Which Tips do you skip?

I tend to skip the first one I get every three days

Depends on the character and powersets. On my current main (plant/fire dominator, hero) I skip all Nemesis and most Carnie missions. I also skip "You're a Cruel One Mr. Phipps" because it is just too long and the Jocasta one because I have trouble keeping her alive. I sometimes skip the Maelstrom mission just because I hate chained objectives.

The missions I love are the stealthy ones:
Shattered Jar of Flesh (stealth to two bosses)
Some Nut on Talk Radio (stealth to a boss, plus one glowie)
Doc Quantum's Moral Quandary (stealth to hostage, plus an ambush)
Blatantly Fake Malta Plans (stealth to hostage, plus an ambush)
A Biting Wind (stealth to a hostage, plus one glowie)
Scrawled Bark (stealth to room with boss and 4 hostages)

My question is, does anyone do the "One Good Spider" hero morality mission instead of "The Usual Suspect"? I can do "The Usual Suspect" in less than 5 minutes. The other one takes me 30 at least.

Malta Gunslinger Action Figure is only Tip Mission is actively avoid because of it's potential to throw two Sappers at you at once. I don't like the other Malta mission either, I forget the name, but I will do it if it's the only one I've got.

In Paragon City since June 2005.

I drop Longbow tips. Hate em.

I, unlike most here, LOVE the carnie missions. My Broadsword/Dark Amor scrapper rips through them like wet tissue paper. I can actually handle carnies on that character at +2/x8.

I like "One Good Spider." Attacking Grandville solo, getting cheered by the citizens and rescuing a condemned prisoner. It's what being a hero is all about!!

Edit: I forgot about being attacked by the Rogues Gallery at the end, more heroic fun!! (Thanks TankShock!!)

Lead outs definitely get tedious, and I don't even grind tips (WAI?). The debutantes aren't really any worse than the others, though. You just do the mish and lead all 3 out at once.

One Good Spider is definitely fun. It got me a whole level last week (from 1 bubble into 47 to 48), which gives it a special place in my heart. I lost track of all the Rogues Gallery who got put in jail that day.

I avoid Sister Jocasta big time.

I've found a new "never again" mission - a hero tip mission given to rogues, where you have to escort General whatshisname (Aarons?) through through a bunch of praetorians. Unlike the debutantes, who follow you unless you move too fast, the good general, when foes stand in his path, just STANDS there, refusing to move. You have to defeat each and every mob on the way back. They're not too bad solo, but the more team size scales up, they get dramatically harder.

Malta gunslinger is a bummer now that they've slowed down the ambushes. I know there were complaints but really, just make sure FrostFire is a boss and he will do the mission for you. Literally. I've dcd while doing that mission and logged on to find it completed. Since I do my tips for speed, this one now puts a cramp in my mission/minute ratio. It used to be very good for that.

"Rescue the Debutants" is one I avoid if possible, but will do it reluctantly, if it's the only one in my inventory. MIs as lieuts aren't too bad. I tip farm with a scrapper who has Char so I watch for the phase out, then the second she phases back in it's Char and kill (so no pets get spawned, Phantom Decoys slow things down since hostages won't release as long as he's around). I speed through the map to scout out where the debs are so I can avoid doubling back. Yes, this mission takes longer than most others but it's not TOO too bad.

On the other hand, I LOVE starting off a session with "Doc Quantum's Moral Quandry". Ravenstorm is an outstanding ally who is self sufficient and can kill a x/8 spawn point all by himself. I typically keep difficulty (both level and spawn size) low for raw speed, but this is one I turn to 11 whenever I get, since to Ravenstorm the mission is 0/8 (he's at mission difficulty level). I know I'll have a full docket when I do this mission.

If I'm trying to just knock out a few tips for the alignment merit, there are a few I avoid.
-Anything with Circle of Thorns.
-The high-level villain one where you have to destroy three power nodes or whatever. The ambushes always get lost in the twisty Council base passages and take forever to hunt down.
-The one with all the Miss Thystle fights.

If I just want to kill stuff, though, that Miss Thystle mission is like my #1 goal. Having four SS/Invuln bosses pounding on you is fun and hectic, if you can weather it. It keeps things interesting on my Dom.

Are there two villian alignment switch missions now too? I seem to have a choice of two, one had a title something like "Every Day Hero" and I don't recall the other. I am wondering which one would be faster, as I usually have to do these in about 15 minutes before work in the morning.

I never skip any of them, but then I probably haven't run them as much as some of you.

If I am on a character without good (energy defense OR -end resist) AND (reliable mez OR high burst damage) any mission with Shock Treatment. End drain and a god mode, very annoying. Not impossible but spending 10 minutes jousting her on a tanker to try to keep some end for your tanker's toggles and then sitting through 2 minutes of not being able to scratch her is a bit much. Now when my tanker with Energy Melee got stun, energy transfer and total focus she got a lot less annoying as I could take her up to the god mode point, pop reds, hit stun and then let ET and TF finish her off while stunned. Other than Shock Treatment any mission that has a chance at the Arachnos map with the huge room of lag. My computer is old and normal Arachnos maps drop the frame rate to slideshow levels but this map takes that lag and level shifts it up.

Leadouts. My main is a stalker and they're annoying.

I don't skip any. There's so few tip missions already, I don't need to make them even more repetitive.

I used to skip the Malta Action Figure tip but not since they fixed it. I also used to skip the Knives missions but as long as the character has Hover/Fly or the Winter's Gift proc I've started doing them again too. So now there isn't anything I skip although the hero tips vs longbow go to the bottom of the list just because some of those feel contrived.

I guess if you run 5 a day in the same level-range for the A-merits I can see why you'd want to do only the fast/stealthable ones. I tend to only run 1 or 2 tips every few days for a variety of alts/alignments/levels so I'm not there yet.

The only one I skip is "You're a Cruel One, Mr. Phipps," just because it makes me go to IP instead of whatever zone I'm doing tips in.

I'll generally avoid "Malta Gunslinger Action Figure", but will take it if I don't have any other tips. The Carnie one doesn't bother me as I usually clear the map anyway, so the lead-outs don't take much longer.

I don't get why people hate Knives so much. They're kind of a joke really. They never get close enough to me to use their popcorn, er, caltrops, and if I get ambushed most of my toons have teleport or superspeed. The only ones that pose a threat at all are the bosses with stun grenades. Of course I rarely play melee-oriented characters so that may be why.

I don't skip any anymore but the ones with longbow and arachnos I go from x8 to x1-3 just because I dislike them.

Mmm...

It depnds on what AT type I am playing, if I am in a melee, I have little reason to skip any content. But if I am playing a support caste, then I have all kinds of reasons to avoid certain content:

1. Carny is avoided due to excessive mez, and lack of effective protections versus it.
2. Any escort mission, they force me to turn off my stealth in order to escort the victim thru many ambushes. Sadly many of my powers that gives me defense, also gives me stealth, so I have to turn-off the few defensive powers I have, that is like asking a tank to detoggle their resistances...
3. Jocasta missions, filled with knives of artemis, they deploy way too many caltrops and these stay up for way too long too. They are not challenge, they are just boring player time sinks. Also look at reason 2.
4, Spoon fed missions, where you have to do one target at time for another target to activate. All too often, you go find a person to be told destroy the artifact you walked by at the entrance of the map, then you destroy it and have to go back to the person at the far end of the map again. Maybe this is fun, if your IQ is measured in the double digits.

Hugs

Stormy