Ice Melee

Overview

Energy Melee is one of the powersets. It is a Tanker secondary power set in City of Heroes. (It was briefly a Brute primary power set in the City of Villains Beta but proved to counteract Fury.

Power Tables

Tanker

The Ice Melee powerset is available as a secondary set for Tankers. The following table shows which powers are available and at what level:

Power	Level	Effect
[[#Frozen Fists|Frozen Fists]]	1	Melee, Minor DMG (Cold, Smash), Foe -Recharge -SPD
[[#Ice Sword|Ice Sword]]	2	Melee, Moderate DMG (Cold, Lethal), Foe -Recharge -SPD
[[#Taunt|Taunt]]	4	Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Taunt
[[#Frost|Frost]]	10	Cone Moderate DOT (Cold) Foe -Recharge -SPD
[[#Build Up|Build Up]]	16	Self +Accuarcy +Damage
[[#Ice Patch|Ice Patch]]	20	Location (PBAoE) Foe Knockdown
[[#Freezing Touch|Freezing Touch]]	28	Melee Minor DMG (Cold) Foe Hold
[[#Greater Ice Sword|Greater Ice Sword]]	35	Melee High DMG (Cold, Lethal) Foe -Recharge -SPD
[[#Frozen Aura|Frozen Aura]]	38	PBAoE Foe Sleep

Powers

The following are powers in the Ice Melee powerset.

Build Up

Greatly increases the amount of damage you deal for a few seconds, as well as slightly increasing your accuracy.

Recharge:       Long
Minimum Level:  16 (Tanker)
Effects:        Self +DMG, +ACC
Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance ToHit Buffs

Freezing Touch

This freezing touch will encase a single foe in a block of ice. This will deal minor damage as well as freezing him in his tracks, leaving him cold and helpless.

Damage:         Minor DoT (Cold)
Recharge:       Slow
Minimum Level:  28 (Tanker)
Effects:        Melee
                Foe Hold

Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance Damage
                Enhance Accuracy
                Enhance Hold

Frost

You create a short cone of frost in front of you, that can frostbite a foe (dealing damage over time), and slows their attack speeds as they uncontrollably shiver.

Damage:         Moderate DoT (Cold)
Recharge:       Slow
Minimum Level:  10 (Tanker)
Effects:        Cone
                Foe -Recharge

Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Range
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance Damage
                Enhance Accuracy

Frozen Aura

Your mastery of cold enables you to dramatically lower the temperature immediately around you. Foes near you when you perform a Frozen Aura will be stopped in their tracks in a fragile casing of ice. Any interaction with foes frozen by this will break them free. Frozen Aura deals no significant damage. This is a magnitude one sleep, so it will not work on anything higher than a minion no matter what level.

Recharge:       Slow
Minimum Level:  38 (Tanker)
Effects:        PBAoE
                Foe Sleep (Magnitude One)

Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance Sleep

Frozen Fists

Frozen Fists encrusts your hands in ice giving them the ability to quickly inflict minor damage on villains. The foe's attack speed is slowed, due to the chill caused by the cold blows.

Damage:         Minor (Smashing, Cold)
Recharge:       Fast
Minimum Level:  1 (Tanker)
Effects:        Melee 
                 Foe -Recharge
Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance Damage
                Enhance Accuracy

Greater Ice Sword

The perfection of the Ice Sword, your master of it has allowed you to create an enhanced blade of solid ice that deals above average damage. Being hit by this Ice Sword will cause a villain to slow his rates of attack, due to the intense chill.

Damage:         High (Lethal, Cold)
Recharge:       Slow
Minimum Level:  35 (Tanker)

Effects:        Melee
                Foe -Recharge

Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance Damage
                Enhance Accuracy

Ice Patch

You emanate a patch of ice around you, which causes foes that step onto it to slip and fall down. This effect lasts until the ice melts.

Recharge:       Slow
Minimum Level:  20 (Tanker)

Effects:        PBAoE
                Foe Knockdown

Enhancements:   Reduce Endurance Cost
                Enhance Recharge Speed
                Enhance Knockback

Ice Sword

Create a blade of solid ice that deals above average damage. Being hit by this Ice Sword will cause a villain to slow his rates of attack, due to the intense chill.

Damage:         Moderate (Lethal, Cold)
Recharge:       Moderate
Minimum Level:  2 (Tanker)

Effects:        Melee
                Foe -Recharge

Enhancements:   Enhance Accuracy
                Enhance Damage
                Reduce Endurance Cost
                Reduce Recharge Speed

Taunt

Taunts a foe and all foes around him to attack you.

Tanker: Useful for pulling villains off an ally who finds himself in over his head. Taunted foes tend to ignore other enemies and focus on you for quite a while, so use this power cautiously. An accuracy check is not required to taunt your foes.

Recharge:       Slow (Tanker)
Minimum Level:  4 (Tanker)

Effects:        Ranged (Targeted AoE)
                Foe Taunt
Enhancements:   Enhance Taunt
                Reduce Endurance Cost
                Reduce Recharge Speed