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Ah, wasn't taking the pet aspect of it into account, I see what you're saying now.

Posting patch notes with a patch must be really hard. Really, really hard. Five years and they still haven't got it yet.

In those situations, change the sequence of your actions and fire off RoA earlier or even first. If everything is still hitting the ground before your RoA lands, go afk and leech because your team can steamroll that stuff without you anyway.

Ok, I kid about the leeching but yeah, sometimes the npcs are so overmatched by the team that most of what you can do is overkill.

There really isn't any way to get decent mez protection on an empath (or really any defender that doesn't have a bubble). Acro gives you a little bit but it's such low mag that the only thing it stops is the occasional stray low grade minion hold. Bosses and such will still hold you right through acro, to say nothing of all the stuns and sleeps you'll encounter. Overall, the hold protection ends up being of little practical utility.

Generally I just rely on a combination of making sure I have a couple break frees handy (more if I know going in the enemy is mez heavy) and whatever mez cover I can get from teammates.

If you do drop acro, superspeed is a good candidate to replace it. Aside from the movement convienence, having full invis is a very useful, team/tf friendly thing.

I'd look at acrobatics as expendable. One less toggle in a staminaless build is always a good thing and the kb protection can easily be made up with an extra IO somewhere else.

Also, end cost reduction on fort and recovery aura will be very helpful. At 10 and 26, they can really put you in a bind.

It always amuses me when people in the game say "nice heals" or feel compelled to give thanks because I mashed a button that gave a buff. My standard response is to thank them in turn for hitting things or shooting at enemy. Sometimes it makes something click in their heads and they realize it was kind of silly and unnecessary, sometimes not. Either way I get a laugh out of it.

TA has always had a bit of a glass jaw. Part of its charm.

The old uses for tp foe, putting people in mines/caltrops/AS are pretty much gone but it still has its moments. Mostly on teams where pulling a runner back for another round of attacks or taking an enemy from a place where they believed they were safe to a place where they're alone getting beat on by your team.

As mentioned earlier in this thread, KB is probably the best tool to follow up tp foe with. Wormhole is nice if you can get it, or any high mag ranged kb + tp foe.

It's not something to base a whole build around but if you happen to have a build with some room in it it's a fun gimmick to have available.

Slotted vs unslotted trumps all other considerations. Really, the best response when recruited for that TF would've been "I'd love to go but I can't right now, I have to go slot my build"

Here's my two and a half cents...

One thing that jumped out at me was zero knockback protection. You can address this cheaply with a couple knockback protection IOs from karma or steadfast protection. Two will cover most situations, 3 or 4 will pretty much guarantee you stay on your feet.

In tactics, you can drop the recharge piece and save a slot from the set you have there.

Recovery aura doesn't really need end mod slotting. The base recovery is more than enough for normal situations and even fully slotted for end mod it can't overcome the -recovery from a nuke.

Three slots saved above can extend adrenalin boost out to six slots where you can benefit from a set of five doctored wounds and one end mod. A single end mod in adrenaline boost is useful to raise the recovery high enough to overcome a nuke.

Regeneration aura is another good place for a set of five doctored wounds.

You can steal a recharge away from soul transfer and resurrect to use for your knockback protection.

A slot can be saved off will domination and psychic scream. Both of those sets will give you just as much bang for the buck at 6. I'd drop the dmg/rng from psychic scream and the chance for buildup from will dom.

In teleport you can slot the endurance/range piece from blessing of the zephyr and either use second slot elsewhere or drop the zephyr knockback protection in it.

Since you don't have stamina, some of the extra slots saved would be well spent reducing endurance cost in powers like fort, recovery aura, rez or cm.

TA isn't particularly strong for 1v1 or solo zone pvp. You'll beat weaker players or bad builds but all things being equal, nearly any fotm build will beat a TA--they're fotm and TA isn't for a reason. However if you have teammates to follow on with damage after you ground and debuff a target in zone pvp, TA is highly effective. Entangling, glue, acid... rinse, repeat.

When I leveled an empath without stamina, the biggest thing I noticed was that most of the empathy powers are real end hogs. I would slot some end reduction in fort, cm and recovery aura. Especially recovery aura at a base cost of 26. There's nothing worse than having unlimited endurance at your fingertips, needing it desperately and not being able to get it off because you're too low.

Skip mental blast and go for damage with the other three. With kb/immob/sleep secondary effects they're all very proc-friendly too.