What makes you want to auto-complete a mission?

Let's face it, some missions are more fun than others. But fun is relative.

For me, I auto-complete:

- any mission in a CoT cave. Almost every mission in this game has an element of hide-and-seek to it; find the glowies, find the boss, find the hostage(s), etc. These caves just have way too many hiding places for me to find them fun.

- bizarre objectives. There is a RWZ mission where there are mobs that attack you but you are not allowed to defeat them. Personally, I hate this concept. I never do that mission.

- zone restricted kill x missions. If I'm told to take out 50 of something in a specific zone, it's very unlikely I'm gonna actually do it. If no zone is mentioned, then at least I can do a paper/radio mission and kill two birds at once.

- some timed missions. Fortunately, with these, you can just ignore them and they time out to completion. I do most of them, but sometimes they just get sprung on you without warning, like when you cash in a quest and suddenly a timer is running on a new one. I'm looking at you Cimerora.


There used to be others (like most AV missions), but since we can now set our own difficulties, I don't feel the need to auto-complete very often.

There are only two missions that I usually skip and auto-complete. The mission that gives you the contact in The Hollows (usually the first mission you get in Kings Row) and the last mission of the second arc in Croatoa (where you have to prevent that a certain number of Firbolg enter a stone gate or so).

- Hunting missions in hazard zones given by security guards. Each of these missions block access to door missions until I take it. So I take it, talk to the guard, and drop it. Among other things, this notably includes the dreaded mission to hunt the Rikti in the Abandoned Sewer Network.

- Elite boss fights for certain characters against certain EBs. Sometimes things just don't match up well. I might be using smashing damage against an EB who who has very high smashing resistance, for example. Some of my characters can handle most if not all EBs I run into, while some of my characters just aren't cut out to fight EBs at all.

- Multiple simultaneous glowie click missions. There are just two or three of those that aren't timed that I have to worry about, all on the hero side, but they do sometimes get in the way. (I let the timed ones fail.)

I'm more apt to up-level myself to defeat any tough foes than use the skip feature. I'll usually use it if i don't have a travel power and i have to cross mroe than 2 zones. That's a pain.

However, it shold be noted that, if i recall correctly, every time you "skip" a misison, it sends a bug report to the GM team. The skip function wasn't meant to let us just avoid minor annoyances, but to not deal with seriously BUGGED missions (like a minion or glowie stuck in a wall). Simu-glowies, the 30 fir blog, stealth missions, defeat X, and yes, far-off missions... these are not buggy missions, and we're just wasting QA's time doing these things. if you know these things are coming up then you shouldn't do the arc, period.

ps: the "don't attack" ritki misison is one of my faves... then again, I'm an avid Thief fan, so i love sneaking around.

"Unfindable" mission doors in Primeva.

Cot caves , Fed Ex missions to other zones.Kill 50 of something .

Kill all mission with a stalker

Any mission that sends me to Mercy Island from any zone except Mercy Island

90% of the VEAT arc (especially the one that sends me from Cap to Mercy right after it sent me to Port from Cap, which is the FIRST mission you get in Cap after leaving Port...ugh)

Basically anything that requires me to switch zones for no good reason.

I always auto-complete those mishes that take you to a huge map and you have to find a certain dude. Or some Kill Al when i'm solo.

Fusionette.




But slightly more seriously, I usually only use the skip feature if I'm short of time for some reason - otherwise, I'll just play through as normal.

I use the auto-complete feature for arcs that are lower level than my character. I team a lot so I wind up out-leveling contacts.

It's better now with the new difficulty settings, but they don't help when you're 10-20 levels higher than the contacts.

I generally skip:

• Kill X enemies in location missions, though typically only if it's more than 20 or so.
• Hunt 10 CoT in Perez. Especially when I'm a level 7 and solo. I can do it, just like I can spend the day using my feet in place of my hands. That doesn't mean I have any desire to.
• Talk to PvP zone representative. Thanks, but I know about the zones. Stop ****ing badgering me.
• Missions I have outleveled beyond the point where I can increase my rep and still be fighting white-cons at least.
• The "Rescue Captives from the Nemesis Army" mission given by Serpent Drummer
• The "Kidnap Aeon's Workers during the Clockwork attack" mission given by Marshal Brass.

I often auto-complete missions that I've accidentally significantly outleveled. Sometimes I just breeze through them since I can squish anythign in the mish, but other times I just don't feel like it. I also skip missions which I know from experience just suck.

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Originally Posted by TheSwamper There is a RWZ mission where there are mobs that attack you but you are not allowed to defeat them. Personally, I hate this concept. I never do that mission.

Not quite true, actually. The mission has patrols in it which you're not supposed to attack. IIRC, there's one patrol, and killing it calls an ambush (and killing the ambush calls a second ambush); if you kill both of the ambushes, you fail. There's also a boss you're not supposed to kill, but that's easy since he's just in the middle of the final room.

If you don't touch the patrol, you're absolutely fine. The patrol will attack if they see you, but the point is that you're meant to stealth through the mission. And since I don't ever recall encountering Drones in the mission, that's not a problem either.

In fact, that's the arc I used to get the Ouroboros Mender badge (run 50 Flashback arcs). The arc is "The Strange Case of Benjamin A. Decker". A rescue on a small warehouse map (Arachnos, with a Warhulk that spawns near the entrance when you have Arnold Decker), a rescue in an instanced RWZ (Rikti, with allied Vanguard; B'Nadek is almost always near the mission entrance, and the turrets will often kill his captors before you find him), and a glowie hunt (4 glowies, all in the final room and far away from Rikti). The arc is really simple to finish quickly:

I think GR will have a few similar stealth missions in it too - it seems to fit the Paretoria set up very well.

Some hunt missions; specifically, those with something of a level mismatch or large numbers. The lowbie kill 10 CoT in Perez; defeat Council assets in the Pit in Sharkhead; like that. I often use it to skip EBs with low damage/flimsy characters. I almost always skip Silver Mantis in Crash Cage's arc; she's just too brutal at that level. Calystix is another, with squishies at least. I typically skip one or more missions from Stephanie "Kill-All" Peebles in Striga; especially the kill all on a ship.

Any timed mission. I hate timed missions.