Obscure Blade

Ice//Dark is an end hog, but manageable with Stamina.

Spirit Tree, like Triage Beacon would benefit from either being made mobile ( and I'd love a little glowing tree following me around, preferably with wriggling roots and grindy noises ), or being rebalanced to come up more often so it's up every fight. As it is, I get Aid Other/Self or just live without a heal.

Consume from Dominators' Fire Assault should be given a heal component; Dominators don't generally benefit that much from an endurance recovery power as most ATs since they already have Domination.

Highly unlikely, but I'd like to see Phalanx Fighting and Grant Cover in Shields merged to make room, and a Dull Pain clone added. Call it something like Rally Strength.

A non-named NPC in Pocket D : "Level 38 Dominator looking for Controller with identity issues."

If you look closely at the computers in a mission, you can see that they display some kind of leetspeak-style message.

In one of the Arachnos maps, in one of the large rooms ( a prison area I think ) you can hop over a large horizontal pipe and find a hidden area scattered with crates covered in magazines and bottles. Apparently where the Wolf Spiders go to drink and . . . read on the job.

I'll toss out a few.

Pain Machine : Turned Against Their Masters,Morality Chip,Crush Kill Destroy, Killer Robot, James Earl Jones. A robot that tortured his creators to death, possessing "the voice of James Earl Jones and a morality chip permanently set to Hannibal Lector mode."

Uj-Sothath : Eldritch Abomination "Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

Felice the Ripper : Heroic Sociopath, Cat Girl. She eats what she kills.

Mister Fist : Badass, Charles Atlas Superpower, Made of Iron. "Stronger than a gorilla, tougher than granite, he feels no fear and knows no mercy."

Nerys : Our Elves Are Better, Elemental Powers. A Sidhe.

Avenged By Fire : Kill It With Fire, Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Out to find the villains who killed his family, and make them BURN.

Judy Julienne : Cloud Cuckoolander, Action Girl. "Meet Judy, a young lady with a disturbing fondness for sharp objects. Don't worry, she's safe as long as she takes her meds. Usually. When she remembers."

Doctor Tempest : Mad Scientist, Mecha-Mooks; crazed scientist, army of robots, weather control machines. Heard about Arachnos's Mad Scientist Gap and knew he'd fit right in! Mwahahaha!

Smashy the Clown : Cloud Cuckoolander, Power Born of Madness,Monster Clown. Captured while crushing clowns flat so as to be able to fit as many as possible in a car at once.

Killing Shock : Break the Cutie, Roaring Rampage of Revenge. "Abandoned and tormented as a small child for her inhuman appearance, when her powers manifested at puberty she suddenly had the power to avenge her pain and humiliation and suffering. And she did; oh, how she did."

To expand on what Carnifax said; nothing can be done to improve the recharge of a pet's powers. Not enhancements, not external buffs like Speed Boost, nothing. And this includes "pets" like Lightning Storm and Voltaic Sentinel as well and Mastermind henchmen.

A few things. First, 21 is probably the worst level there is for you. You don't have Single Origin enhancements, you have only 1 Enforcer, and you are likely fighting Scrapyarders. Maximum difficulty is a bit much.

Second, do you have Stamina? It's a must for /Poison. Third, it gets quite a bit better with the Bruiser, since you can use him to take alpha strikes every spawn and it's easier to keep him healed with your single target heal.

And there's a new feature you may not know of; henchmen upgrades are now AoE. They take a lot more endurance, but upgrade all henchmen in range at once. So if you are trying to upgrade everyone one by one like in the old days you are wasting a ton of endurance.

Defender Vigilance: Turn it into a power that reduces endurance cost the more people who are on the team, and in the other direction boosts damage the fewer people there are on the team. Most of the damage boost coming while solo ( the flavor text could be "When operating solo, you no longer need to concentrate on the welfare of teamates and can concentrate more power into your attacks" ). So when solo you can actually kill things; but in groups Defenders won't be overpowered.

Time Bomb : Turn it into a Remote Detonator; when you set the bomb clicking the power again will detonate it. Probably it would need to be reduced in power for balance, but having a power that's actually useful would be better than a stronger one that isn't.