So, according to Margie’s exhaustive research, you can only have three open defined story arcs going on at a time. Various assignments from various contacts can be one-off sorts of things, or they can (and usually do?) lead to story arcs.
(A story arc is a series of encounters — sort of a like a TF over time — that lead to a final big encounter. Frostfire is the climax of a story arc. Dr. Vahz is the climax of a story arc. Etc.)
Again, it seems you can have only three of these open at a time. If your pool of three is full, contacts simply won’t introduce new story arc assignments, which, obviously, impedes your access to content. You can still usually get contacts, and assignments, but they won’t be the “big” ones (unless you tag along with others).
So what Margie and I have been doing for the past couple of days with our main pairs — Amorpha, Psi-clone, Velvet, P-siren — is clean up all the old, outstanding story arcs we had hanging fire. This was initially provoked by P-siren not being able to get the Stephanie Peebles story arc (wedding ring, I believe). We went to each contact that we had an incomplete bar on their display and pinged them for any ongoing missions. If we still got one (which, if it was just generic, we wouldn’t have gotten at our levels), we took it.
It’s dull, boring, grinding work (for CoH play, that is). I mean, it’s fun — for a while — to one-shot or two-shot baddies, or just waltz past grey clocks and vahz to get to the bosses. But when you get a “defeat all” mish in there, it’s a pain. And there’s no XP or Influence to be had, only, at the end of some arcs, an aging DO.
And, to be honest, after you’ve graduated from bopping Tsoo, beating up on them hour after hour is like sitting through driving school …
Some of it we did solo, others we teamed (just for efficiency on defeat-all, since only Amorpha’s a fast damage-dealer of that group, though it was amusing conjuring up Phantom Army in the middle of a group and have them actually taking folks out in a shot or two).
But … it’s done. So now we can go on to some new stuff. Yay!
(Memo to self: go through this routine with all characters as they get around level 20. And finish arcs as you go ….)
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***Dave Does the Game
Yes…
Did that two weekends ago with Zazi and Puck. Sadly the other effect for cleaning out old arcs is the built in overconfidance from one and two shotting the baddies.
Right now working on three for Puck Striga (lots of happy temp powers), and a Natural contact so that I can get some 30 SO’s not available from the stores.
Plus, I wish that there was some sort of sign to indicate that you were done with that contact so you could ignore them.
Yeah. If you finish a contact’s story arc or everything that you could do for them, the bar fills up. But if you are over-level for them, they will stop giving you mishes, even if the bar isn’t full.
Hmmm. Sounds like a great thing to put on the official boards, if it hasn’t been already.
We actually did do a “real” mission last night, which was kinda refreshing. And when one of the contacts suggested taking out 20 Tsoo, we ducked over to Talos and did it there for a few XP.
Kept us from getting *too* confident.