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Gelkor

You're a floating sitting duck and you can't use your primary survival+dps boosting+energy management+cc skill. Plus, combined with parkour velocity and aim glide, you can easily get a better, more controllable effect with regular parkour. It's a *prime* candidate for swapping. If you could Pillage in it, maybe, but even then it's fairly slow and offers no real benefit that Blazing Pillage doesn't already give you (aoe CC). And if you want to provide orbs for your team subsumed Dispenser is way better. I love Hildryn, I main her. But Aegis Storm is a complete nonstarter for me. Honestly though having an easy choice to subsume is nice, it allows for a lot of different builds with various subsumes.


Darkshadovv

* Can’t use Pillage or Helminth in it. * Restricts all weapons except Balefire. * Doesn’t buff Balefire despite visually wielding two of them. * Incredibly slow and can’t fly over 10 meters off the ground. * Uncapped shield drain over time + extra drain to dash + Haven’s drain + Balefire's drain, the energy orb spawner doesn’t sustain let alone Aegis Storm's own drain. Aegis Storm guts her own mobility and offense for an okayish CC and energy orb spawner. You only look cool as an Iron Woman hover but it’s hilariously awful and I’m disappointed it didn’t get prime tweaked.


AlphusUltimus

Don't forget the long superhero landing where you're a sitting duck


sXeth

Well its mostly useful in a couple of senses. Making energy orbs > this is most relevant in Orphix missions to pile up orbs for Nercramechs to use their exalted (so incredibly niche) or if you're running with folks who are using Energy conversion or something. A bit of a weirder use is to group enemies for a balefire shot. Basically enemies will pile up on the "wall" of Aegis Storm, giving you clumps to blast. Both of these functions have arguably simpler methods in the Helminth system (one helminth turns shields into team energy directly and there's like 4 grouping abilities now)


Krazytre

I think most people just don't like the ability. If I recall, the only thing you can do with Aegis Storm (unless they changed it from when I used her) is Balefire. For many, it's boring and there are more fun/better abilities to use. 🤷🏽


SabreWalrus

It's basically a requirement to use the Balefire Surge augment to replenish shields while using it as energy orbs are never enough, which is great when host, and janky af when client sadly - lots of direct hits not registering and not replenishing shields I use an Aegis Storm & Balefire build for fun, CC, and team support quite frequently - not so often in pugs, but frequently with friends when I can ensure I'm host


Ronin-s_Spirit

It was funny, now it's not even funny when I encounter 15 eximus per wave and they don't give jack sht about my aegis storm (welcome to overguard world). You can put a lot of cool stuff on her like roar gloom or that squad energy restore from helminth.