Draeth Darkstar

This demonstrates a pretty dramatic lack of understanding for how this game works. If you want to be a good tank, you layer any mitigation types you can get, end of discussion. Building for Resistance versus Building for Resistance and Defense always leans towards the latter because you end up with the same resistance values on a good build but also get hit anywhere from 40-90% less frequently.

The amount of enhanced value you lose going from level 35 IOs to level 50 IOs is typically extremely trivial, as a note. They do not increase in power dramatically after 30. Just as an example, with 5 slots, using 4x35 Kinetic Combat and 1x50 Mako's Bite Quad, you get enhanced values of: 41.49% Acc, 95.86% Damage, 59.84% Endurance Discount and Recharge. Those come with relevant set bonuses of 1.5% +Max HP and 3.75% S/L / 1.88% Melee Defense.
If you don't quite grasp how defense works, here's an example.
If you had 0% defense, and slotted one set of 4 Kinetic Combats, you would be hit by an even-leveled enemy 7.5% less frequently with any attack that has a smashing or lethal component (read: most of them). You'd also be hit by 3.76% fewer non S/L melee attacks.
If you slotted five sets of Kinetic Combats and included no other defense in the build, you would have 18.75% S/L defense. That equates to being hit 37.5% less frequently with S/L damage.

Getting at least some defense values out of your sets is very important if you want to make Dark Armor all that it can be, because while it has decent resists across the board, it does not have outstanding resistance to anything. The less defense you have, the more you're going to have to lean on Dark Regeneration to mitigate normal incoming damage, which, ideally, you would want to avoid, because it's your only emergency click and it's extremely expensive to cast. I would at least suggest you build your armors for 4xReactive than 3xTitanium Coating. Res, Res/End, Res/Rech, Res/End/Rech will still ED cap your resistance value and will give you more end reduction too, and each set gives you 1.25% S/L and E/N defense, which are the most common damage types and happen to include Dark's weakness of pure Energy damage, which is EXTREMELY common in incarnate content.

If you're going for raw-power suggestions here, which it looks like you are...
Defender: Fire Blast is pretty nerfed on Defenders. Sonic Attacks (for the -20% res per hit) and Ice Blast (for the full-blaster-power Ice storm and Blizzard) both make better use of the Archetype's mechanics.
Scrapper: FA/SD and DM/SD are both MOAR DAMAGE-ER than StJ/SD, if I recall correctly.
Corruptor: Fire/Dark or Fire/Cold are going to get better debuffs out of the set than Time because their key debuffs are psuedopets that use Defender numbers.
Dominator: Hope whoever you're suggesting this to likes to solo. Mind is heavily eclipsed in power for teams because of it's reliance on Sleep.
Mastermind: You really have a hardon for Time, huh? Remember that pets are immune to +recharge before you suggest this one for a Mastermind, and the Thugs don't need Farsight if built well.
Stalkers: StJ has good AoE and blows ELM out of the water for single target, especially on a Stalker.

Yeah, there's inconsistency. My theory is that whoever's writing this shindig forgot the original story, as I'm guessing whoever wrote most of the Rikti/Vanguard stuff is gone. Note that in the last SSA, Lady Grey speaks completely differently from how she has always been characterized before.

The Battalion is a space-traveling race that conquers planets in the Primal dimension, not a dimensional traveling race, according to recent lore.

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Work on playing the market more. I picked up 4 Achilles procs yesterday for around 5 mil each. LotGs dip as low as 60, but those I generally just buy with merits.

Again, he is very clearly not magical based on the most recent lore given to us about what he actually is.

Based on lore recently made available by Prometheus, if anything, wells are hyper evolved (read: mutant) meta-psychic super-versions of their original race.

Not magic.

The plot also culminated in a plan to use Statesman and Lord Recluse as batteries for giant robots. I call that another point for tech.

Edit: and I kinda have to say that the OP is being ridiculous. The VAST and OVERWHELMING majority of the content in this game is tech/sci/mutant themed, especially end-game content. The only magicy stuff at endgame pre-Dark Astoria was the Circle of Thorns and kinda-sorta the Carnival of Shadows (and some of the villain Patrons, not that they count for anything).

I'm gonna agree, this seems like Something Went Wrong.

This is all just your subjective opinion, and it is obviously not shared by all members of the community or the powers team.

Was this in a UStream or something? I'm not seeing any recent dev posts.

Yes.

PCs are more versatile and will cause you much fewer headaches with gaming compatibility, but require more understanding of computer maintenance to last for years. Macs are easier to use if you know nothing about computers, but are also more expensive for the performance you'll get from them. Based on the level of understanding you appear to have demonstrated already, I would think you would be fine with a PC (which is my personal preference, so yes, there is bias here; as a note, I'm a programmer).

NVidia products are ultimately superior but less cost-efficient than ATI for the performance you'll get out of them.

4GB at absolute minimum for a modern gaming rig. 8 will do for most purposes, 16 if you'd ever consider doing things like multi-boxing.

A liquid-cooled rig is, again, going to be an ultimately superior product, but they're MUCH more user care-intensive and costly. 3.3GHz should do you fine if you don't have the knowledge or desire to maintain a liquid-cooled setup.

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AlienWare make fine products, but yes, you do pay a hefty premium just for the label. That said, that label comes with excellent customer service and industry-best warranties and replacement policies. Their machines are not mechanically superior, though, if that's what you're asking.

Traps has quite a bit of control to add to Gravity's somewhat lacking toolkit for that purpose. A single target Immob + Slow, AoE slow field, AoE -tohit/-damage/stun, and... whatever you want to call Poison Trap (mechanically it's an AoE hold, but it's actually a lot more complicated in practice). It also has status protection/+defense, some AoE damage, and insane -resist debuff potential. All in all it complements Gravity (and, really, controllers in general) very well.

RE:Power Boost + Farsight, yes, it is possible for Farsight to be balanced with and without Power Boost.

Balance in gaming is based on player choice. The choice you make by taking (or not taking) Power Boost with Farsight is this: You either do it and specialize more heavily in defensively buffing your teammates, or, you don't, and instead you pick up more utility or damage (or both!) with your Epic power picks.

Game balance is not an A =/= 2xA equation, it's far more complicated than that because there thousands of variables involved and every choice you make or don't make changes them. In your argument you would have to consider Power Boost + Farsight versus, say, Indomitable Will + Farsight, which gives you significantly more psi defense and Status Protection.

Yes, Farsight has very obvious synergy with Power Boost; it is not the only power to do so, it was discusses heavily in beta and wasn't changed (they can easily flag a power to ignore boost effects if they want to, and they have done so in the past when they felt the need). It is not, however, the only choice, and I have seen many, many Time Manipulators choose another option, which is perfectly indicative of balance in practice.

Edit: Figured I'd answer a few more of your questions.

Electric Control/Time Manipulation is extremely effective, yes; I love mine to death, but it is a combo you sort of need to be in the mood for, because it does very little damage solo. Mine is Elec/Time/Primal, and he is extremely safe to play and can really control a battlefield absurdly well.

Jolting Chains is somewhat deceptive. The average damage and DPA listed in the real numbers are the absolute maximum total damage it can deal, when all targets are added together. Normal AoEs show these values per target, but because of Jolting Chain's mechanical nature, that doesn't happen. The actual values per target are 1/16 the displayed (meaning, yes, it does very little damage).

It does rapidly recharge and knockdown every hit though, which is great. If you're willing to buy a single SBO, the proc from Devastation (Ranged Damage, Chance to Hold) is amazing in it, and can't ordinarily be slotted in a multi-target power, but, again, because Chains work in unique ways, it has great synergy here.