Aggelakis

The market takes 10%, but the rest of what you said is true.

Actually, all those things you listed are (some level)-50. You can do them even if you don't have a level 50. Chad said "level 50 only". There is only TWO THINGS that ONLY people with level 50s can do:

1. Slot "purples" (Very Rare enhancements)
2. Create EATs (Epic Archetypes)

And if you get a drop, you aren't eligible for another drop for 10 minutes.

No. SOs, DOs, and TOs are sold back during a respec at FULL PURCHASE PRICE, not what you'd get from a vendor. This is why, prior to respecs falling like rain, people would wait for respecs until a X2 or X7 level, so they could get full price for their old SOs, which bought many of their new +3 SOs.

"Shat" is a way around the language filter. (A dumb way around the language filter.)
PP said slurs, as in, a demeaning word for a group of people, don't belong in her game.

No, it's based on their desires after probably hours and hours of deliberation, which none of us are privy to, so it's kind of ridiculous to ask players the philosophy/idea behind exemption.

If the OP wants to know why, they should ask the developers of the game, not their fellow players. This can generally be done by PM, not by posting a question in the "players answering other players' questions" forum. Of course, the OP needs to keep in mind that it's almost guaranteed that the developer(s)/OCR member(s) they contact will not divulge the answer.

Holy crap! Where'd I get this *****!? <hee hee>

Scrappers and tanks are heroes (blue side). Brutes are villains (red side).

ALT+F1 "inspcombine insight catch_a_breath$$inspcombine enrage catch_a_breath$$inspcombine sturdy catch_a_breath"
-- turns small insps into small blues
---- add the following to your taste: luck, respite, break_free, awaken

ALT+F2 "inspcombine keen_insight take_a_breather$$inspcombine focused_rage take_a_breather$$inspcombine rugged take_a_breather"
-- turns medium insps into medium blues
---- add the following to your taste: good_luck, dramatic_improvement, emerge, bounce_back

ALT+F3 "inspcombine uncanny_insight second_wind$$inspcombine righteous_rage second_wind$$inspcombine robust second_wind"
-- turns large insps into large blues
---- add the following to your taste: phenomenal_luck, resurgence, escape, restoration

ALT+F4 "inspexecname second_wind$$inspexecname take_a_breather$$inspexecname catch_a_breath"
-- attempts to eat a small blue; if none, attempts to eat a medium blue; if none, attempts to eat a large blue

Most of my energy management comes from "don't use a big attack when there's only 3 HP left", and also "wait 2 seconds to use a lower-end attack instead of using my gigantic-hitter (which is also an end hog)" - also, basically all my attacks have at least 30% endurance reduction, if not more.

Also, I have a recharge slotted in Rest's base slot, which allows me to use it more often. I am not ashamed to use Rest when I need to. I really don't understand the stigma that Rest seems to have, "I can't use Rest once I hit double-digit levels!" Ridiculous.

I also have binds to combine three of each level insps (except greens, purples, break frees, and awakens) into blues. I manually combine BFs/wakies if I have enough, otherwise I delete them. I use greens and purples to avoid having to use heals.

I also slot IO sets with recovery in mind. Some of my builds/proposed builds have Stamina-level recovery.

Cos they wanted to. I said this already. You just don't want to accept it.

They could alter it so that you get X out of X merits, a ratio of how many missions you helped complete, out of how many missions total. (This is, of course, ignoring that not all missions are created equal.)

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This is getting into Suggestions & Ideas territory, though, and since this is Player Questions, I'll go no further here.

Cos they wanted to.