JuliusSeizure

DP/Poison is what you want. I don't even have a proper PvP build and it can dominate.

I believe the Critical Hit bonus is a global boost to all of your skills, so that aspect doesn't matter. The only aspect that actually procs is the boost to recharge, and for that I would put it in a skill with a longer recharge rather than your fastest attack. It will have a higher proc rate, and when it does proc it will be guaranteed to affect a more powerful skill that has a longer recharge-- because that's the skill that was just used.

My eyes were drawn to the illuminated star and heroic looking bands surrounding his cape and shoulders. I think it's a cool pose personally.

I still don't like the change to Poison Gas Arrow. The sleep is largely useless and the -damage debuff has become unreliable. The old version was a guaranteed -damage effect with a 20 second duration that was tagged onto any foe that was in the area of effect. The new one is a location bound patch that pulses a debuff that can miss, allows high value enemies to exit the patch (particularly mobile AVs and GMs), and seems to generate more agro than the old version did. In particular, I hate the fact that the -damage will consistently have lapses on foes because accuracy is bound by a 95% success rate.

It is quite improved for sleeping minions though, woohoo.

There really isn't much incentive to give away freespecs with the Paragon market. Plus, while the improved many of the skills in Gravity and Assassin Strike, there wasn't any drastic changes made that would require revamped socketing.

Bots/Time/Mace...

What an awesome trailer--watching it was a great way to prepare for tomorrow's release!!

The ATO works great in longer recharging AoE attacks. The problem is that Roots and the AoE immobilizes recharge a bit too fast to really ramp up the proc rate. If you put that thing is something with massive targeting geometry and a 45+ second recharge, you can reliably triple stack it on spawns as an opening build up (Terrorize or Mass Hypnosis a Mind dom).

Dual Pistols could definitely use a reduction in the animation time of Executioner's Shot...

I will say this as well-- Incendiary Rounds are too good compared to the other ammo types. I would add some DoT to Toxic and Cryo Rounds, at about half of the value granted to Incendiary.

Fixing snipes should be really easy. Just make these attacks the equivalent of the high damage attacks that EVERY melee set receives.

1- Remove the interrupt.
2- Set animation to 2 seconds.
3- Set recharge to 15 seconds.
4- Set damage scale to 2.76, or roughly the same as it currently is. (This is conveniently what a 15 second recharge grants.)
5- Leave the range as is.

But what about the sets that don't receive a Snipe? That's simple. Clobberize their utility mez skills so they have a skill that does similar damage to the snipes with a reliable mez effect.

I feel that Time is far and away best used on a Mastermind-- in particular a Bots/Time/Mace Mastermind,

Time is an extremely powerful set that is only optimized when all of its clicks are utilized-- ST buffs, defuffs, holds, AoE heals, etc. Try using Time Manipulation to its fullest on any other AT and you are SERIOUSLY sacrificing the ability to use your Primary or Secondary skills. Masterminds don't suffer this, and can instead deliver 100% of their DPS and control while using Time to its click-heavy animation-consuming fullest.

You want Bots because they offer the best AoE damage, the best Single target damage given Assault Bot's massive -regeneration, and the second best defense to stack with Farsight. You want Mace so that you can Powerboos Farsight and pretty much break the game wide open.

Bots/Time/Mace is probably the single most powerful combination in the game.

I use ATOs if it is a targeted AoE. If it is a ranged cone, I prefer to use 2 parts Javelin Volley (Acc/End/Rech, Acc/Dam/End/Rech) and 2 Synthetic Centrioles at level 52+. Regarding cones, targeting geometry on this type of attack is far more important than set bonuses, and having +46% range, 95% damage, Acc, End, and Recharge at a greater value than one 50 IO each for just 4 slots is about as good as it gets.

First, I would be happy that Time is so good in PvE. Play Poison, Trick Arrow, or Sonics in PvE and then give Time a whirl. One of these things is not like the other, and brokenly powerful in comparison.

Heal decay does weird things in PvP, which is why those skills were changed to regeneration rather than a heal-over-time component. The same was done to Pain Domination's healing aura that ticks for heals in PvE but provides regeneration in PvP.