Talk:Blade Storm/@comment-70.194.196.33-20140511002617/@comment-68.35.32.214-20140512215034

It's because anyone with a decent gun can't do all that damage much quicker and save that energy for something else. This issue of powercreep doesn't just affect blade storm alone, Mag crush, Frost avalanche, Volt's overload come to mind.

Except their powers are a lot quicker to execute than Ash's blade storm and their frames have other forms of utility that they can use their energy on that ash does not match.A

Ash is just simply power (that doesn't scale very well,)  mobility, and invisibilty with little team synergy. Smoke bomb serving the only true team utility as a minor stun, but even excalibur has that bested in regards of CC.

Compare that to loki who, despite having a lower damage kit, has arguably better mobility and utility that is useful at any level and in any team composition.