-Damage and Ice Armor

Hello!

At the very least I'm thinking of making a secondary build for my Ice Tanker (or maybe changing my primary build) using Darkest Night so I can stack the -Damage in it with the -Damage in Chilling Embrace and the -Damage stacking in the Paralytic Interface slot. Has anyone played with these -Damage debuffs?

Will they work effectively on AV's etc? Seems like I should be able to stack them pretty easily up to 50% or more.

Thanks!

I believe -Dmg isn't covered under general AV resistances. So stacking them would work. I use DN on my icer but I went with reactive interface since i'm ice melee. Also went with void radial for more -damage.

The purple patch will affect your numbers, however.

Void Total Radial (T3) does -50% damage and hits more targets than the core branch.

There's a couple of ice/ build threads on the first page of the tank forum, i think. Good place to start for ideas. I've posted my current ice/ice build in both, however, it's a bit expensive. Bonuses you should focus on are getting softcapped s/l/e/n defense (not too hard for IA), then focus on a mix of +hp/regen/recharge.

My build gets 2480hp and 1.14% regen (~28.4hp/sec). Endurance consumption is a bit heavy, especially with DN running, so Cardiac is the alpha I typically run with. Once you get more recharge into the build you can swap to spiritual if the mood suits you as EA will be up enough to cover endurance issues. I have 82.5% global recharge and Hasten for 152.5% total. Hoarfrost is perma and maxes out my hp. EA is up in about 18 seconds with cardiac slotted. BTW there are no purple sets in my build.

Even with moderate slotting (just hitting the softcap, for example) will let you tank all the normal content pretty easily. all the -dmg you'll be tossing out will let you handle psi wielding mobs, too.

I don't know what the -dmg % is for the interface procs, but CE+DN+void = 85%.

the -dmg on the interface is -5% and can stack up to 4 times for a max possible of -20%

I've got a pretty good build I think, though I suspect the forums would probably shred it were I ever to work up the courage to post it. It's soft capped to all that stuff and has good regen and recharge.

I'd really like to do a secondary build with Darkest Night and keep Ice Storm on my primary build, but I don't want to lay out for all the LotG's and sets that I have on my primary build. That's why I was thinking about doing just a common IO build with maybe some specific IO's like the +3% DEF one. The problem is that to me, without spending all that INF, I won't have the really good tanking build that I want.

Icicles should hit every two seconds right? So the 5% -Damage should stack up to 20% pretty quick and stay there. Like I said above, with Void you'd be looking at 100% easy. And then 55% maintained. That's pretty dang good IMO.

I suppose everyone's gone reactive, but this sure seems like a good Tank option to me. And since I can swap reactive and paralytic as I want them it seems silly not to have the option. It's just that losing Ice Storm (and Ice Bolt and the Ice hold) out of my build bugs me for character reasons.

ice storm in of itself will near insta cap the -dmg from your interface, almost all rain powers are extremely powerful with any interface in them as they will hit their stack cap in around a half a second lol

What's the cap on -damage? Has anyone looked?