Less than impressed...

My goal with any new character is to have a highly survivable build @ Lvl 20 so that they can begin to solo any and all of the Tip and Alignment missions as soon as they are eligible. With this concept applied, my characters generally have few problems exempting downwards for any other type of mission. As a result, I found the Signature missions to be not much more of a challenge than normal 20ish Tip missions w/Bosses.

Optimizing only for lvl 50 play just seems so short-sighted and limiting with all the cool lower level stuff to do.

Since there are 7 arcs total I was thinking each one would be 5 levels higher. Next arc would be 25 then 30 etc. up to 50. But then again maybe they will keep them lower then that to maximize the amount of characters that can play them.

Fantastic maps, great writing, but the mobs were just phoned in. Why not a new group of pumicite that go up to level 50? Why not a new group of lost that go up to 50? (Beam rifle lost anyone?)

Seems to let the rest of the arc down.

As a Dark/Dark Scrapper, being at level 20 sets my available powers to 25, one short of Soul Drain.

Soul Drain helps me combat -To Hit by getting in an accuracy boost first. The damage also helps against negative energy resistant enemies.

The Signature Story Arc is full of CoT Ghosts that do -To Hit and have Negative energy resistance.

I now have to try and make sure I have plenty of yellows on hand to combat this.

I may not have more yellows drop than I use.

Net result: The arc isn't fun on that character, compared to my Fire/Fire Brute, who does have Build Up and can fire that off to deal with the -to hit. Which means I won't run it on that one.