Tal_N

While it is true that you have every power ready in the blink of an eye that doesn't mean you have to use them. Sometimes more is less, especially when many cause knockback. For example, you don't need hurricane and steamy mist all the time or even most of the time. Check out my videos on youtube, I rarely use either except for specific situations. If you watch my endurance bar you only see it drop low when I do a rapid resummon of my main pets.

It no longer works. The build was prior to them preventing pets from suffering from -rech or +rech changes. It used to allow for faster attacks and for him to summon two decoy phantasms. The nice thing about procs on these kinds of pets is that the decoy had a chance to proc too, and that effected both the decoy and the real Phantasm. Which in turn allowed for a 2nd decoy which also had a chance to proc.

Its the same reason why I have the Build-Up proc in Phantom Army. All three have a chance to trigger the buff and all three benefit from it at the same time.

I use the power for very specific targets and I found issues when it was an AoE that could effect multiple targets. For example, confusing Skyraider Forcefield Generators. With the AoE proc they may hit a nearby soldier who then decides to make it his mission in life to smash the FFG I'm using to buff myself. In general, there is little to be gained from mass confusion because all it does it eat EXP if you allow it to carry on too long. If the fight is ended quickly then you don't notice the loss but in general Illus/Storm doesn't struggle to deal with large spawns anyway.

Now then... who has 55 billion influence they can loan me? lol

It is quite possible to have PA with only 6 seconds of downtime even without AM but obviously it helps to not have to deal with those 6 seconds at all if you can help it.

Incorrect because you can put procs into some pets such as the KB one which adds a +rech bonus and it allows Phantasm to summon two decoys at the same time when it triggers. So if they can be influenced by +rech then they can be influenced by -rech.

I remember it quite vividly because it was my discussion topic, it may have been during one of the beta testing forums which is why you may not remember it. Actually now I think about it I suspect it may have been CoV beta because the topic of shared powersets came up.

WHAT!! Fixed recharge? Ok, that is just plain wrong and totally guts my character who was built on +rech. Guess I'll go play my alts since that kills what made SFX fun right away.