are you cherry picking tip missions?

The WORST thing about tips is teh huge imbalance between blue and red side.

Blue side, you can get your tips in say..talos, killing lvl 25s, very fast, and then have ALL but a few specific tips (the phipps one comes to mind) have their mission doors in the zone you are in. It really is nice to be able to go to any zone, or just the one you happen to be in, and select your tips, knowing you wont have to rezone.

Then...there's redside. I get my tips in Sharkhead, and all but..2? will appear in GV, or PO. Seriously. Is there any logical reason for this besides being a pain in the ***?

I cherry pick my radio missions, and run every tip I get...I know. I am strange

Lisa.

I don't drop tips.

Most tip missions are straightforward, enjoyable, and are completable at my leisure, so I don't have a problem there.

But.

Vigilante->Villain missions
Rogue->Hero missions

Not cool, developers.

I make the circle occasionally to pick up Patron powers, and those stages are just unbearable. Poorly written, poorly laid out, poorly designed, and oftentimes LONG missions that are not only horrendous to play, but (like Dr. Graves' arc) funnels your character through a VERY SPECIFIC PERSONALITY that the other tip missions either avoid completely or do in a very general sense.

It's been quite a few issues since their introduction and nothing about them has changed. I'm at a point where I have to jump on a REAL villain/hero tip team or I just don't want to even bother.

The extent of my cherry-picking in regards to Tip missions is to drop whichever ones aren't located conveniently in the same zone as me.

I drop the missions that require me to escort NPC's, since they are terrible at following me. 'Elegant party favor,' 'Out of the corner of your eye,' and 'Your life story.' I may run 'One good spider' if I get it before 'The unusual suspect,' otherwise I run the latter. I usually drop 'Malta gunslinger action figure' too since the ambushes take too long to spawn. Everything else is fine.

I just skip the Sister Jocasta mission when doing hero>hero tips. The rest are fine, hero>hero tips have some of the fastest ones available, compared to what other alignments have to deal with, luckily I rarely have to do those.

I skip all the long tips, and only do the short ones. I've done them ALL to death now, that I only stealth/speed run tips for the hero/villain merits.

None of them are compelling enough to do for the 132324332121323th time.

If I had a wider pool to choose from, I would. But when I've done, say, four Tip missions for that day and my inventory can only hold one, I don't exactly have the luxury, unless I want to dismiss the contact, go killing stuff and hoping for a drop, only to get another one I don't like.

That said, I DO cherry-pick my Tip missions so that they at least somewhat match the character running them. I dismissed the mission that had Stardiver speak with the Scrapyarder strikers just because Stardiver can't speak.

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There are some tips I generally drop:

The oft mentioned Panther 541 I drop because of the annoying wait time between the attacking waves.

The debutante one is my least favorite because it not only has THREE npcs to escort, but it's guaranteed to have at least three of those annoying Master Illusionists in it. I will, however, do this mission whenever it come up until I get the Illusionist badge BECAUSE of the Master Illusionists.

Sister Jocasta is a drop depending on whether or not the character in question deals well with caltrops. My Ice Armor tanker laughs when the Knives try to slow her with little bits of metal on the floor.

I'll generally do whichever morality mission drops first. The Unusual Suspect is nice and fast, but One Good Spider is more fun.

Villain side I usually just drop the ones that require leaving Grandville. And I always take Hometown Hero over My Other Selves. The latter is nice to do once, but too talky for repeated runs. And the former lets me beat up Sky Dragon, the Rodney Dangerfield of heroes.

For the lower levels on either side there aren't any I consistently drop since I'm not going to be doing any of them on a particular character often enough to get irritated with them. Though I do wish there was an alternative to the 20-29 hero one. I hate that mission.

Can I just add that not only are escort missions annoying, but escort missions that involve rescuing people held hostage by knives of artemis (caltrops) or carnie master illusionists (decoy phantom) are exceptionally annoying because I have to wait for bits of metal or imaginary people to disappear before the hostages know they're being rescued.

I like the concept of One Good Spider, but its time consuming & twice in a row I had bugged spawns and was unable to finish it, so never again.

One of my favs is the death trap one, forget which with Dr quantam's hide out. Love that one, so much fun.

I don't mind the "One good spider" tip and run it when I'm in teams, I will only do the "Unusual Suspect" when I'm solo for time reasons. In that, my time is limited and just want to get them done. Again, it's a guilty pleasure for me to run my tips on my main. Otherwise, I prefer Arachnos to Malta for character reasons in most cases.

I don't run tips on any other 50 solo most of the time, so I have no preference regarding those. I actually prefer "One good spider" in teams for the drops and xp.

I like the idea behind the "Bring Doc Quantum to true justice", but I don't like the mission in and of itself. It's easy, but it's the first step he goes 'over the line' with proof in character terms. It seems in the morality missions, most of the heroes become villains, and a couple of villains become heroes throughout the course of them.

I don't like this because the NPC's, in my mind, should better represent the 'ideals' we're striving toward/breaking from. It makes for a better narrative, again to me, when we have something we can measure against. I get the outlier of Flambeaux becomming a villain, and Frostfire becomming a hero (just because I ran the level 45-50 villain morality) but most of them should, conversely, remain the same to illuminate our character's ascent/decent.

That's where the tip missions fall short, again, in my opinion. They tried to write these 'rogue's gallery' of heroes and villains that cross sides, where they should have focused on our hero's descent or our villain's ascent, with a couple iconoclasts (Flambeaux and Frostfire) joining us for the ride, while watching the other's reactions of disbelief, and subsequent reactions, over the choices we made.

I like the Doc Quantum 30-39 mission. It has things that explode. When you can chain explode several at once, that's even better.

If there was a mission with about a thousand proximity bombs that would all go off at once when you set one off... I'd run that one as much as possible. Just because.

Or maybe they need a mission with ice slides like in Frostfire, and proximity bombs that you can't help sliding into. >.>