Everything you said about Hurricane is what I'm finding. It's an occasional-use power that's best indoors; sometimes I use for just a "get away from me" power, sometimes when luck lines up, to compress a mob back into a corner for the rest of the team to AoE away at. Gale tends to be the power I use most, no one can hit us when they keep having to stand back up! I just team so it's been working out great, although at level 44 where I am now, I'm starting to get a sense that I could probably solo if I was careful. My actual attacks still feel a little underwhelming, but I still have some slotting that needs to be done with them, plus that's about par for course the other Defenders I've played, ha ha.