Chief Bandit equip/training advice?

First, is there generally any places other than typhons (ME), gobies (ME on house, BoT on actual gobies) and BoTing raiders that would work at the moment? I'm a lvl 84 Chief Bandit with:
30 BoT
5 Assaulter
3 ME
1 PP
1 Meso Guard
3 Chakra

First if I'm not that rich to ME constantly for levels, I should be maxing assaulter then right? Or does max ME make it much cheaper?

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With Warrior Elixir:




Second, now my equips and stuff. My dex is a little high, but not including AP resets and so forth, how can I improve this character as cheaply as possible? Funding is pretty much apq (I have a means of selling the apples) and I have about a couple million on the character at the moment. I'm not going to get/use nx at any point (unless it's something I gained via MTS, which I haven't gained any sizable quantity so far) and I haven't so far (got a free marriage from a friend).

Equips:
Work Glove: 8 attack
Pink Adventurer Cape: 3 attack, 4 slots
Dragon Tail: 100 attack, 6 luck
Deputy Star Pendant: +5 all stats
Zakum Helm: 15,16,15,15: 10 slots
Snowshoes: +10 Dex (borrowing from a friend)
Overall Bathrobe +10 Dex
Shield: +20 HP (yes, it's worthless, just making sure everyone knows it doesn't have any attack or useful stat)

All other equips = plain (aka earrings)