What content do you actually do?
iTrials, Old Contacts, Signature Arcs, Newspapers/Banks, Mothership Raids, random teaming
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
With how fast lvling happens these days, I try, but don't always succeed in doing arcs that open TFs (Cavern Trial, Hess, and Katie). Besides that, all bets are off. I try to do at least one iTrial everytime I have a an extended play session. Then I just do what is happening or I create happening.
I actually miss that we never really team together and do "regular" arcs anymore, except for Maria. I'd enjoy just going through content for the sake of content.
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Playing since i3 on 8 servers
Most of the time I run tip missions on multiple characters. I will also run SSA's for the rewards or on characters that haven't run them yet.
When I get really bored I will bring out the farmer and just kill lots of enemies for a little while.
I run story arcs and jump on any TF's I can if I can stay long enough. I run the SSAs as well.
Member of the Hyperion Force
Story arcs from regular contacts. Tips and SSA's between contacts. Task Forces once or twice a week.
That's my normal line-up... the next two weeks of course I'll be running a lot of holiday missions.
After seven years and three months, I still enjoy running certain Hero Arcs (Villain side is cool and all, just not up for villainy as much)
My magic-themed characters always run the Croatoa arcs, some of my other heroes do as well.
Everyone runs the Midnight Club (including the short Cimeroran) arcs, all the Ouroboros arcs, all of Vanguard arcs, and most of the Portal Corps arcs (as I can).
In fact, my new vigilante character has just saved Statesman from the clutches of the Praetorian menace last week ... and how does he repay my kind deed? Play SSA #5 and find out. All my efforts were wasted. Thanks, States.
American Dawg, Starblaze, Neanderthal Joe, Shining Dawn, Tokamak Dragon, Stinger Incarnate, Burning Tyger, Dover Tornado, Big Roach, Dark Paladin, Archmage Wylde, Kings Row Hornet, Prancing Deer
Avogadro, Science Lord
Edgar Nightcraft, Doc Cicada, Chupa Macabre, Dr Forchtenstein, Blood Shrew
In the last week, on various characters, I've done:
Arcs in Striga (solo and duo)
Arcs in First Ward (solo and duo)
Arcs in Croatoa (solo)
Arcs in Talos (solo and duo)
Monty's Midnighter Arc (small team of 4)
Blue-side SSA (duo)
Ghost Widow's first patron arc (duo)
A round on Harvey's "Praetorian demons" map, to help a new character catch up to an older running partner (duo)
Giant Monster hunting x 2, Babbage and a Winter Lord (full teams)
Tip missions, red and blue side (solo, duo and trio)
iTrials, BAF x 3 and Underground x 2 (full leagues every time)
Mothership Raids x 2 (full leagues for both)
Tanker Tuesday, Lord of Winter trial (league made of 18 tanks)
... and some BP "tiki mask"-hunting in Dark Astoria for badge credit (solo)
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That chick what plays the bird-things...
Just whatever I feel like, generally.
While I don't RP, all of my characters have their own characterization I create them with, and I usually try to pick story arcs that best suit them.
I am a bit anal about my contacts list, though; I end up doing, and will try to quickly finish any arc for a contact I can't out-level and get them moved off the list as soon as possible, so I do arcs for people like Pilgrim or Montague, and the Invention/Architect tutorials on every character ASAP.
Tip missions rather frequently as well, though I have a tendency to do those "in character" rather than trying to go efficiently for one alignment or the other there, too.
And then, of course, there's always the good, old fashioned Task Force/Trial/Pick-up Team when I just want to level rapidly.
So yeah, pretty much anything. The one thing I try to avoid is doing the same thing too frequently in a short period of time, to keep any one part of the game from feeling too stale. This usually isn't too difficult, though. For example, I can have one character at 20 go hang out with Keith Nance, while another does errands for Mercedes Sheldon.
It depends on the character. I have a defender who at this point pretty much only runs team missions and TFs. My up-and-coming redside TW guy was going to take his time and play story arcs and stuff, but I decided to have him go for the accolades as soon as possible. Between street sweeping for badges, doing paper missions for mayhems, and doing tips to sideswitch temporarily (because The Atlas Medallion is way way easier than Marshal), he's propelling through the levels surprisingly quickly.
No TFs for him, though; there's too great a risk of outleveling a mayhem. Which works just as well, since TW is wonderful for soloing. If I want to team, I have plenty of other characters who can contribute.
De minimis non curat Lex Luthor.
Lately I tend to jump on and either turn on my Looking for Any flag or put myself in the DFB queue and simply street sweep while people who put together teams don't actually bother searching and people doing DFB pre-form teams and defeat the convenience of the LFG tool. After an hour or two of street sweeping like that, I tend to log off dejectedly.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
I try and find a team; sometimes I make one, but not often. We usually end up doing radio missions and/or tips. If I'm playing solo it's usually either tips or AE arcs.
(I can count on maybe one hand... one and a half hands??? the number of trial/TFs/etc. I've played since I started this game and I don't see that changing any time soon. Multiple reasons: disinterest, the hours I play being two big ones.)
Failing that, I'm working on a new AE arc, set myself for "do not accept" and yet still get tells... which sometimes I go ahead and take anyways.
Rikti Ship Raids (I usually lead the scheduled Sunday night raids on Pinnacle), a few mission arcs, multiple instances of the SSA, tip missions, and an average of one iTrial a night. I have had a lot of evenings to myself the past couple weeks, but I do not in the near future, so I expect a drastic change during the latter half of this month.
@Winter. Because I'm Winter. Period.
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I am a blaster first, and an alt-oholic second.
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Mostly story arcs, whether from a contact or part of a zone. Sometimes tips and radios when I have nothing else to do on that particular character, or I just need a bar or two to level. Sewers only on very low level (<10) characters. Trials, raids, and task forces once in a blue moon. iTrials never.
34 heroes,
20 villains, Victory, Justice, Infinity, Virtue, Triumph, Exalted -- some more active than others
Almost entirely multiple team scaled events. After waiting 7 years for an end-game, I've been playing my heart out on Incarnate Trials, Rikti Raids, Hamidon, Cathedral of Pain, etc. They're fun, certainly City of Hero-spirited but requiring a tiny bit more coordination to find success.
Solo-wise, I've only really been running the SSA - They've been very enjoyable, and a bit of a nice change from the finale of First Ward.
The Paladin
Steel Canyon, Virtue
Exalted
@Paladin
Almost entirely story arcs. Occasional radio/paper/tip/SSA thrown in, but mostly story arcs.
I haven't done an iTrial since BAF and LAM were getting easy. I can rarely keep focused for long enough to do a task force, except the shorty ones, which are more like deeper story arcs than task forces.
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Everything, but a lot of tip missions & SSA (when solo) and task forces (whenever one's being formed).
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my lil RWZ Challenge vid
Let's see... My Titan Weapon Brute is now level 32, and what she did was:
*ONE DFB (I hate the new Atlas Park).
*Three paper missions and one Safeguard (I forgot what I wanted to do).
*All of the Hollows.
*Jim Temblor from Faultline, outlevelled the rest.
*Mercedes Sheldon's three arcs.
*Keith Nancy and Jenny Altair's arcs.
*Stepanie Beebles from Striga, then Tobias and Lars Hansen. Outlevelled Long Jack by accident.
*All of Croatoa - currently a couple of missions short of the final push.
What I didn't do was:
*Any Tip missions. I don't regret it.
*Any TFs. Seemed like all anyone wanted to do was DFB or iStuff, nothing for a 20-something character.
*Any Scanner missions. Never had to.
*Any Flashbacks. No reason.
*Roy Cooling. Never again.
*Atlas Park. Not interested.
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At low levels I'll usually run an AE arc or two to get to level 5. I didn't like the old heroside starter content, I was sick of the redside starter content, and I don't like the new starter content. Sometimes I'll do the Hollows. Villains run papers to get every mayhem for the accolade but my heroes usually don't bother.
After that I'll run any contact I haven't done in a while, with a few tips and AE arcs thrown in here and there. I always do Tina, Maria, Mender Lazarus, and any contacts that have me fighting a lot of Rikti after level 35. My villains run the patron arc, usually Ghost Widow's, even if they plan on using a hero APP.
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
Let's see... My Titan Weapon Brute is now level 32, and what she did was:
... *Three paper missions and one Safeguard (I forgot what I wanted to do). ... What I didn't do was: ... *Any Scanner missions. Never had to. ... |
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* tips
* story arcs
* SSAs
For story arcs, I've been tending to lean to the old and familiar, with a couple of exceptions. Both my Ice/Time and Beam/Rad started in New Atlas. I've been meaning to do Croatoa with the former, but might end up outlevelling it. The latter has been running the First Ward content. I avoided the Nance/Adair/Cooling stuff on both. I think I ran Peebles on at least one of them.
I don't run as many arcs as I used to as I try to fit in my five tips a day and there isn't always time, especially when I try to fit in some leveling on my PB and WS.
Suggestions:
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Random Merit Rolls: Scale cost by Toon Level
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Level appropriate zone arcs (like Faultline, RWZ), and tip missions. Sometimes task forces or iTrials. Signature Story Arcs. Special stuff like the winter event.
I hardly ever do radio missions or most regular contact missions. I don't do TFs as much as I'd like because the time doesn't fit my schedule easily, and the difficulty doesn't always suit my teammates. We don't like contacts who hand out missions in random order because we like to all have the same missions at the same time (yay RWZ, boo Striga).
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Maybe limit it to what you have done in the past week or two - not stuff you do on rare occasions, or did once, but in the next couple of weeks what content will you actually do?
iTrials, sewers, radio missions, bank missions, tf's, sf's, DFB, first ward, Praetoria start, Atlas start, old contacts, zone storylines (striga, hollows, etc), tips
I log in and try to find a team. I almost never have time to commit to a tf, so I just grab a team doing radio missions or whatever. I do a tf if I have a couple of hours to commit. If it is off hours or I have a very short time I run tip missions.
so for me: radio missions, tips, task forces