Rain of Steel = being hit by an attack

[DracoSuave]

'Attack' is used ambiguously in 4e. It can refer to an attack power, an attack roll, an action expended to use an attack power - possibly other things as well, like verbal abuse. It's just hard for a writer to always be writing 'uses an attack power' or 'makes an attack' roll, instead of 'attacks,' when the meaning is generally obvious, and the precise phrasing clumsy.

Agreed, which is why they use the 'you hit' or 'you miss' or 'you hit or miss' terminology these days.