Fire Blast does more damage than most blast sets, at the expense of having no mitigation like holds. Time covers these holes very nicely.
Ice provides very good mitigation (two holds and slows), but with the defence, recharge debuffs and the boss level hold in Time you don't need this too much.
However, for Defenders, Rain of Fire does reduced damage, whereas Ice Storm does full Blaster level damage, so maybe Fire loses its damage edge a bit here. If you go Fire, I'd very much recommend a Corrupter instead, because they do get Blaster level Rain of Fire.
Both rain powers synergise well with Distortion Field either way.
Actually, is fire still king of damage when compared to Sonic?
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I think so, I haven't run the math for sure, but Blaze and Fire breath are enough better then their matching powers in Sonic that the -res doesn't quite make up for it. Least that is my guess. Add in Rain of Fire, that while not the blaster level greatness, is still a nice power, and Fire would pull ahead of Sonic. Sonic might be more beneficial to a team though due to the -res affecting all the players.
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Originally Posted by JayboH
Actually, is fire still king of damage when compared to Sonic?
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The relatively trivial personal DPS difference on a Defender will be way, way, way more than outdone on a team by Sonic's stacking -20% res on every attack.|
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I think so, I haven't run the math for sure, but Blaze and Fire breath are enough better then their matching powers in Sonic that the -res doesn't quite make up for it. Least that is my guess. Add in Rain of Fire, that while not the blaster level greatness, is still a nice power, and Fire would pull ahead of Sonic. Sonic might be more beneficial to a team though due to the -res affecting all the players.
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In response to the OP: The only Blast sets I would ever bother to play on a Defender are Sonic and Ice, unless you're building for concept. Anything else and I'd be looking at a Corruptor instead.
As has been mentioned, Sonic on a Defender has insane -resist debuffs, and Ice has two holds and both of it's rain powers (Ice Storm and the Tier 9, Blizzard) do full Blaster-level damage.
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Choose based on concept. Or flip a coin. They'll both be very effective.
Or, actually, now that I think of it, choose based on playstyle preference. Time/Fire will be in general more offensive in playstyle, and /Ice more controllery. At the high end and higher levels, Ice's blaster level damage scale will make the final DPS probably pretty close, the style and feel will be quite different in most gameplay situations, and certainly while leveling up.
In the advent of time being awesome and my freedom of cleaning up some alts, was looking into starting a time/fire time/ice. Having no previous knowledge of the blast sets other then they both perform pretty well. I was hoping if anyone could lend a few thought to help me tip the scales in the favor of one. Thanks in advance