In my opinion, Robots or Demons. Bots defense shield each other and have heals. Demons are much the same, but with resistance.
Woah there, hold up for a little while. Thugs are extremely survivable. Later on you can soft cap all your thugs defences. The enforcers and bruiser have typical resists already. Thugs are a fantastically powerful primary. But... They are slightly late bloomers. Defense will always get you farther than resists in this game. Take the medicine pool to toss a heal on your pets once and a while, and triage beacon for the long fights, you'll be fine 
Thugs/Traps is easily one of the top most powerful mm combinations, once your toon is settled in you'll destroy pretty much any content outside of the trials, and once your set up for that you'll destroy that content too.
I'd stick with what you have man, it really is wicked powerful.
Edit: Don't be fooled either, powerful mobs will one hit your pets regardless of their resist, and heals wont help that either. Its best not to get hit in the first place!
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Hey Folks,
I have a Thugs/Traps MM now and I am finding that my minions are really squishy, now, I don't have the FFG yet so that might change but with that in mind... Which Minions are the toughest? getting tired of healing and healing, if I wanted to do that I would have rolled a Emp. Any suggestions? |
Thug pets actually survive pretty well once you have two Enforcers (lvl 24), FFG and Maneuver to stack defense.
Robot's minions survive the best because they have more resistance type (they at least have lethal resistance which is the most common damage type) and the lieut pets heal and give more defense.
Enforcers give +defense but if the minions get out of the radius, they have no defense/resistance. Your minions should survive better when you have Bruiser. He generates a bit taunt so more aggro go to him.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
Hey Folks,
So I switched to Bots/Traps and now I am teaming with /Darks instead of Kins so as long as I keep us together they survive much better, I think the Kin heal was part of the problem as I want my pets to be at range not meele.
They still die but now it's not twice a mish it's once every other mish or so.
With the changes coming to FF I might switch again, as the /dark Corr's can handle the debuffing, but I am looking forward to detonator 
Detonator is the /traps ability -- especially with bots or zombies -- that I always want to tank but can never fit it in. Its really fun to use though! When I used it briefly, I would basically wait until one of my bots was low on health (beep beep!) then detonate him 
He's gonna die anyway, may as well make it hilarious! 
Careful slotting detonator -- its weird and it actually varies between primaries. I think the pets that drop a bomb and run use the enhancements you've slotted in it to determine accuracy and damage, but bots or zombies that just blow up have it count as an attack from *them* rather than *you* so it uses the acc/dam of the particular pet. This also effects the damage it does based on their relative con too... I believe. I might be wrong or backwards about the details of how it works but make sure you look into it before you actually slot the power.
Unfortunately for my builds its been a skippable power, I'm so chock full of toggles and the like that I never have enough "fun" powers like that one. Also its recharge is insanely long for something that sacrifices a pet, it should be *at least* half as long as it is.
Oh and about being Bots/Traps -- welcome to being an invincible naughty god of death and destruction.
Hey Folks,
I have a Thugs/Traps MM now and I am finding that my minions are really squishy, now, I don't have the FFG yet so that might change but with that in mind...
Which Minions are the toughest? getting tired of healing and healing, if I wanted to do that I would have rolled a Emp.
Any suggestions?