Parabola

+1 on this. My no numbers gut feel is that absorb is more useful than +maxhp in more cases than the opposite being true.

IIRC this was because taunt modifications affect your threat level so that part of the power is actually affecting you rather than the enemies. Therefore a proc working on the taunt part of the power hits you not them. I can't remember if that really was a thing or whether it was one of those things that I just assumed to be the case though!

I've just picked up the brutes fury proc and want to put it somewhere in my build. I've had a bit of a look around to try to find the received wisdom on this but am more confused than ever. My initial temptation was to go for quills (and write off the recharge enhancement) to have it constantly ticking away but I've read that might not be the best idea? Throw spines? One of the single target attacks? Is there a 'best' place for it?

It looks a little odd when you have a full body aura to have wings (and possibly other back objects - I haven't tested) poking out and not covered by the aura. Could the aura be extended? Perhaps offering a plain body version and a body+wings for flexibility? Also while we're on the subject the smolder used in smoldering wings has a different speed to that used on the smoldering aura meaning the only current option to match the wings to the body doesn't actually match. Could this be changed?

Just an idea but could the queue message also display the current length of the queue on other servers? That way we don't have to lose our place in one queue to check out another. It would probably also encourage people to jump over to a less busy server if they could see that there was very little waiting.