Adeon Hawkwood

That pretty neat. I still prefer a slightly bulkier chest on my power armor but it does manage to avoid the "bullet trap" problem quite well.

The initial hold is not auto-hit, the periodic chance to hold and the debuffs are auto-hit. Personally I use the Lockdown set but you could also use acc/mez HOs.

I believe they are referring to the DE in the new versions of Maria and Tina's arcs.

I think it is considered a bug (and I've reported a few) but like a lot of minor issues it's pretty low on the devs' radar.

Not to my knowledge, the wiki has a Known Issues page but it doesn't have anything about that there. I've considered starting a page on the wiki to compile a list of all the little "gotchas" in the power system (things like real number errors, procs that work weirdly and an explanation of power boost) but I never get around to it.

Although even with accuracy the displayed accuracy might not be the one used when the power actually rolls to hit. Pseudo Pet powers display the accuracy you use when you summon the pet rather than the accuracy the pet power itself uses (Rain of Arrows is a good example).

In terms of set bonuses MMs tend to get the most benefit from either Recharge or Defense. The utility of Defense depends on what sort of MM you are. Tankerminds use Provoke and Bodyguard mode to spread the damage over their pets so personal defense is nice. On the other hand if you prefer to take the aggro on your pets it's less useful.

You primarily want to slot for Damage (ED capped), Accuracy (ED capped for the Zombies and a least one or 2 SOs worth for the others) and a bit of Endurance reduction. After that you can try to squeeze in what you can for debuffs. HOs are a godsend for this. The Defense and Resistance procs are well worth taking.

I'll admit I've never played a Necromancer but my first pass would look like this:
Zombies: 3 X Nucleolus Exposure, 1 x Golgi Exposure, the defense and resistance procs

Grave Knights: 2 X Nucleolus Exposure, 1 x Golgi Exposure, Soulbound Alliegance: Dam/Acc, Soulbound Allegiance: Chance for Build Up, either the Achilles Heel proc or a second Golgi Exposure

Lich: 2 X Peroxisome Exposure, 1 x Nucleolus Exposure, 1 x Golgi Exposure, 2 x Lysome Exposure

The Zombies are pretty simple, mostly damage and accuracy with the defense and resistance aura globals in them since they make a convenient mule. The Golgi should help keep them alive and attacking longer.

The Grave Knights are similar except with the addition of two procs. The Chance for Build Up proc increases their damage and the Archilles Heel proc will provide a damage boost against single targets. The Soulbound Alligence: Acc/Dam is mostly there to pick up the set bonus, a third Nucleolus would also work.

The Lich is the most interesting he can potentially benefit from 6 different types of HO:
Acc/Dam
Acc/Mez
Dam/Mez
Heal/End
End/To Hit
Acc/To Hit

Given all this you can basically slot him for 12 SOs of enhancement in 6 slots (actually more when you recall that the Mez HOs are boosting 3 different mez types). The slotting I gave was a balanced version with 3 SOs each of Damage and Accuracy, 2 each of Mez and To Hit Debuff and 1 each of Healing and Endurance Reduction. You could easily swap things around to increase or decrease different aspects as long as you keep the total at 12.

That's because their ummm... you know what is hidden. I guarantee if there was a slider for that we'd see complaints about size.

Seconded!

Two reasons: procs and enhancement type confusion.

Some of the debuff and mez sets have useful procs. Allowing any power to use any enhancement type would mean those procs would work on all of the character's powers including their AoE attacks. For example Mercenaries can slot the Achilles Heel -res proc but it only works for their single target attacks, this change would make their AoEs proc it (not a great example I know since mercs could probably use the boost but I digress).

The second reason is more important. Certain enhancement types are functionally identical but differ only in what powers take them:
Damage/Resistance
Defense Buff/Defense Debuff
To Hit Buff/To Hit Debuff
Speed Buff/Speed Debuff (a slightly weird case, slows debuff all 3movement types, but the buff enhancements only buff one)

This is the cause of several well know bugs including the various Hami-O slotting exploits and the occasionally weird behavior of Power Boost (most well known being that it doesn't boost Cold Domination's Shields).

In several cases allowing pet powers to take all enhancement types would provide a considerable slot savings to MMs. The poster child for this is probably the Ember Demon. With this change ED capping his Damage would also more than ED cap his Damage Resistance buffs. This can already be done to some degree using HOs but since it doesn't work with Nucleolus Exposures it's not to bad (although slotting 3 Ribosomes should ED cap Damage Resistance and Endurance Usage plus provide 60% Damage enhancement which isn't to shabby).

The Romans have Phalanx Fighting which is technically this. Honestly though I don't think it would be a good method overall. The problem (IMHO) is that we don't really have access to enough fine aggro management tools to really accomplish this. In order to make this work I think you'd need most characters to have taunt powers and while people could start taking Presence (and specifically Confront) more it seems to go against the idea of forcing players into specific builds.

In general I'd also argue against changes to the Taunt mechanic. While I don't particularly like the mechanic as it is (I think it's to easy for Tankers to hold aggro) making it harder for Tankers to hold aggro seems to me to actually make the problem worse. Tanks are, at the moment, pretty much optional for a lot of content anyway so making them even worse doesn't seem like a good solution.

This one bugged me as well. I have a... fondness.. for power armored super heroes (they account for about 50% of my roster) and the inability to do a suit of female power armor I liked really bugged me. In the end I used male model for her suit and the female model for her out-of-armor costume but the inability to have a "suited up but without the helmet" costume (as I have for my power armored guys) still bugs me.

It still looks silly. The female armored models look very "form-fitting" and it's not really possible to make a decent looking bulky armored model (which is more realistic). And this doesn't even consider the problems of designing armor with a bullet trap in your center of mass, any bullets that hit in the cleavage would tend to get deflected up into the neck area which is (like other joints) very difficult to armor up. Designing female armor with prominent cleavage would be for aesthetic purposes only, from a design, comfort and protection point of view it is a bad idea.

Heh, all Defender teaming is a lot of fun. If you ever get the all-Defender CoP together (and it's on Virtue) I'll bring out my Traps/AR .

This isn't entirely correct. When I tested this I found out that it was only possible if powers 2 through 4 were toggles. Otherwise it just keeps queuing up power 4.

I was using 12.15% for the Prot Bots so close enough . But yeah you do have slightly higher S/L Defense, I missed that you do have 42%ish Defense there.

Not quite. The Vet pet gives 3% defense and with one prot bot shield you're at 40.85%/40.85%/39.65%. So even with the vet pet you're not quite soft-capped, still it's probably close enough to not really matter.

At the last meet and greet someone asked the devs when or if new invention sets would be released. Their response was pretty much that they were waiting until the incarnate system was complete or mostly complete so as to see where and what new sets were needed.

Empathy is an interesting set. It has what are probably the most powerful buffs in the game but to compensate they have a limited usage (either limited uptime or single target with long recharge). The net effect of this is that while Empathy does tend to lag behind other sets when comparing a single Empath to a single Whatever it has a network effect that other sets do not.

Stacking Empaths is actually an extremely good tactic since it allows them to increase the usage of their buffs. If a single Empath can keep Fortitude on 3 or 4 people (and the good ones can) 5 Empaths can keep 2 copies of Fortitude on an entire 8 man team as well as keeping the Auras up all the time (and double stacked most of the time). And that's before you factor in Adrenalin Boost.

At that point the only other set that really matters is the Kinetic to cap everyone's damage. Everyone is pretty much invincible anyway which limits the utility of the extra shields (they are handy since Romans have Defense debuffs, but probably not essential) and spawns will be melting so fast that debuffs can't keep up.

If I was going to trade anyone on that team it would probably be the Force Fielder. Of all the Defender sets FF is probably the one least useful on an all-defender team. Most other sets provide at least some mitigation and when you stack all of that it renders FF pretty much obsolete. If I were min-maxing I'd probably replace it with a Sonic for better layered defenses and more -res against the AV.

Katie covered the main reason but additionally I think the AE creates rare salvage faster than normal missions, especially when people are running on teams as opposed to solo farming.