I don't believe +recharge helps the Probots themselves, pets are now immune to that (I think the devs said it interfered with their AI), so unless you are needing to resummon them a lot you might be able to skip the Membranes.
Have you considered Enzymes? Two of them caps the defense bubbles, thanks to being Schedule A, and handles End Reduction as well. That would let you keep the 3 Soulbound Allegiance for the set bonuses, and still have a spare slot to drop in one of the pet uniques for either more defense or resistance for the pets. I'd suggest resistance, since you already seem to have a lot of defense going.
I am not that well-versed with the HO options, but as you said, you have defense covered. I would emphasize dmg, endurance, and even stun. The protectors do decent amounts of AoE stun with photon grenades and seeker drones.
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HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
3 nucleous and 2 enzymes is what I go with. In a protracted fight, they can have end issues.
What about enhancement boosters on top of whatever you might be thinking..
How do you have perma Chrono shift ?
EDIT- Ageless I would assume ?
1. Why Soft Cap is Important : http://dechskaison.blogspot.com/2011...important.html
2. Limits: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Limits
3. Attack Mechanics: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics
4. Rule of Five: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Rule_o...e_Law_of_Fives
Hadn't even considered enhancement boosters...how do they work exactly? Can I apply them to IO's to make these go from 50 to say 53's?
I posted my pre-Incarnate build here. It still shows my older slotting for the Protector Bots...I've started experimenting since then.
With that build, Chrono Shift was down about 18 secs (Powerboosted Farsight was perma, however). But once I achieved T4 Spiritual and Ageless, it was perma as long as I remembered to invoke Ageless when available.
Looking at the newer Alphas, I wonder if I should go back and take Agility instead? I started down the Clarion path for the mezz protection but I really don't get mezzed all that often since my Defense is already so high and then I've got the big -TOHIT from Times Juncture on top of that.
Here is the link to the boosters. I asked in market IO forum was curious myself: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Booster
I keep forgetting that Chrono Shift has a 50% 90 second recharge buff.
EDIT - Mids info.
You can increase the IO value in mids on the build so you can see the numbers. My issue is I cannot get it work with Hasten values ( side note changing the number of IOs in build seems not to be doing anything atm. but off topic ).
What you do is click on the IO your want to change in value and right click on it as if your going to change it. Once you do that put your mouse over the IO you have slotted in there and hit the plus or minus key and you will see either a +( number ) or -( number ) next to the IO value EG. 50+1, 50+2, Etc. Then you have to hit the return key to make it stick. You should notice the power values change.
1. Why Soft Cap is Important : http://dechskaison.blogspot.com/2011...important.html
2. Limits: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Limits
3. Attack Mechanics: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics
4. Rule of Five: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Rule_o...e_Law_of_Fives
for my Prot Bots I have 2x 52+ Nucleus HOs, Sovereign Right triple (x5 bossted) and unique, and 2 x5 boosted Def IOs
http://www.scene-and-heard.com/cov/covsig.jpg
I've been fiddling around with my build for my Bots/Time/Mace MM. I'm already T4'd out on all iPowers so really not much left to do with this toon.
However, I've never quite been satisfied with how I've slotted my Protector Bots. I've tried two different slotting approaches:
Slotting A: 3 Soulbound Allegiance + 2 Nucleolus HO's + 1 Membrane HO
This slotting nets me +ACC 90%, +DMG 106%, +DEF 20%, +ENDREDUX 33%, +RCHG 60% and +TOHIT 20%. I also get the set bonus of 16% regeneration and +24 HP.
Slotting B: 3 Nucleos HO's + 3 Membrane HO's
This slotting nets me +ACC, +DMG and +RCHG of 94% each and +DEF/+ToHIT of 56%.
Slotting C-Z: I can play around with derivatives of the above two to either get a smidge more defense buffing from the Protectors, or pick up their damage a bit more.
I'm already perma Chrono Shift so END for the 'bots hasn't been an issue for awhile, and I'm capped to S/L for iTrials (65%) and well past softcapped for Def in all PVE content. Psi Defense is even healthy at around 31%. So I'm not needing that much more from the Protector bots bubbles myself, although my bots clearly benefit from it. On the other hand, I'm perma power-boosted Farsight also so the added +DEF isn't really needed.
Given their role, any suggestions on slotting? Money's not an issue...can and will spend whatever to maximize them out. Set bonuses are always nice, but since I'm not getting hit and have a really good self-heal, don't really need the additional regen bonus.
Thanks for your thoughts.