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The real problem with Cold is the graphical effects, same with Cold Armour. I can't even begin to imagine the pain of spending my entire exsistance with 7 snowmen.
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Its awesome. Its like having your own frosty the ice golem army.
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Unless you're the defender creating the golems, the graphical effects get really annoying. That's my point of view, but I suspect it's shared by others. I don't go through all the effort in the costume generator so the results can be obliterated by someone's overbearing ice shields. And it gets difficult to keep track of who's who on the team when they all look the same.
Don't get me wrong, I love the defense the shields give, but the fx suck.
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How is this different from storm defender using hurricane or a sonic defender making everything boom orange or a FFer making everyone look like hamsters in rolly balls?
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A force field make my character look like my character with a bubble around them.
Sonic shields make my character look like my character with a strong orange glow around them.
Cold shields make my character look like a humanoid block of ice and if I look carefully I can see my character inside.
The difference is that with the Cold Shields the effect is seen first before the character. With most other buffs, the character is seen first, then the effects.
Its subjective, but it comes up in pretty much every thread about Cold Domination. Isn't that enough to indicate that it's a problem?
Cold Domination is an awesome set in terms of game mechanics, but many people's first reaction is that its the one with ugly shields.
It's not as bad as the problems Sonic had with its old migraine inducing effects, but I think its enough to keep the population of Cold Defenders lower than it could be.
I think that they're rare on Virtue Server, mostly because there are a whole lot of people who already have an Ice/Cold corrupter. Like me.
Of course, I'm an altaholic.
Too many alts to list.
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The real problem with Cold is the graphical effects, same with Cold Armour. I can't even begin to imagine the pain of spending my entire exsistance with 7 snowmen.
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Its awesome. Its like having your own frosty the ice golem army.
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Unless you're the defender creating the golems, the graphical effects get really annoying. That's my point of view, but I suspect it's shared by others. I don't go through all the effort in the costume generator so the results can be obliterated by someone's overbearing ice shields. And it gets difficult to keep track of who's who on the team when they all look the same.
Don't get me wrong, I love the defense the shields give, but the fx suck.
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How is this different from storm defender using hurricane or a sonic defender making everything boom orange or a FFer making everyone look like hamsters in rolly balls?
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A force field make my character look like my character with a bubble around them.
Sonic shields make my character look like my character with a strong orange glow around them.
Cold shields make my character look like a humanoid block of ice and if I look carefully I can see my character inside.
The difference is that with the Cold Shields the effect is seen first before the character. With most other buffs, the character is seen first, then the effects.
Its subjective, but it comes up in pretty much every thread about Cold Domination. Isn't that enough to indicate that it's a problem?
Cold Domination is an awesome set in terms of game mechanics, but many people's first reaction is that its the one with ugly shields.
It's not as bad as the problems Sonic had with its old migraine inducing effects, but I think its enough to keep the population of Cold Defenders lower than it could be.
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My cold defender is probably my fastest lvling toon so far from all the teams i've been on. Probably because there weren't that many cold defs when I first rolled this toon. The only complaints I got were when someone's shields needed to be refreshed. 
I'll admit it is kinda hard to see the costumes and such through the shields.
I dunno if toning down the armor like they did with DA would help or not, but it couldn't hurt.
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I love my Cold Defender.
Cold/Ice, 45 atm, with the Devestation (iirc) Chance for Hold Proc in all 5 attacks in which I can slot it. THen in the two single target holds I have the Lockdown chance for +2 Mag hold. She is a little holding beast.
Add in Sleet and Ice Storm (and Blizzard every 3-5 minutes) on darn near every spawn and she contributes very well to damage, + team defense and holding just about everything she hits.
Holding an AV on two hits, from a Defender, is sooooo cool. 
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Holding an AV on two hits, from a Defender, is sooooo cool.
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My goal with my TA/Ice *smiles*
50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec
I've got a cold/rad in virtue, duoing with my friend's cold/sonic.
We're level 38, just keep a look out for Reactor 4 or Drunken Singing. If you need some cold awesome? we're the team you want.
So, I was on a couple of failed new Reichsman TFs and thought now might be a good time to dust off my old cold/rad defender.
Wonder how many other people are thinking the same thing?
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Cold with Manuevers and Arctic Fog slotted for Defence give you about 37% team defence? Its pretty easy for any teammate, even a Blaster, to make up the shortfall with Hover or CJ and a few sets.
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How did you get 37% team defense with AF and Man? AF gives 5% base defense (buffable to around 7.5%) and man gives 3.5% defense (for defs) buffable to just over 5% giving just under 13% defense to everyone... or at least I thought that was the case??