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The chance for knockback is very small. I really don’t think the kb2kd is necessary.

Slotting it to change the knockback to knockdown does nothing to the Repel effect which is what most complaints are about. Not the visuals.

well, you can, but then you have to hang back and be really strategic about when you move forward.

Where do they go? I've had the Absorb in Lightning Rod and the Resistance in Chain Induction, but would I be better served putting them elsewhere?

I play mostly duo with a RL friend and Storm is very effective in that environment.

Are you only playing on big teams? Solo and on small teams I use it every time it’s up.

It's the "accident gone awry" part. They sent him off into space, where he encountered a sun that his species had never been near in their natural state, which gave him powers. Science.

Yes, he is.

best on Corr and Sentinel, yea, I agree.

Yes it does.

Storm Cell doesn't cause aggro and adds a sizable -Tohit debuff. With other blasters and sentinels it's build up, nuke, and those mobs that are in range are probably dead, and then you have nothing for a while. With Storm you have significantly increased damage for large periods of time. It's a different playstyle. Earth Manipulation should be a fine pairing with storm.

the set brings a whole lot of safety that can be applied even before combat begins. Definitely, Cat 5 does not suck, but it is totally possible that the playstyle it offers is not what you're interested in.

Yea, it shines fighting very tough mobs. If everything is dead before you've got your stuff out then what you're fighting is too easy.

Category Five is great. It may be you're not using it right? You have to cast it, THEN hit Intensity, and then keep attacking with your other abilities. If you just hit it and then sit there it is weak, but that's not how it's supposed to work. Jetstream is a bit weak as a cone and perhaps can be respeccd out of at high levels.

It does some of the best damage over time in the game AND it gets a lot of extra debuffs and soft control, for which it sacrifices up front damage. Slow but very steady.

Superman is a Science hero. Exposure to an alien sun is Science.

You guys are using DPS to mean two different things. Flamethrower now does it's full damage in little more than 4 seconds instead of 7. That's faster "damage per second" for those few seconds. But what DPS generally means in games of this kind (leaving aside the "DPA" and "DPS" nonsense in the info screens in CoH) is how much damage your character does Per Second of Animation. By THAT measure Flamethrower has not changed. So in a long fight, FT is doing no different from before, but in short fights (most fights in CoH), it deals its damage in a much shorter period of time.

Or position yourself just outside of melee so the mobs stay in range of the scrappers but can't hit anything.

I just found a Storm Cell bug, in the mission Stop the Vazhilok Plot against the Promenade, from Officer Fields in Atlas Park. I cast Storm Cell on the Vazhilok Life Machine, but after I destroyed the machine the Storm Cell stayed at its location rather than following me or engaging the boss.

I just skip it. Night Widows have plenty of good powers to choose from.

Stand in the middle of a group of enemies, you'll see your defenses and tohit go up. Invincibility does nothing for you when you're standing away from the enemies, always has been like that.

If you could figure this out it might give the set the thing it needs to be desirable on teams despite the slow ramp up.

I don’t think AR is going to be at the bottom after this update. You don’t have to have Aim.

It’s not a pet that follows you around. It’s location AoE that can move around the battle field.