I been slowly leveling an Ice/Nin, not in a rush to 50 I enjoy doing the 1-50 leveling and badging a long the way.
I like doing off-meta things and playing gimmicky builds, for my Ice/Nin theme/gimmick I been running without Resistance or Defense toggles, mez protection or a self heal. Which means I've only taken Hide, Smoke Flash and Retsu.
I went deep into Presence and Concealment pools for Misdirection and Unrelenting. I also grabbed Born in Battle from P2W vendor for multiple self rez. Placate, Misdirection and Smoke Flash give me three placates, two of which are AOE. I grabbed Water Spout and Hibernate for thematic purposes.
So I have no resistances or defense but I have Retsu, Hibernate, Unrelenting, Born in Battle and three placates. However I've found three placates overkill so what I intend on doing is swapping Smoke Flash for Invoke Panic.
Invoke Panic and Ice Patch will be a good bit of control I will also put a fortunata hypnosis placate proc into FA once I hit 50 to replace some of what I will miss from Smoke Flash.
I have both ATE procs, the chance to hide is in AS while the chance for BU is in Ice Sword but I swear I've noticed the Assassin's Mark proc doesn't require you to use that ability to proc it. Can anyone confirm that? I find it odd since in other ATE for other classes the proc was required to proc from said ability, strange.
Currently 44 I used Ninja Run and Prestige Powerslide to get around, I will probably grab SS at 49 since there isnt much else to grab.
My final build will have Veng, Tactics, Assault for team buffs.
Deep into Presence w/ Invoke Panic, Unrelenting, Provoke.
Heavy into Concealment w/ Grant Invis for allies, Invis and Misdirection.
Leviathan w/ Water Spout and Hibernate.
Hasten & SS.
Only Hide and Retsu from Ninjitsu.
And everything but Frozen Fists from Ice Melee.
I also have Renewel of Light temp power right now for 6 more days, haha 3 self resurrects.