Psylenz

Yes, I too, will rethink the frankenslotting of the ember demon and demon prince to include at least one generic IO end reduction for the leveling up. It's going to mess with my damage or my 9% accuracy IO bonus from the Pacing of the Turtle I use on the demon prince.

Gremlins don't do big damage, not even close to fire imps.
Gremlins are a little light on control.
Gremlins aren't easy to control..

Gremlins don't get in my way.
Gremlins don't do knockback, but they do knockdown with their own jolting chain.
Gremlins contribute to end draining.
Gremlins distract spawns from attacking me. They eat aggro.

Gremlins should have a damage aura, but I hear it's bugged.

I wouldn't skip Gremlins.

Welcome to the forums. Kin/Psy is viable kinetic combo if not the most popular. I have kinetic defenders/controllers, and I have defenders with psy blast.

I would definitely take the time to respec a kinetic defender at this time, especially since Issue 19 holds the promise of inherent fitness powers. Besides, with transference, you don't need stamina after that point. For teaming with groups doing missions lower than 21 (level 26 is the lowest you can take transference), you might opt to create an 'alternate build' at a trainer.

I like the powers that you have taken. With a respec, it would be my suggestion to fit in psionic tornado. It sounds chaotic, but it's not really. It's a knockdown power. I definitely like the manuvers/tactics combo. With a build with no fitness powers, you can fit them in earlier to make room for other goodies. You really need Siphon Speed for your kinetic's own recharge. It's also an UNRESISTED debuff when it hits tough targets like AVs. For my kinetics, I really like Grant Inviz so that your speed boosted teammates also are invizible and can help do some mission ghosting or stealthing. The psy mastery set is excellent for kinetics.

Slotting is where I can see you need a little more coaching. Most every debuff, I put two SO equivalencies for accuracy. Siphon Power needs some love.

Psionic lance isn't a bad pulling tool, but it's not usually a big portion of your damage when you are really cooking with the debuff/buff cycle in team play. Some snipe sets do have decent set bonuses for IOs.

Hover has too many slots. Defense is negligible in hover. Slot it only with fly speed. 2 is plenty. 3 is questionable. Hover's end use is negligible.

A player cannot go wrong six slotting psychic scream. It's an excellent defender cone.

Speed boost is way over-slotted. Most people get by with one slot of end modification. 2 or 3 are extra frilly but not necessary.

TK blast and Will Dom are both excellent powers to six slot. These are your 'kill' powers, as I am sure you are aware.

When you respec for I19 like most of us will, stamina doesn't need 6 slots. When I19 comes out, and stamina is an inherent, you will want to put some slots in it. Some people put more slots in there for End Mod IO sets, but I find 3 slots of End Mod SO equivalency is enough.

Transference is what makes _you_ a god. Two Acc slots, Two End Mod slots, and 2 recharge slots is what this power craves.

Manuvers is a good power to slot with sets, but I wouldn't do that at the expense of slots in Mind over Body. Mind over Body is a good shield power for you kinetic.

Tactics and psychic wail are good candidates for six slots. You could get by with less if you were pressed for slots.

Siphon Speed needs at minimum two accuracies and two recharges. Slotting another end reduction or a slow in siphon speed makes sense, too.

For playing around 45 days, you haven't done badly selecting the key Kin/Psy powers. I know I posted a lot, but it's really just tweaking what you have. A little tune-up will make your Kin/psy ROAR.

What I hadn't stopped to realize is if I have Pet Damage IO enhancements with endurance reduction in them that the ember demon doesn't benefit on his PbAoE ember shield or heals. Cutting the endurance for the attacks is good, but it doesn't cover the full scope of his end usage, if that theory holds up.

Jolting chain also does a base of -10% end per target so it plays into the sapping with conductive aura and static field with the minor damage and knockdown. I don't dismiss the knockdown one bit. It's not a lot of time, but it does buy time for the team to set up attacks.

Just some random thoughts of mine: Players often state that ninjas are hard to control, zombies are too squishy, robots don't do enough damage, arsonists are suicidal, mercs can't do anything right, and now the demons are end hogs. I think it is by design perhaps that certain facets of each mastermind group have 'limitations'. Even some masterminds have worked some procs into mercs to make them more damaging. Feeding my demon prince blues is a small price for my mastermind to pay since I love what he does so much.

You would have people that would complain the bubble, sonic shield, fire shield, cold shield made their costume look ugly.

I would go Dark/Rad. Rad does have -def which Dark miasma does not (of all things that it does have). Rad blast has one good single target damage power in cosmic burst, which is also a stun to stack with auto-hit Howling Twilight on tougher targets. Despite that, Rad blast has neutrino bolt which has amazing recharge, so the dps isn't bad, and is a good candidate for Ranged Damage procs. X-ray beam isn't a bad power, it doesn't recharge as fast as neutrino bolt, and it looks cool. Neutrino, X-ray, Neutrino, Cosmic Burst isn't a bad attack chain. The endurance cost is pretty low.

Irradiate, Neutron bomb, and Atomic Blast are your AoE attacks. The nuke has a good secondary effect if the target survives the nuclear blast.

Rad blast in general with Irradiate the PbAoE attack is fine since Dark miasma has so many debuffs to set you up for wherever your defender wants to attack from.

My favorite pet is Demon Prince He has the uber cold aura damage/slow. Everything he does add more slow, and if he gets really frisky, he pulls out that big friggin ice sword out of his pants and whacks everything around him. I like him better than fluffy and assault bot. I guess it's because he's so original. Perhaps Jack Frost does a lot like him, too. Don't get me wrong; I do love the fluffy. If all fluffy did was twilight grasp and chill of the night, he would be a super pet, but he does a whole lot more than that

I think the villain patron AoE immobilize powers are very useful on masterminds. I have many with either the tentacles or the Black Scorpion AoE immobilize. All your alts are receiving two freespecs with the inherent fitness change for your primary and alternate builds. If you have current freespecs or vet specs in hand you could test it out on the test server.

Wait ... DELETE?

I am for any change to MM/poison poison trap. Anything would be better. Maybe something like static field )

Here's another suggestion: make it a ranged power like all the poison debuffs, except port over an exact copy of venom grenade from the SoAs. I don't care what you would call it.