Eiko-chan

I'm not sure how possible it is to actually softcap Thugs/Dark, though an effective soft cap after factoring in to-hit debuffs from Fearsome Stare and Darkest Night is easily acheivable.

One thing to keep in mind, if you're going to team: the bonuses of the Enforcers do stack with the bonuses from other Enforcers. So a team with two Thug MMs gets twice the bonuses for each MM's Thugs.

Do not slot the Prot bots with more than one Heal. The higher their heal, the less frequently they use the heal. Keeping their heal values lower, counter intuitively, vastly increases the lifespan of your Battle Drones.

AE badges are mostly global. You earn them on all characters no matter what.

I pretty much only team when my VG mates are doing things.

The fact that my main 50 can solo +1/x8 missions (with barely more difficulty than being on a full team) may have something to do with that, however.

I think all travel powers should be unlocked at level 6. This whole "it's not that hard" thing just serves as a detriment to new players. Earlier travel powers means earlier access to the "Woo, I can fly!" aspect (getting to fly again is why I gave CoX a second chance), which is one of the biggest draws and best aspects of this game.

I vote to merge the markets. It would help both sides - I notice a lot of salvage discrepencies (something sells for 100,000 blueside but 100 redside, for instance) that would aid blueside as much as red. Having more people redside won't address the issue as much as simply merging the markets would.

The two sides fight different foes throughout their careers, and drops are linked to whom you fight, so they have vastly different salvage pools. Adding more people to one side or the other will not change the simple fact that one side gets more magic, the other side more tech. Merging them is the only way to get those two pools to mix.

Perhaps this issue could be addressed by simply removing DOs and TOs, which are stupid anyway. Why should we have this geometric scale of enhancement, rather than just having the same enhancements throughout?

Thugs/Traps is probably the best thing since Bots/Traps.

A high-damage Hand Clap, possessed by most SS AVs.

Ever since I could tell the game to pretend I was a full team, my Bots/Traps has stopped worrying about joining others. She just runs through missions set for 8 without breaking a sweat.