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everwindgale
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I am looking for fun and effective combo with our powers/feats/armor.
The most obvious one was icy terrain /steal time + Conduit of ice/ ray of frost. I had some success with the icy terrain/steal time combo. However PBOEs are difficult to pull off especialy with the very long casting time of steal time and it being easily interrupted. My defense was also not strong enough to hold up to hard hitting leiutenant mobs.
Any insight would be helpful.
The most obvious one was icy terrain /steal time + Conduit of ice/ ray of frost. I had some success with the icy terrain/steal time combo. However PBOEs are difficult to pull off especialy with the very long casting time of steal time and it being easily interrupted. My defense was also not strong enough to hold up to hard hitting leiutenant mobs.
Any insight would be helpful.
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With high enough recovery and enough adds in boss fights, you can do this forever.
Are you referring more to AE control/damage in dungeons? Soloing Foundry or instance quests? General overland mob farming?
I mean, in dungeons I'll use singularity to pile everything in a pile, the aoe blizzard dot thing while they're about to drop, sudden storm just as they drop, then shove a shard of the endless avalanche at them to explode and knock them down. That's a lot of aoe, but aside from 'this is a lot of aoe' there's no particular synergy going on.
Solo I'll do the combo someone mentioned before only with the aoe blizzard + ray of frost in place of chill strike, and with sudden storm interspersed; it's not quite as much of a lockdown sequence but I need sudden storm to clear minions and it does add a ton of damage. I guess a combo is, entangling force + more damage after using a control power + more damage when close to a target + randomly do more damage on 10% of hits + 10 hits from magic missile before entangling force expires = ow.
Always point Shard at the middle of 3+ mobs, or the strongest mob to have it explode upon impact. If you end up singularity before shard, leave the shard on the ground until the mobs are landing. Then shard + steal time. Shard goes through mobs in singularity.
With this combo I can keep singularity up while the mobs just sit on their back most of the time.
But steal time, icy terrain, blackhole combo works very well.
Mix in shield for the extra ap with correct timing (at end for KB into far/high pits, or during the black hole so they return for more dps from your group if no pits nearby)
tab slot chokes nice, but when you have 4700 recovery, its often not even needed to get the ap for the next singularity. So sometimes yes, other times, perhaps chill strike for dps, depends on situration.
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I didn't try Steal Time (its stated damage is very low -- 500 for me compared to 3000 stated and 2500 real for Sudden Storm -- but apparently it's wrong?), and Icy Terrain barely did anything... what else is there?
Oh, Dailies. Singularity was 1000, Ice Storm was 3500, Maelstrom was 3000. Ice Knife was 5000 but not aoe.
So, yeah. Based on my tests I usually use Conduit as my spell mastery solo because it also chills everything really effectively. In dungeons I want more AoEs and sudden storm is harder to use and chill is less worthwhile, so sometimes I'll put chill strike on spell mastery and use conduit w/o, but honestly conduit on spell mastery with sudden storm still did a crapload of damage (I subbed in shard ot E.A. for shield either way, since in a group I don't get hit much and scattering enemies everywhere is not always useful).
tab-RoE
q-chill strike
e-entagling force
r-repel
1- ice strike
Left click- MM
hold left click then tab-e-tab-q-1 = dead
if u dont have daily tab-e-tab-q-r repeat
So I moved Entangling Force to Mastery and I started playing with the Shard. I hadn't liked it as it seemed too hit or miss and too difficult to wield. Now I love it. I can stand back away from the hot and heavy, open with a force choke, which draws all the mobs together and then aim my bowling ball of destruction at the newly assembled pack and release. Does great damage, knocks down, but no so much that it inconveniences the tanks and up close dps. Because they are knocked down it does have some damage mitigation and control as well. To round out my attack chain, I have chill strike for the stun, and alternate between steal time/repel/shield/ or icy terrain as needed. For boss fights I usually sub in ray of enfeeblement for chill strike.
This combo also works well in concert with Singularity with the right timing and mastery EF also generates great AP without having to put yourself into the red circle of death danger zone to pup shield or Steal Time.
(1v1 e.g. def. pillar)
I start with either entangling force > cast RoE > teleport to him > use steal-time > cast RoE walk back and cast chill strike. so much fun.
when facing a group, use it to pick out the DDs and DCs.