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iaele

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I would like to play Storm as secondary, but what primary fits better with It? Bots, Demons and Thugs are the 3 i like the most. My first objective is to soft cap positional def.

Any suggestion/Builds?

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Here are a couple threads:

 

Demons vs. Bots vs. Thugs - all are awesome but each builds very differently. All the primaries work well with /storm. As to softcapping range, whatever floats your boat. I don’t think it’s worth the slot/build tax. Recharge and endurance management typically rank higher on the priority list. 

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For softcap, Bots would be the best choice. Protector Bot's Force Shield will provide around +14% def (Unenhanced) to all positions and damage types, except Toxic and Psychic.

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I’ve played just about every MM combo you can with /storm.  It’s still a hard toss-up between Demons and Thugs as to which plays better.  Thugs is likely more offensive overall, and the way I’ve played /Storm MM’s is all about Defense.  You can softcap pretty easily with either set.  With the recent changes, my Necro/Storm is much improved as well and that’s pretty thematic as well.

 

But I’d suggest no matter which primary you choose, you view /Storm first and foremost as a Damage multiplier.  Sleet, Tornado and LS all are bread and butter damage dealers.  If you pick up the flame APP you’ll also get a nice confinement power which allows you to really focus on keeping everything in range of your storm summoned powers.  And finally, build for +Recharge and that’s very easy to do given you can load up so many FF +Recharge procs into a great many of your powers.  

 

/Storm is a lot of fun, even more so if you throw in the necessary KB2KD procs.

 

You can’t really go wrong, but learn to manage your Endurance!  The storm mistress demands a price!

iaele

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  On 1/7/2023 at 3:37 AM, Crysis said:

I’ve played just about every MM combo you can with /storm.  It’s still a hard toss-up between Demons and Thugs as to which plays better.  Thugs is likely more offensive overall, and the way I’ve played /Storm MM’s is all about Defense.  You can softcap pretty easily with either set.  With the recent changes, my Necro/Storm is much improved as well and that’s pretty thematic as well.

 

But I’d suggest no matter which primary you choose, you view /Storm first and foremost as a Damage multiplier.  Sleet, Tornado and LS all are bread and butter damage dealers.  If you pick up the flame APP you’ll also get a nice confinement power which allows you to really focus on keeping everything in range of your storm summoned powers.  And finally, build for +Recharge and that’s very easy to do given you can load up so many FF +Recharge procs into a great many of your powers.  

 

/Storm is a lot of fun, even more so if you throw in the necessary KB2KD procs.

 

You can’t really go wrong, but learn to manage your Endurance!  The storm mistress demands a price!

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Do you have Builds for Stormy Demons and Thugs i could see please? The gameplay changes much between the two? 

iaele

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  On 1/7/2023 at 3:06 AM, StrikerFox said:

For softcap, Bots would be the best choice. Protector Bot's Force Shield will provide around +14% def (Unenhanced) to all positions and damage types, except Toxic and Psychic.

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I can't find a good bots build considering the changes in the primary. Everyone skips repair bot, which is too good to be skipped.

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Meknomancer

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Page 27 of pylon damage thread in scrapper forums has one of the few thugs/storm builds i've seen posted, have a look at @Zeraphiabuild for ideas although bear in mind everything posted in there is mini/maxed for dps (its somewhere near the bottom of that page) :

 

 

 

 

Bots/storm i find quite entertaining:

 

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My favorite /Storm was a Robot/Storm who focused entirely on flying and AOE knockdown strategy. 

 

Funfact: If you are flying, enemies who cannot fly themselves run directly under you, making it quite easy to target things with your AoE's. They even save you the trouble of rounding them up into a pile and do it themselves for you. Fish in a barrel, really.

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