Ice - Chilling Embrace

[Ravenprince]

Does the -damage and -recharge stack with multiple Ice tanks?  

[Redlynne]

2 minutes ago, Ravenprince said:

Does the -damage and -recharge stack with multiple Ice tanks?  

Does not stack from SAME caster ... means ...?

 

/em waits expectantly

[JCMcBoo]

30 minutes ago, Redlynne said:

Does not stack from SAME caster ... means ...?

 

/em waits expectantly

Sarcasm costs nothing? 😉

[Redlynne]

You can lead a man to water, but you cannot make him THINK ...

[Sura]

The (sort of) unfortunate thing to keep in mind here is that there's a maximum recharge rate penalty of -75%, so there's not a lot of reason to stack more than two Chilling Embraces (-32 each for a -64 total).  You could add a third, but most of its -recharge will be lost.  It's fun to think about fully stacking three, but I can see why they didn't allow that to happen.

 

Now -damage, that you could stack.  Each CE is -15% to damage, and the damage floor is (I believe) 10%.  So if you had six Chilling Embraces hitting the same foe or foes their damage would be reduced down to 10% of what they're supposed to be doing.  The REALLY interesting thing is that -damage is not on the ParagonWiki list of debuffs that ArchVillains resist, so if indeed -damage is an exception to those resists, you could stack your Ice Armors around an AV and bring them down to doing only 10% of their damage as well.  

 

I'm guessing that -damage is also resisted, but it's not in the list that I see.

Edited October 10, 2019 by Sura