Arctic Air is wonderful with the Coercive Persuasion proc. Until then you can put damage procs in if you want. With /Earth you should be in melee anyway so that's that sorted. Other than that, put a few End Reducers in, maybe some damage procs if you need some unreliable AoE.
As you're familiar with Electric Control, think of Arctic Air as similar to Conductive Aura (limiting their attacking capabilities) and Static Field (disrupting attacks with mez), and very good when layered over other soft control like Ice Slick.
Block of Ice, Ice Slick and Arctic Air will be your bread and butter controls. Shiver, Jack Frost and Glacier can be somewhat useful (more useful than the next three powers, in my opinion). The two Immob powers and the Sleep can be skipped because they defeat the purpose of Ice Slick and your Earth Assault powers.
Arctic Air is a key power. It carries a massive auto-hit recharge debuff of around 50%. So enemies will go through their initial attack chain at full speed but then incoming damage drops dramatically.
There's also a 50% chance for a fear effect so some NPCs caught in AA will be trying to run instead of attack, and there's a 30% chance of confuse, and confused foes of course are not only not attacking you, they're helping your DPS.
And yes, the End consumption is huge. I ended up 6 slotting AA:
Malaise Illusions End/Conf
Malaise Illusions Chance for Psionic Damage (proc)
Cacophany End/Conf
Perplex End/Conf
Befuddling Aura End/Conf
Coercive Persuasion Contagious Confusion (purple proc)
Everything except the purple I did at level 30 so I've got 85% End reduction and 85% confuse enhancement. I'm sure you could do better by using max-level IOs.
The Contagious Confusion proc is a great investment because it has its own separate 30% chance of confusion.
I don't recall how often AA's "chance of" happens. I believe most IO procs in a toggle trigger every 20 seconds but hopefully someone else can chime in on AA's attack rate, i.e. how often it's rolling for its own inherent fear and confusion effects.
At lower levels when you don't have as much control or survivability, I recommend teaming with a tank or brute who can draw initial aggro. Then you jump in and stand beside him and let AA do its thing. Great combo.
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Arctic Air isn't a stealth power, that would be Arctic Fog. What Arctic Air does do is lower the stealth of enemies. I remember using my namesake (an Ice/Cold Controller) as an anti-stealth unit in good vs evil pvp events on Defiant.
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Arctic Air isn't a stealth power, that would be Arctic Fog.
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Originally Posted by Sardan
I don't recall how often AA's "chance of" happens. I believe most IO procs in a toggle trigger every 20 seconds but hopefully someone else can chime in on AA's attack rate, i.e. how often it's rolling for its own inherent fear and confusion effects.
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About arctic air.
I am fairly familiar with fire and electric control. I know nothing about the Ice control set.
I have recently made an Ice/Earth Dom and I can tell by the read AA is going to be a core power, it does seem to be an END hog on the order of Hotfeet, or perhaps worse. Is this correct?
What else would be helpful for me to know about the power that is not read in "Toggle: PBAoE, Foe: Confuse(Special), -Stealth, -Recharge, -SPD?"
Thank you