[Baalz]

Ooops, was speaking from memory and misremembered the scales, also left a part out - cold 3 scale works very well for the build I suggested. Breath of winter is brutal with W9 in cold, cold dominion turns water elementals into ice elementals (much better for many things), a lot of water evo works better in cold (numbness, ice mist, grip of winter), your W5E don't take an enc hit naturally and are easy to get to 100% CR for things like fighting inside frozen mist, grip of winter, etc. Lots of synergy for cold-3 scales. This does give you an income hit, but you can still have reasonable scales with something like O3, P0, C3, D3, Mf1, Ma1, Dom9. A matter of preference, but I like C3/D3 scales where appropriate as they really kill supply chains for anybody invading you (your castles generally keep you supplied inside your dominion). Enchanted shield (the S1 one) is const-0.