Redlynne

I certainly enjoyed making other Tankers "cry" on Tanker Tuesday ITF runs where NONE of them could pull aggro off me (or get any of their own, because I'd Taunt whatever they tried to draw the attention of). To play Ice/Ice "properly" to its full potential, you need to be playing your Tanker more like a Brute (who doesn't worry about Fury). You want to be the center of attention like a eye of the storm of a vortex of flypaper keeping everything locked up on you where they will Exist To Death on your Icicles and Chilling Embrace and Frozen Aura stomping and "hop 'n' pop" use of Frost to convert Frost from an attack that only hits 1/4 of the pie on one side of you into a DOWNWARD facing cone that hits EVERYTHING clustered up around you. You don't do this with Frost (in 2D) ... Instead you do THIS with Frost (in 3D!) ... That gives you 1 Debuff Aura (Chilling Embrace), 1 Damage Aura (Icicles), 1 PBAoE Click (Frozen Aura) and 1 Cone turned (range enhanced!) PBAoE(ish) Click (Frost) "ruining the day" of everything clustered up around you. That's a pretty decent amount of "output" for pretty much ANY Tanker, AoE-wise, before including just how much Recharge debuffing all of that is doing to help keep You (and therefore everyone around you) from taking damage from the dogpile flailing away around you. To borrow a popular phrase often said in (decidedly) other contexts ... it's not the SIZE, but how you USE your Ice/Ice Tanker that makes all the difference in the world. I'm of the opinion that HOW you play your Ice/Ice Tanker may be perhaps the most important limiting factor in getting the "most" performance out of the potential hidden away inside of the build. You need to play VERY aggressively with an Ice/Ice Tanker, to the point of achieving Scrapperlock in your single minded determination to draw EVERYTHING into your Vortex Of Doom™ (+3!) where you can drain them of everything they've got (including their dignity!). However, if that's not the way you like to play your Tankers, then Ice/Ice may not be for you ...

Counter-proposal for Force Bolt. What if the coding used for Propel in Gravity Control that allows a "knockback splash" around the single target were ported over into Force Bolt?

Trick question(s) ... Are you still in Bodyguard Mode or are you commanding your Ninjas to Attack? Are you keeping your Ninjas clustered around you or are you letting them run off to commit suicide on their own beyond the Pet Defense Aura IOs radius of effect? Time's Junction? Distortion Field? Farsight? Do you use Provoke to draw aggro which causes your Ninjas to counterattack on your behalf, followed by an immediate use of Temporal Mending to "soak" the incoming damage not only to yourself but to ALL of your Ninjas (via Bodyguard)? Do you use Smoke Flash (at all)? Who do you use it on (by default)? How far are you from finishing out your slotting of Set IOs? I'm thinking that most of the answers to your problems will be found in these answers to these questions.

Yes ... it's possible.

Test server is ThatAWay ...

What you're really asking for is PvEvP ... where instead of Players attacking each other DIRECTLY, they are instead competing against each other through the use of a medium in the environment. Tug-of-war is an example of this, where the two teams are competing against each other, but doing so through the medium of a rope, rather than directly attacking each other. The old suggestion of making a Big Red Ball™ which could then be used for soccer styled gameplay involving "goals" on either end of a playing field is another example of this. Rather than launching your attacks against other Players, you're instead "attacking" an environmental object (the aforementioned Big Red Ball™) to influence its movement and trajectory in order to score points in the game. Both of these scenarios are examples of Indirect PvP in which Players "compete" against each other without directly attacking one another. Personally speaking, I've always thought that the best option for this sort of thing would be a Capture The Flag/Storming The Castle type of scenario in which the objective is for the PC to support the NPCs the PC is aligned with in achieving their objective(s). So rather than attacking other PCs directly, you attack the "pawn" NPCs of the opposing faction(s) in order to help "your faction" of NPCs win the capture. And that would be a PvEvP scenario, since different PCs could align themselves with different NPC factions for the event.

Specifically, the Baron Jacket which hangs off/outside the body at the waist. There are no doubt some other examples where you needed to use and overwide belt like that to avoid clipping issues.

That seems to be a general consensus around nearly all of the builds I've posted (for some reason) ...

Crushing Field is a huge endurance sink, even with slotting. Try not to spam it every time it's recharged. The duration on the Immobilize is pretty decent so you don't need to be recasting it all the time. That was my biggest lesson to learn while playing Gravity back on Virtue. Just because a power is recharged doesn't mean I had to use it (right now!). I kept wondering the same thing, why is my endurance drained to nearly zero after EVERY fight? Then I stopped using Crushing Field every time it was recharged and a huge chunk of my endurance deficit problems just evaporated.

Why would anyone want to play a 404 error?

If you want Force Bolt to do DAMAGE you slot it with Damage Procs ... not with Damage Enhancement ... because twice nothing is still nothing.

You could always start by doing what I did on my Crab Soldiers for Pet slotting.

Control that just happens to also do damage ... or an attack that also happens to do control. The former is a better framing for how to think about Force Bolt than the latter.

powexectray A B A = the power number inside the tray B = the tray number so if you want to bind the 4 key to activate power 4 in tray 1 you do: /bind 4 "powexectray 4 1" This lets you bind keys to positions in trays so that whenever you reshuffle the arrangement of powers in your trays you don't need to rewrite all of your keybinds for those trays to compensate.

Why yes ... yes I do ... ^_~

We make every pretense of competency around here ... ^_~

Feel free to cross-post those Brute builds over in the Brute Forum. Might spark some interest in the combination over there (too).

The problem with sending inspirations to pets is ... you have to pick which pet you want to give the inspiration to. I was able to rig that as a function of my Mastermind bindloadfile structure, which you can refer to HERE.

The "problem" with these instructions is that they're written for people who already know (all) the answer(s). Having something that "works" for people who don't already know how to use that command set would be helpful. Of course, the ideal solution would be for all of this to be accessible from the menu of options on the left side of Island Rum that we use to access Homecoming.

Lack of slots for powers picked at Levels 41+ and putting a higher priority on powers other than the APPs. You'll notice that every power chosen from 41+ "needs" to be a One Slot Wonder™ simply because by then I've run out of slots. Most APPs, to make them worth the effort, need at least some slots dedicated to them and this build is already tight enough as is on slots which have been dedicated elsewhere. To use on Singularity or on any other aggro magnet. What some people know but not everyone does is that Singularity cannot be Healed. Healing (like Aid Other, for example) simply doesn't work on Singularity. But you can boost Regeneration on Singularity, so Temporal Selection from */Time works, and "ablative health" from Absorb (presumably) works, because neither of these effects is "healing" Singularity (game mechanically) speaking with an instant green bar refill. However, the combination of Temporal Selection AND Spirit Ward on Singularity, either alternating or simulcast, can significantly enhance Singularity's durability as an aggro magnet. It kind of depends on the level you're at and the situation you're confronted with. Basic idea though is to neutralize your adversaries and then pound them into submission (just like always). Some tricks that you can use are: If you've got a Singularity out already, activate Sprint for partial Stealth, activate Mystic Flight for access to the "combat teleport" of Translocation and then teleport yourself to the other side of a pile of hostiles (far enough away from them so they won't aggro you upon arrival). Singularity will "follow" you to your new location, blundering into the pile and take aggro+alpha for you. This then leaves you free to do ... whatever ... to the mess that Singularity makes of them. Alternatively, if Singularity is recharged, you can just summon a new Singularity right where you want it to make a mess of a dogpile of aggro you don't feel like taking the alpha strike from yourself. Buff Singularity with Temporal Selection and/or Spirit Ward as needed. Wormhole into the corner/ceiling is always fun. Follow up with Crushing Field (slotted with 5 Overwhelming Force) to bring out the Energy Font to achieve Stun+Immobilize=Ghetto Hold. Combine Time's Juncture and Distortion Field via positioning. Use Gravity Distortion+Time Stop to Hold targets of Boss level on up. Use Crushing Field (with 5 slot Overwhelming Force) to prevent $Targets from "leaving" the Distortion Field+Time's Juncture zone of denial. Break out the buckets and mops as needed. You get the idea.

What do you call a bank with lots of fearful people in it? Terror Vaulta.

Yup, that's a couple of misdirected pointers going on there.

You could always try this ... although that post was for a Mercs/Storm build.

So ... thematically speaking ... just reskin Gravity Control and Force Fields?