Is Ice/Fire or Fire/Ice viable for Scrapper??

[luficia]

Mostly wondering if I should try Fire Melee with Ice Armor 

 

or go with Ice Melee with Fire Armor? 

[Yomo Kimyata]

Both are very viable.  In CoH, ice tends to be correlated with control and safety, while fire is about damage.  Fire Melee with Ice Armor will give you lots of damage from your offense with lots of safety from your defense.  Ice Melee with Fire Armor will also give you lots of damage with lots of safety, but now your safety comes much more from your offense (Ice Slick) and your damage comes more from your defense (Burn).  

 

Fire/Ice is a simpler build.  Ice/Fire is, in my opinion, ridiculously fun once you get into the reversal of where you get your safety and damage from.

[Braddack]

Ice attack, / Fire armor, all the way,

 

Nothing beats an ice patch with Burn as follow up. hrhrhr

[Sovera]

Yes, but especially fire armor with ice melee since ice armor is in need of a bit of a tune-up (still works though if you'd like to go that route). But for Fire Armor you'd do better using a Brute or Tanker since Burn makes enemies flee with a Scrapper.

[Braddack]

10 hours ago, Sovera said:

But for Fire Armor you'd do better using a Brute or Tanker since Burn makes enemies flee with a Scrapper.

 

 

Ice patch knockes em of there feet, so no one runs.

[Sovera]

3 hours ago, Braddack said:

Ice patch knockes em of there feet, so no one runs.

 

That's being pretty optimistic there, but sure.

[TinyJuggs]

As Ice Melee I would roll a stalker over a scrapper. Ice Assassin's Strike becomes your highest single damage attack and replaces Greater Ice Sword which is mediocre at best.