Thought I would comment as I have a mind/psi/mu dom. I was vastly disappointed in my choice of psi as a secondary back when I started as I always seemed to have end problems and drain psyche never seemed to do anything for me. I have since taken up powersink and find it works pretty nicely. I hold a group, use some of my high end cost, high damage powers, and step up to drain the end of all my opponents. I havent tried it much in pvp, but in pvp it equates to endless endurance when paired with domination. I'll be the first to admit that solo, my dom takes forever to finish a mission, but with patience, I can solo almost any mission, including those with EBs. Paired with a dark brute or a few stalkers, we are truly a force to be reckoned with. Once again in PVP, my experience is that I stink, but when paired with a few other AT's we make a pretty sweet team. I plan on taking the armor and the pet as well (should make a decent distraction), but I was under the impression that the Guardian does heal.
I am also making a stalker that I am thinking of using the MU mastery for. I dont know why they bothered includng a pet for stalkers unless I can have MM controls over it. After all, my pve stalker strength lies in my ability to kill some targets and make sure others dont notice me. Seems like a pet is going to start agroing other groups. Great for a scrapper who could use some help with damage output, or with some more squishie ATs but on a stalker (hit and run/hit and placate/ sneak in and kill the big guy before everything else is agroed strategies) it seems like a pet would just complicate things uneccessarily. In PVP I just see the pet giving away your presence.
I specifically did not take any patron powers for my brute because it really didnt offer me anything that seemed relevant. I can do low damage attacks, holds that arent going to hit on the things I really need held and will wind up holding things out of my reach most of the time or summon a pet that is going to be much weaker than me and steal some of my fury generation. I could have really used a healing or buffing pet, a very long range (snipe) attack, a massive end draining power (would really help against LB Spec ops and Malta Sappers) or a way to get some psychic def/dam resist (damn you carnies!!). Even a debuff would have been pretty nice. But I dont really see the Patron Power pools being built well for a brute at all as is. But then, I think you can round out a pretty sweet brute build using any of the pool powers.
