So why aren't you using AE?

I enjoy AE, but I find myself playing the same small set of missions all the time. I'm not interested in farms - I want good stories. But I'm really a solo player — the main reason I quit WoW (at least until the next expansion comes out) was the obsessive focus on raids, raids, and more raids, and really nothing for the solo player at max level. And so I do a search in AE, and I find a number of story-focused arcs that sound interesting to me, and then I scroll down a bit further and I see the orange text:

"May contain Elite Bosses, Extreme Bosses, Archvillains, and Extreme Archvillains" (or however it's worded).

Dang it, as a solo player who isn't level 50 and IO'd to the gills, I'm not up to "Extreme Bosses" and Archvillains. I can usually handle a lone Elite Boss, but anything tougher than that? Fageddaboutit. So I just skip those - I don't see the point in playing through a story that I can't see the end of.

And yeah, custom enemies. I found a number of arcs that would have been fun if I hadn't spent 75% of my time flat on my back because of groups of enemies chain-knockbacking me.

For those looking for decent arcs you can search for SFMA - stands for Story Focused Mission Arc. That narrows it down a lot.

I have been going through lvl 1-10 arcs for story arcs. I am skipping any with EB's or AV's. I have a list on MA board, divided into my rating of 5, 4, or 3 stars (I don't include any that I rate below that). Plus a mini-review.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=287853

I think the only search is missing only a couple of things:
broken missions - you just shouldn't see them
EB's, AV's, custom characters - you should be able to filter out missions with them

It would be nice to see what individuals liked - but I suspect that would lead to stalking and griefing.