Psylenz

I wouldn't say all around terrible. There are some places I like using group fly. I have a Thugs/dark and a Robots/poison with group fly.

Sometimes your pets have a tendency to take the long way around to fight something you want them to directly fly to. Fighting Knives of Artemis is almost too easy with group fly. Make no mistake, especially on my thugs, the caltrops make them absolutely crazy. Another cool thing is to drop in from group fly in a PvP zone situation. I have NOT used group fly with melee range pets myself, but I have a regular teammate who uses group fly with his necro/dark pets.
Fighting itself is not recommended for the -accuracy, but the preparation, getting in position can be very useful.

Three points:

Snowstorm is a toggle with terrific -recharge. It is an 'interrupt' power that messes with the embalmed zombies, the sky raider engineers, et. al. It is also -fly.

Slick, shields, sleet, benumb, heat loss, heck even infrigidate would make me feel like a contributor. When you can rinse them down every group with sleet, you have arrived.

Arctic Air has a BIG AoE around the caster. Don't worry about aggro. The more you affect the better the results for your team.

I used custom colorization to mute the appearance to barely discernible. I like mine that way.

The only thing I see is that taking Poison Gas Trap would be hard to put off until level 30.

Level 26 is still not tweaked out, but it's far better than the playstyle at level 23 for instance. Hang in there and don't try Calystix until you get at least 3 SOs in the Assault Bot.

For the first ten, fifteen levels build the character the way you feel is easiest pre-stamina. At level 20 I strongly suggest having a regular and a PuG build. The PuG build features an early appearance of fallout >

On my warshade, I usually say "slurpie slurpie" when activating stygian circle.

Oooo a chance to threadjack. Try Traps/dark.

I took teleport for my Bots/Dark MM and with recall friend, I position the Fluffy where I want. Usually I want the dark servant beside me or in the middle of my bots. For times when the fit hits the shan, the warwolves are running unimpeded through the tar, there is no cozier place than right beside Steve, err my Fluffy, the dark servant.

Wormhole is such a fun power. I think it's underrated as a stun and herding tool. Moving the pile to a death zone is one technique. Tar patches, oil slicks, trapper's death fields are all good examples of this. Often tanks complain if you break the aggro of groups off the tank. You can still play nice with tanks in a stationary battlefield. Wormhole your targets right where they stand, or on the ceiling directly above the tank, or against the next closest wall. All three will still stun the group and make the team's job easier.

Your brute got a radio? Phooey all my villains have to pick up a newspaper. =p

Mastermind duos haven't been mentioned. I have had fabulous success, with a necro/dark and bots/poison pairing, and astounding success with a Bots/storm and a Necro/storm pairing.

Going Black Scorpion for the extra defense from the scorpion shield isn't a bad way to go either.

Because of the variety of concerns, plain ole SOs/generic IOs work very well in a kinetic build. Accuracy, endmod, recharge on recharge. Take a good aim power or rad blast.

Corruptors have to have psy scream and psy tornado.

Lightning Storm is MUST HAVE team and solo. The PbAoE around the storm isn't instantaneously on all targets. Lightning bolts can hit targets close enough to each other. Positioning with hover, fly, raptor packs, even timing it with your combat jump/hurdle can locate the storm higher and cause more knockdown rather than knockback. You can also position the storm so it kicks groups into corners and walls. I can't say enough good things about Lightning Storm.

Part of the consideration of a kinetic's attack/debuff/heal cycle is eventually with enough recharges, the player will be waiting on animation times and not recharge time. I am in favor of a shriek, scream, howl combination, and maybe keeping shout in the solo build. Siren's song is a great complement to the kinetic's playstyle.

If confronted about no heals in the ice shields, remind the questioner that ice needs refreshing every 4 minutes; empaths may burn out of end far quicker and more frequently than the shields. On a Kahn/Reichsman or Lady Grey TF I find bubblers, icers, thermal shields, and sonic ringers to be invaluable for their 4 minute timer mitigation powers.

Bl00dbath, if you export your Mids build using the Titan boards format, it copies much nicer into the CoH posts.

You have many powers that will help support a team from your secondary. I rate three of them superior to the others: freezing rain, hurricane, and snow storm in that order. I find it easier to that of O2 as a buff that happens to do some heal, including sleep, disorient, and endurance drain protection.

Freezing rain is a nice sized targetted AoE debuff of resistance, speed, recharge, and defense. It also knocks targets down which is a damage mitigator in its own right. Freezing rain makes everything easier to hit and quicker to kill. Maximum recharge by all means is the usual power slotting and hasten looks good with this power.

Hurricane with its knock back and repel gets a bad name for its history in the hands of lesser players. Well-played hurricane can complement the herding ability of any AT. The really big thing is its really big tohit debuff. Moving foes around, knocking them down, then applying a big ole tohit debuff on them just doesn't seem fair sometimes.

Snow storm is fairly simple, a ranged toggle that debuffs speed and recharge, not extra elegant, but a top performer in the joyous damage mitigation endeavor. Snow storm saves debt. Snow storm also interrupts bad guys like embalmed cadavers and sky raider engineers.

Now the question about holds. I find the holds very nice in ice blast. I even slotted up bitter freeze ray on my Ice/cold corruptor which makes me a bit of a heretic. I like holding lieutenants and bosses, dps be damned. When teaming with dominators, your holds will stack with theirs and the results are very nice then, too.

Wow, amazing to look at how many good powers in Sonic and Traps a player could want. There is a contingent of sonic blasters that claims shout with its longer animation and recharge actually reduces dps. I couldn't suggest dropping it myself, though, for those times when you need one good punch. Seeing that you took Super Jump at level 6, I know you are a vet with access to both the nemesis staff and the black wand for more long range damage. I would hope most trappers could take caltrops. Its a good power for deflecting aggro.

Another minor thing that makes my skin crawl is seeing poison gas trap dropping to level 24, but I see the reasoning for that, too.