ice secondary

I'm fairly new to CoH, and couldn't understand why I couldn't find anything about controllers' cold domination secondary, such as a guide. Now I understand its because its a new addition to their power sets.

Anyway, my question is, what does the cold secondary complement the most: solo, team, selfish team, etc? In particular is there any synergy between it and illusion? Just looking for some experienced Heroes or Villains to let me in on the details.

You aren't seeing much about Cold Domination because it was just recently introduced to controllers as a secondary. Given it has ally shields the set in its entirety is probably more of a team based set. (Don't know what selfish team means, though) While it has tools that are nice for solo efforts the set as a whole lends itself great for teaming.

I'm currently running an Ill/Cold myself and like the little bits of extra control that /cold has to offer the set to offset Illusions lack of "traditional" control. So far I like it a lot.

Thanks, I like it myself. "Selfish Teaming" was a term I found on an illusion control guide on the net. I think what he meant by it was running a team build but selecting abilities mostly for their effect on yourself.

What is your illusionist/cold 's theme? I had trouble coming up with ideas. Only thing I could think of was a ghost for my guy.

I'm a major proponent of the Cold Dom secondary. It takes a bit to get going, but once it does, it's a genuine monster. I've found it best used best in smaller teams, 2-5 people. That way you don't spend so long buffing allies, and your ST debuffs are more effective. With 16 baddies, debuffing 1-2 of them is a 12% total debuff. With only 6-8 of them, you double the debuff percentage to 25%. Until 35+ when you have Sleet and Heat Exhaustion, you really don't have much in the way of AoE debuffs, so smaller teams are definitely better.

Also, and this is anecdotal, but smaller teams tend to stay together more, and will benefit from your Artic Fog more than a large team that is more likely to split into 2 or even 3 groups working on separate mobs. Larger teams also generally means more buffs, so Frostworks isn't as greatly appreciated, while a smaller team that may only have one melee toon, possibly not even an actual tank, would benefit more from Frostworks' +HP.

IDK whether you are interested in Farming, but the shields from Cold Dom combined with Sleet and Heat Exhaustion make Cold a great support toon for farmers, especially fire/kins that can always take advantage of +def and +hp. When I was leveling my Cold/Ice def, I was always getting invited by friends who were farming simply because I made the runs go so much faster.

~WP

It's a complimentary/opposite theme to my Illusion/Thermal. The Ill/Therm is named Flash Powder Jane and is a stage magician type who creates her Illusions using tech based stage trickery but has no actual magical abilities. She wears a red and yellow top hat and stage outfit. So when they announced /cold I knew I wanted an Illusion/Cold and just decided to take the easy way out and make Jane's opposite: Flash Frozen Jen. She wears a similar outfit but in light blue and white and her powers are actually magic based i.e. she actually creates the illusions and effects herself.

Haha, sounds cool MM, and thanks for the advice WP. I'm particularly interested in pvp, so I hope it will work fine there.