YabboJadams

so when are they going to make the rock an accolade power for getting all six halloween badges? Because we all know they have absolutely no choice but to do so.

hey if I'm wrong whatev, I'm wrong. I'm man enough to admit fault, for all these post that read like they're getting a temper over this.

At 36 my bar moves so slow my eyes may be deceiving me. I'm stating an opinion based on theory. Take the venom elsewhere, these are only words and this is only a game.

everyone's milage with this is going to vary. If influence is a problem with some, then exemplar leveling isn't going to be your thing.

I've already said this before and it's a pretty widely know fact: past level 30 you get more influence than you know what to do with. Unless you're purposefully careless with your influence, you're more than likely going to end up with enough influence to afford your next set of SO's and 4 brand new costumes, and still have enough influence left over for your next set of SO's 5 levels in the future.

With that much influence just sitting around doing nothing, I'd rather exemplar down with 5 or 6 of my friends in the 20's then slug around solo.

Getting more debt as an exemplar is actually beneficial.

Let me put it this way; If you are in debt as an exemplar, your xp raises as normal, just as if you weren't exemplared and debt-free. Therefore having more debt as an exemplar means more time spent leveling as normal rather then being an exemplar, debt-free, and gaining no xp at all.

Exemplaring is the "Magic Wand" that turns debt into experiece. More debt is a reward as an exemplar. Getting debt as if you were the lower level is counter productive. You have to go and get yourself KO'd much more often, even to the point where you're wasting more time getting KO'd then you are leveling. I'd rather get 20k debt off of one KO then ten.

To have fun with my friends this is what I do. If I didn't then it would be back to soloing or sitting around and waiting for just the right members of my SG to come on.

what does it matter? You're working it off as if you had no debt in the first place, the more debt the merrier.

wanna hear something crazy? I level faster as an exemplar.

As a 36, I exemplar down with a bunch of folks in my SG in the 20's and we go off and do missions. I make sure I'm good and set with a ton of debt. As an exemplar I'm basically advancing as if I didn't even have any of that debt in the first place.

The trade off? no influence... boo hoo. In my 30's I consistantly have about 4-6 mil more influence than I'll ever need for my next full set of SO's. No sweat of my back.

What happenes when I get out of Debt? "hey look over there, a big nasty pack of purples, I'll be right back..." It's not entirely impossible to get yourself back into debt, try hard enough and you will.

Screw capes, screw auras. If you ask me, Exemplaring is the greatest thing about this last patch.