city of heroes was fucking awesome. there were hordes everywhere and most of the time wiping them all was optional.
>one mob has 20 shitters
>about 8 lieutenants
>and two or three "bosses"
you had a team of 8 and sometimes people got in the groove. ranged characters would wipe all the shitters with AoE and the melee lads closed in on the tougher bosses to wipe them out. Half the team could clean up a mob fast so real good teams would leave super speed/super jump/fly on and leapfrog on every other mob and grind that shit twice as quickly. The arch-villain bosses were usually pretty lame but a nice meatwall to just go apeshit on was pretty good too. They added more mechanics more and more in later content.

>white human male
>20 wizard + 10red wizard (evil playthrough) or 10 candlekeep schoolar (good boy playthrough)