Vitality

Originally Posted by BrandX

It's not.

That said, I do prefere the passive over the clickie.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

The difficulty-setting NPCs have always struck me as a particularly egregious example of the more-than-a-little silly mania for putting metagame stuff on the wrong side of the fourth wall that gripped the development team in the game's middle years (Dr. Brainstorm, anyone?), so I agree with you that far. On the other hand, now that it's so firmly entrenched in the system, I'm not sure changing it would be worth the programming overhead required, and then there's the question of how the use of the new version (do you propose another Options tab or what?) would be taught to new players. The "go see the Hero Corps guy" mission is high up on the "can the older contacts please stop wasting my damn time, please" list for veterans, but the new kids have to learn how the system works somehow...

Originally Posted by Lady Sunflash

Back to the topic at hand:
@Emberly: MOG'd?

Rest is understood and appreciated.

Originally Posted by Clouded

The above are general tips, but one of my personal favorite is to stay a little ahead of the team. What I mean is, be the first into the next group of enemies but be there a few seconds before your team arrives to make sure you have aggro control (by using taunt, punchvoke and/or taunt/damage auras).

To do this, just leave the last spawn of enemies when there is 1-2 left and the group is quickly taking care of them. It becomes almost a min-game in later levels when enemy spawns melt before your teams.

Originally Posted by Lady Sunflash

1) The Gauntlet power for Tankers really takes the fun out of it, IMO - I remember in my first week of the game, in Gold-side, I literally had a group where the tanker said "afk falling asleep" and put me on follow and his damage aura kept all mobs off of the rest of the party with no issue until we had to change floors. I like having to change targets and such. Work at it. Gauntlet seems like 'auto threat win.'
2) Energy Aura is Scrapper/Brute only. It fits the character thematically -very- well.
3) I feel like a Brute will make a better soloing piece (as I do that regularly) than a tanker, as it does have higher damage. While I don't need to see big orange numbers, doing the job quickly and efficiently is nice.

Originally Posted by Stone Daemon

Nope, all the missions are only available through the green tube of light. This is a virtual reality program we are using, after all.

Now, what you can do is make the mission maps themselves use those maps, but that's the closest you can get.

Originally Posted by Sam_Sneed

I just came back after a year or so away and I see there are 5th tier powers in the travel pools now. I am particulaly interested in the Spring Attack power. Can anyone give me any info or a link with info on this power? Thanks.