Swing and miss... which story arcs are most in need of revamp or outright removal?

every single "go defeat x of x"

seriously those filler pieces of horriblness need to be dumped fast.

Well, I can tell you this about the Television arcs: they're already aging badly. I'm roughly Melissa Bianco's age, I think, or anyway roughly the same age as the person who wrote this. So when they quote early Simpsons, when they quote Babylon 5, when they quote Mystery Science Theater 3000, when they refer to the controversy over when MTV stopped playing music videos, when they quote UHF (!!!) reruns of Dragnet and Leave it to Beaver, I get it.

Not one person in 100, born after 1961 or so, is going to get half of those jokes.

City of Heroes skews old, I gather; I get the impression that the average CoH player is probably around age 30. But that means that to the average City of Heroes player, they're making jokes about television series, all but maybe one of which (American Idol) went off the air before that average CoH player was born. No matter what country they were born or grew up in. And that's going to be more true, every day, the longer arc stays there.

They could rewrite Television's arc every couple of years, replace the Babylon 5 joke with a Battlestar Galactica reboot joke, replace the Simpsons joke with a How I Met Your Mother joke, and so forth. But they're not going to. So, as much as old guys like me love that arc, sooner or later it's going to have to go.

Any "story arc" in the Shadow Shard. So much wasted potential.

There's a lot in the thread I agree with, so I won't parrot it, but I will say: rewrite some of the 10-25 villain stuff. Now, don't get me wrong, it's good- but with minor rewrites it could be great. A lot of the content there references the Blood of the Black Stream, which is a concept left by the wayside. Update it to the Coming Storm! Wasn't it 3K Kelvin in those arcs, the Hellion boss? Maybe he had another name, I forget. But he's all about BotBS- when heroside, Hellions are chomping at the bit for the Coming Storm. There's a lot of potential to mix in Coralax and a lot of those other forgotten plot threads left in the low-level villain area. For example, say the red coral shards are from another meteor. Bam. Coming Storm. Of course, not everything needs to tie into the CS. But there's no reason to have these plot threads for content we'll never see lying around.

I'm pretty used to the game god-moding all over my characters at this point, and I mostly just roll with it. I even cut the devs some slack on it, because I realize that there is no possible way they can possibly account for every individual character concept the playerbase can come up with.

That said, the arc that goes above and beyond anything even I can tolerate in that regard is Dead Man's Deck (Mercedes Sheldon's redside arc). Maybe this one had such a strong effect on me because I first played it before I'd become assimilated. I remember talking to Darrin at a certain point in the arc that I won't give details on (hey, somebody might not have played it yet), and thinking, "Wait? I'm doing what now?" Now that I know what's coming, I will run the arc, but only with a character that would actually do what the arc forces him or her to do. On the upside, that first time through did lead to a good RP scene, as my character and her partner decided to rectify the situation after the fact (even though there's no way to reflect that in the actual game).

There are other arcs that I'd like to see revamped, but that's the one that leaps out at me. Another reason it probably stands out for me is that I just find redside so much more satisfying than blue in general, so I suppose my loves and hates are both stronger, redside. I have very little memory of most of the blueside content, as I've only played it once or twice; I find it all pretty dull. I tend to do tips with my heroes & vigs now that that's an option, or just run them in task forces. So perhaps I'd vote for an overall blueside revamp.