Hello! This is a guide to get you through the Cosmic Trial with Storm. Note: This is NOT the best Storm. It is NOT end game Storm. You will not find the BiS items in this build. 

Set Up

I capped myself at 150 Infinity Points for these trial guides. It won't take too long to build up that many. By the time you've leveled up a few characters for synergies and farmed some Heroic (Red) Challenges and terminals for some gear you may even be past 150 IP when you try the trial. Worst thing that can happen when you try the trial is you fail there is no punishment. So give it a shot and see if you're missing damage, survivability or both.

Not all end game builds work equally well with less IP and gear. I tried a couple of the builds that already existed and found one that worked well to get through the Cosmic Trial. 

Synergies

We want to focus on + to Energy and Speed as those are Storm's archetype stats. After that we're looking for + to energy damage. Could put + to spirit (tempest in storm's case) if you need it to get over 950 or so Tempest to keep 100% up time on your tempest surge. 

Infinities

I put 38 ranks into Temporal Loophole in the Time Stone. Attack Speed and Movement Speed are both incredibly powerful. I was close to keeping 100% uptime on Tempest Surge. If you put points into The Mind Gem - Deep Thought and got your resource up over 950 you could probably recast your signature before you run out of Tempest.

GEAR

- This is the highest damage option at i70.

   and are decent damage options that are pretty easy to farm up. 

His own uniques work for slot 1-5.There's better in some slots but we're trying to make gear as easy to get as we can.

For the medkit you want the shield on med kit use. Other than that prioritize + to spirit on medkit.

Inisgnia was just the one I had.

Team Up

Jessica Jones is kind of becoming my default here. The grouping is just too good.

Playstyle

Basically with Storm we are going to build up our resource - Tempest. When it is full we will go into Tempest Surge. When we are in the surge we do more damage and have access to 2 abilites on our bar that are only available to cast when we are in Tempest Surge. The Tempest resource can not be regenerated, once it is full it starts to tick down. Our signature sets us immediately to full Tempest resource. A big enough Tempest resource pool could allow you to have the CD on  (which is part of why we have the 3 talent in our 3rd row - to get shorter cd on ) reset before we run out of Tempest and get booted out of Tempest Surge. As I mentioned before an IP swap could get you to 100% uptime on Tempest Surge. I had too much tempest in the run I recorded. You want to be near 950 ish so you can have 100% uptime but not be waiting too long for your Tempest Surge to run out.

- Good part of our damage use on CD.

- A DoT layer. Cast it right after  to time it's duration.

- A DoT layer. Cas it with  right after  to time it's duration. Also our source of vulnerability.

- Dash, breaks CC.

- Signature. Sets our Tempest Resource to full. Start the fight with it and use it when your Tempest resource runs out. So that you can reset the cooldown on . If you still are in Tempest Surge when you use your signature you will fill your Tempest and stay in the surge and stay buffed but you won't reset the CD on . You need it to run out first then immediately cast to refill your resource and reactivate Tempest Surge.

- Can only be cast while in Tempest Surge. Use it on CD. Prio it over other CDs as it can only be cast while in Surge. If you lose your surge even if this is off CD it will not be castable.

 - Long CD, can only be cast during Tempest Surge. Use it whenever you can.

Hopefully this helps you clear the Cosmic Trial so that you can start farming your best gear and move on to bigger and better content and bigger and better guides! Have fun out there.

Thanks!

 Lil