How much is it worth to be Versatile?

So new to the streets of Paragon City is the Dual Pistols powerset. I was lucky enough to be included in the beta for them, and got level bumped so I could test them all out. (OK admittedly, I was busy and didn't get to try the final iteration before they went live, but very little changed from the last version I played to live.) Anyway, until now secondary effects of your attacks have been predetermined by what powerset you chose. If you chose ice blast you slowed your enemies down, energy blast knocked them around, fir eblast set them on fire for more damage, etc. Dual pistols is the first set that lets you change your secondary effects (and a small bit of your damage) on the fly.

So, is being able to choose between extra damage, knockback, slows, or damage debuffs (that last one is unique to DP) and the ability to slightly tailor your damage type with it worth mediocre numbers compared to other sets? It's that hybrid tax again, except this time it's within a powerset instead of a class. Funnily enough, it's in a powerset of what is probably the most pure class in the game role wise (blasters do damage, their secondaries do more damage with different flavors of utility.) Ok some other archetypes get to use the set too, but it's still a blast set.

So for me? Totally worth it. I'm going to preorder the city expansion soon so I can start playing with them now instead of waiting. Of course, there is something else they have going for them. The animations are, at least to me, awesome. I'm also apparently a bit on the evil side (ok so this isn't REALLY news) and my favorite of the powers is execution shot. Yes it probably looks about like what you just pictured in your head. I like to start it up right after a knockback so they catch a bullet between the eyes as they get back up. I'm totally arresting them with incendiary bullets delivered execution style to their faces. Really.

-Luigrein