Ice/Dev..any good?


AgentR22

 

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I know that dev is not used often as it seems to be the type of power that takes time to develop. It also seems to be used less in regular battle than other secondaries which is why I am betting it is not used as often. I am curious if it really is useless or fun? I watched a video on youtube of an ar/dev who teleported mobs into his trip mine which looked fun. Anyway, I am not entirely sold on dev just yet and would swap it for /em if it would work better on teams/solo. Thoughts?


 

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My only 50 is an ice/dev blaster. I made this character pre I1 (when it was taboo to melee) and when you could 6 slot damage and use TD to offset acc. Yes it can be fun albeit slow with trip mine and tp foe, that was my strategy for a long while. Not having BU kinda hurts the damage potential of Blizzard IMO. Cloaking Device and SS equals invisibility and thats cool but honestly though I'd go the /em route. In teams you will not be using mines that much if at all. Forget using time bomb. I haven't played this character since he hit 50 so long ago so I do not know about gun drone. I wished I rerolled him as /ice or /em and currently have a lvl 38 ici/ice which is way more fun to play. Caltrops is a great power to help avoid melee and the ice/dev is pretty safe solo wise. So yes it works but I found it rather boring as I mostly soloed his whole career. As many will point out boost range and power boost in /em help tremendously as an icer and having bonesmasher and total focus to whack a frozen boss around with must just rock. So I'd go /em but thats me and I didn't so what do I really know.


Agent R22 Dinged lvl 50 on 5-2-07, 509 logged hours, 3 years playtime

 

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My first 50 is an Ice/Dev, it is very slow going but its a great challenge and lots of fun


 

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Originally Posted by Sadron24 View Post
I know that dev is not used often as it seems to be the type of power that takes time to develop. It also seems to be used less in regular battle than other secondaries which is why I am betting it is not used as often. I am curious if it really is useless or fun? I watched a video on youtube of an ar/dev who teleported mobs into his trip mine which looked fun. Anyway, I am not entirely sold on dev just yet and would swap it for /em if it would work better on teams/solo. Thoughts?
Trip mines seem like they would be neat, but they take a long time to put down. If you're solo and you don't mind wasting time, it's ok. But if you're on a team it's pretty annoying to have /dev blasters insist that everyone wait around while they lay mines. They're very situational.

I tried an ice/dev blaster, but gave up on it about level 12 or 16. It just wasn't doing it for me. I already had an Ice/Ice that I liked better. I also liked Fire/Energy, Energy/Energy, Sonic/Energy, Electrical/Electrical and Psy/MM better.

For me, Ice/Dev was in the same boat as Fire/Fire.


 

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Originally Posted by Sadron24 View Post
I know that dev is not used often as it seems to be the type of power that takes time to develop. It also seems to be used less in regular battle than other secondaries which is why I am betting it is not used as often. I am curious if it really is useless or fun? I watched a video on youtube of an ar/dev who teleported mobs into his trip mine which looked fun. Anyway, I am not entirely sold on dev just yet and would swap it for /em if it would work better on teams/solo. Thoughts?
I find I use my ice/dev as my "I feel safe and controllery" blaster. My ice/dev/force is at 45. I have a stealth IO in run, which stacks with cloak. I have both holds. I have PFF from force if I'm running outside in a hazard zone. I mostly solo. I use trip mine and gun drone every now and then. I usually have cloak and targeting running at all times through a mission. On the double XP weekend I teamed a lot, but I didn't feel like I added much damage, however.

I took /dev because I found I liked having stealth, and I like it better than pool power stealth, and for the extra to-hit. I like hover-blasting, hardly ever melee (usually only in melee range when I stealth+trip mine @ point-blank), so most of the other secondaries I would skip any melee powers if possible. I find it fun to have a choice of stealthing through missions or taking out all/some mobs if it's not required. As they say, YMMV.

Duey


 

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Originally Posted by Sadron24 View Post
I know that dev is not used often as it seems to be the type of power that takes time to develop. It also seems to be used less in regular battle than other secondaries which is why I am betting it is not used as often. I am curious if it really is useless or fun? I watched a video on youtube of an ar/dev who teleported mobs into his trip mine which looked fun. Anyway, I am not entirely sold on dev just yet and would swap it for /em if it would work better on teams/solo. Thoughts?
If you're having fun with it then it is very good!


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