Advantages of an Ice/Rad..

Hello all,

I've had this Ice/Rad for over 2 years I would say...the last year he's been shelved at lvl 40 partly due to breaks and no desire to play him.

Frankly, I don't even remember why I made him but I don't want to delete him because he's my highest villain on my home server.

My question is, what are Ice/Rad's good at? TF? Teams? PvP? Farms? (lol) AV's?

I guess my main issue is because I am an AoE *****..I hate the idea of only using ST attacks so I even grabbed Frost Breath, but I don't like it so I never use it. Ice Storm isnt bad AoE damage tho I suppose...

TL;DR:

What are some of Ice/Rad's specialties?

Thanks in advance!

So...nothing o.o

TFs, teams, AVs and GMs. That's mostly the /Rad though.

I guess slows are a forte of Ice/Rad, with LR and the blasts. Ice Storm and LR would slow a group pretty well. IMO the problem is that slows are a nice side effect rather than a goal. So while I love the slows on LR, Sleet, etc, I generally skip powers that are explicitly slows (like Snow Storm, even though its a pretty beastly slow).

Ice/Rad is a great all round team and TF char though. High ST damage for bosses and AVs, fantastic debuffs and a highly desireable team buff in AM. The AoE is a little on the weak side, as you've noted. Frost Breath is fairly meh and while awesome, Ice Storm just doesn't make up for a lack of a proper TAoE like Fireball.

Try slapping in 2-3 range IOs in your Frostbreath. I find that that bit much more range/area coverage changes it from a "meh too positional" power into a "ohsnap look at all those orange numbers" power.