Care to critique this Plant/Storm build?

I've been absolutely loving my Plant/Storm Controller and I'm considering going (almost) all out on an endgame build for him... it's one of the few characters I can see myself playing enough after 50 to do so on. Right now he's level 33 but I want to plan ahead because it can take quite a while to collect high-end sets at a reasonable price. My main goal is high recharge... I plan to rely on Seeds of Confusion and Hurricane for protection and focus on getting as many Tornadoes and Lightning Storms out as I can. I also refuse to spend over 200 mil on one IO... so no PvP IOs or high-value purples. I'll be using the cheap(ish) Sleep and Confuse purple sets and one single Soulbound Allegiance IO but no Ragnaroks, Armageddons, or such. I can IO out two more alts for what those blasted sets would cost...

This is what I came up with so far:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
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Level 50 Magic Controller
Primary Power Set: Plant Control
Secondary Power Set: Storm Summoning
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Stone Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Strangler

• (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
• (3) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge
• (3) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold
• (5) Basilisk's Gaze - Endurance/Recharge/Hold
• (5) HamiO:Peroxisome Exposure
• (25) Ruin - Damage/Endurance

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Expensive, but I do Hami raids regularly so I should be able to get the hami-os myself and I plan to pretty much live in task forces from 35-50 so merits for the LotGs and uniques shouldn't be a problem. I'm building the character primarily for teaming, but with enough damage to solo decently.

Any suggestions for improving the build? Oh, before you point it out, Spirit Tree is in there purely for concept. The character is a farmer (as in an actual person who owns a farm, not a Fire/Kin wannabe ) and I couldn't pass up a power that grows a tree. I don't have any slots to spare so even if I pulled it about all I could do is toss in Hover or Combat Jumping for one more LotG (which I don't really need) or take Super Jump (I just hit the 5 year vet reward). If someone can point out something that will really help a lot with only one slot that I'm overlooking I might drop Spirit Tree, but honestly I can't think of anything.

Thanks for any help... this is the first high end build I'm actually likely to make so I don't have much experience with optimizing them, and this is also my first Plant or Storm character to get out of the low 20s.

Your Mid's export's data link doesn't seem to work, and you didn't also include the data chunk, so its hard to look at. That makes it a bit tedious to look through your Mid's export info on the forum. It looks like you took all the key powers, slotted sets into them including some purple sets, and picked up a few of the specials that people like (KB Prot, LOTG recharge, Miracle, Numina). Recharge seems to have been the focus. But other than that, hard to say.

I do see you skipped on travel powers. I would shoot myself unless I only sat in the AE all the time. Sure, you could get a jet pack, and I guess that'd make you a farmer from the future with a tree and a jet pack, but it seems awkward. There are other minor things I dont like, such as Hurricane only have 2 slots (Hamis or not). But I dunno. Its probably OK. Looks like a typical "throw money at it" build. It would probably suffice from that alone.

Lewis

Hmmm... you're right, the datalink isn't working. I have no idea why not, I'm entering it into the post as a hyperlink. I added the data chunk.

As far as travel powers go, I have Super Speed plus a jetpack and the Good vs Evil jump pack for vertical mobility. Blueside that should be fine (no Grandville). Hurricane appears to be autohit (it can't take accuracy IOs at any rate, and when I use it everything always seems to get pushed back) so I'm not really sure what else it needs... a bit more to-hit debuff could be nice but I'm not sure where I'd get the extra slot.

As for it being a "throw money at it" build, I'm actually trying to throw as little as possible while still getting enough recharge. That's why no purples except the cheap sets (well, cheap for purples).

I don't have access to Mids at the moment, so I can't check the stats, but I saw one or two things.

Super Speed -- why a Zephyr? A single one one-aspect IO from the set is no different than a common Run Speed. I like EndRdx myself, as then I can run both SS and Steamy most of the time for full invisibility. You could put a Travel/End in it if you want.

How often do you use Vines? I find that I rarely use it, mostly as a "panic button" power or to fill in when Seeds was just used. Do you need six slots in it, or can you reduce that to 5 with an Acc/Mez Hami-O?

Spore Burst: Do you really use this power? Or is it just a mule for the Sleep set? Would you be willing to give up a little bit of Rech to change this to Seismic Smash? I find the biggest weakness for a Plant Controller is the lack of single target damage. You have Entangle, but Seismic would add a lot to this build.

Tornado: Why use the Call to Arms set rather than Expediant Reinforcement? 4 of the ER set plus the Soulbound Dam/Rech caps Damage and Recharge, allowing you to free a slot or add the Soulbound Chance for Build Up proc. (I would rather have the Proc in Twoey, though, to give you more use and the Regen bonus.)

Doctored Wounds in O2 is giving you 5% Recharge. You could get that same 5% from 4 Dark Watcher in Hurricane. Then you could slot 3 Golgi (Heal/End) in O2, which is better slotting for that power.

Might have more later, but these are just off the top of my head.

My concern is that you'll have endurance problems. Between Seeds, Freezing Rain, Tornado, and Lightning Storm, you're using about 4 end/sec. Add in Hurricane, Steamy Mist, and Carrion Creepers for another 1 end/sec, if you're spamming Roots that's up to another 3 end/sec, and so on. You'll either need to slot more heavily for endurance reduction, or carry a tray or two of blues all the time.