Storm - Cosmic Speed Runner dps leveling pve pvp storm
Guide by huntn4it Last update at Feb 28th 2014, 10:28

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Overview


  • Storm is a "glass cannon" ranged AOE machine. In many situations her DPS will be overkill, so it's not required to run through her full rotation on every pack of mobs, simply drop a couple Ball Lightnings or a Lightning Storm in the fray and watch the screen die. For elite packs and bosses, cast Lightning Storm and Crashing Hail, buff yourself with Quickening Breeze for the attacks speed temporary buff, and spray Ball Lightning until everything's dead - doesn't take long. Use Windy Flight to fly around the map for quick boss rushing, and make sure to keep Gusting Tempest and Quickening Breeze on yourself each time you switch zones. We take one point in Refreshing Breeze for breaking out of crowd control (suck it, Magneto). If you ever run completely out of spirit, spam Lightning Bolt while you regenerate (basics don't interrupt the "while not casting" spirit regen, so you get 6+ spirit per cast (it's +8 at rank 34) in addition to your passive regeneration).


    • Powers


  • Lightning Bolt - 20 (basic, spirit regen)

  • Ball Lightning - 20 (primary spirit spender)

  • Lightning Storm - 20

  • Crashing Hail - 20

  • Gusting Tempest - 20

  • Spirited - 20

  • Quickening Breeze - 9

  • Refreshing Breeze - 1 (1 point to use as CC breaker)

  • Turbulent Winds - 1 (1 point to unlock the 10% damage debuff)

  • Windy Flight - 1 (1 point to use for mobility)

  • Sirocco Rush - default (use this to speed around the map, escaping, and positioning)


    • Equipment


    Core


  • 25% Rare/Special

  • 25% Health/Spirit on Medkit (great Oh Sh** button for health, and insane spirit regen)

  • 1 Speed - to unlock 5% attack speed bonus (or energy if you'd prefer the extra 1% damage and 1% power reduc on energy skills, personally I use speed)


    • Medallion


  • Dr. Octopus - Radius+crit (if you run Casket+Odin you will need the crit from Doc Oc)

    • or
  • Dr. Doom - Duration+spirit (you can take this medallion if you use Gungnir+Hela)


    • Relic


  • Wakanda - DoT damage affects all of our skills (even though they're not labeled as DoT) and this relic scales better than any other damage rating relic. Alternatively you can use Lemuria if you're looking for more survivability and aren't min/maxing DPS


    • Artifacts


  • S.H.I.E.L.D. Motion Tracker (Super Heroic) - Mobs on map + huge damage mod

  • Advanced Metasensory Array

  • Power Prism Shard

  • Xerogen Crystal


    • Other Useful Artifacts


  • Mark of the Odinborn - Surprisingly high spirit regen, give it a shot

  • Hand of Doom - Alternative to any of the DPS artifacts

  • S.H.I.E.L.D. Motion Tracker (Heroic) - For certain bosses you can keep at max range (ie. Dr. Doom) multiple SMTs is the way to go, up to 45% damage increase for normal+heroic+superheroic versions of this artifact, but I don't use the normal version usually.

  • Pluvian Superconductor - Alternative DPS artifact


    • Legendary


  • Casket - total of 900 damage rating vs. everything you kill (since you'll be casting crashing hail on everything)

  • Alternative: Gungnir (if you want to use Helas for blessings, you will be spirit starved with that setup though)


    • Blessings


  • Odin - total of 20% extra damage to bosses, and bye bye to all spirit problems as long as you're killing stuff (21 spirit on kill)
  • Alternative: Hela (if you're using Gungnir, you will be spirit starved with that setup though)


    • Uru


  • +200 ranged damage (Crashing Hail is flagged as physical so while +energy is an acceptable alternative if it's all you can get, +ranged is going to be your best in slot here)

    Runeword


  • Bowazon


    • Enchants


  • Slots 1 and 5: Ranged Enchantment of Bow

  • Slots 2, 3, and 4: Spirit Enchantment of Bow


    • BIS Slots 1-5


  • Slot 1: Bands of the Skybreaker

  • Slot 2: Cosmic Bodysuit (MUST have proc % chance on hit to gain attack speed, damage rating, and movespeed), a perfect slot 2 cosmic would have %power duration, %reduced spirit cost on skybreaker and stormcrafter powers, spirit, health, and damage rating against targets that are attacking you - it's ok to settle for a cosmic thats similar to this at all as long as it has the proc listed above)

  • Slot 3: Cape of the Stormcrafter

  • Slot 4: Punk Rock Boots - there are potentially better "All Heroes" boots, but they are not practical to plan to have considering the rarity and the fact that uniques cannot be traded.

  • Slot 5: Strike Team Mohawk