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<blockquote data-quote="ZetaStriker" data-source="post: 4309850" data-attributes="member: 64840">I don't know what the worry about Astral Storm is... Fire Storm, the level 19 Cleric daily, does better damage than the level 29 Wizard daily and creates a zone. 5d10+Wis+1d10+Wis vs. 8d4+Int doesn't stack up in average damage or crit damage. Especially considering Fire Storm only targets enemies, while Meteor Swarm targets allies too.Of course, it may just be that Fire Storm is very much overpowered. Its damage output is far above the other level 19 Dailies the Cleric has, and it does it to multiple enemies to boot. It's as if, because it is a Controller power, they buffed it up to make it more appealing to a Leader-style Cleric. All it managed to do, though, is make the Cleric better at some of the things the Wizard does than the Wizard himself.I just started reading through the whole PHB from power to power myself, and there's a lot more wrong with the Cleric than that though. For instance, Punishing Strike, a level 27 Enounter, does the same thing as Haunting Strike, a level 23 Encounter. Except that Haunting Strike also gives you a +2 to your next attack roll, making the higher level power worse, no matter how you try to interpret it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ZetaStriker, post: 4309850, member: 64840"] I don't know what the worry about Astral Storm is... [i]Fire Storm[/i], the level 19 Cleric daily, does better damage than the level 29 Wizard daily [i]and[/i] creates a zone. 5d10+Wis+1d10+Wis vs. 8d4+Int doesn't stack up in average damage or crit damage. Especially considering Fire Storm only targets enemies, while Meteor Swarm targets allies too. Of course, it may just be that Fire Storm is very much overpowered. Its damage output is far above the other level 19 Dailies the Cleric has, and it does it to multiple enemies to boot. It's as if, because it is a Controller power, they buffed it up to make it more appealing to a Leader-style Cleric. All it managed to do, though, is make the Cleric better at some of the things the Wizard does than the Wizard himself. I just started reading through the whole PHB from power to power myself, and there's a lot more wrong with the Cleric than that though. For instance, Punishing Strike, a level 27 Enounter, does the same thing as Haunting Strike, a level 23 Encounter. Except that Haunting Strike also gives you a +2 to your next attack roll, making the higher level power [i]worse[/i], no matter how you try to interpret it. [/QUOTE]

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