Ooh heck, i'm a dual blades build with Strength as my primary superstat and Dex and Recovery as my secondary superstats. Am I doing it wrong?

Seems like a perfectly good starting point to me.

/signed :)

Does a stun from something like Crashing Wave Kick count for Sentinel Mastery or Torment from the Sentinel tree?

Confirmed that the Stun from CWK will activate Sentinel Mastery :)

Anyone know if stuff like the heal buffs from the Sentinel tree would affect my healing drones? The Sentinel Aura seems like it'd be a fantastic thing to have for my menagerie build, but I'm not sure if I want to invest 10 points into that tree for just that one skill, when I could instead be filling in the Commander or Overseer (for crit chance, which I assume gets half passed onto pets) trees.

My pet build loves Sentinel Aura. I'd already maxed out Commander (only 10 points?! I want them ALL THERE!!!) so I decided Sentinel was the least useless since the build is total Petspam.

Between the AoE heals of my Drones and that Aura they die even LESS than they did before... in regular content.

Try an alert, though, and try summoning all your pets while the rest of your PuG is breaking themselves on a stupid Two Minute Drill and I start wondering if I should keep my menagerie out of these things, because the set-up time is just crap. I know there are specs that will speed that up, but they're pretty much useless to me as I rarely have to resummon now, so they'd only be useful to Alerts and they're not even 25% of the game.

The Commander spec that decreases summoning time is really awesome if you use Summon Nightmare...

Actually, I imagine it would be awesome for summons, but generally Commandable Pets aren't constantly being resummoned.

Yes any mez even if it fails making imo Ego Sleep the best canidate but anything but a root / slow / knock works

It's only boosted by "Bonus Healing" so that is the stat on some new gear, the skill in presence tree, the presence stat itself, and the superstat effect of support role. And you can always take a normal heal with iit or a mez to make use of the rest of the tree. IMO, since once you get the right gear Sent Aura breaks the game, it's probably best to grab a mez to pair with it especially an aoe more so if you pick Sent Mastery.

And sorry no idea if situational crit boosts from skills are passed down, sadly too hard for me to test a 1-3% boost on pets.

Since that's one of the few 'any type of pet' boosts it works on a hell of a lot of things actually. Haven't tested if the rules changed on live yet but IIRC it works on:

• Any Circle
• Any Sigil
• Any Commandable Pet
• Orbital Laser
• Pyre (Might be wrong on this)
• Psychic Vortex
• Summon Nightmares
• Summon Shadows
• March of the Dead
• Pyromancer's Blades

It'd probably effect alot more but the rest all have fixed activations

Does anyone know if Vindicator: Aggressive Stance and Warden/Guardian: The Best Defense still have a circular reference resulting in super-boosted Offense and Defense values? I don't have a high enough level character on Live to test it.