Kelenar

Storm/Rad Defender. The two sexiest-looking sets out there.

1-11: No slotting other than the TOs that drop for me.
12-21: DOs. If the character gets a jackpot, I'll craft normal IOs at level 12, but otherwise I'm usually levelling too fast to really care about doing so. If they're levelling really fast (particularly on TFs), I'll skip enhancements altogether until 17 or 22.
22-31: SOs.
32+: Full IO builds for everybody. If the character's having problems in a certain area, I'll usually frankenslot cheap set IOs to patch that area up. As they get the cash to do so, I'll slot good set IOs for bonuses.

Anything melee/anything debuff. The first side to get debuff-based melee classes wins my eternal loyalty.

I very, very rarely make characters with tragic backstories/bios. Most of mine have parents that are alive and well and all that and took up heroism to help people instead of revenge or anything (except for my villains, who just want lots of money or to rule the world.) That said, the two I do have...

Aurie - A world-renowned dollmaker was, way long ago, commissioned to make a wind-up doll that could think and talk for the king's daughter. He worked at it for months, but despite his skill, he just couldn't find any way to make the thing intelligent, even as his deadline drew near. Fearing for his life, the man turned to mystics to help him, which they did--by binding a young girl's soul to the doll to give it intelligence. This, thankfully, was hard enough on her mind that she didn't remember ever being human, and the dollmaker groomed her in preparation for being presented to the king.

... and then he died before finishing her. The king didn't want to present the not-entirely-finished doll to the princess, so she was stuck in a cellar and ignored for hundreds of years, until she was found in the present day by an archaeologist, the first person to wind her up since then. She's not in very good shape, thanks to centuries of corrosion, leading to her having occasional huge memory problems or body part failures. And the best engineers can't figure out just how to fix her, because they can't figure out how she works in the first place... mostly because the only reason she's still operational at all is that her bound spirit is animating some parts now. So, every day, she's a little less reliable and has a little harder time putting her thoughts together, with a strong implication that it couldn't be more than a few months before she finally grinds to a stop altogether...

Silead the Lament - Silead's a reverse empath--whatever emotions people around her feel, she feels the opposite. This was just a minor quirk when she was young, since her parents could shelter her, but that was before they died. She was put up for adoption and ended up in the hands of a mercenary company, who thought that her mutation would make her a compliant assassin. It sort of did, except for the fact that killing people gave her such a rush of pleasure that it completely threw her hormonal balance out of whack. As such, it essentially acts as an opiate for her, so when she goes too long without hurting somebody too badly, she goes into withdrawl, her body getting super-sensitive to pain and making her pretty thoroughly miserable. And, of course, the reverse empathy thing makes it a bit hard to be around people who are in a good mood, which basically precludes any chance of her getting to socialize with people. She actually wants to be nice and all of that, but it's a bit hard when you have to stab people on a daily basis just to keep from going into mind-numbing pain and being around happy people puts you in the foulest mood ever.

I didn't know you could have more than one of a given enhancement in a power until I'd played for a few months. Up until that point, my scrapper's (MC Smackdown, white rapper/nuclear engineer who gained his powers when trying to invent the nuclear-powered microphone. I don't think I made a non-joke character until about my ninth month of playing.) attacks were slotted 1 acc/1 dam/1 rech/1 defense debuff/1 endredux in the high 20s. I also thought that the defense debuff SO made my attacks do more damage and spent a few days trying to figure out why they weren't.

Funny enough, a few weeks ago, I found myself slotting a low-level brute's attacks 1 acc/1 dam/1 rech/2end, so my slotting has sort of come full circle.

Base editing upgrades. Actually, anything that has to do with SGs, particularly if it has to do with bases, I am 'meh' toward.

End-game content. Unless I can get new powers out of it, not interested.

I like the general idea, but I also think i16 is going to end most reasonable perceived purple supply problems by luring farmers back into normal missions.

I prefer option 3: At the start or the end of the fight, whichever point you're hitting that thing that needs to die NOW. Particularly if it has high defense or to-hit debuffs.

I like the idea in general, since I'm in the same camp--I'm on the TF because I want to slaughter things for hours. Making it Defeat All might be a bit far (or complicated in the case of things like the Ice Mistral SF, since I'm not sure if they could make you not have to blow up every little crystal), but still, rewarding some strategy other than stealthing at max speed would be nice. Always felt a little weird to me that beating down villains instead of sneaking in and out with the bare minimum effort was basically counterproductive merit-wise.

From the patch notes:
The issue involving random characters appearing in the chat line has been fixed. For example, players should now no longer see "asdawasdsawdsLevel 10 Scrapper LFT"

Rejoice, my people, and say stuff!

Yeah, I've seen Freakshow in missions doing that 'play dead' bit they like to do in Brickstown. I like to think they're not trying to lure me in, they're trying to convince me to stop the beatings.