I tried a +4 Imperious for funsies with friends. We got to the second to last mission before people had to start leaving.
If anyone gets mind controlled by a nictus my pets were dead. If we pulled more than 1 group my pets were dead. AV or EB in the group? Pets where dead. The amount of time I spent with pets not dead was probably less than 5% of the time spent in the task force while in combat. Lightning storm and Tornado were probably 90% of my damage because... my pets were dead.
I don't think my pets should be able to take a direct hit from an AV's biggest attack and live. I do think that they should have a reasonable chance to survive a hit from most 54 attacks if I'm buffing the snot out of their defenses with Steamy Mist, Barrier core, Maneuvers. and MM enhancements. I'm not asking for them to do more DPS but for them to be alive long enough to be useful.
Plus when they die that is at least 3 clicks to get them going again. Summon+2 trainings. And most times one or more of them have died before I finish even that much.
Completely demoralizing that I would have been more useful bringing an alphaless blaster or something.
