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Yes i've had this happen to me. Not entirely sure why but when I adjusted my mission difficulty, it brought the lowbies up to 45.

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They are more endgame/raid oriented; whereas CoH is 'character's journey' oriented.

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Yea dude, but the journey gets old.

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Then try altering the journey I can, I HAVE, taken a brand new character fresh out of Outbreak into the sewers below Atlas and emerged in King's Row a 10 level in less than an hour. Ran a few quick radios and got my Raptor Pack, making level 11 along the way, and then headed to Steel Canyon.

Now on a completely different character I logged on on a saturday morning at 11 level and got an invite to do POSI. Good team and within a few hours had the badge and was a level 16. Took a break for lunch and logged back on just to see and sell when a Synaspe TF was forming. I joined and once again in a few hours I was a level 21. After the TF broke I heaed to Talos and while I was at Wentworths finishing up a Sister Psyche TF was starting... You guessed I joined and in 2 hours and 30 minutes I was a level 26.

Someone explain to me what the same old GRIND is because I have ONLY been here 3 and a half year but before when you left Outbreak you had a couple of options.. the sewers to level 7 , contacts to level 5 or 6 in Atlas/Galaxy and some street fighting and then CONTACTs in Kings Row or the Holllows. Back then you RAN everywhere until you reached level 14 and got a permanent travel power oh and a LOT of players were still buying Training Origin Enhancements in the 30s because they couldn't afford anything else.

Personally aside from stopping by to say HI to Dave I haven't run a single mission in the Hollows with any character in a LONG time. Heck prior to the current farming trend I had characters that didn't leave KR until level 14 and ran nothing but radio missions. Let's see added content... well in case you didn't realize it you CAN run the Midnighter's club arc as a 10 level... which usually gets you a couple of levels after facing all those Lost Bosses and the Rikti EB in both missions 2 and 3. Hit level 20, and if you have access to the midnighter's club, and Mercedes Shelton has three different arcs you can tackle. Between 20 an 30 OPTIONS have always been there. Don't want to run contact missions in Talos and IP .. head to Striga and pick up a few temp powers like the wedding band, Holy Shot Gun Shells, and Warwolf whistle. At 25 head to Croatoa and add in a Bow and Arrow and the Iron Blade. [then even if you drop all the way back to a 9 level during Time Travel you still have a lot of added attacks and defenses].

Oh your a badger? We'll thanks to Ouroborus and Time Travel the grind of doing countless missions from a contact TRYING to coax the badge out of them is no longer necessary ... OUTLEVEL the contact and go do the badge mission solo through the Pillar of Ice and Flame (BTW in addition to the badge this also awards a minimum of 2 merits upon completion).

Since absolutely NONE of what I just mentioned existed 3.5 years ago much less 5 I want to know what the same OLD grind is. I haven't even Added the new RWZ or Cimeroroa which gave players 35 and up new content and 2 new TFS.

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I really find it kind of funny, that you joined each TF at the minimum level, therefore gaining much better xp than you would had you of been closer to the cap, but anywayz, There is no enjoyment of playing the low lvls for me. I have done 1-39 in less than a week with straight up newspaper mission. I know it can be "not that slow" but its still "not that fun" to me. You may enjoy your team fighting a group of +2's and doing pretty good, I on the other hand would rather USE my lvl 50, and the IOs that are there.. Sure your team can steamroll a grp pretty quick, my brute at 50 can fight 16 boses at a time. Being the lead brute for a team fighting 54 bosses, and i'm herding 16 of them at a time, makes me feel pretty powerful, not fighting 1 grp and running out of endurance/almost dieing.

And you say I could mix it up? Please explain to me the difference of going into a warehouse filled with npcs in striga on a TF, as opposed to running newspaper missions in Talos? And remember, I could care less about the story line...

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They are more endgame/raid oriented; whereas CoH is 'character's journey' oriented.

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Yea dude, but the journey gets old. The first time I played coh, yea the journey was fun, I have even done it again since then, but getting a character to 50 means pretty much starting over unless you want to pvp. 54 boss farms were about as close to fun end game content as I saw it. getting on a good team and steamrolling some of the hardest foes(hardest foes possible to steamroll lol). If coh had some type of raiding, as I never did it in wow, I can image it would get very good results. Because liek myself, others dont enjoy the "journey" to 50 as much as you, and others do. Some of us want to actually have several lvl 50's and DO thing with them. It seems the main point of the game it to get to lvl 50? Then reroll and repeat? For someone who doesnt like a slow grind, the game just doesnt have a lot to offer, especially since i13 pvp :/ and really I guess the devs do just want to keep us in the journey, because they want to keep the leveling slow, which I assume they think keeps us here, but I presume that only works for the ones who are enjoying the content. If someoen didnt find the content fun before AE, they are definatly not gonna find it fun after AE, especially after they got a taste of the "easy button" AE offered.

Yes, the lvling is steep. And with nerfs galore on pvp, it made AE the BIG thing for me, and it was fun. The fast leveling has always been the funnest part of AE, but I did infact make actual Farm missions with stories behind it. "Steal Castle's Nerfbat" was the latest. Are they high xp/low risk, possibly.. Are they still actual missions with storylines, Yupp. But I guess the devs control the speed of the game to their liking, not ours.. and someone said it before, we DONT have to stick around. Especially with the competition coming out.

I didnt mean from the launch of the game. I mean from where we are right now. Removing all the boss/comm farms and what other types of farms were out there, to go back to regular leveling, do they think that makes us want to play longer? I guess its kind of like if you semi HAD an "I Win" button, and you enjoyed, but then it is removed and you go back same ole grind.

Messed around in pvp zones from time to time, didnt play a whole lot. Unsub'd, went and played lolwow with my brother, it sucked, came back to coh for MA, its been a ton of fun, gonna suck again. And I even resub'd my bro's account so I could use 2 of them to increase my gaming pleasure.

Do they really think that slowing down our play by taking away farming makes us want to stay? I really doubt people farming is gonna make the farm haterz /unsub, but do the devs think.. hmm, If they level slower, they will have to play longer? Boss farming was actually really fun for me. Extremly nerfed pvp, boring/slow leveling, and literally no end game content doesnt make me want to play.

One of the most annoying? Bonfire. I played with a fire troller once who wanted us to pull the baddies onto a bonfire, I quickly disagreed, he then quit the team lol.