Missions that need to be changed

Well, I'll certainly agree with you that Karst or whatever the Lost AV is called shouldn't be AV rank. But Nocturne and Sands are both supposed to be higher-ups in Arachnos (with Sands being an Arbiter, meaning he only answers to Recluse, and Nocturne being "the deadliest operative Arachnos has ever produced"), and Castillo is the leader of the Sky Raiders' operations in Faultline.

Only Dr. V, Maestro, the Envoy and Terra out of those will scale up to AV.

IMHO missions should be changed globally adhere to some of the new convensions that you see. Namely, having missions be zone specific and a path to unlock a TF or Trial. None of this running between zones and such. Let us focus on the one zone as we work our way through the story.

On a side note, I would love an Atlas or Galaxy city based Trial. Something simple for the newbies but a good introduction into the larger picture of CoH/CoV

I think all the low end content needs to be looked at drastically. From where the missions are to some of the more boring story telling.

I'd like the idea of some big story in Atlas or Galaxy so that it feels more like you just arrived at the right time. (of course optional)

It has been ages since I last did the starting missions on the hero side.

On the villain side there needs to be more options then just the two starters. I do like the outside missions though, I wouldn't mind if they added some outside instances in Atlas or Galaxy.

Make defeat alls in to defeat 95 % of all so you don't have to search for another 15 minutes for that one guy that got stuck in some impossible position(especially the layered purple cave map...)

But most of all, make hunts, security guards, pvp contacts and the like optional. Travelling from KR to The Hollows even with flight pack is still too long.

See, I like big missions like Atta, as long as they're not kill alls. It's one of the main reasons I do arc missions over newspapers when convenient. Anything that maximizes my 'killing stuff:everything else' ratio is a good thing.

Some hunts and cross zone travel is okay. The problem is when missions repeat themselves or when it really feels like there was no point. It just takes a little restructuring of the plot and the actual missions. Speaking of structure, patrols with ambushes need tweaks. The ambush placement needs to be where there is less chance for getting snagged on other players or enemies.

The number one needs-to-be-revised mission is, in my opinion, the upper 30's "Stop the Nemesis Macro Assemblers" mission. It's timed, which is a minor irritation. Worse, it requires three simultaneous clicks, which is a cool idea from a story perspective but is a terrible hassle in a game.

More importantly, it's a mission about a machine that EATS FRIGGIN' BUILDINGS! There ought to be things chewing on the walls and Nemesis automata under construction everywhere. But it's not only not a special map, it's a standard office with a couple of static glowies. Desperately in need of revision.

I actually tried to rework this into the apocalyptic mayhem-fest it ought to have been in an MA mission, "Urban Renewal," #255713. Unfortunately, I don't think the arc works any more under i16 because one mission uses more than the hard cap of 3 ambushes. Further, it has a couple of all-minion groups (used mainly to save arc space), so the rewards are pathetic. Still, writing it up was a great exercise in what you can do with just basic mission tools (who would've thought patrols could be actual threats, for instance?). The devs should be able to do something much more impressive with the i0 and i1 content, given their programming tools.

The last mission of the first Vivacious Verandi arc.

With all the chaos you'd been causing, one would expect a huge vg v vg v vg v vg war, perhaps in an outdoor setting around the Giza. What you get is a warehouse mission with only two VGs and barely any fighting between them.

The early TFs need to be redone. In particular Posi and Synapse. Going though the same thing over and over is dumb and dull. It is repetition defined. It really stinks. I refuse to do these anymore. Epic dull.

Take out the Council's Vampyr from Angelo Vendetti needs to be redone. As it is now, you need 4 villains to complete this mission. Teaming in Red zone is pretty hard anyway so you are forced to drop this mission when you get it. Or hope to find some friends later en enough numbers to clear this mission from your tray.

As it is only 1 of the 3 possible level 5-9 contacts it is more of a shame to lose an arc due to a design that is no longer feasible.

I've soloed Blechley on every AT villain-side with just the little 8 Insp tray you have prior to level 10.

..and speaking of missions that need to be changed, I noticed one that didn't need to be changed the other night: the last mission of the Katie Hannon TF has been changed so that Katie will not follow any one person but instead runs all over the map, aggroing everything she sees. She will speak to one person like she is attached to them, but actually budge her that person would not. We had to actually summon a game-master to complete the mission.

This was cackled over in the server's task-force channel; one wit responded with, "haven't they done enough to that TF already?"

Me: "They have now!"

I'll never run it again, I can tell you that.