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WP/ice, where can I improve?

Briarpatch

By Briarpatch,
Posted on: 2010-07-21 15:26 in Tankers

 

Posted

So that WP/dark I talked about a while ago just got rerolled into a WP/ice. I wanted more AoE than just Soul Drain to help with the aggro generation, and I really didn't need the siphon life or the dark consumption. The ice-ing on the cake is that it makes for a better concept.

I think this build will end up more survivable because of the knockdown, holds, and sleeps. This build also was able to fit in my favorite ancillary power, [Salt Crystals]. I'll be able to stack sleeps and I won't have a damage aura instantly breaking it.

HP is capped, softcapped to S/L/E/N. 88 HP/sec with one foe in range. The damage won't be incredible, but that's ice.

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What do you think? Where can I optimize?

EDIT: Also, can you tell me about ice patch? How well does it work? I've heard the target cap is 5... or was that burn and ice patch is ten... do the foes already on their butts count towards the target cap? How, mechanically, does the power work? Does it pulse every second or something like that and just hit the 10 "closest" enemies?

Where to now?
Check out all my guides and fiction pieces on my blog.
The MFing Warshade | The Last Rule of Tanking | The Got Dam Mastermind
Everything Dark Armor | The Softcap
don'T attempt to read tHis mEssaGe, And believe Me, it is not a codE.

 

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The Dark Watchers in RotC won't do much for ya, and you already have 5 1.5% healths w/o it.

Ice patch won't need an End Red. I'd move that slot, add a Kismet and drop your LotGs down to 3 per defense power.

Drop the Numina sets to 3, the % heal does nothing for you, and the % added to your regen is nigh insignificant. If you're really bothered by the regen loss slot a common IO in the 4th slot and save a few million.

That's all I can think of now. Might have more later.

 

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Originally Posted by Briarpatch View Post
The Dark Watchers in RotC won't do much for ya, and you already have 5 1.5% healths w/o it.
D'oh! I can't believe I missed that. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Briarpatch View Post
Ice patch won't need an End Red. I'd move that slot, add a Kismet and drop your LotGs down to 3 per defense power.

Drop the Numina sets to 3, the % heal does nothing for you, and the % added to your regen is nigh insignificant. If you're really bothered by the regen loss slot a common IO in the 4th slot and save a few million.
I guess I'll take the end reduc out of ice patch, but I'm not willing to lose any defense or my accuracy bonuses. I agree that the numina's might be overkill, but I'm not worried about the cost. I've got thousands of merits saved up because it took me so long to decide on a next tanker.

Thanks for the input.

Where to now?
Check out all my guides and fiction pieces on my blog.
The MFing Warshade | The Last Rule of Tanking | The Got Dam Mastermind
Everything Dark Armor | The Softcap
don'T attempt to read tHis mEssaGe, And believe Me, it is not a codE.