Updated: I16

01: Gale

47%47%21%

01: Shriek

45%94%45%45%

02: O2 Boost

62%24%17%

04: Howl

48%95%21%41%26%

06: Steamy Mist

90%52%47%42%

08: Hasten

83%

10: Freezing Rain

74%88%47%

12: Recall Friend

42%

14: Super Speed

35%

16: Snow Storm

83%83%42%

18: Hurdle

42%

20: Shout

66%90%45%40%

22: Health

83%

24: Stamina

83%

26: Tornado

89%70%70%70%

28: Hurricane

92%54%42%

30: Shockwave

47%88%37%26%

32: Lightning Storm

86%90%45%40%22%

35: Siren's Song

48%48%27%16%13%

38: Dreadful Wail

95%95%21%

41: Thunder Strike

90%71%40%

44: Charged Armor

69%41%

47: Shocking Bolt

89%89%47%45%19%

49: Power Sink

83%42%

At this point (if you slotted well), play goes very fast. You can toss out tornados, lightning storms, and beat people down with fists of lightning. You're a great debuffer and fantastic at moving things around. Playing something this chaotic is pretty darned cool.

Now that you've made it to 50, remember to use your Nova power as often as you like. I tended to hold it when I was married to that idea of taking Whirlwind as my level 50 power, but it seems so unnecessary when you already have hurricane and other powers that push people around.

Instead, I took an endurance recovery power which makes it possible to use my nova without worries (since I can get all my endurance back as long as I have a blue inspiration on me before I use it).

If you do what I did and put a "Chance of self heal" into Siren's Song and even if you didn't, use it as much as possible during battle. It's not strong damage, but decent and most importantly, it will keep some enemies from being able to fight you while they sleep. This is especially true when soloing compared to teaming.

Most everything else that I can say about playing a noisy stormer has been said so I will give you this instead:

Gale's 50

WOO! IM FIFTEE! I CAN HAZ WINGS!?

Updated: I16

01: Gale

35%

01: Shriek

40%80%40%22%

02: O2 Boost

40%40%17%

04: Howl

40%80%35%24%

06: Hasten

69%

08: Swift

34%

10: Shockwave

22%87%22%13%22%

12: Steamy Mist

62%34%45%17%

14: Super Speed

35%

16: Recall Friend

35%

18: Freezing Rain

93%40%40%

20: Health

69%

22: Snow Storm

85%52%52%

24: Stamina

69%

26: Tornado

89%34%22%

26: Hurricane

74%24%17%

28: Siren's Song

40%40%40%13%

32: Lightning Storm

35%

Combos

When enemy groups are near a wall or corner, try this:

1. Turn on hurricane.
2. Before they see you, use Shockwave and Gale to knock everything back to the wall/corner.
3. Use hurricane to push any remainders back and to pin the rest down.
4. Use Freezing Rain. The enemies that have just gotten up will be further slowed and many will fall down.
5. Start attacking. Use Shockwave, Howl, and Siren's Song to AoE them to death. Switch to single-target attacks once enough are gone.
6. If high enough level, use Lightning Storm to add to your damage and keep them pinned (Tornado will NOT help here because it will toss people out of your controlling area.

In wide open areas:

1. Target the toughest enemy or the one most centrally located. Use Freezing Rain. Many will fall down, but have a heal inspiration ready just in case.
2. Use Snow Storm on the enemy you already targeted. This keeps them from running out of the storm.
3. Use Hurricane and run around the room trying to push any that weren't in the rain into the rain and prevent escape. If you have a good handle on the range of Gale and Shockwave, you can use these powers to knock runners back into the crowd.
4. Start attacking. Reapply Freezing Rain as needed.

Play Tips

Whenever facing a group that's extremely tough or too numerous, look for a door or corner. Stand just to the side so that as soon as they come through, they'll be debuffed by your hurricane before they can fire on you. Lightning storm and Tornado will keep them on their butts while dealing strong damage. If one gets too close or is blown where you don't want them, use Shockwave and Gale to deal with them.

Another note on Tornado, when fighting strong enemies like bosses or AVs, Tornado won't wander and will piledrive the bad guy constantly dealing damage while debuffing defense. Many people see Tornado and how chaotic it is and skip it, but that's a huge mistake.

While on teams, you won't want to use it because it will mess up people's nicely packed groups (and thus AoE damage), but when solo or when there aren't other little enemies around, fire away. Also note that for some types of missions, if all your tanks, scrappers etc. are focused on the AV and ignoring the minions, you can use Tornado and other powers to keep the squishies (yourself included) from being beaten too much.

While it may be tempting to not hit enemy groups with Snow Storm because of the endurance drain, remember that it's not just a slow power, but one that lowers enemy recharge rate too!

Updated: I16

01: Dark Blast

40%66%45%40%

01: Twilight Grasp

80%88%85%60%

02: Gloom

45%94%45%45%

04: Tar Patch

95%60%60%

06: Air Superiority

48%48%21%

08: Shadow Fall

95%41%52%48%

10: Recall Friend

42%

12: Darkest Night

69%41%

14: Fly

53%92%

16: Howling Twilight

95%60%60%

18: Swift

42%

20: Health

83%

22: Moonbeam

74%92%42%50%44%21%

24: Stamina

83%

26: Petrifying Gaze

62%40%22%18%

28: Fearsome Stare

48%48%27%74%

30: Tenebrous Tentacles

42%78%47%21%48%29%

32: Dark Servant

66%61%42%45%38%61%

35: Night Fall

48%95%53%21%

38: Blackstar

27%79%79%27%

41: Dark Consumption

42%83%66.75%42%

44: Dark Embrace

50%22%

47: Soul Drain

42%69%16%

49: Dark Pit

48%48%21%

All my builds are designed for max utility at the lowest levels. Generally, single target stuff low level, team support stuff, and most of all, your travel power and sneak/tp combo.

At the later levels, some group control and damage powers start to creep in. Depending on if you PvP or not, you might want to rearrange some of the powers in the 24 to 30 range (since the Bloody Bay level cap is 25).

But there's no question of what power to get at level 32. With 3 slots per level starting at level 33 and two slot levels per power level now (meaning you now have two levels of enhancement slots per one level of new powers), you will easily have Dark Servant fully slotted by level 34.

At this level, pay close attention to IO set bonuses. Based on the sets I chose and the arrangement of each, I managed to reach 25% damage bonus, 27% accuracy, 11% +hitpoints, and 68% Regeneration rate!

Play Tips

• A well known, but worth mentioning anyway, combo is the Soul Drain, Blackstar, Blue inspiration, Dark Consumption. With this you buff your attack tremendously, blast the hell out of everything, then gain enough endurance to drain whatever's left standing to put you back to near full endurance so you can keep fighting.
• The previously mentioned combo with Tar Patch as a trap and Darkest Night as a pulling move allows you to tank for the team. Once they hit the Tar Patch, run into range and fire Tenebrous Tentacles to keep them in place and proceed to use Howling Twilight, Dark Pit, and Fearsome Stare to keep them completely defenseless while your team destroys them. If you don't have a team, that's ok, because with tentacles and Night Fall, you can do a fair bit of damage yourself anyway!

Updated: I16

01: Dark Blast

25%32%12%

01: Twilight Grasp

57%23%23%10%

02: Gloom

25%25%

04: Tar Patch

30%10%10%

06: Hasten

38%

08: Shadow Fall

35%14%15%23%

10: Darkest Night

38%

12: Recall Friend

19%

14: Super Speed

19%

16: Howling Twilight

19%

Here are some general percentages you can reach with only uncommon (and maybe one rare) recipies at the market. You can probably reach better results than I did with rares here and there, but I wanted this to be a completely realistic build that anyone could use.

At this point, you have good attack power, the extremely useful Tar Patch and the all-powerful Darkest Night. Though I don't keep Super Speed in my final build, I have it at low levels because the Stealth procs for Sprint are too expensive at this level. With Super Speed and Shadow Fall, you'll have full invisibility so you can do the awesome Sneak and TP combo (for faster mission and TF completion).

There's very little point to worrying about IO set bonuses this early into the build. Just focus on raw numbers and deal with bonuses later.

Play tips

• You will run out of endurance quite quickly so remember to turn off Super Speed before battles and only use Shadow Fall when sneaking or fighting things that use Energy, Negative Energy, or Psionics.
• Because you're attacks are quite weak, use Tar Patch a lot. It makes your attacks far more powerful and slows enemies too.
• Always use Darkest Night on bosses or large groups of enemies to lower their accuracy and damage. Don't forget that if you lay a Tar Patch then use Darkest Night to pull the enemies, they'll bunch up on the patch which means they'll all be debuffed.