Level 29-31 Lack of Missions

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I just hit 31 and that's with doing a bunch of level 33 missions in monster island and I'm basically out of quests and not sure what to do other than grind PQ areas or mobs in general. I have done all 3 5 Man instance quests as well....

Around 29 I think that Socrates e-mail spamming you for more missions would be a good idea to get you through the gap.

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I'm at 28 right now and I'm doing level 29 and 30 quests.

Nervous about the grind ahead and I've been doing every I can to avoid doing quests not specific to my level.

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Odd...I hit 31 Before I even set foot on Monster Island....perhaps you've missed some quest hubs?

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Combine both Canada and Desert Island, do some Open Public Quests (they give tons of XP) and generally explore for quest hubs as Outkry says. I reached Monster Island at 30.5 and thats with a couple of bugged quests I couldnt do in Canada, even.

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Have to agree. I think most people that are complaining about running out of missions at 30 are doing so because they ran off to Monster Island at the first opportunity, blitzed all the early missions there and ran out off stuff to do.

If people would just finish off the missions (and all the follow ups) they have in Canada, MC and Desert before trying to get to Monster Island they will find the missions there will get them past the slow down.
Like other posters,I had hit 30 before setting foot on Monster Island, even with some bugged missions. And while I did get to a point were I was struggling to find stuff at 31, the mission computer saved me. (see below)

Its not players fault mind! I think the lvl cap for Monster Island should be increased to 30 to stop people going there too early. All I would suggest is that if you find yourself out of missions, take a look at your Mission computer! It lists all contacts that you can currently get missions from and can be used to set a marker for the contacts on your map. Just dont worry if you get sent away from Monster Island! The missions in this game are spread out across all zones, and just because your getting sent to a Contact in Canada when your in Monster Island doesnt mean its a step backwards!

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I don't know if that big Jail "stronghold" is repeatable, but there were a bunch of bosses, I passed up. I did solo it at level 25, but I want to go back in there and get some of those other bad guys and gals I saw. Menton was fun, and hard esp. when his health is low and he sends 15 prisoners at you, but good AoE did the trick.

Also Canada has areas that go up to 30, and there is a mean boss up there that cannot be killed solo even at level 40. well maybe.. I was a bit under geared during that last open beta day.

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Its not players fault mind! I think the lvl cap for Monster Island should be increased to 30 to stop people going there too early. All I would suggest is that if you find yourself out of missions, take a look at your Mission computer! It lists all contacts that you can currently get missions from and can be used to set a marker for the contacts on your map. Just dont worry if you get sent away from Monster Island! The missions in this game are spread out across all zones, and just because your getting sent to a Contact in Canada when your in Monster Island doesnt mean its a step backwards!

I've checked my crime computer the only 2 quest hubs I have are for both bugged missions; The Shape Shifter one at the alien crash site and one from Socrates for going to the CEO's speech near the water front except you can't talk to him at all. I also couldn't complete "Lost My foot" from an NPC on the east side of MC. However with all 3 I'm still a long way off from 32 being at level 31 now. I've also done a handfull of nemesis note missions as well as went back to Canada back at an earlier level and did all the level 8 missions. Every Mission that you could possibly do I have done so I'm lost at this point.

I noticed a lot of the Canada NPCs had gray Exclamation points over there. At level in Monster Island do you need to go back there because that would probably help out ?

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I ended up having to go back and finding L.10-13 contact NPC's in the Desert since I started out in Canada. It filled out a bar at L.31 in about an hour at 10k xp per quest.

I noticed after logging in today they also nerfed quest XP by 15%. My L.37 quests (I was L.34 at the time) were giving me 20.3k XP before the patch. Now they are awarding 17.2k.

Good luck to all of those new folks levelling up with the serious gaps in content. I've heard L.38.5+ is pretty much grind as well. We'll see.

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I've checked my crime computer the only 2 quest hubs I have are for both bugged missions; The Shape Shifter one at the alien crash site and one from Socrates for going to the CEO's speech near the water front except you can't talk to him at all. I also couldn't complete "Lost My foot" from an NPC on the east side of MC. However with all 3 I'm still a long way off from 32 being at level 31 now. I've also done a handfull of nemesis note missions as well as went back to Canada back at an earlier level and did all the level 8 missions. Every Mission that you could possibly do I have done so I'm lost at this point.

I noticed a lot of the Canada NPCs had gray Exclamation points over there. At level in Monster Island do you need to go back there because that would probably help out ?

This is EXACTLY where I"m at and have the exact same 3 quests that you have that are bugged out and not working. There is nothing, I've gone back and flown all over, the crime computer only leads me to those 3 bugged quests and lemuria which I can't get into until 32. So thats out of the question.

They took out the repeatables in canada, so thats not an option anymore. Lowered quest xp a bit, so theres gonna be even more of a gap when people are working their way up. I'm not real sure wth cryptic is doing or thinking. They announce a content upgrade when there isn't enough content to get through reasonibly now without grinding. They need to throw about 500 more quests into the current content. You shouldn't be forced to do every single mission in the game in order to make cap, you should be doing less than 75% hell...about 60% of the content and then doing the rest if you want to for perks etc.

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Yeah this is strange. Myself and my friends have been easily able to get to 31 without doing a single mission in Monster Island so far. We have done the crisis, but still have a few more Canada quests and to finish up the Burial Caves lair tonight. Might even be able to get to 32 based on the xp we get from those.

We all did the desert crisis, followed by desert to about 13, then canada to about 15, then MC to low 20s, then back to desert to finish out the quests there (prob 24 or so when done), then back to canada til around 26 or so, then MC east side til 28 or so, then back to canada til 31+ (with the MI crisis thrown in there for good measure).

Based on all the Monster Island stuff I did on multiple characters in closed beta, I would say that we can easily get to high 30s (38+) on the stuff there no problem, and thats not even counting the Lemuria crisis and quests there as well.

As far as I can see, there is no problem at all, and their xp curve seems to be working just fine to me. I'll update a little later tonight about how Monster Island is going.

And yes, the Hiding in Plain Sight mission in the desert, and the Waterfront Watcher and My Lost Foot in MC, were bugged as of the preview for some reason. Hopefully fixed for the launch patch.

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I ended up having to go back and finding L.10-13 contact NPC's in the Desert since I started out in Canada. It filled out a bar at L.31 in about an hour at 10k xp per quest.

I noticed after logging in today they also nerfed quest XP by 15%. My L.37 quests (I was L.34 at the time) were giving me 20.3k XP before the patch. Now they are awarding 17.2k.

Good luck to all of those new folks levelling up with the serious gaps in content. I've heard L.38.5+ is pretty much grind as well. We'll see.

But kill xp was raised...

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I too ran out of quests at early 31 - and that was after doing the repeatable in Canada for a whole level.

I think the people who have not run out of quests have abused the repeatable - with the lastest nerf to that quest this will become less of an option and running out of quests will be more of a problem.

This is a serious problem - people wont put up with grinding PQs.

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But kill xp was raised...

I am now at level 33 and I have done all the quests in monster island, Canada and Lemuria that were one level above, at or below my level. In a lot of cases the quests were two levels above me. I also did dozens of the timed quests from freeing cornered citizens on all instance maps.

In 95% of the questing I was solo.

I did not skip any quest hub; the only quests I skipped were those that were bugged.

I also did the major instances (Telio, Dr. Destroyer, etc) along the way.

I did not do many open public quests however, I simply did not care for them.

Right now I am thinking hard about grinding one whole level to get some breathing space.

I think there are statements at odds here: I strived to quest (outside public quests) as much as I could but now face a minimal 2 level difference (in most cases it is three) and have no clue as to why with the diligence I spent questing. Other people are at a place where the level matches the questing.

Quite frankly I love the challenge of questing with the level difference but can see where some people might get frustrated...

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This is EXACTLY where I"m at and have the exact same 3 quests that you have that are bugged out and not working. There is nothing, I've gone back and flown all over, the crime computer only leads me to those 3 bugged quests and lemuria which I can't get into until 32. So thats out of the question.

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Exactly me as well, though I am still level 30.

In my log I have exactly as follows - Canada -> Telios' Tower Desert - Operation Stronghold, Hiding in Plain Site (bugged) MC - Waterfront Watcher (bugged), Dr. Destroyer's Lair missions. Then a bunch of 32+ missions from Monster Island.

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Considering people have already hit 40 you are obviously missing something

Don't blame Cryptic blame yourself

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I'm level 31. I've never grinded mobs for XP. I only did the repeatable canada mission like 3 times. I just did the unlock for Monster Island and got my log full with MI quests. I also have the pending underwater crisis which I presume would open up more quests.

Have you actually used the Crime Computer in the quest log to find new quests? I found two whole quest hubs I had missed in Canada when I checked it around level 29.

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Considering people have already hit 40 you are obviously missing something

Don't blame Cryptic blame yourself

I actually don't care whose fault it is, I'm posting in this thread so it gets more attention. In fact, i HOPE its my fault and that there is content I've totally missed that I can do, as soon as I can find the damn stuff. So, please, share with me where the quests are, because thats what I WANT here, not to show up cryptic or something.

As for the above post, my crime computer takes me to nothing I don't already have. (it has a guy that gives quests for Telios Tower, it has Socrates for the bugged Waterside quest, and it has a monster island contact.

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Considering people have already hit 40 you are obviously missing something

Don't blame Cryptic blame yourself


I think what they are missing is abusing the repeatable quest in Canada. I am SURE all the people who didn't have a problem with running out of quests did this (or they abused the bug with low level mobs giving exp).

Now these are no longer viable levelling options, more and more people will have a problem. It is very frustrating and I'm concerned for the game.

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i am close to dinging 32, so i should be ok. But i am sitting at 31 and have run out of equal lvl missions. I have quite a few 32's left, but i've tried to refrain from using those yet, since i've been aware of this "leveling gap". I am hoping the dev's take a look at this, and put in some of the random missions which they did for the lvl 23ish gap.

I think my advice for people reading this is try to pad your xps, try to finish up content in your mid 20's. Dont rush to these places yet. Go do some of the PVP tournaments, those are good boosts to xps. Make your nemesis the first thing you do when you hit 25. Then also the Public quests.

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Considering people have already hit 40 you are obviously missing something

Don't blame Cryptic blame yourself

The 40's got there with the old XP scale though. Most people are saying they have taken that down. The 40's also got there pre def passive nerf, and could tank plus 8's all day long with perma block. The 40's also got there with bonus xp for doing missions above their level which has also been taken out of the game. I'm not whining for this stuff to be put back how it was, just saying that the seamless questing of the Head Start game settings is not the way the game works anymore.

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Lost Foot seems to have either a bugged reset or long respawn.

You can do Waterfront Watcher if you are really lucky, but the follow up is a 3 man quest that seems to be buggy as well, its to escort the group + speaker somewhere, but sometimes he just runs ahead and you fail, or he stops and you fail. I have no idea how you are supposed to do that quest correctly, but at least he respawns immediately after you fail.

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I'm level 31. I've never grinded mobs for XP. I only did the repeatable canada mission like 3 times. I just did the unlock for Monster Island and got my log full with MI quests. I also have the pending underwater crisis which I presume would open up more quests.

Have you actually used the Crime Computer in the quest log to find new quests? I found two whole quest hubs I had missed in Canada when I checked it around level 29.


I did every quest from the the crime computer but two. The two were bugged out.
I did not exploit the repeatable quest as that is fairly boring and not my style.

And to the acerbic poster who said blame the player not the game: there are enough people with issues in quest level versus player level to merit that there is quite possibly an issue.

Perhaps the expectation was for all elements of the game to be played in order to level up "properly"; including PvP and the repeatable quests. Yet because this is an MMO I would think the design should revolve around what you like to do. I do not care to gain XP from PvP as I do not PvP. Any MMO should be built around this fact.

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I think what they are missing is abusing the repeatable quest in Canada. I am SURE all the people who didn't have a problem with running out of quests did this (or they abused the bug with low level mobs giving exp).

Now these are no longer viable levelling options, more and more people will have a problem. It is very frustrating and I'm concerned for the game.

Haven't abused it (ran it 3 times before I realized it was repeatable actually) and I'm still having no issues. I'm also though actually leveling everywhere but Monster Island if I can help it.

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Well I've also run out of missions..I'm 5 bars away from 31 and have done all crime computer stuff..I should NOT have to grind out 5 bars on mobs this is ridiculous..:mad:

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Okay, reality check: the crime computer is not the be-all and end-all of available missions. It only leads you to the major plot NPCs. There are a lot more missions out there which will never appear in it - some from dropped items, some from NPCs you have to rescue before they will talk to you, some from tagging glowies that are located in places you wouldn't normally visit. Random example, the crime computer leads you to two quest givers in the Stronghold area. There are actually half a dozen of them up there. Do you know where they all are?

Go learn your way around some of the more remote parts of the maps. There's a lot more than what you'll find just by running on the rails of the major plot arcs. Find some of it, start making use of it.

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Okay, reality check: the crime computer is not the be-all and end-all of available missions. It only leads you to the major plot NPCs. There are a lot more missions out there which will never appear in it - some from dropped items, some from NPCs you have to rescue before they will talk to you, some from tagging glowies that are located in places you wouldn't normally visit. Random example, the crime computer leads you to two quest givers in the Stronghold area. There are actually half a dozen of them up there. Do you know where they all are?

Go learn your way around some of the more remote parts of the maps. There's a lot more than what you'll find just by running on the rails of the major plot arcs. Find some of it, start making use of it.



what? i got to go around and find my missions? /ragequit
this game is too tough
cryptic fix that stuff



sorry couldn't resist. but seriously, that's what you need to do to get your qeusts.

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I agree that we shouldnt have to do every single mission in the game to get to level 40 but it seems with the way xp is currently distributed that is exactly what we have to do.

Im level 37 now with no further quests other than the odd lvl 5-15 quests in Canada/Desert which hardly touch the 1.5million xp I have left to get. I would have to do over 50 apocolypse stronghold victories or 50 open quests to finish off the level. Even after that I doubt I'll have all the missions I need at 38 as most of the quests ive been doing for the past level have been the level 40 quests in Lemuria.

There is a real issue End-Game currently with xp. Everyone questing around me in the level 40 areas are 37 and 38 and I can guarantee within the next week this thread will double as more ppl struggle to reach 40.
I did most of my lower levels grouped with my friends and that is the only thing that i can think that has nerfd my overall xp gain behind everyone elses.
I can just check my perks lists to see the missesd quests and trust me its not many and nowhere 1.5million xp's worth.

It IS crytpics fault... I just have no idea how they are going to fix it other than letting us level 37-39's use the next expansion to level.

Grinding open quests/pvp is just that ... grinding... Grinding is not fun.

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what? i got to go around and find my missions? /ragequit
this game is too tough
cryptic fix that stuff



sorry couldn't resist. but seriously, that's what you need to do to get your qeusts.

You shouldn't have to run around for hours looking for a single contact to do missions...how is that a fast paced action MMORPG? Name me one MMORPG where you have to do that for that matter..its not helping..they need to add more content to give players the choice on who to do missions from etc. You shouldn't have to do every single quest to get to 40...where's the buffer zone?

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where's the buffer zone?

Pulled in order to polish the game more and get it out in Q3. They're vaguely planning to go back and fill in over the next few months, once the big issues are nailed down.

Like most MMOs, on release day it's a bit spartan - half the stuff they have partially-implemented isn't ready to go live yet. On average, it takes about one year for a new MMO to get this sort of thing straightened out.

That said, I usually run through as far as level 30 only completing about 3/4 of the content that I know of (which is about twice as much as you'll find just by using the crime computer - at present you really, really need to do this). And I'm pretty sure I haven't found all of it yet. After level 30 it's a bit thinner.

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The game was marketed to be solo friendly, however since the XP nerf there is not enough solo friendly missions.

I should know, i have not grouped on this character to see if Cryptic's marketing lives up to the hype. So i am now at level 30 with only 8 bars and i have hit the leveling wall big time.

I am now waiting for more level 34 missions to open up once i hit level 31, which is kind of sad really considering they should be level con.

The XP nerf would be fine, if there was more missions to fill the gaps less experienced players of this game will find, since finding certain special hidden mission npcs in zones is kind of hit and miss and waiting for public missions to re-spawn is boring, i am now forced to go grind XP, solo friendly? Yeah grinding is solo friendly i guess :rolleyes:

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I just hit 31 and that's with doing a bunch of level 33 missions in monster island and I'm basically out of quests and not sure what to do other than grind PQ areas or mobs in general. I have done all 3 5 Man instance quests as well....


I completed 400 missions by level 31. That's with grinding in the low 20s and low 30s.

I am constantly out of missions, and have to spend about half of every level grinding.

When I get missions, they are 2-4 levels higher than me.

The content gap sucks.

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Just what I wanted to read :< I hit 28 last night and am finishing up in MC then back to desert! Hoping I will get at least a level in the desert before Monster Island.

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Im Level 31 now, halfway through.

I finished all available quests in Millenium City, Canada and the Desert and was halfway through 30 at that point.
Now Im at Monster Island and have done a few quests there. Havent done any Nemesis-Mission yet and havent been to Lemuria.

I cannot see a lack in Missions or whatever content gap all the people talk about.
Maybe you should just use the crime computer from time to time or whatever.
Or do some Public Quests or 5-Mans...

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*sigh* While I hate to admit it, I too must throw my proverbial Internet Hat into the conjoined stockpile of this thread. I remember just yesterday how I was saying the content gap was non-existant, and yet here I am at level 30 with nothing. Nothing! Ridiculous.

Thusfar, I've finished everything I can in Canada, The Desert, and Monster Island, as well as "Hot Off the Wire" with my Nemesis and finishing every Civillian Mission I've ever been given. There're only two missions I have in my logbook -- the one wherein you must contact Xirexxes or whatever her name is for the Bigfoot fellow, and the other to talk to Harmon IV -- of which both are bugged currently beyond completion. Any attempt made to contact either of these characters has seen me frustrated in return, as they apparently don't want to talk to me... but I digress!

Anyway, Content Gap. Blah! Et cetera, et cetera.

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http://www.muppetfleet.com/categories/item/21-hero-breaks-through-brick-wall

Article about this very problem

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*sigh* While I hate to admit it, I too must throw my proverbial Internet Hat into the conjoined stockpile of this thread. I remember just yesterday how I was saying the content gap was non-existant, and yet here I am at level 30 with nothing. Nothing! Ridiculous.


It's a little more subtle than that. The "content gap" there isn't exactly real but there's a knot you can get into.

If you skip enough early content, so that you arrive on MI around early level 29 having finished the other missions around that level, then you'll come up short before unlocking the bulk of the MI missions (there's a lot more there, but they're level gated to 31 or 32). If you complete enough of the earlier content around the high teens/low twenties, then you won't hit this issue. It's not a gap so much as the fact that you can stay ahead of the difficulty curve and not quite reach the MI level gates because of it.

You probably will run out of interesting missions around the late 30s, but hey, you've finished the game, can't really expect much else until they have time to add more content.

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Okay, wanted to try this before I said anything, but I've now confirmed: where the problem is just people skipping enough early content (and the corresponding mission experience), you can simply go back and play those missions at a higher level. Use your perks list to see which ones you missed, then hunt down the NPCs which hand out those missions - they won't appear in your crime computer or have marks over their heads, but if you talk to them then they'll offer the missions, and you'll get the experience rewards for completing them. I just ran through most of level 31 by cleaning up several half-finished storylines.

Additionally, taking a level 31 character to smack Medusa around is an incredibly satisfying experience, after all the grief she usually gives.

(Yeah, it's still in need of developer attention, but you don't need to let it interrupt your gameplay while they get it fixed)

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Just adding my experience here, A friend and I duoed almost everything from 14 during early access, we hit 30 Sunday night. We did every quest in the crime computer every quest hub we could find, admittedly we skipped some of the early content because we could easily take missions 3 levels above us. We skipped the majority of the Canadian content in the early levels(up to 18 or so). However, from Snake Gulch onward we were always 2-3 levels behind the content (quests lvls). We did all of Area 51, Stronghold, MC, and Canada. The two starter quests for Dr, Destroyer, and Telios (5 mans). We could see some content for lvl 30 and 31 from the big foot village but could get none of the quests as we were 29.

We ended up at 29.4 or so after all the quests we could find, even the gray ones from the Crime computer. We had to grind out a little more then half a level on PQ's. We did one PQ a little over 20 times back to back as it was the best XP hands down easily more then the repeatable quests. Up to this point the game had been relatively fun though I still think it is entirely too easy to level. We got to 30 playing pretty casually a couple of hours a night and a couple of full weekend days. At this rate in a couple more weeks we will be at level cap.

I have had to grind in every other MMO I have played and yes even WoW (Rep Grinding FTW). I was never really bothered by it I am not opposed to some odd grinding here and there, my typical play I kill every mob on the way to the quest maybe one or two more for good measure then as many as cross my path on the way back. However the mob exp is so low it makes grinding damn near pointless. Leaving only the capability of doing PQ's or repeatable missions from 6 or 7 levels ago. I dont have a problem grinding really as long as it is something close to my level all the higher PQ's we could find were bugged. Having to do gray content over and over was a disappointment to say the least.

Some easy ways to fix this pretty quickly, first one that I can think of is the paper or radio missions from CoX. That was a great filler that let you progress without having to grind the same spot/mobs over and over. At minimum you should be able to share the random walkup quests some of the civilians give you. The other way is to fix the damn lvl 30 PQ quest at least then we dont have to grind it out on gray mobs. Or just put another quest hub or two in for 27-30.

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I ran out of quest at 29 too. Funny thing is that I even did all the crime computer quest. So I had nothing to do, no quest available was the only thing I kept getting. The only thing that i was able to do was make a nemesis & start doing those mish. Nemesis missions plus grinding out PQ's was the only way I was able to lvl up to 31. i wonder if I just out lvled some missions.

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I am at a content wall myself. I have 5 or so missions lined up but they are +3 levels to me. I tried to hit all of the content I could find including the missions granted by drops, rescuing people, the nemesis and the crime computer. I also did the 5 man lairs and a couple of public quests.

The concern I have is regarding the casual player. Most players will not frequent the forums and I suspect that a lot of those players will be struggling to find content because grinding and scouring the landscape for hidden missions just isn't gonna work out well if that is that is expected of the player.

I personally will go back through the previous zones just because I like perks and exploration but I am not gonna grind. This could definitely be a deal breaker for me on CO, which is too bad because I have been with this game since mid closed beta.

I really hope the devs address this issue.

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I experienced a very minor gap at 31. Probably like half a bar.

But I also did a lot of open missions, random missions, item unlocked missions, PVP, and lairs.

I also completed all the quests in canada, MC, and the desert.

So yes, there is a small content gap that needs to be filled in.

This is probably due to the fact that they reduced the XP rewards therefore creating a gap... I get that's also the feeling most people are doing missions 2-3 levels higher.

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Having the same issue with content at lvl 30 and 4 bars left for 31,i have 4 missions left after scouring all 4 zones : 2 are in the factory in MC admitedly so thats worth some decent xp granted and the other 2 are bugged.After checking the crime computer contacts at 30, i did the lvl 33 quests in MI and am now left with grinding on lvl 35 mobs in MI [Bosses are worth 2k xp each with 200k still left thats approx 100 mobs ;p].I've tried the pq north from the plane on MI[seems like the only 1 worth doing at lvl 30] but it seems like everyone else has the same idea and xp is not all that.I may have to go back and find old grey contacts as another option but really havent any enthusiasm to do this ;p.

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Having the same issue with content at lvl 30 and 4 bars left for 31,i have 4 missions left after scouring all 4 zones : 2 are in the factory in MC admitedly so thats worth some decent xp granted and the other 2 are bugged.After checking the crime computer contacts at 30, i did the lvl 33 quests in MI and am now left with grinding on lvl 35 mobs in MI [Bosses are worth 2k xp each with 200k still left thats approx 100 mobs ;p].I've tried the pq north from the plane on MI[seems like the only 1 worth doing at lvl 30] but it seems like everyone else has the same idea and xp is not all that.I may have to go back and find old grey contacts as another option but really havent any enthusiasm to do this ;p.

QFT -- I hit exactly this position yesterday at about 30.4. Really bummed me out. Grinding the PQ makes me want to hit my head against the keyboard.

Would be good to get a DEV comment in here.

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Try saving hostages in The Canadian Wilderness. There are TONS of them being harassed in the Northwest area just before the Burial Cave. They almost always offer a timed quest that is scaled to your current level, and offer very generous xp awards.

Also, if you're a Flight character try flying closer to the ground so your Nemesis minions will attack you more often.

I'm level 30.4 with 7 quests left in Canada/MC, and I have yet to even touch Monster Island yet.

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To close the gap I started running PvP Stronghold for 30-50K exp a game. Once i get to 33 (was 31.8 when i started), I think i can resume normal missions and progression. PvP is an option though. You can get a few missions in MC for it as well.

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I'm also stuck halfway through 31. I did every quest I could find, but it seems that everything has ground to a halt. I'll try out some of the suggestions, but pvp doesn't seem to be an option for my character. Either I suck or my build does, because I got stomped hard, (guess I put too much into AOE). Making alts is getting old, so I need to try something.

It seems that this is a pretty easy fix for the Devs. All they need to do is add one or two repeatable quests in the gaps and that should get people through. It seems like they may be happy with things as they are, because it slows down the number of people reaching lvl 40 before they get their end-game content ready to go live.

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The game was marketed to be solo friendly, however since the XP nerf there is not enough solo friendly missions.

There are plenty of missions - the problem is that the game doesn't point a TON of them out to you:

If you haven't explored ALL of the desert (in other words, hitting all of the main spots on the map) by about 25-26 (that's about when it caps out), you've missed quite a few quests.

If you're leaving Canada before 30 (at the earliest), do the same - explore all over the place and grab the quests you missed. Although Canada is a bit better pointing you to one place or the next for questing.

Millennium City also has a ton of quests starting at around 26-27 from Socrates. The 3 or 4 she gives you blooms out to a ton. While you're there, hit the central hub and go find Dr. Silverback in the Science crafting area. He'll have some too.

I hit level 30 and for the heck of it visited Monster Island (awesome intro sequence BTW). Then I went back to Canada and Mil City to keep working on more than a dozen quests (that I know of - I know a lot of them are chain quests) that are 26-28 in my book. Not to mention whatever my Nemesis will send off doing during that time. Best guess is that I'll be 32 before I touch a single quest back at Monster Island the way things are going.

Yes, I have Teleport as my travel power. But I still from time to time wade through the locals to get to the quest objectives I need. I tend to get even more quests that way (as dropped item starters).

I frankly don't know why people constantly say they run out of missions. I really don't. And yes, I've played this character 100% solo and haven't abused things like constantly running world event missions (but I have done all the ones I've seen once or twice).

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I have done all missions and skipped none. I did the crime computer and even did all the captured contacts etc.... I hit my limit at 31.2 so something is truly wrong here. You should have extra missions instead of not enough. Right now I am fighting lvl 36's at monster island and Canada. I am waiting for Lemuria in hopes that will get me going again but thats at 32.

I am not sure how at lvl 31 I am able to beat 4 lvl 36 hunchmen and 1 lvl 36 villain.... seems it should be easier?

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I had this issue at 31 earlier.

Unfortunately, when you hit 32, you get 8 or so quests from 2-3 NPCs on Monster Island, and once you complete them (which takes about 10 minutes as they are bunched very tightly together), you get zero follow-ups from them.

They got me around 4 bars of exp at 32. I just hope there's enough quests in Lemuria to keep me going to 33.

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I just he 29 and have worked my way through the mission computer. I have not hit monster island though. Have been avoiding it.

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This might help you find missions you may have overlooked,

http://www.crimecomputer20.com/

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I have done all missions and skipped none. I did the crime computer and even did all the captured contacts etc...

You're missing something then.

I've done some of the PQ's but never really more then once per. I've helped a friend out a few times but the XP from NPC's is very small.

I'm at level 32.5 and still am doing level 32 quests on MI, with 1 or 2 level 31 quest left over. I've never done more then 3 or 4 quests over my level at any given time.

I did Talos Tower but haven't done the Burial Caves or Dr Destroyers lair yet.

The CrimeComputer 2.0 may be a big help to those out of missions. But the simple fact is there is no content gap any longer. You have to do Everything, including the repeatable dailies on MI, but there is simply no reason at all to go to Lemuria prior to level 34.

You all do know I trust that there's a bunch of daily quests on MI right?