It doesn't seem to cop up in builds that often, making me think it's cheap for a reason.....
The damage on the damage one is exactly the same as a common damage IO of equal level.
The only thing in BL that might be worth slotting is the acc/dam one.
I really should do something about this signature.
You might get better chances for a reply if you post over the forums of your class, but since the forums in general are dead, I'll see what I can answer.
I had to go check because I wasn't sure of what you meant. I'd say yes, 38% more damage is welcome. I would, on the other hand, recomend frankenslotting instead to get better recharge/damage/accuracy since the set bonuses are nothing special.
P.S.
I actually went and looked, the set is abysmal for PA. The bonuses are, IMO, weak, and more importantly they do not have recharge.
PS differs from normal pets such as the Phantasm, Fire Imps, etc, in the way that they have a very short life span and a long-ish recharge. More important than their damage is the fact they are imortal and have good agro grabbing abilities.
Your current setting would give PA 67% accuracy, 95% damage and about 67% endurance discount.
You really want to have PA up as soon as possible, with accuracy and damage as secondary things.
What was considered the normal slotting for PA was 2 acc/damage/recharge SOs. It would give 66% to all (and lower the recharge from your current 240 seconds to 140 seconds).
If you use two level 50 generic IOs, which would give 83% to all, the recharge would go down to 133 seconds.
My personal suggestion would be Edict of the Master - Accuracy/Damage, Brilliant Accuracy - Accuracy/Damage, Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage and then three generic recharge IOs. If they are all level 40 this would give 72% to accuracy and damage and 97% to recharge. It would make PA recharge in 121 seconds, which since they last 60 seconds, means you'd have them up one minute and down one minute.
PA is a big stapple of your arsenal, I would recomend Hasten if you think it fits in, which would further reduce the recharge to 96 seconds, so PA would be down for around 36 seconds.
Have fun ^^
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Dooooooooom! Merge the forums quick, while there's still time!
(Checks "number of posts in last 24 hours clicky", and finds the search hits the cap of 200)
No, wait...
Yeah, ok, the social part of the forums is up and running, and no, you don't see 1-2 posts a day in the class forums (most days none), which leads to questions never being answered.
If you're happy with the state of the forums, more power to you. Me, forums is a big part of whatever game I am playing at the moment.
Btw, I am kind of doubting that claim of 200 posts. Seems to me you got those 200 if those posts fished from the french and german part of the forums as well.
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Yeah, ok, the social part of the forums is up and running, and no, you don't see 1-2 posts a day in the class forums (most days none), which leads to questions never being answered.
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<Checks main index page>
Out of 12 class forums, 8 have had posts today.
<Checks front page of each class forum, with 20 posts per page view>
Out of 240 threads across the 12 forums, there are a total of 18 posts that had zero replies. A few of those weren't really questions in the first place, so didn't warrant replies ("FYI here's my build", "Fix to XXX on training server", and the Dominator forum was a bit of an outlier with 5 unanswered questions all to itself.
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Btw, I am kind of doubting that claim of 200 posts. Seems to me you got those 200 if those posts fished from the french and german part of the forums as well.
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By all means doubt, but having spent a bit of time following up your earlier points, I think I'll let you spend your time checking that one. 
Hmm, you were right and I was wrong.
I found and used that clicky you mentioned and yes, there has been 200+ posts in the last 24 hours, of which only half a dozen if such were from the French/German sections.
In my defense they were majorly from the General/Suggestion sub-sections which I seldom visit.
But I do keep my opinion that the forums, game-wise, game related, are dead. The social part is doing fine-ish, but the market/bases/classes sub-sections are hardly posted upon.
I particulary know this because I'm a big fan of forums in whatever game I played. NWN, GW, RoseO, CoH, WoW and now CoH again. I decide on a character to play and stick to it until I'm well sick of playing that toon. While this lasts I actively check the forums of that class for any news, tips, bugs to be wary of, problems with certain combos (fire/TA controller comes to mind) and in the end I got both annoyed at the lack of actual posts, but also of the lack of answers when questions were made.
I have been playing since I6 btw, which while it does not make me a huge veteran it does mean I have around a year or two of forums visiting.
The US forums do not have this problem, and my forementioned 'browse in the morning and then at night' give me reading material each time. For whatever faults the US forums may have, they certainly have a greater number in population, which eventually means more people to ask/answer.
So yes, I am very much for a merger of the forums. I would say other than the markets, but I believe I read somewhere even the markets are merged, US and EU, the CoH we play are of the same versions, we face the same patches, the same bugs. We don't have the same servers but that's minimal.
OK. I have almost the full set of this slotted on PA on my Ill troller. I was wondering, would the damage on the, er, well - Damage one - be decent for PA? Or should I drop it? Because I can't really see the effect on combat, 38.6 damage doesn't seem that big to me. Would it make a big difference to the damage of PA or I am just buying another useless cheap Enahnce?