Ice/Ice is strong in control powers but the secondary only has two damage powers. It's real strength is in it's multiple holds which cna be stacked to hold bosses. All of the ice blasts are quick activating as well. It only has one cone power and on AoE DoT power. It's tier 9 nuke is one of the best in the game but does its damage over time instead of having it all front loaded.
All in all it makes for a more controllerish type of blaster but its damage doesn't lag behind any other set. They are uniquely fun to play but take till mid 20's to really mature.
Ice/Ice provide too little AoE damage and not that great ST either. Ice Manipulation provides enough mitigation to make any pairing about as safe as the Blaster AT can become. Pair it with Ice Blast and you'll notice Blasters sacrifice too much for relative survivability. In short; the right Scrapper is likely to do as much AoE (which is a Blaster speciality), more ST damage all the while being much more survivable.
Fire/Ice and Ice/Mental are clearly better combinations in my opinion.
Con:
Reminds me of Vanilla Ice song...(Ice/Ice, baby...)
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
As the title says, any Ice Blast/Ice Manipulation blasters want to share some advice about the set? I'm planning to roll one so I'd like to know what to expect.