Quote:
To be honest I like "tricky tactics" and prefer it many times to simple button mashing. There are few opportunities for strategy in this game and Sonic/Ice is a good one for a different yet fully effective playstyle.|
Originally Posted by SlimPickens
Meh. tricky tactics, but i like to kill things on my blasters... not play as an ineffective controller.
Frozen aura has perhaps the worst accuracy base in the game, and is only available at lvl 38- if you really want an AoE sleep you can pick up the AoE sleep from /cold epic powers at 41, which has normal accuracy, and is a targetted AoE not a PBAoE, making it much more sleep friendly. I prefer to destroy my targets over spending activation times and power picks on weak controls though, so frozen aura having no damage component, and also having the terribad base accuracy makes it to me the absolute worst tier 9 power available to blasters. In the time it takes to lay out all the poor control, i could just have built for softcapped def and obliterated the targets with AoE damage with my cast times. On a defender this doesnt apply, but Id still rather being doing nearly anything else with my cast times then laying out poor controls. YMMV. |
Frozen Aura does not have low accuracy, it has standard accuracy, and most sleep IO sets are heavy on accuracy anyway.
The sleep in the cold epic (Flash Freeze) does not work at all for what my Sonic/Ice uses it for since it has a damage component and a duration of 17.9 seconds with a 90 second recharge. This makes it unstackable. Frozen Aura lacks a damage component and can be stacked mutiple times especially when you take into consideration that it's duration is longer than it's recharge time before any sleep duration is ever slotted.
The long durations on the sleeps also mean that if you do get mezzed during your alpha attack that mez has worn off long before the mobs awaken.
Solo (or on teams of experienced players) sleeps are hard controls as long as you do not move or damage the sleeping mobs. This means that problem mobs like sappers, mezzers, and bosses can be neutralized by stacked sleeps.
Mezzing lieutenants can be slept then stunned or held and taken out with single target damage without fear of disturbing other mobs. The same can be done with bosses. Kiting a sleeping boss with Freezing Touch and following up with a hold from an epic power can neutralize it. It can then be safely taken out with single target damage.
Once all major threats are eliminated a seemless AoE chain of Shockwave, Howl, Static Discharge, Sirens (Pre-epic powers, Shiver can be used in place of Static Discharge placed after Sirens in the attack chain) will easily and safely dispose of the rest of the spawn.
Best of all this can be done with only SOs or a very minimal amount of IO sets.
With proper slotting and a bit of practice it can be done with out Hasten or the Fitness pool.
My Sonic/Ice has Entropic Chaos slotted in the single target blasts and Call of the Sandman slotted in Sirens and Frozen Aura. The +heal procs have allowed me to dispense with the medicine pool and even beter yet, if I get slept and Entropic Chaos in my tier 1 and 2 blasts procs the sleep is broken and I can fire away at full power again.
All in all it has a very different though effective playstyle and gives me relief from the constant and very vanilla damage, damage, and more damage of the typical blaster power set combinations.
-Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
-When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson
Meh. tricky tactics, but i like to kill things on my blasters... not play as an ineffective controller.
Frozen aura has perhaps the worst accuracy base in the game, and is only available at lvl 38- if you really want an AoE sleep you can pick up the AoE sleep from /cold epic powers at 41, which has normal accuracy, and is a targetted AoE not a PBAoE, making it much more sleep friendly.
I prefer to destroy my targets over spending activation times and power picks on weak controls though, so frozen aura having no damage component, and also having the terribad base accuracy makes it to me the absolute worst tier 9 power available to blasters.
In the time it takes to lay out all the poor control, i could just have built for softcapped def and obliterated the targets with AoE damage with my cast times.
On a defender this doesnt apply, but Id still rather being doing nearly anything else with my cast times then laying out poor controls.
YMMV.