Ice/Rad on a medium budget?


DSorrow

 

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I came back from a few months break and decided it's finally time to update my Ice/Rad's build. I've had the intention to do that for a long time, but never really got around to do it so he has been sitting unplayed since before IOs were introduced...

The original problem with this character was that he kept running out of endurance. I wanted to play him as a melee centric character to add some risk and fun into it, but running the two debuff toggles as well as Arctic Air and Choking Cloud quickly got me to 0 endurance if I used any active abilities.

With the advent of IOs I thought I could fix this, but as I said, I never got around to do it. Now I have some spare inf (no, none for you! :P) lying around so I thought I'd give it a shot at a medium budget. Nothing too shiney in there (LotGs and stuff like that are a no-no), but it has a fair share of good IOs.

Basically what I'm planning to do with this build goes as follows: throw Ice Slick to have time for setting up debuff toggles, then run in and start spamming Frostbite/Psinado so that most of the enemies are either Held or Confused and if neither they've got a load of debuffs on them. This is why I picked Psy Mastery, I thought the Mez Protection would be more handy than whatever S/L Def I could stack with IOs and Stone Mastery, because I really don't want my toggles to drop.

And finally after the long introduction, here's the build :P

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This is a combo that can benefit nicely from cheap frankenslotting. Not making any commentary on what I am posting (due to lack of time), but here is my Snowbeast's build, which was done fairly inexpensively. He's still missing a couple pieces (not extremely essential, but they are a bit pricey admittedly so they still have generics as placeholders). However, he is sitting at 50 now, so now there is no big rush to try to get it all nao.



Kilderon: Level 50 Magic Controller
Primary Power Set: Ice Control
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Emission
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Fire Mastery

Level 01: Block of Ice
01 - Essence of Curare - ACC/HLD(25)
03 - Essence of Curare - ACC/HLD/RCH(25)
15 - Essence of Curare - HLD/RNG(25)
17 - Ghost Widow's Embrace - ENR/HLD(25)
19 - Ghost Widow's Embrace - HLD/RNG(25)
25 - Lockdown - ACC/HLD(50)

Level 01: Radiant Aura
01 - Doctored Wounds - HEA/RCH(50)
09 - Numina's Convalescence - HEA/RCH(50)
09 - Miracle - HEA/RCH(40)
50 - Harmonized Healing - HEA/RCH(40)

Level 02: Radiation Infection
02 - Dampened Spirits - THD/ENR(25)
03 - Dampened Spirits - THD(25)
07 - Dark Watcher's Despair - THD/ENR(25)
19 - Dark Watcher's Despair - THD(25)
37 - Achilles Heel - Chance for Resistance Debuff(13)
40 - ENR(50)

Level 04: Accelerate Metabolism
04 - Efficacy Adaptor - ENM/RCH(25)
05 - Efficacy Adaptor - ENM(25)
05 - Performance Shifter - ENM/RCH(50)
43 - RCH(50)
50 - RCH(50)

Level 06: Air Superiority
06 - Smashing Haymaker - ACC/DMG(35)
07 - Crushing Impact - ACC/DMG(32)
37 - Crushing Impact - DMG/RCH(30)
46 - Mako's Bite - ACC/DMG(30)
50 - Mako's Bite - DMG/RCH(30)

Level 08: Swift
08 - FLY(50)

Level 10: Enervating Field
10 - ENR(50)
11 - ENR(50)
11 - ENR(50)

Level 12: Ice Slick
12 - RCH(50)
13 - RCH(50)
13 - RCH(50)

Level 14: Fly
14 - FLY - FLY(50)
15 - FLY - FLY(50)

Level 16: Chilblain
16 - ACC(50)
17 - Devastation - Chance for Hold(30)

Level 18: Hurdle
18 - JMP(50)

Level 20: Stamina
20 - ENM(50)
21 - ENM(50)
21 - ENM(50)

Level 22: Lingering Radiation
22 - ACC(50)
23 - ACC(50)
23 - RCH(50)
34 - RCH(50)

Level 24: Combat Jumping
24 - Karma - Knockback Protection(22)
25 - Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance(10)

Level 26: Hasten
26 - RCH(50)
27 - RCH(50)
27 - RCH(50)

Level 28: Glacier
28 - Essence of Curare - ACC/HLD(50)
29 - Ghost Widow's Embrace - ACC/HLD/RCH(50)
29 - Basilisk's Gaze - ACC/HLD(30)
36 - Basilisk's Gaze - RCH/HLD(30)
36 - Lockdown - ACC/HLD(30)
37 - Lockdown - RCH/HLD(30)

Level 30: Arctic Air
30 - Perplex - ENR/CNF(50)
31 - Malaise's Illusions - ENR/CNF(50)
31 - Befuddling Aura - ENR/CNF(30)
31 - Cacophony - ENR/CNF(30)

Level 32: Jack Frost
32 - Expedient Reinforcement - ACC/DMG(50)
33 - Sovereign Right - ACC/DMG(50)
33 - Blood Mandate - ACC/DMG(50)
33 - Edict of the Master - ACC/DMG(40)
34 - Brilliant Leadership - ACC/DMG(40)
34 - Commanding Presence - ACC/DMG(30)

Level 35: Frostbite
35 - Enfeebled Operation - ACC/IMB(50)
36 - Trap of the Hunter - IMB/ACC(50)

Level 38: EM Pulse
38 - Essence of Curare - ACC/HLD(40)
39 - Essence of Curare - ACC/RCH(40)
39 - Essence of Curare - ENR/HLD(40)
39 - Lockdown - ACC/HLD(40)
40 - Lockdown - ACC/RCH(40)
40 - Ghost Widow's Embrace - ENR/HLD(50)

Level 41: Fire Ball
41 - Air Burst - ACC/DMG(43)
42 - Air Burst - DMG/RCH(43)
42 - Air Burst - DMG/RNG(43)
42 - Detonation - ACC/DMG(43)
43 - Detonation - DMG/RCH(43)
43 - Detonation - DMG/RNG(43)

Level 44: Fire Blast
44 - Thunderstrike - ACC/DMG(46)
45 - Thunderstrike - ACC/DMG/ENR(46)
45 - Devastation - DMG/RCH(46)
45 - Devastation - ACC/DMG/RCH(46)
46 - Devastation - ACC/DMG(46)
46 - Devastation - Chance for Hold(30)

Level 47: Fire Shield
47 - Aegis - RES(50)
48 - Aegis - RES/ENR(50)
48 - Titanium Coating - RES(50)
48 - Titanium Coating - RES/ENR(50)

Level 49: Super Speed
49 - RUN - (50)


Level 01: Brawl
01 - Kinetic Combat - Chance for Knockdown(20)

Level 01: Sprint
01 - RUN(50)

Level 01:
Prestige Sprint - Surge
01 - Unbounded Leap - Stealth(27)

Level 02: Rest
02 - RCH(50)