Mercenaries/cold?

[Cannonbear]

Before I went all out with it I was wondering if cold is alright and semi comparable to FF. I had a bots/ff and it was super good for me, I really liked the lazy playstyle of force field. I could just fire and forget and they would stay pretty bullet proof. I wanted to try mercs now that they fixed the ranged minions, and i wanted to try something other than force field, i was thinking sonic but then i noticed cold had the same kind of bubbles but it also has a cool aoe stealth field thing that I would like. And if it is good does any one have a good merc/cold build that i could look at? The more expensive the better 

[Coyote]

Cold is way better than FF. Still very good on the Defense buffing, but a lot more additional tools in the toolkit.

FF provides AoE status protection including for you, and with that power some more +Def, but that's all... Cold gives -Res and -Regen for AV fights, -Damage for AVs and +level bosses, -Recharge and a few other goodies.

[Meknomancer]

I run this its not awesome but its fun:

 

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