Dark Astoria arcs left me unsatisfied.

True. I suppose that's all the now lost mission could be summed up as.

And, hey! This way you're not *with* the team that fails miserably!

Blasphemy!!!! Cimerora and the Dream Doctor's Arcs were my favorites.


PS - How were the Saltines?

I got fed up saving Marcus, I hate the layout of Cimerora which made an outdoor mission there annoying, and that last mission fighting groups of 8 bosses was so tedious I fell asleep and when I came back I just auto-completed it because I couldn't stand to start over from the beginning.

They're pretty good if you dip them in butter like you might a potato chip in sour cream and onion dip.

The deleted scenes wound up in the intro text to the trial that pops up in the LFG window. See this thread.

And here's what you missed: Nom Nom, part II.

When in this post WWD world have the FP been either successful or competent?

I didn't mind those. I disliked the fighting in the water which is something that always seems silly in CoX. We're just as quick and effective in the water as we are on dry land! What?

Oh, and my rogue disliked saving the Cimerorans in the burning town. What the heck does she care about them?

yeah that's becoming a pattern.

See the SSA.

The phalanx is useless. Which is where we come in.

And how. I almost nodded off fighting the tentacles on my Ice/Time. Faced them one by one, holding them then slowly whittling them away. For three rounds. It was like chipping away on rocks. Or chopping down trees. And, they didn't give rewards. It felt like the mission was there specifically to waste time. Had there been a fourth round, I might have had to punch something.

More than likely.
Some of the mission design decisions seem to be made with the purpose of padding out the arcs past a minimum amount of time they must take to throttling reward rates. Notice how the fist arc, usually regarded as the fastest one, has a lengthy conversation in the middle that really didn't need to go on as long as it did. And the following attack waves are spaced out quite a bit as well. And in the second arc, again a long cinematic with Scirocco on what would otherwise be a mission you could run to the end of and kill the boss. And the missions without these kinds of cinematics/conversations are the ones that have you hunting glowies or killing X number of named bosses. Pretty much all or most of the missions you can speed to the end of have conversations and cutscenes to lengthen them.


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How many of Batman's villains end up committing crimes again?
He has a what, zero percent success rate?

Define "success."