Adeon Hawkwood

Remote Bomb isn't bad but as you noted the recharge means you won't use it that often. However the damage is high enough that can be used to effectively skip a spawn, especially when combined with Rain of Arrows, you pretty much just have the clean up the bosses. Personally I have it on my AR/Dev blaster but it's more a case of taking a power because I have room rather than because I absolutely needed it. I wouldn't bother with Trip Mine, now that the interrupt was removed it's not awful and can be worth it if you need some extra AoE (basically treat it like a melee range PBAoE attack) but Archery is generally fine with the AoE that it has.

A major overhaul to Kheldians with the aim of making tri-form Kheldians actually viable. Basically my dream is that rather than the forms having separate powers they use your normal powers just with restrictions and modifications. So in Nova form you can't use melee attacks and your shields get nerfed/suppressed but in exchange you get a significant power bump to ranged attacks. Dwarf form would go the opposite, you get a buff to your personal shield powers but can't use ranged attacks. The various buff/debuff/control powers would be split on which forms they work in. The general goal would be to make it so that all three forms are viable in different situations and you can build a Kheldian that's reasonably functional in all three if you want. So Nova would be the glass cannon, human would be a blapper with better defenses and Dwarf would be the tough melee fighter. Of course this is a massive amount of work which is why it's unlikely to get done but it's what I'd really like.

Generally speaking HP for minions is static based on your level and their rank, it doesn't vary based on power set. You can buff their max HP using powers from your secondary if your secondary has powers like that (i.e. Frostwork) but it's not the most useful buff. In general keeping your pets alive is more about stacking defense or resistance based on your secondary and their inherent powers.

Realistically you don't need that many sappers on a team. A /Electric Defender with decent slotting can drain most even level enemies in just two uses of Short Circuit. So two sappers could drain them pretty much instantly and once they are drained the recovery debuff keeps them that way. Now if you're running at +4 you would either need more sappers or more cycles to drain enemies. However sapping as mitigation runs into two main problems. First it does very little for Alpha Strike mitigation, on my Time/Electric Defender I rely on the Time powers to deal with that until Short Circuit has time to cycle, that's fine for soloing but on team the sapping is less relevant since by the time enemies are sapped they are also dead. Secondly sapping is useless against AVs so a team that relies on sapping for it's sole damage mitigation would struggle there.

I do that as well. Also Intuition Alpha is nice since the Radial line boosts both damage and range (plus it has slow and to hit debuff to boost caltrops and smoke nade).

Shift+Left Click removes slots.

Energy is probably the strongest secondary for AR due to the way that Boost Range improves the cones in the set. Mental can work since Psychic Scream adds an extra cone to your arsenal, although Drain Psyche isn't great with AR. Tactical Arrow has plenty of self buffs and some area slows to keep enemies lined up for cones. Ice is ok since Shiver is nice for setting up your cones. I still like Devices though.

Enhancement values are scaled down if you exemplar below level 31 to account for the fact that you have more slots.

Quicksand is really nice for this sort of thing because it auto-hits.

My general philosophy is similar to Konru's but with some differences: Maneuver's is always better than Assault for entry. It gives Defense which is always useful to stack on a Team so it's the most bang for the buck. Assault is generally a filler power. I'll take it if I've got room but he overall effect isn't that great so it's a case of I'll take it if I have room. In general I take it on characters who don't need Tactics. Tactics is very binary, it's either brilliant or useless. In general I think it's worth having at least one To Hit and Perception buffing power on most characters so my general rule of thumb is to take Tactics if I don't already have a power like that in my primary/secondary/epic sets. There are some exceptions (such as Earth Control) where defense debuffs and a kismet IO are good enough but in general it's worth considering tactics. Vengeance I like because it can take a LotG Recharge IO. So basically I view it as a passive 7.5% Recharge power that can occasionally provide a buff if someone dies. Victory Rush I don't really care for. The uptime is low and there's plenty of other ways to deal with endurance management. So in general my priority order for Leadership powers is: Maneuvers Tactics or Assault Vengeance Assault (if I didn't take it earlier)

No. The sets that have PBAoE debuffs are balanced around that fact. They are support sets that are designed to move into melee range to apply thier debuffs. For example consider Time's Juncture. Yes, you have to move into melee range but Time gives you the tools to survive doing that, Farsight buffs your Defense, Time's Juncture debuffs enemies To Hit and Damage and Temporal Mending allows you to heal any damage you do take.

Their DPS is pretty weak at that level. It increases a lot once you get Venom Grenade and Frag Grenade to supplement Heavy Burst for AoE damage. At high levels they do pretty good damage (AoE for Huntsman and Crab spiders, single target for Bane Spiders). As for your second question there are three general paths for Spiders: Huntsmen focus on the initial Wolf Spider Rifle powers (most use Bane Spider secondary powers to avoid having the giant crab backpack but you can use Crab Spider secondaries instead with no problem). They get good AoE damage and decent single target (although their single target damage relines on a mixed of ranged and melee attacks). Bane Spiders focus on the mace powers in the Bane tree. They have the best single target damage of all three types (mostly melee) but their AoE damage isn't as good. In particular the fact that they can't use venom grenade without suffering double redraw hurts their AoE damage a lot. They play a bit like a Stalker using hide and placate to generate crits. Crab Spiders are relatively similar to Huntsmen except that they use the Crab Spider attacks instead of the Wolf Spider attacks. Their abilities are roughly on par with the Wolf Spider ones although they do have slightly longer animation times so thier DPS is lower at the absolute high end. In theory you're better of going Huntsman rather than Crab even if you want to use the Crab Spider secondary powers but the difference isn't that major and IMHO the Crab Spider powers look cooler.

I'm not sure how serious you're being here but canonically all of the CoT humans are regular people who were kidnapped and had their soul replaced by one of the ancient Oranbegans.

That was a bug on live as well IIRC, it happens on a few other outdoor maps as well.

It's a pity I don't really do RP because one of my characters would be an excellent fit here. Part of his backstory is that Paragon University tends to palm some of the less capable grad students off on him in order to get them (and him) out of the way.

In general RP affects my power set choices but not my specific build. As an example I wanted a character who was an elemental mage so between the three power sets (Primary, Secondary and Epic) I wanted one Fire, one Earth and one Ice/Water/Wind. I ended up settling on a Earth/Fire/Ice Dominator but I considered other options such as a Earth/Storm/Fire Controller instead.

Or just email some inf form your main and buy the Pocket D teleport power.

A base teleport to Cimerora would be nice. Although as Shinobu says using LFG is a decent option.

Really? From what I recall the mobs in WoW all felt very samey. Now admittedly I only really played during WotLK where it was all skeletons all the time but even the old world zones seemed to have a relative small number of enemy types (murlocs, bandits and kobolds in various colors being the most common with a few varieties of animals).

Wait... OSR is the second most popular MMO in the world? I did not realize that.

Complaints department? ;) That seem risky. I figure some heroes would probably attack it just on principle. Plus would you want to have to deal with a marauding villain complaining that his coffee maker malfunctioned?

Isn't every one of them who's not named Vanessa DeVore either a mind slave or a corpse puppet? The men are but I think the women have at least some free will although Vanessa can influence them.

Well for Citadel TF the first two missions ALWAYS use the same door. It's a weird bug that's been around forever.

You can do that quite well with a Crab Spider. You get three Spiderlings, two Disruptor Bots and, assuming you take mace mastery, a Blaster Bot

Yeah they happen but IMHO they aren't that interesting anymore. Power creep means that you spend more time gathering players and prepping for the fight than you do actually fighting. The actual fight is over in a few minutes. So while it's good in terms of rewards/time I don't find it that enjoyable.