Johnny_Taxibot

Aye, I've but a handful of toons and usually just focused on one at a time. Nine months for Johnny B. Quantum, five for Johnny Taxibot (running a task force each week), and now I've transitioned into very slow progress because of having a toon each in blue-, red- and gold-side doing content.

-Johnny

First off, use ParagonWiki.com as a guide to the contacts. In each contact description, make note of their level range, such as 25-29. So for whatever range that you're in, turn off your experience gain when you're at the upper range (e.g., 29). As you complete missions, you'll be introduced to new contacts in that range.

Instead of doing flashbacks, look up Task Forces on ParagonWiki, which are roughly spaced every five levels. If you're at the lower end when joining one of these task forces, then assuming that it isn't a speed run, then you'll have levelled about five levels. For a challenge, try increasing the difficulty by +2.

Check your server forums for the global channels that are available to you, so that you can see what task forces are being organized, and do recruiting to organize your own.

-Johnny

Putting the level 50 aside for a moment, here is a suggestion. Do a search for low-level toons that are looking for "missions" or "any," and recruit them to do their low-level missions. In this way, you get more enemy variety, and they get help with their missions and teaming.

-Johnny

You scoff, yet you know the withdrawal sets in fast. <smile>

-Johnny

Our hearts are with you and your sister. Let there be gentleness and compassion in this time that you have together.

-Johnny

Should be able to find people that are both red-side and blue-side. I guess gold-side can only go to the terminals in Pocket D.

For a sense of perspective, have you looked at the PvP guides in the forums: Player Help >> Player Guides >> Guide to Guides.

-Johnny

It's -25% ACC (I was looking at it the other day), which reminds me of the other hassle that is somewhat contrary to being accepted. It can be often the case that Group Fly is being used to help the team over terrain, though under fire. The team can be doing quite well, though there will always be someone that complains about the Group Fly on account of the ACC hit.

-Johnny

I just checked by going through the character creation process to see the power descriptions, and you are correct (not that I was doubting you).

For scrappers, the power description for Concentrated Strike explicitly states that critical hits will recharge the Power Siphon. For tankers, there is no such statement.

It appears that a note needs to be added to ParagonWiki, which doesn't clarify the difference.

-Johnny

Welcome to the game. Definitely check out the Player Help >> Player Guides >> Guide to Guides forum section for advice about the various blaster primaries and secondaries.

Aside from that, just participate in contact missions and look at your performance at each level to judge where your build needs work (The AE missions can kinda throw you off when the author uses custom enemies). If you take care whilst levelling up, then later you'll be able to exemplar knowing that you'll be effective at the lower level.

Try to choose abilities that you think will be commonly used, as opposed to something that seems nifty but never use in practice.

Doing a respec later is quite easy to get and perform. Some advice though...keep notes of what powers/enhancements that you chose at each level the first time through. This way, you can tweak the build and use your notes to do the respec in just a few minutes.

-Johnny

Indeed what a surprise! This needed to get fixed for the longest time, and it's good that we don't have to trip over the level restriction anymore.

-Johnny