Adeon Hawkwood

Personally I doubt they will do any market seeding for pretty much the reasons people gave above, it's a lot of effort for them and they could get similar benefits through simplar methods. That being said, market seeding would probably be a good method for creating an inf sink that is effective and doesn't upset people (especially if they don't tell us that they are doing it). In most MMOs currency sinks are a combination of steady low level costs (i.e. item repair and market fees) and a few high value prestige items (i.e. motorbikes and other cosmetic items). The problem in CoX is that thenature of the game and the audience makes high price cosmetic items very undesireable since people the flexibility of character design is one of the huge draws.

There will be a pretty large price spike for a day or two after it goes through simply because all of the stock will have been cleared out until people relist so people who want to BUY IT NAO will have fewer sellers to choose from. Conversely though with no market history you might get some bargains if you have the patience to look for them.

If you want to play around with number crunching then Mids' is THE tool to use for character planning:
http://www.cohplanner.com/

As for number crunching the wiki has most of the basic equations (the base mechanics are actually relatively simple) and if you want to discuss them the Scrapper forum is probably the best place to do so (Scrappers ahve the mix of solo damage and survivability that attracts the best number crunchers).

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My Traps Defender is AR .

As Psy says pretty much any secondary goes well with Traps. The nice thing about Traps is that it has a little bit of everything so whatever secondary you take you can stack the secondary effects with something from Traps. The only two I'd avoid are Rad and Energy, they'll both work but neither really plays to the strength of Traps. In the case of Rad Acid Mortar provides a lot of -def so the extra is pretty much overkill. In the case of Energy it's to much kb for my liking, Traps does benefit from having some kb to get enemies out of your face and into your caltrops (I use Buckshot and Thunderstrike) but if all of your attacks do kb it makes it harder to keep enemies bunched up in a beneficial way.

Well others have commented on your downplaying of the defender blasts, but I also disagree with your assessment of how to use Fortitude and Adrenalin Boost.

First off Fortitude, you state that it should only be used on Blasters, Scrappers and occasionally (at low levels) Tanks. While I agree that Blasters and Scrappers (especially Blasters), often make the best target for Fortitude they are not the best target in every situation. Depending on the team make up Defenders and Controllers can also be very solid targets. The obvious case is when you have a Cold Domination or Force Field character on the team (and to a lesser extent Sonic and Thermal). These characters will be providing substantial defense (or resistance) bonuses to everyone on the team except for themselves. In that situation using Fortitude to bring their defenses up to par with the rest of the team help eliminate them as a potential weak point. Secondly in some teams (generally ones without a tank or a tough scrapper) a defender or controller will be taking point, and using their controls or debuffs to handle the initial alpha. In that situation a little extra defense would not go amiss. Finally some buff/debuff and control sets require the player to get into melee range for maximum effectiveness (Ice Control and Kinetics are good examples) and for characters with those sets the extra defense can come in handy.

In regards to Adrenaline Boost I think you are really underestimating the value of the recharge bonus. Using AB on a character who is having endurance issues is almost always a waste. Instead it's best employed on someone who has powerful abilities with a long recharge. A blaster can work for this if they have one of the more powerful nukes but in general my preference is for it to be used on a Controller or Defender with powerful buffs/debuffs on a long recharge. Trick Arrow and Traps both have quite long recharges on several powerful debuffs (especially TA), Cold Dom has Heat Loss and Benumb (especially against AVs), two Empaths AB'ing each other can toss out a lot more fortitude and give their auras a higher uptime. For controllers the recharge means they can use their AoE mez power every 30 seconds instead of every 45 as well as the benefits to their secondary.

Reroll as a Traps or Forcefield Defender .

Other than that there isn't a lot you can do other than always carry break frees. Taking Aid Self and using it every 45 seconds will give you 48.44% stun resistance but as Draggynn said mez resistance just decreases the duration so most of the time you'll need a break free anyway or you'll be dead.

Well the raid was specifically balanced around 50 players so upping the cap probably isn't going to happen. I'd like to see some sort of "saved to zone" system as well but it's probably one of those things that is rather hard to implement so I'm not holding my breath.

Just the defense and endurance reduction. HOs only boost aspects that the power already has. There are a few places where you can use an HO to boost an aspect of the power which can't normally take enhancements (enhancing the DDR in Active Defense is a popualr example) but as a general rule of thumb if you can't slot an enhancement of that type normally that aspect of the HO will do nothing for you.