I believe the word used was "gem".
Anyway, I believe the Devs specifically wanted Ice to remain looking like Ice, rather than gemstones.
They were nice enough to give us the crystal theme with Stone though (which make more sense than Ice anyway).
Except, of course, that there isn't a "stone blast" powerset.
If you want the crystalline-theme on your character, that character has to be either an Earth Controller/Dominator or a Stone Tank/Brute.
I also am a little disappointed that I can't make "gemstone blasts" out of the ice set, but such is life...
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A little bummed that there doesn't seem to be any way to get a black ice effect, but that's just a nitpick.
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Except, of course, that there isn't a "stone blast" powerset.
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It pisses me off that Snow Storm and Freezing Rain in Storm Summoning are forced to use the Ice palette. 
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Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
It pisses me off that Snow Storm and Freezing Rain in Storm Summoning are forced to use the Ice palette.
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YELLOW SNOW!
But i dont want to neg rep you 
I want a Vanilla option.
...I forgot what experience means.
That would just be...white...normal...
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ditto, I wanting to make my Dark/Ice Def to have black ice
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Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
A little bummed that there doesn't seem to be any way to get a black ice effect, but that's just a nitpick.
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I don't have any way of making a black ice picture sorry ;_;.
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That would just be...white...normal...
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Well, I hope someone got it...
...I forgot what experience means.
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AAARGH! I wanted this so much!
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Watching it with the snow flakes coming off it doesn't really look like much other then colored ice...
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Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
A little bummed that there doesn't seem to be any way to get a black ice effect, but that's just a nitpick.
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I don't want to stifle creativity and I do believe ice should have the full spectrum, but the point of having a full spectrum is there are colors other than black.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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1) I'm only coloring my powers black until we get a darker option.|
Originally Posted by Dispari
I, for one, have seen enough black martial arts, black forcefields, black fire, black super strength, black energy, black regeneration, black psychic blasts, black illusions, black radiation, black earth, black empathy, black willpower, black electricity, black gravity, black spines, and black invulnerability that I don't think we need black ice!
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2) I actually have powers in all the colors I feel are thematically apropriate for those characters. Yellow and white lightning, red darkness, tan regeneration, yellow invulnerability, black psi blasts, orange and black fire, white and brown sonics. My Ice Dominator happens to have black as the most apropriate theme for her powers. I don't see why my options should be limited just because you don't like black.
3) The term Black Ice, while not directly referencing ice that is litterally black, does suggest a hidden threat, and is a theme I would like to be able to expand on.
It's a nitpick, but one which I am evidently prepared to defend. To the death! Yar!
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Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
I don't see why my options should be limited just because you don't like black.
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I think all the powers should have the full spectrum. I wanted my thorns to be white, but best I can do is a 50% gray.What I did say, is that for some reason when you give people every color in the rainbow, they go right for black. That's why everyone has made their stuff black since i16, and why black dye is the most expensive dye in Guild Wars and Ragnarok Online. I can't explain it, other than I suppose people just really think black is cool, but it does make me think people lack creativity!
But I'll give you a pass since you've made other non-black alterations.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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I was advised the color of ice was limited because they looked a bit like crystals...isn't ice a crystal...I thought that was why ice took up more space then liquid water and why snow flakes are neat looking.
Please feel free to neg rep me if there was a thread about this in the last 2.5 weeks.