Making Iceman

[Gobbledygook]

Iceman is one of my favorite characters.

I've played multiple melee toons over the years, so I'd like to avoid them.

I would like to be able to help a team.

I like the idea of ice patch or ice slick, whatever it is.

 

So, I'm open to suggestions.

 

 

 

[Captain Fabulous]

An Ice/Ice Sentinel is probably as close as you'll get to Iceman. An Ice/Ice Dominator would be a close second IMO.

[EnjoyTheJourney]

An ice / ice / ice dominator is very effective. Being able to apply chilling embrace, ice slick, arctic air, cold snap, and sleet to enemies absolutely destroys their ability to move around and also greatly hampers their recharge. Incoming damage goes way, way down for a triple ice dominator in the clear majority of situations. Because they can pile on so much -speed and -jump they're even quite effective at limiting movement for Olympic champion sprinters like mission 4 Romulus and Olympic champion jumpers like Director 11 in the first Tin Mage TF mission. 

 

In practice, many mobs tend to spend much or most of their remaining time before being defeated vainly trying to run away from the ice storm or some other effect, getting basically nowhere while trying to do that. Give this combo a whirl on the beta server if you're curious and you'll see that this is not an exaggeration. 

As one caveat, this combo thrives on teams. If your goal is to solo AVs, then there are better combinations than this. Also, to get the most out of this combo you'll want both arctic air and chilling embrace, which makes managing endurance more challenging. You'll almost certainly want unleash potential from the force of will pool powerset to get better endurance recovery and you may also want some help from incarnates with endurance management. 

Edit: I had a bit of spare time, so I put together a sample build. Toggle off power up and unleash potential to see the "baseline" defense and endurance recovery levels for the build. It's still good to note the peaks for endurance recovery and defense, though, as you can quite often use power up, and then activate unleash potential soon after.

There are lots of reasonable ways to put together this kind of build, of course, and you may understandably prefer a different approach. 

 

Dominator (Ice Control - Icy Assault - Ice Mastery).mbd

Edited September 19 by EnjoyTheJourney

[JKwervo]

On 9/19/2025 at 1:03 PM, EnjoyTheJourney said:

As one caveat, this combo thrives on teams. If your goal is to solo AVs, then there are better combinations than this.
 

Dominator (Ice Control - Icy Assault - Ice Mastery).mbd 42.53 kB · 12 downloads

 

 

What would be a better combo to do so? 

[EnjoyTheJourney]

I'd suggest searching for dominator posts by Frosticus and Voltak. They both describe dominator builds that are effective at soloing AVs. Voltak tends to look most at dark / dark dominators that focus on stacking very high levels of magnitude of confusion on AVs by chain-casting possess. Frosticus tends to look most at control sets that have a sturdy pet with a taunt ability that reduces the amount of AV aggro directed at the dominator themself. The two dominator primaries that I can recall Frosticus using a fair amount for soloing AVs are earth control and arsenal control, as their tier 9 pets both have a taunt and are both very sturdy. 

 

There is no long duration single target confusion power in ice control. So, ice control doesn't offer the ability to stack confusion magnitude to such high levels that AVs will cease to view an "ice control" dominator as an enemy. Also, the tier 9 pet in ice control is Jack Frost. He doesn't have a taunt and he's not as sturdy as the tier 9 pets in arsenal control and in earth control.

Edited 11 hours ago by EnjoyTheJourney