Arctic Air-what am I doing wrong?

I have seen people rave about this power, but it hasn't seemed to help my ice/troller at all. I am lvl 48 and the only thing Arctic Air seems to do is drain my endurance. I don't see a noticeable slow and I have never seen anything confused. I am slotted with end. reduction and slow.

Is it just me? Help?

if you really want to see AA shine you should invest in the confuse proc. my ice/bubbler uses the end/confuse IO and the procs from coercive, malaise, and cacophony. helps me put out more dmg and keeps my end from draining too badly

I will try that. It's either that or respeccing out of it.

Arctic Air needs to be slotted with max EndRdx and CONFUSE, not slow. The duration of the Confusion pulses is small, but it has a noticeable effect. The power actually has 3 effects: Confuse, Slow and Afraid. Foes who enter the area are slowed. They try to slowly leave the area, but occasionally get confused and may turn around to target a buddy or go a different direction. The Confuse duration does not usually last long enough for the foes to actually attack a buddy (although they do occasionally), but the main purpose of the power is to neuter most of the attacks for foes in its range. The effect will not be very dramatic, but it does a lot. If you watch foes in the area, they tend to kind of run one way, then the other and look, well, confused. They sometimes will fire off an attack, but won't fire another off for a while.

My Ice/Storm usually tries to let the Tank and melee types go in first to draw the aggro, and then follows them shortly afterwards. I find that Arctic Air seems to mitigate about 60-75% of the attacks from foes in its area. Solo or small team without a tank, I lead off with Ice Slick, then run in with AA running.

Toggle AoEs for controllers usually are part of a kind of stacking control. By themselves, they are not much. But stacked with other types of control or pulling aggro by teammates, and those toggles become very effective. Ice Slick, run in with AA is the standard tactic. Sometimes you could use Frostbite to keep foes in the AoE of AA, but then you lose the "afraid" aspect, which is part of the mitigation. AA + Choking Cloud is a key combo for Ice/Rad.

The Contagious Confusion Proc from Coercive Persuasion is wonderful in AA. The confusion from the proc is much longer than the pulses in AA, so it has a noticeable effect. Still, the power without the proc is very effective as a way to mitigate 60-75% of melee attacks. Before you can really evaluate it, you need to slot it up correctly and use it as a stacking control.

Coercive Persuasion is an affordable purple set with nice bonuses, so you might want to look at keeping Arctic Air slotted with a set of Coercive Persuasion, even if you don't think you will be running Arctic Air much.

You could also turn on Conserve power and if you have power boost, hit it b4 jumping in middle of mob with AA. It's nice.

I have mine slotted 1x Endurance IO, 1x Malaise End/Confuse, 1x Coercive End/Confuse, 1x Cacophony Proc, 1x Malaise Proc, 1x Coercive Proc. Get something like a 92% End Discount, and a 55% Confuse duration increase. Also get a 6% recovery bonus out of that, which isn't gigantic but every bit helps.