Any Saving Grace at All for Ice-tree (offenisve skills)?

El Kabong · Post by **El Kabong** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:58 am

It's kinda dismaying how ice in this game is treated badly, especially with the advent of status-reducing tablets. For some reason Ice simply wont cut it.

Lowest damage nukes and imbues, and there's some wonder as to the cost of mana pots (i.e. more mana to achieve same damage).

For me especially it seems a bit of a wierd thing to digest, being a DiabloII fanatic for some five years and knowing the potency of ice spells.

In any case, is there any saving grace for ice spells? For one, the imbues and nukes look hella-cool and are awesome to watch... and plus there's the roleplay aspect. I decided to try a heavy int spear-woman named AyanamiRei, and to those of you who know of the anime series, you'd understand why she's int-heavy and uses a spear, heheh.

Anyway, to coincide with her personality, it'd be most fitting to be ice-heavy or at least uses ice a little... but with the current mechanics of the game i dont think that's much of an option...

what do you guys think??

Ice771x · Post by **Ice771x** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:27 am

i would not reccomend ice at all if you want to pvp ever. if youre strictly in it for pve, which idk who is, then ice is ok i guess. itll mean slower kills, but if thats how you wanna go, be my guest.

then again, you could always do ice for pvp as like a secondary. just have fire or light as primary. granted thatll take a whooole lot of sp, but hey, if thats what you reeeeally want, then i think youll think its worth it.

microcosm · Post by **microcosm** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:48 am

ice can still interrupt skills, not freeze necessarily but stops skills

Irukandji · Post by **Irukandji** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:04 am

microcosm wrote:ice can still interrupt skills, not freeze necessarily but stops skills

nope : 100% reduce = nothing happening

Troo · Post by **Troo** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:48 pm

Well ice is good for a supportive char.. (combined with Force or something), or just as a plain supportive force (phy defense buff+passive)

For the rest I dun think there's anything good in it yeah >.<"

snowmunkey91 · Post by **snowmunkey91** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:00 pm

Ice is still good for PVE.

microcosm · Post by **microcosm** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:21 pm

Irukandji wrote:
microcosm wrote:ice can still interrupt skills, not freeze necessarily but stops skills

nope : 100% reduce = nothing happening

lol good point
i meant if they had less than 100 then it wouldnt freeze/frost them very long, but would interrupt attacks