Dusting off my ice/ice tank

Over 1500 days offline I kid you not. I came back to the game about a month ago after being gone a very long time. So my ice's build is super old.

Ive been trying to find some ice/ice guides but Ive only found outdated guides. Anyone know of any current guides atleast within 3 issues?

Any help much appreciated!

Not off hand, but some general advice:

- buy, steal or borrow a +3 Defense Steadfast IO (invention origin enhancement) and put it into Perma for Toughness
- get to the softcap defense (45%) for S/L damage. Easy to get to without a whole lotta IOs, I did it with Weave and Maneuvers + Combat Jump, plus the above-mentioned IO.
- make sure to get and keep Frozen Aura, which is now a footstomp attack with sleep as a side bonus. Great for aggro and AoE damage.

Just some .02 on the quick. Welcome back!

I've got my ice/ tank at 42% def to smash/lethal/energy/neg energy with the 3% def steadfast IO, combat jumping, and weave. Energy Absorbtion slotted for defense/recharge makes up the rest, and that seems good enough for me.


here's my current build (more or less) on my ice/fire. depending on how long you've been gone, a lot has changed. you can view the build using the data chunk with mid's hero & villain designer, get it, it's fantastic. copy the data chunk, import it into the program, and change fire melee to ice melee to fool around with your own build.

goals of the build are softcappable defense (45%, except for fire and cold), high recharge (perma-hoarfrost, 20-second recharge EA's), and high HP and regen, with passable end recovery, leaning heavily on EA for protracted battles. there are purple enh sets in the build, which are terribly rare/expensive right now; other sets will do fine in place of those.


i'll fool around with an ice/ice build, and post it later. i've not played ice melee, but it seems leveraging ice patch and a fast-recharging frozen aura, with enough single-target power to pound on harder targets, would be a good way to go.


Edit: the export looked like a mess. here's the data chunk.

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davep posted this guide recently and it taught me a lot about Ice melee that I just didn't know.

Might be worth a read!

-H

A lot of helpful info. Still working on a build hopefully will come up with something solid in the near future.

Thanks for the replies folks!