COV Missions, waves at end

I seem to be getting a lot of missions where the "complete" message comes up
and half the group leaves. Just then the first of three or four waves of
baddies --sometimes pretty damn big groups comes running in. Tonight I had
the mish with Barracuda in it, same deal. Everyone but my sk left --pickup
group-- and were whining about what was taking sooo long the entire time I
was fighting to stay alive. I finally died in there (just to stretch it out
a bit I admit it) but my bots all gave a good accounting for themselves. And
since they all bunched up as they came into the tar patch I dropped, I let
those freaks stagger around a good bit by lobbing howling twilight (best
group disorient mistakenly called a rez I know) in their midst.

I resummoned another set of protectors and a new Ahnold (assault) around the
corner and started in again. That's when the original group of staggerers
all came too at once and targeted me. Bots were single targeting til death
(my macro: target closest enemy + petcom attack def). They weren't happy and
it finally overwhelmed my own heals.

That was proof to me to bind a "Don't exit ! Might be post mish waves"
message into a key so I could let the bozos know the next time without
trying to chat it out in time.

The common denominator I noticed this in are the missions that contain a
friendly that you rescue from a fight who either helps you out or applauds
you for helping. Then add in missions where such a person seen in earlier
mission is a purple conning elite that you fight. Tell you what, if COH had
missions like this more often I'd be back working that side of the street
more... <hint hint>

Scotto the Unwise
aka Rev4.0 on Infinity: lvl 27 mm bots/dark

Scott Stanek wrote:
> I seem to be getting a lot of missions where the "complete" message comes up
> and half the group leaves. Just then the first of three or four waves of
> baddies --sometimes pretty damn big groups comes running in. Tonight I had
> the mish with Barracuda in it, same deal. Everyone but my sk left --pickup
> group-- and were whining about what was taking sooo long the entire time I
> was fighting to stay alive. I finally died in there (just to stretch it out
> a bit I admit it) but my bots all gave a good accounting for themselves. And
> since they all bunched up as they came into the tar patch I dropped, I let
> those freaks stagger around a good bit by lobbing howling twilight (best
> group disorient mistakenly called a rez I know) in their midst.
>
> I resummoned another set of protectors and a new Ahnold (assault) around the
> corner and started in again. That's when the original group of staggerers
> all came too at once and targeted me. Bots were single targeting til death
> (my macro: target closest enemy + petcom attack def). They weren't happy and
> it finally overwhelmed my own heals.
>
> That was proof to me to bind a "Don't exit ! Might be post mish waves"
> message into a key so I could let the bozos know the next time without
> trying to chat it out in time.
>
> The common denominator I noticed this in are the missions that contain a
> friendly that you rescue from a fight who either helps you out or applauds
> you for helping. Then add in missions where such a person seen in earlier
> mission is a purple conning elite that you fight. Tell you what, if COH had
> missions like this more often I'd be back working that side of the street
> more... <hint hint>
>
> Scotto the Unwise
> aka Rev4.0 on Infinity: lvl 27 mm bots/dark
Those waves are a big part of why it's soooo much faster to level in
CoV than in CoH. That along with the fact that most missions occur in
the same zone, so the time between missions goes from like 5+ minutes
to like 1.