Eye of the Storm

Can anyone suggest a staff/ build that does not use eye of the storm?

Here is a video of my new staff brute using eye of the storm and I just don't think it is very effective for my play style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE-Esi3dGw8

Seriously though, do you think I can have enough AoE without it?

Eye of the storm is so Modern, It's a PBAoE Melee, Moderate DMG(Smash), Foe Knockdown, Consumes Perfection, you need that dude why give it up, Just deal with it.

I thought it was a great Attack, I love it, It has a nice flow to it, Every Melee Attack needs a
PBAoE or you be fighting the mobs for a long time.

I dont think all powersets fits all concept characters.
I think is one of the best looking powers in the game.

If you use Hover there is no breakdancing involved. Sooo... use Staff/Whatever/Whatever with Hover.

I am with Blue on this. I am seriously considering having a hover scrapper..and I HATE flying melees with a passion.

Although I do 'like' the animation..if you have seen the Star Wars Kid (it might still be on youtube) it is impossible to use this power without thinking of that guy. When hovering, there is a neat lil spin at teh end that looks really pretty.

Changed my mind..did an alt build with hover..the pose for hovering forward, with teh staff out, looks totally dumb. Is there anyway I can change that?

If you're DA, Cloak of Darkness helps supress the animation if you really don't like it that much. I would not skip the power though, it's your main aoe.

Totally..its an awful pose. Considering how good the TW, and especially staff, animations ARE...the hover pose is just so dumb and lazy looking. Is not how I imagine a guy holding a long weapon, and hovering, would move. Then there are the times when your toon sort of leaaans forward, and looks about to tip over, in mid air? Yeah..not a fan at all. I was tempted to actually make a hover scrapper..the animation for confront and serpents reach look awesome in the air..but that hover pose..

I don't mean to be snarky, but a build without EotS is pretty simple: don't select EotS. What more is needed?

I personally LOVE the skill.

Considering it's the worse AoE in the set, it's 'skippable', but it has it's uses still.

Just... make a build with out it, yeah. Unless you need a Reppu Brand Build!

Hurrrr.

i think i get better aoe out of guarding spin and innocuous strike than eye of the storm, the animation feels kind of longish and i would rather have sky splitter consume perfection over the eye of the storm

i still have it and use it though cause it makes staff fighting set a aoe beast

True enough, if you position right you will find Guarded Spin and Innocuous Strikes to be better AoEs simply because of their much nicer animations. It does translate into better DPA, but it also means you aren't breaking it down on the floor and trying to make your enemies die of laughter... because y'know, they're laughing at you after you use Eye of the Storm. I just thought I'd explain that. In my Staff-Elec build on MIDs I did still take Eye of the Storm, because I can justify the third AoE with some number logic and just LOOK AWAY FROM THE SCREEN every time I click the power. PROBLEM SOLVED! If I can't see them they can't see me right? Oh crap my team is still laughing at me for breakdancing mid-combat... auugggh...

I made a character that looks like a monkey, and everyone cheers him on when he breakdances, so it's all good in my book. And since he's Staff/Stone, the breakdance part kicks them with Rooted on his feet, and suddenly it's kind of awesome.

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If you dont like it you should skip it. If it breaks immersion for you or makes you say "ug" watching it, you will have your fun level decreased, and that is a terrible thing to have happen.

IMO, I like it better then innocuous strikes, stabbing feet like 10 times is rather blah to me. besides, what would be better? Whirling staff? BARF. Now there's an animation I cant stand. I am glad they went original for this pbaoe power.

I can see how it doesnt fit some concepts though. I made up an armored giant character and gave him the laser spear or whatever its called. it looked pretty cool, but yeah the upside down spin part of that animation looked fairly out of place with that guy so I whipped up a normal size male concept instead.

maybe we can get an alternative animation for that power. After the whirling one though. it would be a red letter day if they made a new animation for whirling X.

I don't have an issue with EotS, myself. Yeah, I find the animation over-the-top and somewhat distracting, but I can deal with it. After all, it's just the one animation that I find overdone, unlike a certain other power set that I find unplayable because ALL the animations are so unbelivable excessive. (Glares at Dual Pistols again.)

The only thing I wish was that the Knockdown was much more reliable. It always seems wrong that a move that ends with that huge sweep doesn't land all the enemies in range on their respective butts...