Draeth Darkstar

I don't think pets have any +recovery powers for an Endurance Modification to enhance, but you should be able to tell if they're receiving a benefit from it by mousing over the power and looking for that enhancement type on the Enhancement Manager in-game.

I've been considering switching to Spectral to mitigate runners. I'm assuming you're planning Radial T4? If so, let me know how well the immob. proc works out for you when you get there.

When the changes to single target buff sets were made, they weren't made to make them more powerful, they were made to make them less obnoxious to play, especially in huge groups of players. Those changes were made in the half-issue update following the introduction of Leagues and Incarnate Trials to the game. Let me tell you from personal experience that casting two buffs on six pets and twenty four players, one at a time, is unbearable.

Re:Frostwork, I see no reason to adjust a targeted buff when it's ported to Masterminds. It's not like people can't already Frostwork a Mastermind's pets for them if so inclined.

That's fair.

Fun is subjective, numbers are objective. They aren't a part of the same discussion.

That's the closest to an answer I can give you from sifting backwards through the Pylon thread for about ten minutes.

You can't compare set DPS by the Total Damage of it's attacks, those numbers are meaningless if you don't consider how long it takes for that damage to be applied (read: DPA). Staff is low on ST DPS because it's attacks are all on the mid-low end of the scale for DPA, which people don't realize, in part, because Eye of the Storm and Sky Splitter are both victims of a Real Numbers bug that is causing all the Form bonus damages to be added to the base when DPA is displayed, making it look significantly higher than it really is.

The best staff attack chain for a non-stalker is Precise-Serpents-Precise-Sky Splitter, which, on a Scrapper, are unenhanced DPAs of 73-63-73-73. The Form of Body damage just can't make up the difference between Staff and the (several) better sets (and, totally separate but also relevant problem, it can't be paired with Shield, which hurts it's position for Scrapper damage comparisons). If you want a more depthy analysis, go look into the Pylon thread.

Stalkers get a much better attack chain for single targets because of Assassin's Strike, but no, 210 DPS isn't impressive for a Stalker anymore.

Honestly, I tend to just play my Masterminds as support units in the temp zerg in Lambda; it's either that or solo my way through a glowy or two on the ones that have the durability and sustainability to survive solo in Trials. Pets just don't hold up well when you try to speed through content and ignore large groups.

Yes it does.

In what universe do you live in where any orphan who becomes financially successful qualifies as a Mary Sue?

I didn't say or imply that they don't exist. I said it's not a weapon that most people immediately think of when they think of mecha.

Laser swords and giant guns are, on the other hand, pretty much universal to the genre.

While a... mecha... bow... would be interesting, I don't think it's a weapon that the concept evokes to most people. They tend to choose the weapons in a given set based on it's thematic relation.

Sorry, this is a public forum. If you want to throw yourself a pity party you'll have to do that elsewhere.

You won't be mourned.

Seriously, where's the guy with the bit in his signature about how people would whine if the game printed 20s that they weren't sequential serial numbers?

If the tone of your entire post didn't make me want to say, "cry more," this sentence would've done it for me anyway.

Sense Motive is a Wisdom-based skill, noob.

I'm going to second this, especially since Demons/Time is a very high-power character build, and you have a reputation for not liking IO sets, which Masterminds are inherently less beholden to to reach their pinnacle power.

Bonus: if you're willing to get the Call to Arms, Expedient Reinforcement, Sovereign Right, Edict of the Master, and Command of the Mastermind unique Auras and stuff them in Hell on Earth you'll get a huge portion of the power given to an MM by an IO build for five slots worth of work (note also that the first four of these are available on the paragon market if you're into that).

None of these sets offer anywhere near the controlling power of a control set. Not even close.

Kinetics doesn't even have a single CC effect in it, beyond Slow...

My pleasure, and thank you! Congratulations and best of luck with the little one.