What makes you want to auto-complete a mission?

Missions to defeat an AV, when I'm on Triumph. I'm not very good at soloing most of them even when they're EBs. Virtue I'm okay with those because it's much easier to find help.

You've never been to the Rikti War Zone ? Kill 50 Malta , Kill 50 Rikiti . I don't take them when I have the luxury of another choice.

i usually drop mishs because i dont feel like doing it at the time

the most common mish i drop is the first instanced mish in the tutorial zone, i hate sitting through 2 loading screens (loading into the mish and loading back to breakout/outbreak) for a 2 min long mish that you get 0 xp in until you finish the mish, i just as rather save the time, skip it, and just load into the actual game

I drop:

- Missions that are in the middle of that damned Perez Park maze, especially if there are large spawns of +3s in the way (and bonus points if they're mez-heavy like Lost). I hate mazes anyway in any game.

- Most large hunts. There's no story-related reason to defeat 50 of anything ever. Doesn't have to be 50 though, if I think any hunt is stupid I'll drop it. "Confirm" the presence of something...hey contact, I'm ******* looking at one after hitting Tab, it's ******* confirmed. I confirm that you're wasting my damn time with worthless filler. Want to see why they call me an anti-hero?

- Missions that I've already half-done the last game. Occasionally I'll get something lengthy, like an Oranbega scavenger hunt or one of those multi-floor-multi-elevator MC Escher Industries Inc lab maps, get started, then whoops it's 1am, didn't I just sit down here? Fairly rare obviously, but when it happens and I didn't find the mission interesting the first time I don't feel the need to do it again just because.

I auto-complete Coyote's mission in Outbreak every single time.

Any mission with an EB in it as my main hero is a Mind/Emp troller and my main vilalin is a Rad/Therm corr.

Roughly in order of priority/frequency:

Missions (or indeed arcs - oh I wish we could drop an entire arc in one go) that I've outleveled.

Certain courier missions (usually if it's a fairly long run there and back and I don't expect to need to drop anything else in the near future).

Certain hunt missions (I avoid taking these wherever possible; if it's part of an arc it depends how many I've to kill and how abundant that mob type is).

The rare missions that I'm really struggling with solo and don't expect to find help with.

I use the skip function quite regularly to spend a larger share of my time on stuff I find fun. I usually skip the following:

1. "Fed Ex" missions, especially for PvP contacts (I also dislike the badgering, just as another poster indicated)
2. Missions with lots of glowies or a lot of rescues to carry out
3. Find a single mob in huge outdoor maps
4. Missions that force you to team to successfully complete the objectives
5. Large scale hunt missions, especially when they take place in another zone
6. Arcs that I've out-leveled to the point where doing them no longer poses any challenge

I like the Fir Bolg portal mission and I never skip it. I've never failed it, solo or teamed, because I've worked out how to do it in a reasonably quick manner (go hunt spawns in between when fir bolg are headed for the portal; it shortens the duration of the mission).

Missions that I skip include, but are not limited to:

*PvP zone introductions
*Security Chief missions, especially in Hazard Zones
*Forcer-travel contact introductions
*Simu-click missions
*The "Stop 30 Fir Bolg" mission
*The "Stop Agent Crimson" mission

Basically, anything that either wastes my time, puts me in situations that the developers have outright TOLD me I shouldn't be facing or gives me a mission I cannot complete gets dropped, and I never look back. If Customer Support get a ticket to look at the mission, all the better. If enough people skip a mission enough times, someone might just do something.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

There's a Rikti misison out of RWZ (from Levantra, I think) where you have to rescue four people and disarm four Rikti bombs in one of those power station outdoor maps. I always drop it because looking for the last captive citizen on a huge outdoor map full of catwalks and towers is pure tedium.

I remember a large thread before talking about how much the other Rikti RWZ misison where you have to save the generators and rescue the newswoman sucks. There was a dev response in there but did they ever change the mission? I always drop that one as well.

The final Cimerora mission where you have to clear a bajillion Malta from the Rommy map is a perfect storm of things I hate: Malta, large outdoor maps and "kill all" objectives. Drop!

Any missions that I've actually tried to do but for one reason or another cannot find the final objective. I don't have time to be searching for that one last Clockwork patrol.

Any mission that has a boss that my character just cannot beat, which is rare, but I never said I was Superleetgamer who always be winning.

Any mission that is terribly outdated, as in outleveled, and for whatever reason is still on my mish list.

And sometimes, I just don't dammit to hell feel like doing a mission and want to get to the next one dammit.

Number of reasons

- If there's a boss I can't defeat. After 3 or 4 trips to the hospital, it's time to move on.

- Clicking multiple glowies at once, since I solo a lot of the time.

- Finding glowies or hostages in large Oranbega or outdoor maps.

- The "Stop 30 Fir Bolg from entering the gate" mish, and that other Croatoa one where you protect the stonehenge from the Red Caps. Standing around waiting for things to spawn is not my idea of a good time.

- Escorting suicidal idiots like Lady Jane or General Aarons.

- Talk to David Wincott
- Talk to Difficulty Dude/Girl
- Hunt X CoT's/Hellions/Skulls in Perez Park
- Talk to PVP dude/girl

Sadly these missions appear quite close after each other

-Finding more than three glowies or hostages in Oranbega
-Defeating more than 10 entities outside
-Speaking to the PvP zone contacts
-First patron arcs, autocomplete them to the last mission

I almost never drop missions unless they are bugged. I like challenges, so I enjoy the occasional hard mission. If I am short on time, I will drop the Wincott mission or similar missions with a lot of travel time and no payoff. Other than that, I can go weeks without dropping a mission.

One of the things that often gets me to drop a mission is unnecessary gratuitous amounts of traveling. Since I play on an aged laptop, my loading times are annoyingly long. I'm not going to zone 4 times to go talk to some PvP zone representative or a contact whose missions I'm never going to take. I'd actually rather do a 'hunt 50 whatever' in the zone I'm currently in than zone 4 or 5 times even for something as simple as a fedex.

Another one is missions that just take an annoyingly long period of time. Some of the croatoa ones are good examples - finding hostages whose names I can never remember on absolutely gigantic outdoor maps, the 'stop 30 fir bolg' mission (which is both long *and* annoying), etc. Also the 'find bombs and hostages on a giant rogue isles factory map' RWZ mission is a good candidate.

I don't usually drop missions for simple difficulty - I've yet to meet an EB I couldn't kill in some way or another (about the only time I might do that is if I had a hunt where I couldn't find anything that wasn't +6 to me). It's annoying missions more than difficult ones that get the drop. I get little enough playtime as it is to spend it doing something annoying instead of something fun.