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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4350661" data-attributes="member: 2011">Illusory Ambush is a fine At Will power. I can definitely see taking it instead of any of the other single target At Wills.Ray of Frost sucks. It's the worse of the single target lot. Its control is pretty limited (range 4 movement for a creature max range 10 from the Wizard). It's very likely that most such creatures can either charge some other PC (or sometimes even the Wizard) or do a range attack in most circumstances.Ray of Frost does suboptimal damage, it does suboptimal control, and it attacks a suboptimal defense (which means that it does its suboptimal control less often). 3 bad out of 3.Cloud of Daggers (typically) does the best damage, it too does suboptimal control, it attacks one of the best defenses, and it also auto-kills minions. 3 good out of 4.Check the Monster Manual where hundreds of creatures have Fort defenses 1 to 5 (or even as high as 9) greater than their Reflex defenses.I also don't get why people think Slow is so great. I would never pick Ray of Frost over any of the other At Will single target powers. Slow is pretty lame unless combined with something like Difficult Terrain AND Prone (with just one of these, a Slowed creature can still sometimes charge, both are needed to prevent a charge).Sure once in a while, a Wizard can hit a target with Slow (if he manages to hit vs. Fort) and then run like crazy (or try to prevent an opponent from running away). But, these situations are infrequent enough that the Wizard should have other options available and should not rely on RoF as a get away or prevent get away option. Especially for PCs like yours that have only two At Will powers.The only time a Wizard should even consider Ray of Frost over Cloud of Daggers is when he has a low Wisdom and/or he or his team has some other synergies going on with the Ray of Frost (e.g. WinterTouch and Lasting Frost and/or other synergies).</blockquote>

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