Microcosm

Unfortunately it is not possible because there is a limit on the length of a bind in game. However, Popmenus don't seem to have a limit on their length, so you can put all of the commands into a single Popmenu (listed under "Consolidated Popmenu" in the OP). Consolidated Popmenus require two clicks/button presses as opposed to the three required for regular macros and binds to do all of the combining. The most efficient method is to use the movement binds, which will do all of the combining through your normal movement if you use the WASD keys. (If you use other keys for movement, you can easily put those in the commands instead).

If you're serious, don worry about it; let's say it means mutli-fish, as the nova form is called a squid and the dwarf form is called a lobster (though those are a mollusk and a crustacean I think )

I agree. Having those tradeoffs made everything a bit more interesting and was a major selling point to me for sets like Electric Armor which have alternate ways of dealing with endurance. Ah well, at least it will give my /elec scrapper some more passive regen. Either that or I'll just reroll all of my /elec characters as /fa.

Brutes get it, Stalkers don't. Stalkers get dark blast which is pretty weaksauce compared to Gloom.

That is not accurate in the case of Electric melee paired with /nin; these Stalkers can actually make use of AS in their single target chain and come out substantially better off than the others, and they get the same AoE attacks as the other AT's (all other Stalker sets lose at least one AoE), which also surpass the other AT's in damage when near a few teammates (stalker scaling crit rate). Nin also has tons of aggro control with caltrops and blinding powder, not that a softcapped character needs it, nor a character whose primary can deal so much knockdown.

Edit to clarify for those who don't know: Using AS in an attack chain normally reduces your single target damage, mostly because you have to take the time to placate beforehand in order to get the special damage. An electric/nin is able to fit AS in its chain at key points without having to use placate, and thus gains the special extra damage without losing as much in opportunity cost of its other attacks. Combine this with the fact that electric's single target attacks are not the strongest on the block, and the fact that the Stalker can pull off a massive dps attack every now and then becomes an enormous advantage.

Why/how does this work? The key to pulling off an AS is being in hidden status. One must not directly deal damage or take it for 8 seconds after attacking to re-enter hidden status. Summoned pets are not direct damage, and therefore do not break hide nor keep one from re-entering hidden status. Lightning Rod and Caltrops are both 'summoned pets.' Every time Lightning Rod is recharged, a stalker can execute Caltrops, then Build Up, then Lightning Rod, and then Assassin's Shock, and by the time the Assassin's Shock (the only direct damage there) lands, 8 seconds will have passed and a full AS will be had. This works best with soft-capped stalkers for obvious reasons, but the very consistent knockdown from Lightning Rod helps to keep enemies from landing attacks for this period. Speaking from experience, when softcapped, not being able to pull off the AS is quite rare.

The entire damage from that break in your normal single target chain is much better over time than your normal chain is.

Higher damage per activation time; also on extreme recharge builds it fits nicely between Golden Dragonfly and Soaring Dragon, whereas if you filled that space with Sting your chain would be quite a bit longer, so you'd be using your heavy hitters less frequently, have fewer chances for procs to fire, etc.

I don't actually need more slots with an IO build, unless they increase the number of slots any one power can take from 6 to something higher. Plus the Alpha slot in issue 19 should reduce the number of certain types of enhancements you need to slot, thus reducing the number of necessary slots.

I dunno, Dechs; group energy flight, human dark detonation, and essence drain are all pretty lackluster powers. You may still want to take them in your build for various reasons or even like them, but they are still lackluster.

The cottage rule thing really is a big deal to the devs. They don't seem to be willing to completely change a power, but they may alter its effects. So that limits fixes to the current pools (although they could do some things like turn group energy flight into basically group energy hover, giving a team defense buff and making everyone hover; with the base flight speed increases I don't think many would mind that).

Oh, and if you added -res to pb's, shades should get -tohit
Thematic and useful.

The same PPP's as SoA get. Those can slightly boost the single target capabilities of human form (warshades say please); give khelds access to AoE immobilize powers, which is something they lack (and one of which has -kb); give some useful debuffs from human form that are different from what we already have, and arguably better (Arctic Breath, Shatter Armor, Darkest Night).

Of those things, I have frequently wished for an AoE immob, especially one to negate my knockback, something to use with Grav Well for human single target damage, and those debuffs would be really nice.

Nah, my bane has 30 power choices just from primary and secondary, then I can switch builds and have another 14 from crab pools. My warshade has 26 powers in primary and secondary, two inherent travel powers, and ten powers from the forms if I have chosen to take them. I'll call it equal since the warshade doesn't have to switch builds for its form powers. I usually end up wasting several power picks though, as I get to the point where nothing else from the human form pools would be useful at all.

While I don't usually do the "devs hate khelds" thing, this is clearly a case where the aliens were just low on the priority list. And as we have a pretty low population, that's actually ok with me as long as they don't pretend it's because khelds are epic pools. Hopefully they'll get to it soon.

It also makes very little sense that khelds can "learn the secrets of their patrons" like everyone else but not be able to use the powers. Oh well, not gonna keep my fingers crossed until after I see a change to secondary mutation.