Flambeaux, a Villainous Nitwit

Yeah, not done that mission but if I had, no matter what character, I think I'd just walk out the mission and drop it. I know it's just a game but...I just couldn't bring myself to do something like that.

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 must be missing these, because solo I've hardly run into any 5th at all, outside of jumping past them in Independence Port.

Outside of a couple of specific missions (boo chained objectives), I am really liking the tips system. They're deeper than the scanner/newspaper, and feel more "legitimate" than the MA. It's nice to see the characters from the bank/mayhems fleshed out a little too (always have been fond of Silent Blade, she's great to have tag along on mayhems).

What does that make Ice Mistral, then?

This sounds like a good idea to me, but it requires two things. First, someone has to read and play through and edit all the submissions. That's probably more time-consuming than writing original missions. Second, I've had the impression for a while that the devs regret the whole creation of AE and would be happy if it just went away; like the majority of players, they seem to see it as a tool for farming and powerleveling.

She's Miley Cyrus. No, really.