Ice control

[Ukase]

On retail, there I was in Croatoa, I think. I was on a blaster, my friend was on a scrapper. I found an ice controller to help us out. This was way back, maybe 2004? 03? I remember seeing ice slick. It saved my from my ineptitude back then fairly often. 

So, in the Abyss, after getting a ribosome and a teammate getting a golgi, I joked that I was going to make a character using nothing but HO/d-syncs for enhancements. 

At the time, I thought "Ice/Dark".  Two pets, should be fine. Now, I know I'm going to PL this character, and then play it. I probably won't even worry about accolades. 

Just for fun. So, I open up mids. 

Seriously? How does a controller play this game and get levels? This thing has almost no attacks. A lot of mitigation, but even with procs - which I'm not going to use for the reason mentioned above, well, I guess that explains why I don't see ice controllers around that often. 

Something should be done, though. This just doesn't seem equitable compared to the offensive juggernaut of illusion and other sets. 

And yes, I know on a team, the buff/debuffs are pretty nice, but I don't feel like this character is going to be a great teammate with the lack of offensive power. 

[Psyonico]

2 hours ago, Ukase said:

Something should be done, though. This just doesn't seem equitable compared to the offensive juggernaut of illusion and other sets

Ice is fairly comparable to Earth Control in terms of attacks, but both are far better at actually controlling groups than their more offensive counterparts.

 

Ice got a make over a few pages back, but it is still very much a "team controller" set.