Ice blast/Energy Manipulation
You've got fast animation attacks that slow you have a good chain your DPS is better than fire. You will do more burst damage than fire in 3 seconds. Energy melee gives you boost range which rocks and coserve power and power boost.
Fire/Energy You've got more utility than ice meaning you have a nuke and a snipe if you wish to take them. Your outfront damage is higher than Ice if you count it for 5 seconds so the dot can take in. Blaze recharges faster than bitter ice blast meaning you can spam it more. You're roll will be to take down as many on the opposing team as possible. New blasters tend to wear the empath out and not running while getting spiked so keep this on your mind.
IF you want a duel toon you should go Ice/energy melee both rocks so it's up to you. I have both an ice/em and fire/em and I can sa that I find fire a lot more fun.
Awesome.. just awesome. Thanks for all the advise people.
I've decided to create an Ice / EM tank. The "I doubt anyone can kill you" could make this a great character to get to know pvp with as opposed to a squishy blaster.
Also, tanks are usefull in teams meaning I can actually build this puppy up to a pvp level.
And last, the monday night pvp? Is that on the test server or something? How does that precisely work? (not "how to get on testserver", i saw a post on that i can look up, but "what can I do there". If it is the testserver that is :P)
Also; I read that almost every pvp character has swift - hurdle - ss and sj. Is this correct?
If so i'm gonna go hasten -> SS and take SJ with it later. Unless that's idiotic and i should take some other skills, lemmy know please.
But, that's a concern for later, first i need to level this little guy 
I have a Ice/Energy tank i'm happy with my build rocks in duels and teams I will passs it on to you if you want. Personally I think you should make a sonic/sonic defender :P only 2 around
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Awesome.. just awesome. Thanks for all the advise people.
I've decided to create an Ice / EM tank. The "I doubt anyone can kill you" could make this a great character to get to know pvp with as opposed to a squishy blaster.
Also, tanks are usefull in teams meaning I can actually build this puppy up to a pvp level.
And last, the monday night pvp? Is that on the test server or something? How does that precisely work? (not "how to get on testserver", i saw a post on that i can look up, but "what can I do there". If it is the testserver that is :P)
Also; I read that almost every pvp character has swift - hurdle - ss and sj. Is this correct?
If so i'm gonna go hasten -> SS and take SJ with it later. Unless that's idiotic and i should take some other skills, lemmy know please.
But, that's a concern for later, first i need to level this little guy
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the anyone can kill you applies to duels. I've not been killed yet in a duel on mine. Closest to killing me was probebly Olympos on his brute when fury was bugged. Anyways loads can kill a bad Ice tanker. You need to know when to hibernate and when to hoarfrost and run etc.
Heh. maybe my next character will be sonic/sonic. Depends on how much fun pvp is
Oh, and if you could send me that build, that would be great. (pm thru forum would be great).
Fire Armor/Energy Melee. You've got good resistance which makes the incoming damage quiet low. You lack resistance agaisnt ice though and psionic. Great self heal recharges fast and heals loads. Extra build up meaning you will do crazy damage. You can two shoot most squishy archetypes. In teams your job is to taunt the opposing blaster/scrapper and at times the cager. You will not attack a lot probebly only when build up and fiery embrace are up.
Ice armor/Energy Melee. Ice armor is defense based meaning people will miss you but when they hit u take full damage. You are VERY hard to slow since you have 3 application of slow resistance. You can drain end which can be useful. Hibernate is up very often so you will be a VERY hard target to kill infact in duels I doubt anyone could kill you. You've got some slows as well. Your role would be see above.