Looking for challenging arcs, with a caveat

I've tried searching ingame arcs with the "challenge" tag, but so far it didn't fit what I'm looking for. So, here goes.

I would like to play arcs reasonably hard, ideally something at or above the level of Vanguard, Longbow, Arachnos, Resistance, Rularuu and IDF. I am not especially looking for ludicrously hard "can you beat this" difficulty, but it can be worth a try.

I would strongly prefer for the mob factions to have custom foes or old groups mixed up with custom foes ; if it's just a single vanilla mob group in the whole mission with a special boss at the end, it's probably not what I'm looking for.

I would prefer to avoid multiple objectives such as pick 5 of this glowie, grab 2 of this other glowie, escort 3 hostages and finally punch boss guy mcboss in the face, which only appears once you've completed everything else.

A good story can be nice but for the purposes of this thread let's say it's irrelevant.


If you've got or know an arc like that, please point me in the right way. I'll give 5 stars if I like it and won't vote if I don't (unless you want me to). Thanks.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=212793

Smurphy's challenge thread may have some of what you're looking for. Word of warning: The current profanity/copyright filter may have broken a number of them. I submitted a challenge arc and it's currently unplayable.

Thank you very much! That thread seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. Guess I got some playing to do.