Due to the introduction of BIF/SHIELD boxes and bounty chests being an actual source of good loot, my entire outlook on what to do to best utilize time at 60 has changed. I used to sit in cosmic midtown for hours a day, but no more.
-SHIELD box currency has essentially eliminated the value of raiding.
-Cosmic bounty chest are arguably the best source of loot in the game.
I am ENTIRELY disregarding cosmic Doom terminal due to it being very "bugged" right now and do not consider it an efficient use of time since you can end up spending several minutes clearing a bounties and "side" bosses to get teleported to heroic difficulty at Doom.
Now, lets get to something that's always been debated on this game, TTL vs sustained DPS vs burst DPS.
My thoughts on this are simple, why do i need sustain if i can 1 shot things with an AOE or kill a boss in seconds.
SHIELD box farming is all about maximizing clear time (minimizing time outside of a hub) and that is in cosmic terminals.
Cosmic terminals (excluding doom), in my opinion, are a complete joke for the majority of heroes once you get even relatively decent items let alone BIS everywhere. I know omega is coming but that's not what we have right now.
There is absolutely NO reason to be running sustained DPS in terminals when:
A. 70% of the time you likely arent standing still getting to use every power in the exact rotation you want.
B. Cosmic bosses and enemies don't have anywhere near enough health to need to have good sustained DPS.
C. Burst DPS removes the need for TTL.
Let me elaborate on point C. If you can kill something in 1 hit, or a few seconds, why do you need to be able to absorb a bunch of damage? Yes, boss "skill" will likely 1 shot you, but guess what, those things are going to either chunk you or kill you even if you run TTL builds. We have a 3 charge dash button, use it to cancel any animation and get out of that power.
Yes, it works. I run a 30% damage reduction 22k health Ultron in cosmic terminals and the only time i die is when i get hit by something im not in the power hit zone of, lose vision of a boss, or just don't care and suicide rush bosses when my "free revives" are up.
I know boss fights are going to be changed in the "near future" but this is about what we have now, and right now there is no reason for you to be doing anything but running burst DPS heroes through cosmic terminals if you want to maximize your reward/time spent at 60.
For those of you who still want to go to cosmic patrols, disregarded TTL still works. USE YOUR DASH.