Celtic Heroes

I'll run an experiment but thought I'd get feedback. I want to preclude by saying I don't have issues with mana/energy.

Since I'm using winds, my spells are nearly never interrupted. I'm doing a fair amount of melee along with spell casting.

Wouldn't t make more sense to throw my 30 pts into storm rather than lightening for dmg purposes?

I advise Strike, with reasons listed below:
-Strike has a much faster cooldown, allowing for more consistent DPS
-Strike evades less, and an evasions aren't as horrific as an evaded Storm
-Strike costs a LOT less energy
-Strike is also pretty good for damaging enemies during bosses or group leveling. Storm isn't.. sometimes you don't want to walk up to the midst of the fighting
-It's easier to get skill points for Strike. Along with the +5 boost on DL gloves, there are Strike boosts from: Hrung Helms, Hrung Skulls, Aggy Braces, and Beastbone Gloves. Not to mention that lightning strike rings are much easier to come by.

Hopefully that helps

I advise Strike, with reasons listed below:
-Strike has a much faster cooldown, allowing for more consistent DPS
-Strike evades less, and an evasions aren't as horrific as an evaded Storm
-Strike costs a LOT less energy
-Strike is also pretty good for damaging enemies during bosses or group leveling. Storm isn't.. sometimes you don't want to walk up to the midst of the fighting
-It's easier to get skill points for Strike. Along with the +5 boost on DL gloves, there are Strike boosts from: Hrung Helms, Hrung Skulls, Aggy Braces, and Beastbone Gloves. Not to mention that lightning strike rings are much easier to come by.

Hopefully that helps

Agreed and also storm tends to hit only 500- ish more than strike, but you can cast maybe 3 strikes withing the cooldown on storm so strike is better dps

Strike for all the reason above
And...

Storm requires touching the mob/boss. This puts you into melee range and it also adds a delay of walking to the mob/boss. This is a pain when leveling in groups and bossing.