and one of the best tricks about ice is that it has multiple slow res's to counter stacking slows.
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Thanks all, so ive took the assesment from this that it is totally worthless, so im just gonna skip it...and take group fly. . .yeah. . .Hehe ill probably take aid self it seems a good choice.
Thanks again.
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take perma frost its better then group fly lol.
Miss miss miss.
Even in PvE, fire damage is pretty rare (because its AoE orientated). I suppose some fire brutes with hard hitting melee fire would be a problem, but hey, its just a plain rubbish power.
TBH I cant think of a worse power anywhere in CoX. Jump Kick, Group Teleport, Group Fly about the only ones I could come up with. I suppose Temparature Protection from Fire Armour tank set is just as pants.
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I'd say Temperature Protection is worse as the damage type it helps you against ( cold ) is less commmon and it doesn't have the slow protection.
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TBH I cant think of a worse power anywhere in CoX. Jump Kick, Group Teleport, Group Fly about the only ones I could come up with. I suppose Temparature Protection from Fire Armour tank set is just as pants.
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I'd say Temperature Protection is worse as the damage type it helps you against ( cold ) is less commmon and it doesn't have the slow protection.
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Fair Point, although I suppose hypothetically it allows you to cap your fire resistance without running all toggles (and fire is a very common damage type)
On balance, tho, Yep, Temp Prot is the absolute worst.
Hello,
Im currently working on a ice tanker, i was just wandering if permafrost is anygood at all.
Thanks in advance for any help.