Obscure Blade

I have a heroine who got her powers by taking a highly illegal Superidine derivative that reliably gives powers, the one time in ten it doesn't kill you. Was she wrong? Yes; she was stupid to take such a near-suicidal risk. But she desperately wanted to be a heroine and got very lucky.

I do like the idea of the upgrades being changed to something like Repel, and using endurance according to how many targets they upgrade. Given that it would also have to check the target to see if it is upgraded or not instead of just hitting everything in range like a normal power might make it hard to implement though.

That said, I prefer the present setup. One thing it lets me do that I couldn't with the old; when something wipes out most or all my pets at once, as long as the summoning powers are recharged I can resummon and upgrade in moments. That's important if it's something like Positron, or if I'm in the middle of a ship raid and just got rezzed.

Wow, Incinerate at 41? I took it at level 2. It's much more important than squeezing in Ring of Fire that early; immobilizes on Doms are something you take late if at all. You certainly shouldn't be taking both immobilizes, especially that early, and especially not using up so many slots on them. Remember; Doms are not Controllers, they don't get Containment damage. Taking one or both out also lets you squeeze in Hasten, which Doms really benefit from.

And Dom melee attacks do more damage as well; another reason to take Incinerate.

I want a Lovecraftian Booster, assuming that the Mutant Booster doesn't fit the bill. Some ideas:

Face tentacles.

A tentacle tail, with eyes and mouths.

Rularuu-like animated eyes for a chest piece, or possibly elsewhere.

A large preferably animated mouth for chest or face (I mean, the whole face being a mouth).

A bunch of tentacle or insectile arms for the back, with eyes and mouths; like the Crab Spiders but more organic.

Lovecraftian Wings; I'm picturing wings with eyes or mouths at the joints.

The Booster Power would be some sort of long recharge Fear aura, with as weird and creepy a visual effect as possible.

If you are new, an important thing you know is Bodyguard. When a pet is near you and in Defensive/Follow, this is Bodyguard mode; any damage you take is divided between you and it. That makes you much harder to kill, especially with multiple pets.

You can edit your pet control buttons by right clicking on them; also, if you give your pets commands you can drag those commands from the pet window to your power tray. One of the first thing I do on a new MM is change the basic pet commands to Defensive instead of Passive and Aggressive. There are also some quite complicated binds you can use, but I'm not an expert in that.

You can use inspirations on your pets by dragging the inspiration to the pet's name in the pet window, or dropping it directly on the pet.

Storm is also good for soloing. I find it better than /Rad, actually. You can keep enemies away from melee easier, and it doesn't matter if they run/get knocked out of most of your debuffs.

Dark as said is the best soloist though.

It seems to me that the problem of merits concentrating recipes at 50 could be solved with a new crafting function that lets you "rework" the recipe level down to either your present level, or the lowest possible level for the IO.

Fake Nemesises don't use fire, but they do have nasty AoE staff attacks. And Warhulks explode.

And in that Herocon demo, we saw Praetorian Clockwork use what looked like an AoE fire attack.

Except for Howling Twilight, I never take rezes. There's always something better available. And I seldom team, so unless they add the ability to rez pets it's of little use anyway.

It's been mentioned that Vigilantes and Rogues won't earn Prestige. If they stay with that model, that's a strong reason not to stay grey; in fact, doing so would likely get you kicked out of many SGs.