Attacking the faultline dam would be kinda cool really. It'd drown a whole heck of a lot of Lost, Freaks, Clocks and Arachnos milling around in the ravines caused by the earthquakes.
Maybe I should make an arc where you secretly assist in destroying the dam by defeating a bad PuG trying to stop the real enemies 
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I'm also toying with the idea of a better VEAT storyline, but the most likely candidate for my third slot will be a humorous villain arc. (My current projects are 4643 and 4829, in case anyone wants revenge. 
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I think I remember asking you about a better VEAT storyline in VU2k8 once, and was really interested in your ideas. So yeah, I'll be hoping to see something come from that.
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WARNING: DO NOT PLAY
Arc #2007, "The Green Brew"
tl;dr: 1 star. Offenses: Killer GM
Green Dwarf (author insert) needs you help in creating the perfect....
...beer.
That's probably worth at least four stars immediately from the frat members.
Your first stop is Oranbega, to retrieve some magical water from one of its springs. Guarding the place is "Sinadria", one of the Dwarf's exes, who spawned frontloaded. At first glance she looked like a Succubus EB but is actually a custom with a lookalike costume (well done), a Claws/Couldn'tTell. I ended up needing to use Elude as the fight got pushed into the next spawn down the corridor. This was a small map and the glowie spawned about in the middle.
Your next task is to retrieve some special barley from a Redcap-infested field in Croatoa. Upon entering the map the nav bar instructs you to find "Alsae", who turns out to be a Grain Nymph ally (Boss, Plant/Thorn). Rescuing her triggers the spawn of the real target, Redcap Boss Iron Heel. Unfortunately this means you have to grovel over a large outdoor map again, and even if you choose to ditch the ally your stealth is blown off. Upon completion Alsae gives you a sack of barley and "another present to remember her by", If You Know What I Mean.
The next ingredient is hops...from Praetorian Earth. The nav bar says "Find the Alpha Wolf and assert your dominance"....um....riiiiiight.... Taking him out triggers the spawn of EB "Loup-Garou", a Super Strength/Regen. Thanks to the current AI silliness the first thing he did was pop Instant Healing, meaning the first 60 seconds or so of beating on him just didn't count. After a effort roughly akin to felling the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring, he bought it.
Next up was a trip to Eden for yeast. You are warned to bring END insps and to stay out of melee range...nice thing to say to a Scrapper. I also noticed going in that this mission is level-locked to 50, which actually EXed me to 49. The objective target is, I kid you not, a gorram Blue Mitochondria. I did try to fight it but, as a Scrapper, that was just not happening. At this point I bailed out of the arc and one-starred it. If zero was an actual option I'd have used it.
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"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
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At this point I bailed out of the arc and one-starred it. If zero was an actual option I'd have used it.
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First after Posi !!!!
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At this point I bailed out of the arc and one-starred it. If zero was an actual option I'd have used it.
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Ohhhhh, so I can zero-star stuff! I wish I had known this earlier when I ran the arc filled with those creepy-looking AV Thugs/Illusion MM's...
And first after Posi!!!
EDIT: Dangit, dragonslay beat me to it...
Ah, that's not documented. I'll keep it in mind. :-)
Current Blog Post: "Why I am an Atheist..."
"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
.... this is good.
Only now the One-Star Bandits will demote themselves! Oh, SNAP!
As always, awesome that you're reviewing these, Venture.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
I played this one, and I feel the need to make a few comments.
I think this mission was bad... But i believe it will make it into the Hall based on the rules of HoF as I understand them. As of my search today, this mission had 882 ratings, and showed a 5 star rating. As I understand it, Hall of Fame requires over 1000+ votes, and a rating of better than 4 or 4.5 (not completely sure which). If this really is the sort of mission that warrants Hall of Fame status, I submit that achieving Hall of Fame status is more about advertising than superior mission design and/or writing.
I played this one because I got a tell from a player that went something like, "I played your arc, gave you 5 stars, please play mine and rate me with a 5 to return the favor. I replied that I would play it and give feedback and rate it. I was a little surprised to get an auto-reply that asked me to review his mission, and began to wonder what was up, but I was curious enough to see what the mission was.
For the record, I always play mystery arcs with my Dark/Dark level 50 Scrapper. He's not heavily tricked out, but he does fine in standard PVE, and he has a lot of temps just in case things get dicey. When I first started I just found that there were lots of AVs in missions, and at Invincible this character is not gonna cut it solo. (I am curious to know what difficulty Venture normally uses).
Also, for the record, the mission is called "The Perfect Brew" by @Green Dwarf.
I did get past the mito, and let me say this. Killer GM'itis continues in the tale of the Green Brew.
I had never tried to melee a Blue Mito before, and I was curious. Honestly, I was intrigued from the start, because I hadn't considered using a Mito as an enemy before. For those of you more versed in Hami raids than I (and I suspect a lot of the player base won't know what the Blue is or how to deal with it), you should not be surprised that my Dark/Dark was kissing dirt without even denting said Mito.
So, I said to myself, Self, how many range attacks DO I have? I've played long enough that I have a Nemesis Staff, Dark Wand, and two of my ancillary powers grant me ranged attacks (Dark Blast and Tenebrous Tentacles, but only one slotted). So, I stood back and played wimply blaster, but it was enough to take down the Mito without much trouble. Good luck to you real melee's out there.
In the final mission, you have to go and brew the beer, defeat a boss, and you can gain the Green Dwarf as an ally (he spawned as an EB for me). It's an outdoor map filled with CoT, so no biggie, but a little annoying to find things. I believe that the kettle doesn't spawn until you free the Green Dwarf though.
The Kettle is guarded by a CoT mage who I suspect is a custom AV, but I can't be sure about that. Fortunately, no AV's for me. But, he is also set to get a pile of miscellaneous ambushes that come rusing over the horizon (it was kinda funny to see them coming for me and the Green Dwarf). Having learned a lot from my days as a blaster, I realized that this was really meant to lead to team wipes, but running away is always an option. Heck, they would ony spawn up to LTs anyway, so my buddy the Green Dwarf would be able to smack around a LOT of LTs anyway. There were definitely D.E. and CoT there. I popped my purples and finished smaking the boss, and the mission was completed, but still they came. I few into the sky just to see how many baddies would join the fray, and I'm thinking it was 15-20 or so spawns. I did go back in to take names and kick some behinds, but it was clearly killer gm'ing, and just dumb. Not what I believe should make it into the HoF.
There are missions on live with that many plays already, I thought I was doing well with 4 stars for 8 plays!!
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45503
Through the Looking Glass by CuppaLLX
There are 2 versions a 4 map one and 5 map one. That id is for the 5 map
I've only recently finished balance testing and the text isn't fully realized but the premise is your are trying to help a world where during the invasion of 04 most of the heroes we know never emerged and the Rikti won. Now it's a desperate attempt to take back the world starting with the defeat of a high power Rikti General...the Herald....
AE # 67087: Journey through the Looking Glass - Save the World
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This is the size of group that we have balanced AVs for, 6.
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And for some reason the collection clue in the first mish is screwed up, you're supposed to be told you 'ran out of magic ju-ju' at the fourth altar, not the first. So I'll have to place seperate items, and HOPE that the placement of #4 is close to the back of the map (spawning #5).
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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At this point I bailed out of the arc and one-starred it. If zero was an actual option I'd have used it.
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Zero is an option.
Click 1-star twice.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Zero is an option.
Click 1-star twice.
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There goes my hopes this was a bug, and not working as intended. Dev confirmation they want people zero-starring. Ack.
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There goes my hopes this was a bug, and not working as intended. Dev confirmation they want people zero-starring. Ack.
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Ouch! And i thought 1-star bandits were bad! How are we going to describe 0-star bandits now?
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To each their own. I actually enjoyed "The Perfect Brew" and the challenge it brought. And, I don't drink, so the fact that it was about helping a dwarf chug alcohol had nothing to do with why I liked it.
The Blue Mito went down like a chump once I figured out to use the Nemesis Staff on it. The only really impossible challenge was the end AV with a million ambush spawns, but even that was overcome by Elude and a couple Shivans.
I stand by my 5 star review, mostly for the writing, but I can see why other people would dislike it.
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Arc #2007, "The Green Brew"
tl;dr: 1 star. Offenses: Killer GM
Green Dwarf (author insert) needs you help in creating the perfect....
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Just as a warning to anyone else doing this arc, Green Dwarf sent me a comment on one of my arcs along the lines of "Hey I liked your arc and I gave it 5 stars, come play mine next!"
Okay well, I thought, why not he was nice enough to play my arc I'll give his a run (oh how nieve am I...) I get through it, even after the awful Hamidon encounter and come to the conclusion it wasn't really my cup of tea, I give him a 3 star rating and send him a few comments about why, nothing insultling.
Green Dwarf immediately marks down the arc he'd given a 5 star to me, marks down the other arc I had, then logs on another account to do the same thing again.
So well, be warned when giving comments on peoples arcs you don't know. But hey, 70 free tickets.
"I accidently killed Synapse, do we need to restart the mission?" - The Oldest One on Lord Recluses Strike Force
For the record: I play on Unyiedling. I normally do not use my vet powers on review runs, since lots of players don't have them. @Green Dwarf did immediately reply to my comment telling (not asking) me to reconsider on the grounds that the mito would die "in five hits from ranged, Nemesis Staff, Blackwand..." I refused on the grounds that many players do not have vet attacks. There is no "challenge" involved in putting in a mob that simply can't be defeated by people who don't have ranged attacks. He got in my face and I put him on ignore.
Now my arcs are getting voted down without comment. Of course, maybe they deserve to.
Anyway.
I want to remind people that I am not currently adding arcs to my list. I've got way too many to go through now. If you want to request reviews from other people in this thread then feel free, of course, but I won't be responding to requests aside from these periodic reminders. I will post a notice when I am accepting requests again.
Current Blog Post: "Why I am an Atheist..."
"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
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Man... knowing that sort of thing's going on makes me a bit sad.
For the record, I found "The Perfect Brew" to be a fun arc. I didn't have any super hard issues on my Blaster, but I can certainly see how melees could be given the short end of the stick. It may've been a good thing that you stopped there, Venture, as the final mission has numerous large ambushes that are triggered with an EB fight.
Those ambushes really could've overwhelmed my Blaster if I didn't have Hover/Fly and Boost Range. With those, I was able to shoot at them from beyond their range and whittle down the mob until it was relatively safe enough to drop back down to ground level.
I think, knowing about all this now, I will abstain from giving any further feedback/referrals to the author though. 
Head of TRICK, the all Trick Arrow and Traps SG
Part of the Repeat Offenders
Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
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I don't know if I'm allowed to post two-parters, but I'd like to put forward my arc:
"Operation: Black Heart, Acts I and II"
Arc IDs: 1621 and 1629, respectively
A tale of conspiracy and evil plots, that was my attempt to write an arc that effectively included a wide variety of groups and sort of "spanned the city." Parts of it are slightly awkward due to it being written for more than one contact (we didn't know the limitations of the MA when I wrote it)
I have a worry that you may consider the end of this arc to be the Idiot Ball, but I'm not sure, and I'd appreciate you taking a look at it, if you ever get around to it. XD
Has been killed by the DoT on Throwing Knives and proud of it.
Jake - interesting.
I too was less than impressed with the brew arc, but didn't think anything else of my my communication with the author, but an arc that had been doing well suddenly dropped to 4 stars and hasn't recovered despite receiving a few known 5 stars since.
He also sent me a 5 star solicitation to review his arc for an arc that's pretty much for my SG only. (It's not bad, it just doesn't make as much sense as it should if you don't know the SG lore behind it, so I'd say three tops for a stranger playing it.)
#2409 - The Mystery of the MAGI vaults. Azuria has contacted you to help her stop the thefts from the MAGI vaults.
#68054 - Out of the gutters. Left for dead, you swore that you were through with being a victim (alt villain beginning story)
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Agreed.
Ratings are nice... in the same way a cup of coffee after a steak dinner is nice.
But please, Please... PLEASE give a good review. And by "good review," I mean something like what Venture's doing here. If you liked it, say why! If you hated it, say why! Give details, be concise, suggest improvements.
Those are worth much more than a star or two ever will be.
Head of TRICK, the all Trick Arrow and Traps SG
Part of the Repeat Offenders
Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
*sigh* the poor VEATs <;_;> Love everything else about em, but the story... oh dear. <x.x>; (That's not a bad idea at all if you ever get a free slot and the inclination Venture; if you do I'd love to give it a shot!)
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