Psylenz

Places to squeeze:

Fly is at max speed with single defaulted slot
Try putting just range in teleport
Hasten with 2 lvl 50 recharge IOs isn't that much slower than 3 lvl 35ish IOs (or SOs) esp if you are getting other recharge sources for set bonuses and LotG.
Don't over-slot slow in snow storm, tar patch, etc.
3 slotting acc or damage in powers can be trimmed using split feature set IOs.(2 Acc, 2 Dmg, 1 Acc/Dmg is better than 3 Acc with 3 Dmg for example)
Put running and jumping stealth procs in sprint.

I am not saying anyone is stupid, just some tricks to remember.

If all you can do is add a power like grant invisibility, stimulant, vengeance or some other one slotter, you have added a lot to your build and your team. Blaster love grant invisibility.

I was so happy to do a Lady Grey Task Force with 5 defenders, 2 blasters and a tank Saturday Night. Our missing defender representation was kinetic, but the radiation boosting, storm and dark debuffing, and trap carnage provided for an easy victory against the Rikti.

I think you are on the right track with a Kin/Rad. Kinetics get to playing so fast they aren't limited by recharge so much as animation time, and you have to plan your sequences around animation times. Also, rad blast is fast blasting with a lot of variation in style and also in slotting schemes. Go for it!

I enjoy playing Bots/Dark, Thugs/Poison, and Demons/Thermal alot. All three keep you busy doing important, helpful things for your squad of minions and your team. Bots/dark I took the stun grenade from the robot primary. I didn't take a mastermind primary from the Thugs for a personal attack, but poison is a very busy secondary. Demons/Thermal is probably my busiest mastermind, buffing, debuffing foes, and using 2 of 3 Demon mastermind primary attacks that add to the debuffing. It's also the most team-oriented build of the three.

I am not the most experienced tri-former, but it seemed really easy to slip 4 powers in a build without stamina, no extra slots, into a well-built tri-former. Four extra fitness powers that are inherent in 3 forms? Yes, please!

I have both robots and thugs masterminds. I do not know how you are measuring the amount of energy damage your robots are doing, but between flame thrower and incendiary missiles, the assault bot does a _lot_ of fire damage. That said, it's very hard for me to decide whether Bots or Thugs do more damage. I cannot dismiss the benefit of gang war sucking the aggro away from everyone with their swarming attack, especially in AV fights.

On my dark/ice I am leaning to spiritual for first, recharge, and added stun in howling twilight. My ice blast does blaster damage, and more damage is appealing, but so is faster recharge on ice storm, blizzard, and power sink.

Widow with spiritual slot for recharge for easy perma Mind Link would be my candidate (of 50s I have).

This may sound odd, but I DO enjoy teaming with inexperienced players. Players who say they don't know it all. Players that buck the holy trinity of MMOs. When the tank says, I need to work on holding aggro, it means he is paying attention to teammates, not saying... well keep up next time. When someone asks if this power or that power is annoying, it's better than saying, my way or the highway. When the tank says, 'pull?', instead of charging into a three layer lab room of doom, it shows concern of team judgement and such.

It makes a big deal of a difference to me when teammates pay attention to other teammates concerns.

Storm has a lot of flashy powers: hurricane, thunderclap, tornado, lightning storm. Your bread and butter is Freezing Rain. The soothing showers do much debuff, and foes slipping and falling on their butts is great mitigation as well as entertainment.

Hover is a pretty good combat power. It helps you place lightning storm later on.

Snowstorm is more than slow/-recharge. There are numerous factions with spawns that potentially do annoying things like embalmed vahzilok, life mages, sky raider engineers, rikti communication officers. Snowstorm interrupts them. Snow is also great -fly.

When you get to level 12 and take the obligatory hurricane, there is a great place to test out and practice your herdicane/debuff powers. Take a trip to Boomtown and get a feel for the knockback, using the terrain, and dealing with larger spawns.

Enjoy!

This is what leaves me shaking my head: isn't 13.5% tohit decent, not overwhelming? That's more than what I calculate getting from double mire. I know double mire has damage buff, too.

First let me say: ignore that bull doo doo about kinetic buffs being not for the kinetic. Total rubbish.

Second, your current trio sounds really stacked! Maybe you just need to work out tactics a bit. Give your plant and brute teammates a couple seconds to mitigate that first strike that mezzes you. If you Fulcrum shift before the spawn is mostly dead, with quick killing it can spill over to the subsequent groups.

Third, the mass hypnosis in psychic mastery, takes a big big chunk out of any alpha. I highly recommend that for kinetics.

Another idea, you and your plant teammate with your extra powers from I19 stamina respec could each take stimulant! That is a good power to have just one slot in.

At present, I have 4 defenders that I think I will alpha slot. Dark/ice will go Spiritual for the recharge and stun attributes. Storm/Rad blast is going Musculature-Radial. As my friend said, most of the time you don't need extra defense debuff until you really really do need it on AVs and such. The damage will be nice for the Lightning Storm, Tornado, and rad blasts.

My Radiation/Rad blast defender is another matter. I can see three types of alpha slot helping: Spiritual for the perma AM, perma Hasten build. Cardiac since he does suck down a lot of end even with conserve power to offset EM Pulse. Nerve core boost looks good for choking cloud and EM Pulse, but the Accuracy portion would be superfluous.

For my Forcefield/Psychic blast, I am completely undecided.

Any thoughts from the forum gallery?

I am a little torn. I can see how having extra stun and extra recharge would help Bots/Dark. Extra heal and extra recharge would help Demons/Thermal. Extra end would definitely help demons. Extra Damage would help everything, since extra stun duration, end cost, and recharge of controls would warrant less attention if everything is already DEAD.

I wouldn't get stealth; it doesn't stack with shadow fall. I would sooner pick up hasten, superspeed, another dark blast attack, and/or maybe the dark nuke.

I think my Fire/Dark is going to respec (with a nod to the inherent stamina) into Oppressive Gloom to go with Howling Twilight, then Recharge/Stun in Spiritual looks tempting. I haven't really decided yet, but it looks tempting. Recharge benefits a lot of dark powers.

Spiritual is the one with +recharge AND +heal, or am I confused? Extra heal would be frosting for plant doms with spirit tree and EC doms with Static Field. Or, would those effects be unnoticeable?