What secondary works bear with ice blast?

[00Troy00]

 

Thanks!

[Carnifax]

All of them? 

 

Ice has excellent single target damage thanks to the animation times being low and Freeze Ray existing (not Bitter Freeze Ray though, that's annoying / skippable).  AoE isn't amazing so anything with a nice chunk of AoE in the secondary should pair especially well. 

 

Mine is an Ice/Fire Damage over time blapper. Get in close. Drop Ice Storm or Blizzard > Burn > FSC and then start point blank blasting and fire swording my way through the toughest thing in the spawn while everything else gradually melts from the DoTs and your damage auras. 

 

One reason I like it is that it's not an "insta-nuke" build so it feels more team friendly. Everyone has a chance to bust out their powers, you aren't going to be Buildup + Aim + Nuke = deathing everything in 5 seconds. Downside is that it can be scattery if you don't have an aggro-holder on the team. Things will tend to try to get the hell away from you (the slows from Hotfeet and Ice Storm help but things like Warwolves can be annoying). 

[1seanv]

I'd probably go with ice/em or ice/rad.

 

/em because power boost will make your slows brutal with ice, and rad because if the recharge and other good stuff I'm forgetting atm.

[Nemu]

Probably Bear secondary since you asked for bear.

 

Ice/Bear is a beast. No natural predators, apex of the food chain.

[Yomo Kimyata]

15 minutes ago, Nemu said:

Probably Bear secondary since you asked for bear.

 

Ice/Bear is a beast. No natural predators, apex of the food chain.

 

Their livers are poisonous.  Beware.

[Nemu]

And Assault Rifle/Bear livers are patriotic.

 

ABearica!

[InvaderStych]

6 hours ago, Nemu said:

Assault Rifle/Bear

 

[Rathulfr]

Great, now I gotta roll a bear alt.

 

Again.

 

[00Troy00]

12 hours ago, 1seanv said:

I'd probably go with ice/em or ice/rad.

 

/em because power boost will make your slows brutal with ice, and rad because if the recharge and other good stuff I'm forgetting atm.

 

How much recharge would I need to have Power Boost back up by the time it expires?

[1seanv]

I don't know that offhand, but with hasten, couple lotg, and a couple purp sets - that'd probably do it. I'd mostly use it when dropping your rain and blizzard powers.

Edited July 8, 2021 by 1seanv

[Outrider_01]

19 hours ago, 00Troy00 said:

 

How much recharge would I need to have Power Boost back up by the time it expires?

70% Hasten : 2 IO 50 recharge, +5 boost (Perma)

130% Global recharge

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180% Perma recharge Hasten, results in the following

15 seconds duration, 15.75 recharge for Power Boost slotted  2 IO 50 recharge, +5 boost

30 seconds Duration,  15.75 recharge second down while its recharge for Boost Range slotted 2 IO 50 recharge, +5 boost

Throw in Ageless Total Inovcation and its all perma but lots of clicking.  Its possible to reduce some of the global recharge requirements and Ageless could make up the difference.

 

Perma Hasten, Power Boost, Boost Range.  Problem is the clicking, but you could go with a Hasten/Boost range macro like a dominator and click boost range.

[Zepp]

I'm working on an Ice/Sonic build that focuses on Holds.

[Marshal_General]

I went with ice/ice baby.

 

Ok my day is now complete.

[Wompy]

I'd go /fire,  Ice bolt Freeze Ray and Bitter Ice blast are all the ST you need, /fire will give you the AOE. 

Edited July 10, 2021 by Wompy

[SwitchFade]

Inspecting your thread title...

 

What secondary works bear with ice blast?

 

I will go with... Yogi. Yogi goes best with bear.

[JasperStone]

On 7/13/2021 at 10:33 PM, SwitchFade said:

Inspecting your thread title...

 

What secondary works bear with ice blast?

 

I will go with... Yogi. Yogi goes best with bear.

only go Yogi with the Picnic basket secondary

[Cryoterm]

Mine’s Ice/EM and no complaints at all

Edited July 21, 2021 by Anodina

[Elia87]

Ice/ice rocks!

[Force Redux]

My ice/ice/cold is so perfect.... Damage and control! ☺️☺️

[Snarky]

I love that you never edited the title. I have an ice ice cold Blaster that is very good.  I do recommend getting macros for the rains.  One to center the rain on a target one to center it in yourself.  For each rain so four macros

Edited July 22, 2021 by Snarky

[Force Redux]

I took @Snarky's advice on the self targeting macros. Saves time and it's great for more uptime damage on mobs near you.. Take Snarky's advice! 

[Generator]

Somewhere on one of my servers I have an Ice/Martial Blaster I ought to get back to.  He was fun.

[Shred Monkey]

Panda was popular and still is I think.  Koala was big in the 80s, Teddy was big before that.  Animatronic for the off-meta choice.

 

Serious answer, I really like the synergy of ice/electric as a blapper.  That extra stacks up a lot of hold magnitude with very high damage output.

[Tahliah]

I'm into the polar bear myself, love ice/ice/cold.

[DocRadio]

On 6/23/2021 at 8:16 PM, 00Troy00 said:

 

Thanks!

Ice/NRG is working well for me. The combination of single target control with the melee attacks from EM is potent.

I'm also running Ice/Martial. I started it as a Mortal Kombat rip off of Sub Zero but it turned out to be really fun and effective. And once again the Trap and Slap mechanic works with that combo too. Dragon's tail helps fill in for the lackluster AoE of the primary also.