I ran a few tests with particle wave to see if it could be used as a tank power, but I'm not that impressed with this new tier3 power.
For dealing with trash mobs TK Maelstorm is better with a stun, lower recharge time and same AoE radius.
The shield advantage is rather worthless, 300 points shield per target hit at 40 is nothing and it will be gone before you notice it if you are doing any kind of serious tanking, not worth the 3 pts advantage in my book.
With a 15 sec cooldown, I would bother taking this power for damage as you can't spam it, so you need to pick another AoE to clear trash mobs.
I understand the devs want this power to be different than a eye of the storm with a larger radius, but as it is right now you have better choices elsewhere instead of this power.
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For dealing with trash mobs TK Maelstorm is better with a stun, lower recharge time and same AoE radius.
The shield advantage is rather worthless, 300 points shield per target hit at 40 is nothing and it will be gone before you notice it if you are doing any kind of serious tanking, not worth the 3 pts advantage in my book.
With a 15 sec cooldown, I would bother taking this power for damage as you can't spam it, so you need to pick another AoE to clear trash mobs.
I understand the devs want this power to be different than a eye of the storm with a larger radius, but as it is right now you have better choices elsewhere instead of this power.