Sleep effects don't have anything that inherently prevents their stacking. The only thing that wakes a sleeper is HP modification (damage or healing) or knockback. Thus, in principle there's nothing to prevent stacking of two sleep powers.
*However*, there's the proviso that a lot of sleep powers, for whatever ridiculous reason, have a tiny tick of damage applied just before the sleep takes effect. While frozen aura doesn't suffer from this, flash freeze does. Thus, if you sleep stuff with frozen aura and then try to stack flash freeze on top of it, flash freeze's trivial tick of damage will break frozen aura's sleep effect and you won't get any stacking. However, you *can* stack them if you use them in the other order - flash freeze first, and then frozen aura. Since frozen aura has no damage, it won't break flash freeze's sleep and thus they will stack.
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Frozen Aura has one HUGE issue in my book - accuracy of the power.
For some reason I can pop aim+buildup and hit Frozen Aura and miss 50% of the spawn - my sonic sleep does not miss anywhere near as much. You would think using the sonic sleep + frozen aura would get everyone but it doesn't!
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Frozen Aura has standard accuracy (75% base). However, from a looooong time using this on my Tanker before it did damage, I had this same thought until I looked into it some more. Basically, if you break the sleep immediately after the power goes off, but before the effect applies, then it looks like it missed completely. And there are so many ways to break it that it can APPEAR to miss a large portion of the spawn, but it really doesn't.|
Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
Frozen Aura has one HUGE issue in my book - accuracy of the power.
For some reason I can pop aim+buildup and hit Frozen Aura and miss 50% of the spawn - my sonic sleep does not miss anywhere near as much. You would think using the sonic sleep + frozen aura would get everyone but it doesn't! |
If you are noticing it have lower accuracy that it should have (75% base), then bug it, but I'm betting that it's working as intended.
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I was comparing the 2 sleeps - Siren's call and Frozen aura one day and I can consistantly sleep and entire group with Sirens. When I use Frozen Aura it misses many more than Siren does. I guess I am saying if 75% is the base then make it 90% as it misses far too often for a Tier 9 power with no secondary effects.
Hell, Sirens even does damage! I would have had a slow added to this or a -recharge.
Looking at finishing my Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster. Can Frozen Aura and Flash Freeze be stacked
for their sleep affect? Or does applying one or the other after the first "wake" your targets?
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