Light imbue VS Ice imbue

Davids · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 520

I understand that light is stronger than ice. But how much? Is the difference very noticeable?
What about the status that light nuke gives? It increases your damage much?
What about Ice freezing and frostbite? Does it save an int char in tight PvE situations a lot? How about PvP? You can be Ice immune, but only if you have fire mastery. Rings only provide 80% right? When lets say I freeze someone, does that act like stun? And euros, can they be ice immune as well?

I certainly like the Ice looks and sound more than light. When you grind its better to hear this "bling/ding" than "zhzhzz" lol.

Any screens/vids of 4th/5th tier ice and light imbues?

I hope to hear some feedback.

Crowley · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:43 pm

Ice > Lightning.

The difference in damage isn't necessarily significant, however the status effect that Ice deals is great. And not all people are Ice immune, also it takes a second to pill Freeze/Frostbie off.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Davids wrote:

I understand that light is stronger than ice. But how much? Is the difference very noticeable? Slightly
What about the status that light nuke gives? It increases your damage much? Yes
What about Ice freezing and frostbite? Does it save an int char in tight PvE situations a lot? yes
How about PvP? You can be Ice immune, but only if you have fire mastery. Rings only provide 80% right? When lets say I freeze someone, does that act like stun? And euros, can they be ice immune as well? You can pill off freeze. Where as you can't pill off stun. Yes Euro's have a "Holy Spell" which I believe acts as their fire shield

I certainly like the Ice looks and sound more than light. When you grind its better to hear this "bling/ding" than "zhzhzz" lol.

Any screens/vids of 4th/5th tier ice and light imbues?

I hope to hear some feedback.

But yeah I agree with Tsume Ice > light. Ice is sexier, sounds better, looks cooler and has awesome effects.

Bobby · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 575 **Location:** Australia

At the current cap, almost all chinese chars have immunity to ice. And many euros have cleric sub. Being full str tho, i can't notice much difference at all between the damage so i'll say Ice > Light incase u vs someone who aint immune. Ice can be pretty useful for pve but so can the transfer from light imbue.

Fauntleroy · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 746 **Location:** BotRoad

transfer for light imbue is sad imo. at low lvls ice imbue works very well in pvp.

BloodyBlade · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:27 pm

I would get ice for pve & lightning for pvp. xD

Or just get ice imbue only, I dont think lightning status is noticable

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:39 pm

ppl learn a force is not just for imbue... but also buffs, nukes, defense, speed, etc...

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

NuclearSilo wrote:

ppl learn a force is not just for imbue... but also buffs, nukes, defense, speed, etc...

Yes. But this thread is just about the imbue. Not the buffs.

PeroMed · **Joined:** Aug 2008 **Posts:** 107 **Location:** Slovenia

I have ice as a secondary imbue... i usualy use fire imbue but i have
ice if i want to infict freeze...

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Something to think about. If your a pure int s/s. You could get both light and ice imbues. Use the light imbue while nuking and the ice imbue while using the chains.
I know a guy on Venus who does this and he kicks ass

raphaell666 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:21 pm

Tasdik wrote:

Davids wrote:

I understand that light is stronger than ice. But how much? Is the difference very noticeable? Slightly
For a int build the difference is considerable, for a STR build the difference is almost none.

What about the status that light nuke gives? It increases your damage much? Yes
Eh, no. The shock effect from lightning imbue almost does not change your damage.

What about Ice freezing and frostbite? Does it save an int char in tight PvE situations a lot? yes
How about PvP? You can be Ice immune, but only if you have fire mastery. Rings only provide 80% right? When lets say I freeze someone, does that act like stun? And euros, can they be ice immune as well? You can pill off freeze. Where as you can't pill off stun. Yes Euro's have a "Holy Spell" which I believe acts as their fire shield
But not all euros have maxed cleric, and if they don't, they cannot be immune on a 1vs1 pvp fight.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

raphaell666 wrote:

Tasdik wrote:

Davids wrote:

I understand that light is stronger than ice. But how much? Is the difference very noticeable? Slightly
For a int build the difference is considerable, for a STR build the difference is almost none.

What about the status that light nuke gives? It increases your damage much? Yes
Eh, no. The shock effect from lightning imbue almost does not change your damage.
The shock effect from lightning imbue is so minuscule that it's hardly noticeable.

What about Ice freezing and frostbite? Does it save an int char in tight PvE situations a lot? yes
How about PvP? You can be Ice immune, but only if you have fire mastery. Rings only provide 80% right? When lets say I freeze someone, does that act like stun? And euros, can they be ice immune as well? You can pill off freeze. Where as you can't pill off stun. Yes Euro's have a "Holy Spell" which I believe acts as their fire shield
But not all euros have maxed cleric, and if they don't, they cannot be immune on a 1vs1 pvp fight.

PocketSunshine · **Joined:** Nov 2008 **Posts:** 386 **Location:** Aion

A lot of the reason I'm going Ice imbue instead of light is because of the status. The damage difference is not significant. It helps a lot while grinding, but it also can be very annoying in PVP. (I've always been on the opposite end of the attack, so I know how annoying it is to be frozen/frost bitten constantly.)

aishsharma · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:19 pm

raphaell666 wrote:

Tasdik wrote:

Davids wrote:

I understand that light is stronger than ice. But how much? Is the difference very noticeable? Slightly
For a int build the difference is considerable, for a STR build the difference is almost none.

What about the status that light nuke gives? It increases your damage much? Yes
Eh, no. The shock effect from lightning imbue almost does not change your damage.

What about Ice freezing and frostbite? Does it save an int char in tight PvE situations a lot? yes
How about PvP? You can be Ice immune, but only if you have fire mastery. Rings only provide 80% right? When lets say I freeze someone, does that act like stun? And euros, can they be ice immune as well? You can pill off freeze. Where as you can't pill off stun. Yes Euro's have a "Holy Spell" which I believe acts as their fire shield
But not all euros have maxed cleric, and if they don't, they cannot be immune on a 1vs1 pvp fight.

a little question if chinese get immunity from accessories, y cant euros?
even if he only has 70-80 cleric cant acc be used to make up for it?

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

aishsharma wrote:

a little question if chinese get immunity from accessories, y cant euros?
even if he only has 70-80 cleric cant acc be used to make up for it?

Euro's are meant to have 2 lvl 90 skill mastery's. Leaving one at "70-80" doesn't make any sense. Sure you could add bard which would give you noise. But overall your character would be weakened considerably.

Blindfire · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 3844 **Location:** ...

A euro with cleric only needs one accessory with ice immunity to be immune. The effect that maxed imbue has is 3 higher than the resistance you get from max'd holy spell.

aishsharma · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:00 pm

Tasdik wrote:

aishsharma wrote:

a little question if chinese get immunity from accessories, y cant euros?
even if he only has 70-80 cleric cant acc be used to make up for it?

Euro's are meant to have 2 lvl 90 skill mastery's. Leaving one at "70-80" doesn't make any sense. Sure you could add bard which would give you noise. But overall your character would be weakened considerably.

im not saying some1 will do it, im saying that it can be done i.e., the 80% immunity does not exist for chinese only(some1 b4 me said 80% im not sure tho)

BloodyBlade · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:35 pm

NuclearSilo wrote:

ppl learn a force is not just for imbue... but also buffs, nukes, defense, speed, etc...

but if he chooses a build where the lvl of the forces are equal? ;p

LillDev!l · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2587 **Location:** OTL&OG

i like light better, it looks cooler, it increases your damage (any good player you can pvp is ice imune anyway, if not hes either kind of a noob or hes a euro without cleric sub).
some skills like the level 73 chain at sword, shield that give statusses, give them to two people at the time thought lightning splash ^^ pretty usefull in group pvp i guess.

In the end you'll just have to see how the pro's and con's fit with the build you plan on choosing and make a decision ^^

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