Dark/Ice Combo!

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Hey Guys,

I’m looking for some advice for my main who I will be porting over from CoV. He will be Ice/shadow with Con/End as super stats and Regen/ice shield as defensive powers. Now, my general PVE solo plan is to be able to run around gathering mobs, use ice barrier, drop dark aoe hold, use ice storm aoe and finish the rest with shadow tentacles (close combat aoe). Group PVE will be a little more support-ish, but generally play the same. My hope is that Regen and a significant Con stat will provide me with a sufficient HP base to do this, and also Regen and large HP pool seem to have good synergy from what I understand. I am also considering adding the self-heal from the supernatural set as well.

I just want to see if I can get any feedback from anyone who has used shadow and/or ice as to the viability of this combo. I would love power replace suggestions or any other advice you smarter folks could give. My stat choices good? Any idea what other powers would complement this playstyle or would just be a good choice to complement my powersets?

Also, I’m a total nub when it comes to PVP in CO and CoX (played AoC, WAR, WoW, so I have general knowledge from these games), could anyone suggest some strategies for this powerset combo?

Thank you in advance for helping out this nub.

PS: Writing this at work, so I apologize for incorrect power names.

PPS: Quickstart can’t come any quicker!!!

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As an ice based character I found Ice Storm to be extremely subpar to other synergies we have available at our disposal. If you are going with ice shield, most enemies attacking you should be chilled, so if you have an enhanced shatter, it will damage everything in front of you, and anything chilled will explode again damaging everything around it. So if you have a group of 4 or 5 enemies that are chilled, you will get the initial hit of the instant cast shatter, AND the explosion of all 4 or 5 enemies will hit all the other enemies around each other.

With shatter enhanced there is a 50% chance that chill will remain on the enemies instead of being consumed, so anyone who survives the initial shatter will die with the second casting normally.

That is just what I have experienced with ice though. I did not find ice storm to be personally useful at all.

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it will damage everything in front of you, and anything chilled will explode again damaging everything around it.

Combine this with a perked Sonic Device to cause a singularity.

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Thanks for the tips guys.

Can anyone else add anything to help this poor noobie out??

I am currently just specced in Shadow, and i'm just wondering if there is another route or any off-powerset goodies to help me out.

Thanks!