Theme Build - Sonic/Ice


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Looking for suggestions/warnings for a Sonic/Ice Blaster. Any powers to avoid? Any must haves? I'll put a build out here once I put one together.


 

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If you are relying on the sleep from Sirens Song you can skip Ice Patch. The KD from Ice patch will break the sleep.

The whole reason for making a Sonic/Ice is so that you can stack sleeps since Frozen Aura does not have a damage component.

Shiver, Sirens Song, Shockwave, and Howl all have differing cone widths and ranges. Trying to get an AoE attack chain that meshes well is..... a challenge.

The hold graphics of Frozen touch looks almost exactly like the graphics of Chillblain. This can lead to some unexpected damage being received.

Sirens + Shiver + Screech so that the target you wake up and stun at the same time staggers dunkenly toward you to be bludgeoned by Ice Sword is Pure win.

Sirens + Frozen Aura + Amplify + Build Up + Dreadful Wail kills almost every thing it hits. Every thing it misses stays asleep long after you begin recovering endurance again.

I reccomend electric as your APP. Static Discharge will help round out your AoE attack chain, Shocking Bolt will give you a fast animating ranged hold to stack with Freezing touch for handling bosses (alas Shocking Bolt's hold graphic is as non-obvious as that of Freezing Touch).

For IOs and sets I recommend as much ranged defense as you can get (it's not possible to soft cap but you can get within 1 small purple insps worth). Stuff that reaches melee range will either be slept, slowed, or controlled but the alpha strike will nail you since they get to launch it before they fall asleep. You won't need a lot of recharge as most of this power set combination's powers have lengthy animations (I skipped hasten and still have a fairly fluid attack chain.)


-Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.
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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight View Post
(it's not possible to soft cap)
http://i.imgur.com/FGNtT.png

47%. The three slots in brawl are one slot each in hurdle, health and stamina. The empty space in tactics is GSFC. I was lazy and forgot to pick cj, that's an exercise left to the reader. If you do that you don't need the glad armor. This took about five minutes.


 

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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
http://i.imgur.com/FGNtT.png

47%. The three slots in brawl are one slot each in hurdle, health and stamina. The empty space in tactics is GSFC. I was lazy and forgot to pick cj, that's an exercise left to the reader. If you do that you don't need the glad armor. This took about five minutes.
I should have been more clear.

It's not possible to soft cap with out skipping combination defining powers like Sirens Song, Frozen Aura, and Dreadful Wail or without skimping on your AoE attack chain.

It's also not necessary to soft cap as all you need to do is survive the spawn's alpha. As long as you aren't up against mobs that resist sleep every thing should be asleep and slowed after your alpha (including bosses) you can then use your controls (2 holds on a boss, a hold or a stun on an annoying lieutenant) and take the most serious threats out of the spawn.

You can then run an attack chain of Shiver > Shockwave > Howl > Static Discharge > Sirens seemlessly, provided you mind cone ranges and widths, or use a convenient wall, corner, or object, and take out the remainder of the spawn while taking little to no damage yourself.

My original SO only build for my Sonic/Ice/Elec had no defense at all and no resistance since I had skipped the Epic Armor as well. It worked as well or better than most of my other SO only blasters from back in the day as this primary and secondary combination is the most "controllery" blaster available in the game.

While the above "5 minute" slap dash build would be survivable it wouldn't be all that effective nor would it be that much fun. It would also miss the point of playing a sonic/ice theme build by skipping the theme(s) of the combination.


-Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
-When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson

 

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You could also go with Soul mastery if you don't mind going Villain-side. It gives you 2 more cones, one of which is an immobilize.

You can immoblize them, then put them where you want them with Shockwave, since Soul Tentacles doesn't have -KB in it like a lot of AoE immobilizes. Howl, Soul Tentacles, and Nigh Fall make a decently damaging cone chain as well.


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Well my other choice would be a Ice/Sonic Corrupter or a Cold/Sonic Defender. Trying to stay with the Ice Scream theme. Either of these builds work better than the blaster?