Kelenar

Do they heal you if they die confused? From what I've seen in mixed-enemy missions with Ghouls, they don't heal other factions even if they're otherwise friendly to each other, so I'd be kinda surprised if they do. (Plus the problems with confusion ending when they die.)

Yes, which I think many other responders are missing, instead just seeing, "I turned my difficulty up and now it's too hard."

That said, now that we have inf-free difficulty changes, there's no real drawback to turning your difficulty down when you get a mission against one of the boss-happy factions, other than the time needed to run to the difficulty rep.

Plus, isn't the 'grr, you killed my friend!' thing what Vengeance represents?

Just pick the guy who always accidentally hits auto-run when trying to type.

I have had a few characters in pseudo-MM arrangements, but never trying for a full team based on one of the sets like this. As much as people clamor for customized MM minions, why try to mimic the existing sets when you have the highest level of customization available?

Is that what it is? I've been wondering what it was supposed to be.

I'd like this, myself, more as a suggestion than a 'fix.' My current blaster is at a weird point where x1 is boringly easy, but x2 is often crazy-dangerous because I get a dozen bosses (or scaled-down bosses, which are still pretty darn dangerous in some groups) per mission sometimes. Separate minion + lieut/boss spawn settings could be interesting. My AR/Traps Corruptor would love lots of minions and lieutenants with few bosses, and the inverse would be awesome on my Dark/Elec Brute.

Huh, I didn't know that happened with minor arcs. That'd explain why some of my Prae arcs seemed to have really weird endings...

And definitely this. I was just considering this one the other day. Having to do papers every few levels sucks, especially now that villainside has some alternate leveling paths like tips and RWZ. Run out of RWZ missions at level 39 and want to head back to the Isles to get to 40? Enjoy running newspapers to unlock a contact who will give you missions for about three more bubbles. To be fair, some of the contacts do introduce each other, but I'd like to be able to get a single, unbroken chain from 1-50.

Logging the results never helped my d20 rolls, though... Looking back at them, I think I'm under some kind of gypsy curse. By a gypsy who really likes numbers below 4.

Only if I get a moral choice in the very first mission to say, "You know, I really don't like you," punch her, and lose her as a contact.

Actually, give me that on every contact. It'd be a great way to relieve years of annoyance at some of them!

Yes, but considering all the warnings we get from them about scam e-mails, it was kinda a weird move on NCSoft's part to send out an e-mail that looks really similar to a lot of the spam ones. My earlier post wasn't saying 'clicking links is okay sometimes,' it was 'the GR beta invite e-mails were kind of poorly done.' I know of several people who thought it was a scam when they first saw the e-mail.

And yet, the Going Rogue beta invitation e-mails had links in them, and one even had a misspelling in the title ("City of Heoes") to make things more suspicious. At least, I know several people who got that e-mail and were in the beta, so I think it was legit. I personally got about four beta invites, many of which I'm pretty sure were legit, so who knows.

This would be nice. At least better than the 'Well, the Arbiters are angry at me, so I guess I'll betray you now' thing we're currently shoehorned into.

The Static is an underground communications network the Resistance uses. Those boxes that are often glowies in underground maps. And yes, you do contact Belladonna through it in a few places. I don't know if there are any more details revealed, since I haven't done all the Resistance stuff yet.

People also tend to forget that most Blasters have access to Aim and Build Up, whereas any other AT, including doms, will have one of those two at best. Those add up to a ton of extra burst damage potential solo, and are still very nice to have on any team that isn't already hitting 95% of the time and at the +damage cap.

And while the damage is awesome, I think people are undervaluing the controls a little, especially on a team. You can lock down things that get angry at you for blaster, but taking bosses and problem lieutenants out of the picture is also very nice for everybody. Holding that Spectral Daemon Lord who's siting in the middle of the meleers with Chill of the Night running is high five worthy. And then once Domination hits, any fight where your AoE control is up becomes an unmitigated slaughterfest.

Yeah, this. I know people who were happy with Empathy/ Defender soloing speeds before. I, personally, find some Scrappers to solo too slowly for me, and soloing most Defenders is just out of the question. All comes down to personal preference. If you found it slow before, I'd suggest going for a combo with good damage. In addition to the ones already named, I find Kin/Ice to feel blastery solo. (I personally just plain don't enjoy /Sonic, but Kin/Sonic also strikes me as potentially very, very good.)

My Traps/ Defender had the best fight with Silent Blade thanks to all this stuff. I could debuff her defense enough to hit, but she also had enough immobilize protection and -speed resistance that I couldn't keep her in place, and she'd run like crazy every time I started to do real damage to her. So it resulted in the two of us having a Yakety Sax chase around an empty bank for about ten minutes. Finally, I let her run away, set up a giant minefield in the door to the bank, and just let her take care of killing herself for me. Took forever, but it was one of the most fun fights I've had recently.

As far as tip missions in general, I'm loving them so far. I really like the way they're tied in with the rest of the world--you don't fight Archon RandomNameHere, you fight a guy who will later play a big role in a different arc. You don't rescue a generic Freak, you rescue your #1 main man Ohmtown. Giving the other heroes/villains personalities is just icing on the cake. To top it off, the Rogue tip missions are mostly awesome. It's quickly become my favorite alignment, because passing cursed artifacts off to your competitors and then charging people to beat them up when they go berserk, rescuing good guys for a fee, and calling in heroes to arrest vigilantes who are giving you trouble are all awesome.

I'm told the phone number thing is fixed, and hero contacts are supposed to give it out after the first mission or two. But I haven't touched i0 hero contact missions in years, so I can't personally vouch for it. Otherwise, yes, I generally agree. More specifically, though...

Croatoa: While Striga is more outdated, Croatoa has more interesting moral situations, which I think would benefit more from the new framework. And the missions could use more unique mechanics. But I'm apparently the only person who doesn't think Croatoa as-is is the bee's knees.

Yeah, now that I've seen the full 1-20 Praetorian spread, it's not as bad as I'd thought. The early stuff is hard compared to elsewhere (AKA Hellions, Skulls, Mooks, early Council, and CoT when they're basically Life Mages and guys with crossbows), but by level 10 or so, I'd say it gets mostly equal. I'd rather fight them than Tsoo, teen-level CoT, or Vahzilok, and I'd put them about equal with teen Arachnos, Lost, Goldbrickers, Luddites, and Primal Clockwork. There are still some select enemies (friggin' mez-resistant Destroyer SS bosses...) and missions that could use to be toned down a little, but I think the groups overall are good past that point.

This is the big one I'd like. It'd make 'I want to play with [X] but I don't know when they log in today' a lot easier to manage.