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I'm not going to re-roll anything. I'm going to roll new characters.

I'm probably not going to make any more tanks. I don't like tanks. I like tank power sets. I play solo mostly, only occasionally teaming. I don't care about agro management. When I do team, I don't want to take the point. I play tankers as weak scrappers who are really hard to defeat.

I would have played more scrappers, but I don't like most of the scrapper power sets. I'm not much into swords, claws or spines. Strangely, I do like swords with stalkers, but you didn't ask.

I would have played more brutes, but I don't like red side much. I generally prefer all of the villain archetypes to the hero archetypes. I just don't want to be the bad guy very often.

So I will roll more blue side brutes, and play them like solo scrappers with my favorite powersets, which is what I wanted all along.

Actually, I got tired of waiting for Going Rogue. I don't need it. I've already started making heroic brutes, stalkers, corrupters, masterminds and dominators by street sweeping Skuls and Snakes in Mercy Island, then moving into the AE building to run heroic story arcs. Not going to rob a bank with these, not going to use any villain contacts.

Oh I know. I usually combine a couple of those and do them at the same time. I really like the Faultline and Stephanie Peebles arcs anyway. About half the time I do David Wincott and Flux's arcs as well.

I was thinking of the last thread I read where people were hoping the developers would spend time revamping low level content to remove those specific missions. Adding some content would be nice but those missions do have a purpose. At least they reward you with a mission complete bonus when you do them.

Y'know, I've been thinking about those 7 mission slots, and I've decided that number is so you can take, and then ignore the following:

Go see David Wincott in the Hollows
Go see the Freedom Corps guy in Kings Row to learn about difficulty levels.
Go see the PVP guy in Skyway city to learn about PVP
Go see Jim Temblor in Faultline.
Go see Stephanie Peebles in Striga Island.
Go see the PVP guy in Steel Canyon to learn about PVP again.

That leaves us one empty mission slot to run the important missions.

Unless they add mailboxes.

And despite what Vetinari says, Vimes rigidly holds to the notion of right and wrong.

Well, if it bothers you I recommend you try playing a villain, they have fewer missions of this sort. Fewer zones for that matter, only 7, as opposed to more than 20 hero side. It does get better with a good travel power.

You can also do AE missions to fifty. You can avoid traveling, except to visit the trainer. You have to sort through lots of bad missions to find a few gems though.

But since you are new to the game, you might enjoy the unique atmosphere that each of the city zones possess, as run back and forth saying 'hi'. Its us old-timers who've seen it all a hundred times and more that should be jaded.

I must recant. I had a low level scrapper hanging around Kings Row. After running the safeguard mission, and visiting my neglected initial contact, I picked up Juan Jimenez and Paula Dempsey as contacts. After dropping the Visit David Wincott mission, both of them offered me the Perez Park Security Chief mission alongside other missions as well.

Hooray! I can't lead, but I'm happy to follow! Invite me, invite me!

I was fired years ago. But ignored them and kept showing up at my desk every morning until they forgot.

I guess I either got lucky or my memory has betrayed me again. I don't recall ever getting another mission from a contact after doing that one. Mind you, I quit doing that one a long time ago, so its probably bad memory. Level so fast these days I can't do all the missions from level 5-9 anymore. Especially because of three radio missions+safeguard to get a raptor pack.

Madness Mage mezzes are easily beaten by break free inspirations. The bigger problem is the large spawn sizes, combined with a mix of bosses, lieutenants, and minions. However if he was around level 14-15, that wouldn't have been a problem, unless he actually found a large group of 14s.

Sort of getting sidetracked though. I do agree that it would be nice if someone would modernize these missions a bit to reduce the annoyance factor. I'm just quibbling over details, as there has been a bit of exaggeration about how bad they are.

Contacts in King's Row are levels 5-9. You can't avoid the David Wincott mission, except by visiting David Wincott first. The Perez Park Security Officer mission, on the other hand, you do not need to accept. If the only mission he offers is the Perez Park Security Officer mission, then you have either done all his other content, or outleveled his other missions. If you have outleveled all his other missions, the mission to defeat 10 Circle of Thorns in Perez Park should be easy. (Its CoT, not Hellions. Hellions would be much easier.)

Bloody Bay is a level 15 mission. If you were 15, the Circle of Thorns in Perez Park should have been no problem. If you were 15 why were you talking to contacts in Kings Row?