Force Feedback/Issue 14 Pet effects

Ok, so the Force Feedback "Chance for +rech" enhancement IO still has my head spinning, and here's why:

I put Force Feedback into my Battle Bot power a while back, expecting it to proc on my pets and enhance their power's recharge.

I then am informed on the boards that this will not work on the pets. That in issue 14 they made it so pet's powers are not affected by any recharge buff/debuff.

Check, so I just wasted a bunch of inf. on making that enhancement.

So I leave it in my pets, just because I'm not wanting to deal with that just then. So I do a bunch of missions.

I then realize on my Pet HUD, that my battle bots are showing the icon for the Force Feedback proc. I assume that it is proccing, but the pets are not gaining any benefit. But this seemed strange to me.

I then keep a close eye on it, and once it procs for one of my pets, I quickly view it's combat abilities. Listed there for 5 seconds is the 100% recharge bonus from the proc.

Check, getting weirder. Not consitant with what I've heard. So I check the patch notes.

Here's the exact quote (emphasis added): "Recharge times on pet attack powers will no longer be affected by any outside source.

So, does the pet itself proccing count as an outside source? Does the pet benefit from the recharge? Or is it that the pet is, but the powers are not?

Anyone got an answer to this? I swear that the in-game information is just trying to screw with my head or something.

Thanks for any info.

I tested pet recharge as soon as i14 went live.

I had my Assault Droid slotted with the pet purple set (which has an 89% recharge bonus included) and before the patch, that 89% rech affected all of the bot's powers, making them all recharge twice as fast.

When i14 hit, I opened my bot's combat window and it still showed his single target blast recharging in 2.12 seconds (from a base recharge of 4 seconds), then I went into the RWZ and tested it against a dummy. I timed it myself, the bot was shooting his blast every 4 seconds (instead of every ~2 seconds), which tells me that a pet's recharge is not affected by any outside sources, nor by it's own slotting

Basically, all the pet's powers are being treated like Strength of Will from the Willpower set. They will always recharge in the set amount of time, regardless of slotting, or any global recharge buff (like speed boost, and the 5 second +recharge buff granted by the Force Feedback Proc) which the pet receives.

You are seeing the proc fire, and it is granting the pet a recharge buff for five seconds, but the pets powers are ignoring it.