Maelwys

As others have mentioned, the additional incoming damage is comparatively small. The survivability threshold for AFK-Farming survivability is rising from ~35HP/Sec to (35/1.33*1.44) = ~38HP/Sec and my AFK-Farming Brutes are well over that already. The trick is gaining enough Accuracy/ToHit to cap your hit rate against +4s instead of +3s (assuming you're Level 50+1 fighting level 55s) whilst maintaining optimal DPS. In short; yes it's doable. Although I'd advise on not finalizing your Farming Build tweaks until after the next patch hits. As CPH put it: "Just you wait till you see the panel 2 content... you going to lose it."

As the kids say, "skill issue". Possibly a knowledge thing too. Some new players just plain don't realise that slotting Single Origin Enhancements (especially Accuracy, Damage and EndRed) is a very good idea - at least before common IOs start drawing level with + outpacing them circa levels 25-30. Or insist on setting their difficulty sliders to maximum when it's blatantly obvious that they can't yet handle it.

Whilst I'd like this too... you can at least workaround the headache a bit by selecting a currently-alive pet which is close to the one that's locked in a "spawning" animation; and (RE)TRIGGER THE UPGRADES ON IT INSTEAD. The upgrades are AoEs; and as soon as the new henchmen appear in your pet list they are *buffable*; just not *targetable*.

In the main patch notes, there's a "General Adjustments" section right above the "Masterminds" section which has a clarification in the third bullet point Set Bonuses Standard Set Bonuses should now last for the full duration of most summoned pseudopets. 40% of your Standard Set Bonuses now applies to henchmen that are within range of Supremacy. Standard Set Bonuses are those granted by multiple enhancements of a set.

This is getting pretty deep into "Dev-team terminology" versus "player terminology"... however if we're getting technical-technical: Things like the LotG +7.5% Recharge IO are listed as a "Global" in lots of places; like https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Set_Enhancements_with_Special_Effects 'Global' Bonuses are (somewhat confusingly) displayed under the "set bonus" heading on your character info's "Powers" tab (and stored within "set_bonus.set_bonus.X") But they're not visible here --> Which is what matters for this patch. It's only these numbered "Set Bonuses" that are (currently) inheriting to henchmen. Global bonuses may well follow after the Devs are happy with the inheritance and have sufficient time to devote to poking at half a Smithsonian's worth of additional records.

"All the incarnates in the build are required." Are you running Ageless Destiny? If so, then you shouldn't be having any endurance issues since that gives you sky-high recovery and refills your blue bar every 120s. That said... Tankers were hit rather harshly in i28p2 (see here for details) and as AA noted the builds linked at the start of this thread may not be the best any longer. There're some decent alternative Active Farming melee options here and here and here.

Same TBH. I've never bothered with a travel power on my Crabbermind, their build is just too tight power-selection-wise. I do currently take a non-START travel power (Mighty Leap) on their alternate Bane Soldier build... but I'm planning to do away with even that shortly (the changes on Open Beta will soon see them fighting +4 'Level 55' mobs so I'll need to raise their ToHit a bit by swapping something for TT: Leadership... and the travel power is by far the least vital!)

Note Powerhouse's clarification in the OP: "A note about Incarnate content: while on Incarnate Trials or Dark Astoria, henchmen incarnate procs like Hybrid or Interface ones should behave the same as they do now live. If you do not see this, please report it as it's a bug."

I must be in the minority... rather than keep dozens of racks of old IOs in my SG base, I just keep 5 1/2 racks permanently full of boosters (one's half full of Catalysts) so that each new alt can go wild. IME it's easy enough to restock either via merits or the AH (as long as you're not using "buy it now" prices!)

Column A tend to find KB disruptive of their playstyle. Column B tend to find it immersive and fun, apparently. Personally I'm firmly in Column A... partly because there are too many "bad" KB users around... and partly because most of the large AoE effects that inflict knockback are a less-than-100% chance; so it inevitably causes some mob scatter and I find the inconsistencies annoying. Saying to melee toons "just tap the follow key" inevitably degrades into arguments about "lost DPS" and ultimately still involves another player having to make adjustments to their playstyle to accommodate the KB'er; so it's not a panacea unfortunately. I think its fair to say that whenever one person's playstyle or power choices starts causing issues for someone else on the same team- ultimately one of them will have to make a behavioural compromise or be kicked. And some people (on both sides of this very thorny issue) really hate compromising. Meh. The real headache for me is the "enhancement tax" that I personally have to make if I wish to convert more than one of my powers from KB>KD. Overwhelming Force at least also buffs damage aspect a little, but it's unique. So subsequent abilities effectively lose an entire slot per power to a Sudden Acceleration KB>KD IO.

IIRC that's pretty much how it works currently for regular +Knockback enhancements. They're incredibly unpopular; but they're one of the few ways to increase the magnitude of an effect rather than its duration. (if you enhance a Knockdown power enough that its Magnitude rises above 1.0-ish it'll turn into Knockback...)

This was the last one I think? Or at least the last one that reached critical mass. (I had to buy a new cape after all the flames ruined it...) 🧯

Raising it to 50% would also help with Knockdown protection. Currently one instance of 3x Gladiators Armor translates to henchmen getting 0.4*3 = Mag 1.2 protection vs KB. so vs +4s your pets would be protected against 1.2/1.44 = Mag 0.83333 KB and below. so vs +3s your pets would be protected against 1.2/1.33 = Mag 0.90226 KB and below. so vs +2s your pets would be protected against 1.2/1.22 = Mag 0.98361 KB and below. so vs +1s your pets would be protected against 1.2/1.11 = Mag 1.08108 KB and below. If the set bonus inheritance rate was raised to 50%, that'd mean henchmen would instead be getting 0.5*3= Mag 1.5 protection vs KB per set of Gladiator's Armor. so vs +4s your pets would be protected against 1.5/1.44 = Mag 1.04167 KB and below. so vs +3s your pets would be protected against 1.5/1.33 = Mag 1.12782 KB and below. so vs +2s your pets would be protected against 1.5/1.22 = Mag 1.22951 KB and below. so vs +1s your pets would be protected against 1.5/1.11 = Mag 1.35135 KB and below. There are rather a lot lot of additional powers that clock in at mag 0.9 and Mag 1; such as Frag Grenade and Foot Stomp and Force Blast and Hand Clap etc. etc. Also the next major KB protection performance breakpoint is at Mag2; so 2x sets of Gladiator's Armor would cover that nicely. (the more KB protection the better, obviously... but the big breakpoints are Mag 0.67, Mag 0.75, Mag1, Mag 2; Mag 3 and 4... with considerably smaller ones at Mag 5, 6 and 8!) ((and of course if the devs can tweak things so that henchmen gain the benefit of Blessing of the Zephyr, Steadfast Protection and Karma KB protection IOs that'd help too!)) 🥺