Storm has a lot of flashy powers: hurricane, thunderclap, tornado, lightning storm. Your bread and butter is Freezing Rain. The soothing showers do much debuff, and foes slipping and falling on their butts is great mitigation as well as entertainment.
Hover is a pretty good combat power. It helps you place lightning storm later on.
Snowstorm is more than slow/-recharge. There are numerous factions with spawns that potentially do annoying things like embalmed vahzilok, life mages, sky raider engineers, rikti communication officers. Snowstorm interrupts them. Snow is also great -fly.
When you get to level 12 and take the obligatory hurricane, there is a great place to test out and practice your herdicane/debuff powers. Take a trip to Boomtown and get a feel for the knockback, using the terrain, and dealing with larger spawns.
Enjoy!
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I chose Storm/Ice after reading many threads regarding soloing with a defender.
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Note that it's not worthwhile to slot your attacks for slow since you will be able to slow just about everything that is slowable with freezing rain and snow storm.
Note also that Ice Storm and Blizzard are blaster strength so be sure to take them and use them (well Ice Storm at least, I'm not a huge fan of endurance crashes in general).
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Thanks guys for the information.
By the way I got Freezing Rain and I love it, all that slipping and falling and bouncing around keeps them away from me. 
I made sure Freezing Rain and Ice Storm kept the same recharge slotting throughout my career, and used them as an opener on every group pretty much.
Steamy Mist is a slot-hungry beast - I went 1 Res IO 2 Res/End, 2 Def/End, 1 Def IO
I'd recommend Hasten, and chasing recharge bonuses. Recharge really helps out. This was one of the few characters where used Decimation for the ST blasts instead of Thunderstrike. The bonus endurance and recovery was also nice.
My main advice on Storm/Ice though is just do it! 
Its a magic combo, very functional, thematically good pairing, and yeah, just plain awesome.
I chose Storm/Ice after reading many threads regarding soloing with a defender.
Would anyone like to offer advice or insight into this partuiclar pairing?
I am up to level 6 [almost 7] and am enjoying it so far.
Thank you in advance.
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