Star_Fury

You just know energy blast beats psy and rad

Everybody knows you should only go power mastery for total focus

I agree completely with dark siren. Slot hurricane and dont get hurt! (as much as normal anyway...)

Oh, and get tornado

Way to go fire beetle!

I dont agree with the bit about gale. I respect your opinion, because we are all different and have different ways of enjoying ourselves (hence different archetypes). But gale doesnt strike me as a waste. It can be situational, but I like it, and it has helped out enormously when herding enemies, and keeping them down so they arent hitting me. I do use it much less no I have hurricane, but it still has the odd use, and I like it.

I dont agree that we should take O2 boost because its a heal. I dont like how defenders are expected to heal (I got asked on a FF defender if I was a healer...it said in my search profile FF def). People say that the heal isnt too good, but the buff strikes me as useful. I have read posts where people regard it as a buff with a side order of a heal. At the end if the day, its who you are deciding which you pick. I really hate the healer mindset people have, so I refused to pick O2 boost and went gale, which would help me solo. I respect the fact you much prefer O2 boost, but I agree that you shouldnt completely dismiss gale when many people like it and find it useful.

Havent tried thunderclap, will try it out on test when I get to that lvl.

And for the record, I disagree when you say freezing rain costs little end My end just drains away beautifully when freezing rain is used. End reds never felt so good

@ Mr Cuddles:

Yes hurricane can be switched off easy, but there is a recharge time on it, and if thunderclap misses some minions or the group has higher mobs then you can be in big trouble without hurricane helping out.

The thing with guides is, they are all written with an opinion. I think Chi is giving his opinion on how he thinks things work, but it can be mistaken as a "play like me" guide.

Stealth into middle of the mobs and let loose the crackboom.

Could thunderclap be used with steamy mist, as a quick mez before throwing on hurricane etc to thin out large groups of minions?

Going back to the bar idea, how about everytime you affect something with a buff, debuff or a secondary effect of a blast, the bar fills a bit?

I like the sound of that power boost idea. Vigilance does kick in for me, but not very often because I usually team in small groups (2-4). And I solo a lot, would be nice to not toggle drop every 2mins

dammit that looks good....

Some endreds are definitely needed in snowstorm and steamy mist, I only have those 2 toggles running and with blasting I easily get to low end (this is at a lvl 8 point of view though). Also, freeing rain definitely needs some endred, I was shocked when I used it and watched my endurance bar lose a big chunk. The recharges are a good idea, 30secs is too long to wait lol. Just dont look at the puddle when one is on top of the other, its blinding lol.

My gale is usually ok with 1 acc, even though it is a TO. My build is much the same as yours, apart from I havent got O2 Boost- opted for the second blast power instead.

How many slow enhancements are needed in snowstorm to hit the slow cap? Combined with rain, even at low level it looks to be not many.

I'm only a lvl 5 stormy, and I'm having one hell of a time already! I still cant get over the fact that gale and snowstorm blow the broken branches and junk around (snowstorm blows them around in circles ). Snowstorm is good enough to have let me solo a long mission against the council, could take on 3/4 +1's at a time.

Storm rocks!!