Fleeting Whisper

Let's see:
O2 Boost (L2): No KB
Snow Storm (L4): No KB
Steamy Mist (L10): No KB
Freezing Rain (L16): KD; at this point Gale extends beyond "knock things into a wall" to add "knock things into FR"
Hurricane (L20): Repel (much slower than KB); chance of short distance KB; effects come in pulses, allowing quick enemies to get by; and radial rather than cone; while it's a useful positioning tool, it's better in conjunction with Gale than without
Thunder Clap (L28): No KB
Tornado (L35): Good KB, but entirely unpredictable considering the pet moves wherever it wants, knocking enemies wherever it wants. Great if you want chaos, not so great for positioning
Lightning Storm (L38): Good KB, and directional like Gale. But it can only knock one target at a time (technically up to 5, but they'd have to stand really close together), and the position it knocks from is locked for the entire duration of the pet

There isn't a single power in the set that invalidates Gale's usefulness.

~90% uptime with ~300% regen, vs. ~36% uptime with ~1000% regen.

RA has 40% the uptime of ST/TB
ST/TB has 30% the effect of RA. And it can't move.

Oh, and the corverage area difference is 15ft radius. That's... abit more than two full steps in-game in a single direction. And the effect requires Line-Of-Sight the entire time, so it's blocked by walls. And pillars...

The Dirty Thirties?

I don't think "thoroughly intrigued" is a color

I wish it was considerable...

I mean, sure, Spirit Tree/Triage Beacon is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Hell, it's better regen than most individual characters can give themselves outside of Rest. But it's not really that great for an immobile regen buff. I'd even be satisfied if they increased it by 100% (from 150% to 250%), then at least it would be about equal to Regen Aura's unehnaced buff after you slotted it.

*cough*

-100% sleep resistance would cause a divide-by-zero error.

My level 50 Illusion/Storm Controller still uses Gale.
My level 50 Radiation/Dark Defender still uses Dark Blast.
My level 50 Thugs/Dark Mastermind still uses Twilight Grasp.
My level 50 Ice/Stone Tanker still uses Stone Fist.

I don't have a single high-level character which doesn't continue to use both of their level 1 powers. And as I said, there isn't a single T1 secondary power which I wouldn't find useful (though there are many that I don't use simply for the reason that I don't have that many characters).

As you understand it, you're wrong.
Pets.RainofFire.RainofFire: Max targets hit 16
Pets.IceStorm.IceStorm: Max targets hit 16
Pets.Blizzard.Blizzard: Max targets hit 16

And, since it was mentioned...
Pets.RainofArrows.RainofArrows: Max targets hit 16
Pets.FreezingRain.FreezingRain: Max targets hit 16

Amusingly, all of the above pets have no target cap for their "Avoid" power, so if you've got 17 critters in the area, 1 of them will run out despite not being damaged. [Rain of Arrows] also summons a second pet which doesn't have a target cap, but that second pet is named "RainofArrows Visual", and doesn't really do anything.

With regard to the Thugs Arsonist. The Arsonist's Fire Bomb power (granted by Upgrade Equipment) summons a pet named "Burn" with a max target count of 5 for the damage, and no target cap for the avoid, just like all of the above powers.

However.

All of the above powers come from pets, and the power that summons the pet only summons one instance of the pet, so there's no need to place a target cap on the summon power - the summon doesn't care about targets, it just summons a single pet.

The Arsonist's Fire Bomb power (which summons the Burn pet) will create one Burn for each target within Fire Bomb's area. Fire Bomb has no target cap, either, so the Arsonist is capable of summoning an unlimited number of Burn pets at once. And each Burn pet could damage 5 targets at once.

Note: the Arsonist's Fire Bomb power is his only power which acts this way. All of his other powers have proper target caps.

With a category, even

I think it's more likely that any Nemesis plots taking place in Upsilon Beta 9-6 will be developed by Primal Earth's Nemesis. Nemesis has already shown an aptitude for both dimensional and time travel. I think we also have evidence that Nemesis has disposed of a few of his alternate-dimension counterparts. And we've also been told that Gerhardt Eisenstadt died a happy old man on Praetorian Earth around 100 years ago.

Since when is preventing subversive elements from destroying your utopia an evil act?

All parts of beta testing - including Friends & Family - is done on the Test server. If it's not on Test, it's not in any stage of beta yet.

Mother Mayhem is pretty, and everyone likes hugs!

And without her Psychic Friends Network, we would have to worry about subversive elements plotting the destruction of all that is good.

I blame the radiation from Terra Volta.

There is no such thing as a corner in comics. As soon as the corner becomes inconvenient, it gets obliterated by an energy weapon.

Actually, I believe the instance is preserved for a little while after you're gone. If you can log back in and get inside the mission fast enough, the progress should not reset.

Debt. Not Debt Protection. Just debt.

But Recluse doesn't even do that. Recluse is going for Darwinian world domination. If you want mustache-twirling evil, look to Westin Phipps.

Really? Mine's always reset to "Not Looking" whenever I log in...

Or maybe it was a bug that got fixed. s I said, it's been a long time since I respecced my Fortunata.

Level 47 enemies will drop level 50 recipes (and therefore can drop purples), but they're -3 to a level 50 character (and therefore just barely gray, so won't drop any recipes)