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Again it depends on your play style, just on paper Ice has two major advantages...
1: A snipe power.
2:faster animations.
3:Oh and it slows people. (yes I know thats 3).
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Ermmm... ice has no snipe 
. But you can replace #1 by "Has 2 holds" (although only 1 is really useable in PvP).
CoX 50s: <ill/rad> <ice/ice> <fire/kin> <grav/sonic> <ice/storm> <earth/kin> <kin/elec> <cold/psy> <thugs/dark> <fire/dark> <dark/elec> <night widow> <EM/ninj> <mind/icy>
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single target stun is awesome on sonic set as acro doesnt protect from disorient, but the set suffers from rooting and range of its heavy attack (20ft) To illustrate the point, sonics best single target attack (shout) has an animation time of 2.7 seconds, a range of 20ft and a BI of 5.89, compared with ices bitter ice blast of 1.07 seconds, 50ft and 6.339 it comes off a poor second.
Get around the rooting and its a serious AT to play but quite simply you cant beat ice/em for speed of damage
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Possibly 
but tell that to the Tuatha Orange boss I 1-shotted in Croatoa with Aim/BU/PB+Shout ... I think he woulda said the same.. if he had chance :P
I think tbh, from seeing it in action and playing it, Ice/NRG is a monster for Slows and DMG.. but when it comes down to it.. why slow it.. when u can remove the base RES that keeps it alive.. and then drop it, making it wonder "what the hell happened"
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I dont believe for a second that there is a blaster power that one shots orange bosses, especially post ED. can anyone varify this? if so I'll shut up
Son/nrg is a great combo barring rooting. recounting botty's points, it pwns acrobatics on squishies (therefore pwning squishies who are without BFs). vs melee ATs I've not seen enough of them to comment, while I imagine the -res is good (its pretty much perma on the low end blasts, I read that the dur is about = to the recharge),the primary damage will always pale in comparison to /nrg's damage although I'm not convinced by it's maintained DPS from what i've read.
GL with it though
oh, cones+range SOs = win
Plight
Tell that boss that..
all I know he he went down in 1shot, after fully loading that lot, and "Nursewynd"'s Mind/FF toon was my teammate at the time.
As for: ""I dont believe for a second that there is a blaster power that one shots orange bosses"" ... I have one thing to say.. DEFIANCE
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Tell that boss that..
all I know he he went down in 1shot, after fully loading that lot, and "Nursewynd"'s Mind/FF toon was my teammate at the time.
As for: ""I dont believe for a second that there is a blaster power that one shots orange bosses"" ... I have one thing to say.. DEFIANCE
[/ QUOTE ]You may "have to say" that, but you didnt a few posts above, you only said with aim and BU. nwo with defiance i imagine its more realistic, although now I need to know the numbers or just seeit happen. bearing in mind boss HP scaling jumps at a single point around... 25 was it?
Plight
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Tell that boss that..
all I know he he went down in 1shot, after fully loading that lot, and "Nursewynd"'s Mind/FF toon was my teammate at the time.
As for: ""I dont believe for a second that there is a blaster power that one shots orange bosses"" ... I have one thing to say.. DEFIANCE
[/ QUOTE ]You may "have to say" that, but you didnt a few posts above, you only said with aim and BU. nwo with defiance i imagine its more realistic, although now I need to know the numbers or just seeit happen. bearing in mind boss HP scaling jumps at a single point around... 25 was it?
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My apologies
Level Range.. it was about that yea.. it wasn't a massively high level in the arc at the time.
I'm known too much for "riding defiance" where I'll play and let my defiance bar rise as much as poss' - depending on Greens Insp available.
(Scrappering a NRG Melee Blaster, with -RES Ranged Attacks is well fun, they never know what hit them. 
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Tell that boss that..
all I know he he went down in 1shot, after fully loading that lot, and "Nursewynd"'s Mind/FF toon was my teammate at the time.
As for: ""I dont believe for a second that there is a blaster power that one shots orange bosses"" ... I have one thing to say.. DEFIANCE
[/ QUOTE ]You may "have to say" that, but you didnt a few posts above, you only said with aim and BU. nwo with defiance i imagine its more realistic, although now I need to know the numbers or just seeit happen. bearing in mind boss HP scaling jumps at a single point around... 25 was it?
Plight
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My apologies
Level Range.. it was about that yea.. it wasn't a massively high level in the arc at the time.
I'm known too much for "riding defiance" where I'll play and let my defiance bar rise as much as poss' - depending on Greens Insp available.
(Scrappering a NRG Melee Blaster, with -RES Ranged Attacks is well fun, they never know what hit them. )
[/ QUOTE ]I didn't know 
Ask scrappers without endurance about defiance 
oh how the love it
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I didn't know
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Well I've not teamed with you -- must fix that sometime.
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Ask scrappers without endurance about defiance oh how the love it
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aaah, its so hard to get a definitive answer
if ice is better for pvp, how does it do in pve? I do like to solo quite alot, coming from other games where grinding has been paramount leveling the pvp missions solo is where I got most of my levels.. but I fear as a blaster I may end up with more debt than levels
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Again it depends on your play style, just on paper Ice has two major advantages...
1: A snipe power.
2:faster animations.
3:Oh and it slows people. (yes I know thats 3).
I took sonic as it seemed to have a nice mix of powers that I thought would help a newplayer quiet well (attacks,stuns,sleep).