rsclark

I'm not sure which IO can be slotted in a pet to give a recharge chance, but whatever it is would be a waste. It would affect you when you summoned them - not worth it because it happens infrequently. It would affect them when they used a specific power (maybe a knockdown, since that's the only chance for recharge I can think of), but since pets are immune to anything that affects recharge, it wouldn't do anything even if it did fire off.

Which specific IO are you talking about?

My Emp/DP is 50 now and it works fine.

DP is best on defenders because the debuffs are strongest there. You also have the benefit that you can really focus on damage with your attacks, since they have the weapon based inherent accuracy bonus and the debuffs are not enhanceable.

The only downsides are redraw+fortitude and reactive heals+long animation powers.

Isn't Kismet to hit instead of accuracy?

So, with an aura instead of a click pbaoe end drain, will this be viable as elect/elect dom to work as a sapper?

Large, kill-all maps with wanderers.

"Hey, wow, I can tank this whole zone at once if I need to, but instead I'm backtracking over the same, already explored area for the 5th time looking for another damn robot lodged under a catwalk. Wheee. Nothing is better than fighting 700 even level minions 3 at a time."

Freedom just came up for me, but nothing else yet - and pop looks low. Odd, since I was assuming ti was some sort of display issue and not the server actually being down.

I'm going to take a different tack on answering this question.

OP, what pool powers were you planning on taking to support the team. Leadership - sure. Haste really helps since your best powers are on a long recharge. But that's about it.

You aren't going to tank with an emp defender, so provoke is right out.

Grant invis is OK - but not really. No one is going to rely on an invis from someone else if they are ghosting a mission and invis has limited uses apart from that.

There are really not many non-self buffs in the pools.

Medicine is a total waste for an Emp. You have to try really hard to find uses for absorb pain, let alone a slower, weaker, interruptable heal. There is nothing that the medicine pool can do that waiting that half second for heal other/clear mind to come back won't do better.

You might like travel powers, but they don't really support the team at all.

Even if you aren't excited about your secondary, in terms of support, it's likely better than the dregs available from the pools.

Tell us what you want from a pool, and we'll point to a secondary that likely does the same thing better.

I see two ways of this working and one sounds fine and the other awful.

Bad: if you change, you can never earn the merits

Good: this gives non-changers a reason to run the morality arcs

Example:

Villain runs Morality thread 1 picks good solution> Rogue
Villain runs Morality thread 2 picks good solution> Hero
Villain runs Morality thread 3+ picks good solution> new merits

Hero runs Morality thread 1+ picks good solution> new merits

So, once you switch sides fully, you can start getting the merits. Only people who keep flopping back and forth get penalized - as long as you keep banging your head against the floor/ceiling you get merits.

Still, either way, it looks to be a bad choice to try to stay rogue/vigil.

I have a character with that combo and a new emp that didn't bother, and I really have to say it's not missed. The only real strength of emp rez is that they are up and full and ready to fight right away. So, you might as well do it in the middle of the fight. If they are being teleported to safety first, then they might as well use an inspiration, and if they are doing that, leave the TP to someone with a veteran tp.