Storm/? For Solo

What would be the most effective secondary to pair with a Storm primary for purely solo play? PvE only, hopefully able to manage +1 x 8 or better, not interested in soloing AV's happy with Elite Bosses.
Jak

Besides what Draggynn mentioned, Dark Blast also has a self heal power.

I really enjoyed Storm/Ice for its heavy duty AoE firepower.

Thanks much all for your insights and advice. I played a Storm / DP to Lvl 10 yesterday out of curiuosity, and was underwhelmed. Think I'll go with Storm / Ice next as that fits the toon theme best.
Jak

I think Draggynn pretty much covered some of the better synergies, so I will just add onto them here with my own thoughts.

Conceptually, I think Ice, Electric and Sonic all work well. As mentioned Ice brings good damage and more soft controls, as does sonic. Electric,,, eh not so much, but it looks pretty.

However one of the combinations that I am just itching to try is Storm/Dark. Having so many alts I just have not gotten around to it. What it brings: AoE immobilize to pair up with Freezing Rain, Multiple additional AoEs which should really mow down spawns, more layers to your survival with -tohit in each power AND, last but not least a self heal in a blast (Life Drain). The synergies here are just oozing. <---hmm maybe not the best choice of words.

regards

-Bio-

Shade of Storms (Protector) is currently level 42, almost 43. I mostly play her with the same group of friends, so the leveling has slowed a bit. But when I first started her, she leveled really fast, with few trips to the hospital. And the self-heal/blast really made a difference in later levels. Now if I ever get around to slotting her efficiently and adding IOs... ;-)

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Originally Posted by Biospark However one of the combinations that I am just itching to try is Storm/Dark. What it brings: AoE immobilize to pair up with Freezing Rain, Multiple additional AoEs which should really mow down spawns, more layers to your survival with -tohit in each power AND, last but not least a self heal in a blast (Life Drain). The synergies here are just oozing. <---hmm maybe not the best choice of words. regards -Bio-

In my experience it actually doesn't matter, and therefore sonic may be the way to go.

The way I play my stormy Lightning Storm, Tornado, and Voltaic Sentinel actually do a huge portion of her damage.

My guess is that Lightning Storm and Tornado on a Sonic debuffed target would do even more damage.


Also, I Highly recommend putting Achilles Heal procs in both Tornado and Freezing Rain.

What about Storm/Rad?

Any thoughts on that pairing? I'm trying one out right now and have found the synergy quite nice. Not a heck of a lot of damage, but, nice debuff on the rad with storm.

I agree with Dragynn.

Freezing Rain makes the -Def in Rad Blast redundant almost all of the time.

I went with Energy for massive knockback. Works pretty well solo, but you keep plenty busy. Dark or Ice would probably both be better, though.

My first level 50 is a Storm/Rad defender. I went for the bigger dose of -defense. My thinking on it was, even with the best tanks, I can hit targets that the freezing rain misses. I like cosmic burst a lot, and I stacked the stuns of that with thunderclap. I ran hurricane alot because I like the to-hit debuff, and passed on irradiate. I did take the nuke for the "Coda" to many stormy battle symphonies. The rad nuke has a very nice hold secondary effect while you position for power sink on survivors, if any. I think Rad is flashy.

Two points about my Storm/rad:

I made 'hay' on Creys because the -defense in tornado and the rad blast secondaries would chew through the god-mode powers of paragon protectors.

I remember a specific instance before supersidekick, but I had a fairly high sonic/sonic defenders on a medium sized team trying to take down the original version of Diabolique. We ground and ground and churned and churned to a stalemate. I replaced my sonic/sonic with my Storm/Rad defender. It was no walk in the park but steadily we wore that so and so down for a glorious victory.

Storm/Rad is workable. I am not saying it is superior to Storm/Ice or Storm/Sonic, but it's definitely workable.