What secondary for storm/?

Hey all,

I'm a big fan of playing defenders and I've always been interested in storm, but all the knockback has kept me away (I always play in teams). But with the new -knockback IO, I feel a strong urge to try one and put that IO in Tornado and see how that works out

But what secondary for such a character?

I know Ice is considered one of the stronger defender blast sets and would fit great with the theme (ice storm on top of freezing rain, whee!) but the upcomming changes to snipe powers are making me unsure.

Maybe Psi would be a better choice since it has a snipe? (And also, I would be throwing out two different kinds of tornados )

Or maybe something else entierly, putting concept on the side for the sake of this discussion. What do you feel would be the best secondary for storm?

I'd suggest not building around the snipe changes just yet. Snipe changes are just one of the future blast set changes and we don't know what they're all going to be yet. I think Ice and Psy are both good ideas. Upcoming water blast is pretty thematic too.

I recommend Storm/Dual Pistols, simply because of the number of people I have ... influenced ... by example in team play when during weekly task forces and strike forces. After being in a group with me, and watching my Defender "cloth tank" using Herdicane, more than one person has been "inspired" to start their own Storm/Dual Pistols Defender.

My Storm/Dual Pistols Defender is none other than the original Sidhe Bang on Virtue.

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The -tohit from dark has always been very synergistic with storm. I would probably pair it with ice or an aoe heavy set just so I could hang a spawn up on geometry and unleash hell on it.

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I like the idea of fire, freezing rain and rain of fire, freezing helps to keep them there while rain of fire roasts them.

I prefer fire, ice, and dual pistols for the AoE madness. Snowstorm helps to keep them from running out of rain of fire. Dual pistols with a crashless nuke is quite formidable. Switching to cryo rounds on dual pistol wreaks havoc on the fire thorn casters and behemoths.

Dark, Sonic and Psy blast are just a notch below in my opinions because of the stormy's bouncing out of direct melee range to line up the cones in the dark narrow cones, howl and psy scream.

My first storm is Storm/Rad. Irradiate doesn't play too well with hurricane, but when I took it in Issue 1, I took it because the early blasts were quick and low on endurance drain.

Water. Knockdown in it (aoe) from multiple powers, and slotting your primary with a kb->kd could get you some interesting fights.

I have always liked the synergy of pairing it with Archery. Plus, it has a snipe if you want to leverage that.

I like it since it has an area targeted crashless nuke that is a lot of fun with freezing rain. And the single target stun to stack with Storms PBAOE stun.

But the real truth is, Storm is so awesome if well played, it'll work with almost anything.

I really like my storm/dark defender. It's almost like having a /storm troller with playing as a dark. You also get a small but useful self-heal which storm/ lacks.

Robots isn't a bad choice either

On one hand, you don't have to be picky, because storm is just that good. It does great with any blast set.

On the other hand, you might want to be picky, because there are only four or five defender blast sets that won't leave you wondering, at some point, "why didn't I roll corruptor instead"?

If you pick anything other than /Dark, /DP, /Psy, /Sonic, or maybe /Ice (this includes Water Blast, which is a dev love letter to the corruptor archetype), take a hard look at your archetype choice before committing.

Three rains (freezing rain, ice storm, and blizzard) are a potent threat. If you time it well, you can pop into blizzard and recharge your end using something like electric's power sink before the targets are gone, but you have to be quick.

Storm/Water Blast... There's going to be a ton of these come July 10th but the combo, both in terms of theme and lethality can NOT be beat.

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