Sitriel

Nobody is mentioning that, because it is not true. Due to Positron talking about this change in an interview and a minor mishap at the beginning of the closed beta that allowed people a little peekaboo at the power list it is quite well known that CP will be replaced with Energize, a short duration half-CP with a regeneration boost and a nice heal all rolled into one neat package.

Ooooooooooooh, yes. If my memory serves me right that map had some really strange lighting, too. That and beating up a goddess made for a really nice mission.

I think your complaints have more to do with this than with the powerset itself. I know that most people who have their toons PLed claim to be able to build and play them just fine. I know, however, that many of those claims are quite optimistic.
So, your build is probably quite different from the build of someone who has actually played that combination.
On top of that you have mentioned that EA does not suit your playstyle which adds to the problem. There are many good sets out there that are basically useless for somebody who can not wrap his head around them.

This.
Funny enough this far more often than not does the trick and people actually believe the brute is tanking.

I agree, but fortunately the events described here are sufficiently unlikely to happen... and if they happen they will not last. Well, many politicians are hardly experts when it comes to the constitutional rights of others and all too ready to choose a "when the chancellor and his/her cabinet say it is allright, it probably is" approach. (Quite a shame given their profession!) Lucky for us that the judges in Karlsruhe are not that ignorant.
The German constitution allows only for so much restriction of civil rights. In a nutshell: If you want to outright ban a computer game you have to prove that it poses a danger to something of higher legal value than the creator's right of artistic expression, freedom of speech etc. This is no problem if the software product includes anti-constitutional propaganda or actuallly encourages criminal acts (like "games" where you are a SS officer in a concentration camp and have to shoot jewish prisoners or send them to the gas chamber).
But if you want to ban games with "normal" levels of violence like GTA, ego shooters etc. you have to prove that these games somehow pose a threat to puplic safety which even the most "optimistic" surveys do not support. It is still quite a step from saying a game might have a negative effect on impressible and unstable kids to saying that game endangers the public safety and that a ban is the mildest practical method to eliminate that danger.
So, we can be reasonably certain that the spreading of such nonsense is just the usual votehunting that is inevitable in any major election year.

I would be interested to learn how the British handle such issues where civil rights stand against perceived public interests. As I understand it a friend of mine would at the moment face legal prosecution if he took his laptop with him on one of his business trips to London because of... certain... films on the hard drive.

Unless I am sorely mistaken Air Burst is a Targeted AoE set and would therefore fit into neither Nova nor Power of the Phoenix.
That aside, the set bonus for two pieces would not be rolled but applied directly to KB magnitude (not the chance of it triggering).

Then why are you still lurking on the forums? Go out and SMASH something, dammit!

This is what I did and it worked really well. I could even beat LR while levelling (and got a smashing 321140 xp for it not including mission bonus on level 46 iirc ) with moderate insp use, so this priority setting can not be all that bad.

Well, that is your way to apply buffs. Others do not have to take a downtime to buff shields... and it gives me headaches to think of a kinetic who would stall the team every time SB has run out. Ally buffs can and will be applied on the go by any competent support player. If you can not be bothered, there is an easy solution: do not play shield buffers.
I can see your problem with having to spend time to actually reapply buffs on other team members, but the power is balanced as it is while multi-stacking bubbles with almost no effort at all would not. It might appear balanced to people who are used to AE farming with multiple FF/emp AV allies, but, clearly, it is not even close.

And again, no, the MM equip buff was not more drastic. As a matter of fact it is a double-edged sword that reduces bore-time but can come back to bite you in a tight situation. An identical bubble-buff would have all of its advantages and then some but not the drawback. It is still a very bad comparison.

That is exactly what is not going to happen and why I said MM buffs were not a good comparison. Balancing those equip buffs was a lot easier than balancing a power that affects other players and other players' pets.
If you did the balancing along the same lines for bubble buffs those bubbles would be hugely overpowered. Just think about it: Deflection Shield, for example, is balanced around needing just under 30 seconds and 70 endurance to buff the rest of an 8-man-team. With your suggested change in effect you can do the same in 2 seconds and for a third of the originally needed endurance and get to bubble all your friends' pets as a bonus? That is a buff if I have ever seen one. And since bubbles are not underpowered as they are you would need a nerf to balance this buff and a substantial one on top of that.
If I leave bubble strength and your suggested endurance cost untouched and compare that to other AoE buffs in the game I would say that the duration has to be reduced to 90 seconds with a base recharge of 180 seconds. Whooops, we are back at "gather for bubbles".

So, this is still a no.

Yes, yes, she does. She even manages to write German with a very cute accent.
1. There are no more differences other than the language package.
2. That is not even a real hack. It is just renaming of files.
3. What you describe as "Euro style" is actually "UK style". Continental Europe drives on the right.