ICE help

forher666

I have never made an Ice character and very few of them are seen anymore so I felt like I would try it out. I LOVE the new ice set as most of the old glitches from pre-on alert have been fixed but... I still feel like this guild is missing something.


PowerHouse (Link to this build)

Name:

Archetype: Freeform

Super Stats:
Level 6: Constitution (Primary)
Level 10: Dexterity (Secondary)
Level 15: Ego (Secondary)

Talents:
Level 1: The Marksman
Level 6: Coordinated
Level 9: Impresario
Level 12: Healthy Mind
Level 15: Quick Recovery
Level 18: Academics
Level 21: Negotiator

Powers:
Level 1: Ice Shards
Level 1: Ice Blast (Rank 2, Hard Frost)
Level 6: Ice Form (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 8: Shatter (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 11: Snow Storm
Level 14: Concentration
Level 17: Unbreakable (Better You Than Me)
Level 20: Bionic Shielding (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 23: Avalanche (Rank 2, Serrated Shards)
Level 26: Ice Barrier (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 29: Molecular Self-Assembly
Level 32: Lock N Load
Level 35: Force Shield (Rank 2, Force Sheathe)
Level 38: Hurl (Crippling Challenge, Nailed to the Ground)

Travel Powers:
Level 6: Displacement Acrobatics (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 35: Teleportation

Damage wise its pretty solid but survive-ability is iffy pre 40.

The way this build works is stacking 3 chill or forming an ice construct to blow up with shatter. Which can do some serious damage in example with cold snap on (ice forms shatter and ice barrier buff granted when you crit) using R3 Ice barrier to incread defense by 90% then using shatter to erupt it causes each layer (6) to hit in 25 ft radius for around 3500, that 21000 damage to anything around you.

All the moves in this build apply chill and or cause ice construts for shatter which is the pocket power of this build.

Any advice or recomendations would be fantastic

beldin

I really wonder how you play that with any Energy-Stat
Even with level 40 gear with max cost discount i would take DEX / CON / REC and maybe
Overdrive, so i could spam Avalanche or Frostbreath at least a good while.

The other thing i don't really understand is, what does all this stuff really help against
a single boss, where you don't have anything to make ice constructs from ?

For example Viper-X in SL .. what powers would you use against him ? And is all the
Shatter stuff it really worth it against just spamming Avalanche ? I tried it from time
to time, but it really never convinced me :redface:

forher666

So I reworked Naga a bit and I have been running this build since the last post


Archetype: Freeform

Super Stats:
Level 6: Ego (Primary)
Level 10: Constitution (Secondary)
Level 15: Intelligence (Secondary)

Talents:
Level 1: The Invincible
Level 6: Acrobat
Level 9: Coordinated
Level 12: Shooter
Level 15: Quick Recovery
Level 18: Negotiator
Level 21: Wordly

Powers:
Level 1: Ice Shards
Level 1: Ice Blast (Rank 2, Hard Frost)
Level 6: Wall of Ice
Level 8: Shatter (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 11: Ice Form (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 14: Masterful Dodge
Level 17: Bountiful Chi Resurgence (Resurgent Reiki)
Level 20: Concentration
Level 23: Molecular Self-Assembly
Level 26: Ice Shield (Rank 2, Frigid Air)
Level 29: Ice Barrier (Rank 2, Rank 3, Frigid Freedom)
Level 32: Avalanche (Rank 2, Serrated Shards)
Level 35: Energy Storm (Rank 2)
Level 38: Hurl (Crippling Challenge, Nailed to the Ground)

Travel Powers:
Level 6: Displacement Acrobatics (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 35: Teleportation

Between Concentration and MSR energy is not a problem keeping my energy at around 80% without effort.

For the boss fight issue I switched snow storm for wall of ice to get a quick hit and construct with Energy storm. Usually the Ultimate attacks are forgettable but after playing around with it in the power house I found that the ice crit buff can get Energy Storm to crit over 9000+. Energy storm has a quick re-use time and works great on bosses and even causes a noticeable chunk against gravitar.