Microcosm

Ya I turned arcanatime off to see if that gave me fiery's numbers but it still didn't; also checked with reactive turned on. I have no idea

Hmm, mids is showing me ~90 dps for the chain with incin, and ~85 for the char chain. Not sure where this discrepancy is coming from.

Base dps says Blaze>FB>Incin is a bit better than Blaze>FB>Char (about 4 dps difference). Must be something to do with your slotting? I would say the latter chain does have the advantage of being all ranged and possibly mezzing the opponent.

Use of 's to denote the plural of an abbreviation is actually correct usage in some styles.

Human form has the best chain for single target damage. Being "human-only" can sometimes make building to use that chain somewhat easier (as well as making you more survivable through defense powers), though it is also possible to do so with both bi-form and tri-form builds. The difference between a bi-form and a pure human build using that chain is negligible as far as I can tell.

No, since that Shadow Meld doesn't exist in game, I don't think he was talking about that. The activation time is 3.168s (arcanatime), but it does not anchor. That gives you 12 seconds of defense, not 8. It is affected by global recharge buffs and hasten. Its base recharge time is a minute thirty seconds, not three, and it costs 5.2 endurance. Oh, and it's available as soon as 41 now.

I would say it performs "ok" (except for Hoarfrost) until 35 simply because its first shield will cover most damage by itself. It relies mostly on that and chilling embrace for a looong time. It starts ramping up from 35 to become somewhere between good and beastly. When they port this set to scrappers it will dethrone /electric as my favorite.

I personally solve that by putting Inner Light on auto (most frequently fired) and placing a floating tray close the the head of my character with copies of the powers that need to be refreshed. That way I instantly see with my peripheral vision when hasten etc. are ready to fire without having to check buff bars.

Add ice armor to that and I'll likely leave stalkers for good.

You can use break free's and binds/macros to make break free's, but there will be times when you might wish you had dwarf, mostly when you run out of insps.

The recharge of it is both good and bad. It's bad in that, on high recharge builds, it actually has lower possible uptime than other tier 9's. The recharge is good in that it's available when you need it.

Sure.
Nin offers the completely rounded protection of softcap defenses plus a heal. It has some good protection from all damage types in one way or another. It also offers a smidge of extra damage and mitigation from caltrops and blinding powder. I usually consider it the best pairing with electric because it easily allows the free AS talked about in my guide.

Ice does not offer the same generic protections all around, but at the same time the protection it does offer can be much stronger and more varied. It offers capped defense to only s/l/e/n. This at first seems a raw deal, until you realize how much stronger s/l defense is than any other type, as s/l accompany the vast majority of attacks. Ice gets capped cold resistance and a modest amount of fire resistance to make up for its lack of defense there. It still has a hole to psi damage and its HP boost is largely ineffective, but it has some other interesting things. It has a -dam/slow aura that will stack with defenses to further increase your survival. It has a pbaoe sapping power that can push you closer to the isoftcap, as well as effectively drain foes if slotted right (drained foes don't attack and few resist this). Then comes icy bastion, the jewel of the set, delivering significant chunks of resistance to all damage but psy, and increasing your regen and recovery significantly. All the varied forms of mitigation can combine to make one seriously tough character.

Elec/Ice is also proving itself for me right now.

Yup, IStrike takes waaaaay long to activate. I still have it, but mostly as a set mule.

The burst damage argument is invalid here. Looking at the base damages, by the time your burst damage IStrike lands, you will have done 168.3 damage; by doing RStrike followed by Gleaming Blast (from the chain) you will do 165.61 damage in slightly less time. Since the latter will give you two chances for reactive procs to increase your damage, it is superior in every way to the supposed "burst" in this case. It does look cool though I also find that frequently when I try to use IStrike in teams my target will be dead before it lands because the activation is so freaking long.

Obviously if you don't have the recharge to run a particular chain, you run what you can to get the best damage.

No, I meant Enzymes, because I thought Enforcer's Maneuvers does use endurance and therefore take endredux. If tomax is right, then ya we are limited to Cyto's and Membranes, though it seems weird that Enforcer Maneuvers uses no endurance.

Yes. For clarification:

It seems each of a pet's own powers functions individually in regards to enhancements. So for a given power (in this case Maneuvers), the game will first look at the enhancements you have slotted in the pet, then determine which of those enhancements is allowed in the individual power and enhance accordingly. While you are able to slot Lyso's into Prot Bots, the Prot Bots' own Bubble shield is not allowed to take any aspect of Lyso's and it therefore doesn't work (it used to, which I believe was some sort of error allowing the Prot Bot shield to accept accuracy enhancement). Maneuvers similarly cannot accept anything Lyso's enhance, but it can take the endredux portion of Enzymes which allows Enzymes to "accidentally" boost the defense of Maneuvers (as well as the tohit of Tactics).

Edit: Looks like thug's manuevers and tactics are actually auto powers, and thus only Cytos or Membranes would work in them, as SimonSayz...sayz :P