Potential ways to increase pet recovery?

Hey I'm currently working on a build for my demon/traps mastermind, i'm just wondering what ways could be used to increase pet recovery or reduce the endurance cost on their powers. would putting heal procs like numina and miracle in a power like triage beacon or even in the pet summoning power work? and does slotting endurance discount on the pet summons decrease the endurance cost on pet powers or just to summon them?

Thanks

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The only option slotting wise is to slot endurance reduction enhancements in the pet power which is supposed to decrease their endurance usage. Things like Numina and Miracle or set bonuses will affect you not the summons. You can use outside buffs (such as Speed Boost) but obviously you'd need someone else to provide them.

However there are reports that the demon prince is a bit buggy when it comes to endurance reduction enhancements:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=242479

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The only way to increase pets' recovery is to use a recovery buff power on them, which /Traps does not have (/Pain does, but I think that's the only set that can boost recovery). What you can do is slot the pet powers with endurance reduction, which will lower the cost of the pet's powers. However, there is a limitation to that:

- Endurance reduction from normal enhancements (TOs, DOs, and SOs) and Hamidon Enhancements / SHOs applies to every power a pet uses.

- Endurance reduction from set IOs applies only to pet powers that can use that set

For instance, if you slot the Demon Prince with an Essence of Curare Acc/End IO (a Hold set), it will only apply to his holds. None of his other powers will get the endurance reduction, or the accuracy for that matter. That makes choosing IOs a bit tricky in some cases. Note that Pet Damage IOs also follow this rule: they only apply to damage dealing powers.

Demonlings - All their powers do damage, so the usual full set of Blood Mandate or frankenslotted mix of Pet Damage IOs work fine.

Demons - The Ember Demon's heals are endurance hogs, but slotting heal sets won't help his attacks. I'd go for a generic End Reduction IO plus a mix of Pet Damage IOs that also include some endurance reduction, or once you hit 50 a couple of Heal/End Hami-Os.

Demon Prince - He also needs a generic End Reduction IO and probably a generic Accuracy if you care about things like Shiver hitting. His hold does damage, so if you don't care about Shiver or Chilling Embrace you could go four Acc/Dam Pet Damage IOs and a couple of generic Endurance. Almost all of his powers slow, so you can also go with Slow sets for endurance reduction and hit most of his powers. Like the Demons, Hami-Os are probably the best bet once you can use them.

Finally, I've heard reports that Demons may be bugged right now. In particular, the Demon Prince may not actually be benefiting from endurance reduction at all. If true, all you can do is wait for the devs to fix him.

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