Based on resistance shields only, I'd say Dark, Power, or Psychic. Reason being, Arctic Fog already gives you Energy/Fire/Cold resistances, leaving you the chance to either get a lot of Smash/Lethal (Power) or get something you don't already have some resistance to (Neg/Toxic or Psi).
Moving from that, I'd probably say Dark might be your best. Stun stacking between OG and Cosmic Burst and Soul Drain. Also, it'll give you a possible rez. I figure that a rez is more useful to defense based character because of cascading defense failure, especially for those lacking defense debuff resistance. Other than being a PBAoE, Dark Consumption is redundant with Heat Loss.
50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec
Go dark mastery. StormyDarkness already listed some of the big strengths of the set, but you'll also probably find soul drain synergizes really well with irradiate.
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Sooooooulllll draaaaaaaiiiinnnnn...and don't be tempted by soul mastery bc soul drain's rech is twice as long.
Soul Mastery has Power Boost though. Power Boost!
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Doesn't work with Cold shields, so no real benefit.
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Originally Posted by Vanden
Soul Mastery has Power Boost though. Power Boost!
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True power boost will make your defense buffs and your tohit and regen debuffs better but will not effect -res or -demamge. I think that the only thing dark really lacks is offense so I would still stick with dark mastery.
I completely got this thread mixed with another in that last post. Power boost will do a bit more on a cold than dark miasma which is what I was thinking. But more soul drain plus sleet and irradiate ftw!
Power Boost will *not* affect a Cold defender's ice shields, because they also provide trivial resistances and are therefore made to ignore PB. PB can still be a decent power, and Power Boosted Benumb can MASSIVELY shred any hard target's effectiveness (I almost feel sorry for Ghost Widow when she gets hit by one).
Overall, I'd give the nod towards Dark, Soul, or Psi.
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I have a build im working on for my Cold Dom, Rad blast.. it's a very team friendly toon and I have gotten her to the point of almost softcapping to all positions...
But I dunno what epic to go for, any suggestions please ?
What works well with this sort of toon??
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