Soloing will be very painful and slow with ice melee, not that it can't be done but an EB may prolly take an hour
Yea, ice melee is very low on damage output. It's the safest melee set, in that the slows stacking can really hamper your enemy alot and ice patch is just a great power to have, together with a decent hold in block of ice. So yeah, EBs will probably be possible to take down but it will take a loooooooooooong time. If i remember right ice melee is the lowest dmg output set on tankers.
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Thanks for the response guys. Been looking at Mids and looking at the possible attack chain of Ice Fists/Ice Sword/Ice Touch/Greater Ice sword it doesnt seem that bad.Greater Ice Sword cannot compare with something like KO blow but its got half recharge time (10 sec vs 25 secs) so potentially you can get 2 hits of GIS to 1 KO blow．
Did you check out the end cost? Having to hit twice is alright, unless it costs you more end to do it
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just checked the end for GIS and its 10.2 and KO blow is 18.5 whic standard across the big hitters like seismic smash, total focus etc.. so its not quite half but close enough.
so what do you think guys is ice melee workable?
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For me, all tanks are painful to solo but if you do Death Shroud is king for a long time...all the way to...probably frozen aura. Find out what the best lvl and type of mobs you can comfortably defeat 10 at a time with (which is the maximum death shroud can effect) and aim for best xp/time. If solo with an attack chain I may of beat up four (as Ice) and the damage aura has helped on those 4 plus defeated the other 6 but thats with icicles, death shroud might be less damage (don't know) but less resisted so yeah even solo I would gather. Death Shroud is probably a waste of time if your not hitting 4 or more with it.
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Bosses and EB's should never be the problem melee side, but more your defensive side. They dont have super regen (outside those dark mages of CoT with their stupid healing) so just keep pondering them and they will go down eventualy.
Its more how long you can last against them, thats where i see dark lacking abit. The heal (afaik) is a tohit one, without tough your SL resist isnt much more then fire.
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Just a thought... Would it mess up your concept if you went Ice/Dark instead? The -Acc from Dark Melee would synergize with the +Def-oriented Ice Armor set.
Just a thought, mind you.
Ice/dark is quite fun to play, i have one running around on testserver.
The -acc really works lovely with a defset, combined with the selfheal, the double end-drainer and hibernate you become a rather solid tanker.
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Just a thought... Would it mess up your concept if you went Ice/Dark instead? The -Acc from Dark Melee would synergize with the +Def-oriented Ice Armor set.
Just a thought, mind you.
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Has to be Dark/Ice with ice epic im afraid im afraid. Also cloak of fear is pretty central to it all as well.
I dont think its going to be too bad with Ice and the attach chain and aoe attacks looks decent. hey if I can take down EBs with a Dom solo then any tanker should do the job.
Im afraid any dom will do more damage than an /ice tanker tho
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Im afraid any dom will do more damage than an /ice tanker tho
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you have really put me off now 
With a dom soloing an EB is rather easy, domination with a trashload of stacked holds and its simply waiting.
Ice just isnt bouyaka dmg, dispite they added dmg to that frozen aura power. As long you pop a bunch of reds you can ditch out enough dmg to take the EB with ease. You can crank it up with a bunch of +dmg bonus of IO's and take assault, but just remind tankers are (next to defender) the lowest damage dealers. (EM and SS minor exclusion)
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Well its worked out quite well that I12 gone live today so Im goint to try Dark/Ice out and see how it goes.
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Hi guys,
Im thinking of rolling a Dark/Ice/Ice tanker when I12 hits mainly for concept reasons. My question is really around Ice Melee. Due to the odd hours I play I tend to solo a lot and from reading the US and UK forums it looks like Ice Melee is not a solo friendly set but I just wanted to get the opinions of Ice Melee users on how bad it actually is? I am not so worried about taking on minions or Lts as I think most AT can handle them in most situations but more against nasty bosses and EBs. Are they just too tough for Ice Melee to take out just take a long time? Can Ice Melee take out all bosses and EBs without getting help?
I just finished getting a Mind/Psi dom to lvl 50 and fought some tough EBs and had to ask for help a few times so would like not to go through that sort of struggle again.
Thanks for the help in advace!