ViperZeroOne

Thanks so much everyone for your input. I've actually got the situation sorted out now, due to all the assistance here.

I basically farmed the sewers with a buffer/healer till I hit 25 and now I'm running with them and they're doing much better now. One actually hit 49 as of Friday.

All good suggestions... Seems I'm gonna have to decide what I'd enjoy playing more, since I'll probably get this guy to 50 anyway. Need more 50's now that I've (once again) unlocked all my slots.

Thanks for the great tips everyone!

Blue: I'm gonna see if I can get a few DFB runs in tonight, it sounds like the way to go to get to a "useful" level relatively quick.

DrGemini: Yea, no free ride here. My only goal here is to help them get their characters to 50 since they don't have 50's yet and are getting really frustrated with XP debt. I think we'll all agree that when a game stops being fun you usually find another game, and I don't want them loosing their love for CoH.

I tried helping them with my L50 blaster but I usually have a tank pulling agro so needless to say it didn't go well. In addition, my blaster is like 3 years old and hasn't been respeced for ANY new content so he's quite messed up right now.

I think you can get Fortitude at 14?... Your probably right on that one.

Hmmm... They probably won't like that, but if I explain to them how much more XP debt they'll earn without him it'll probably bring them around. *LOL*

That's actually what I was doing (solo) with my tanker. Started him two days ago and just kept plowing through yellows and oranges, but after 2 days and only getting to level 14 I was starting to get frustrated.

Hmmm, that's actually really appealing. What would you suggest for leveling it up quickly though?

(Yes, I hate the question too, but it's obvious this guy will have to start at level 1 which is NO good to 45's... *LOL*)

I'm thinking of leveling ease... I've got a tanker already at 12 right now but have nothing in the way of defense on him. He does have some basic medical though, but not enough to help them at 45. They would have to pretty much stay right beside him in combat.

I'm leaning more towards the def/mez build, but I think I'll either need them to help me get it leveled up or find a ton of sewer runs.

My original thought was to get that tanker to 45 so I could keep the agro off of them, but it doesn't look like there is an easy way to get a tanker leveled up fast, without a bunch of 50's helping out. *LOL*

Ahh, so that sounds like a plan then. Shields would definitely make them less squishy, and with a healer I could certainly help keep them up. Wouldn't really handle the agro well though. Any thoughts on that? They both have holds but their problem seems to be when they get ganked, which happens quite often.

They really aren't very good with blasters... LOL ...Still, they don't wanna give them up cause they're so close to 50.

So I'm leaning more towards a Healer/Protector classed character I guess. I'm so used to being a tank or blaster.

Thanks for the reply Blue. Not sure if I'm gonna do a scrapper or not yet, but if I do that certainly sounds like a good plan... And yes, I do have cash to burn. *LOL*

Thanks for the tip, think that would work with them running me until I get up around their level? Any other ideas?

I actually prefer doing the story line because there are so many arcs you can take that lead to (sorta) different conclusions. Choose contact X this time, and Y the next, and after those contacts comes more X/Y splits. It's fun to see where they go, even though they pretty much all stay around the same place. In this case though, I just need to get this new guy up there so I can help my buddies out.


This is kinda ironic that I'm even asking, cause I can't stand people that run around yelling "Power level me!"... *LOL*

As you stated, he looks like a villain, so why not go with that? Why not make part of his bio be that he was evil and then had some life-changing event that shifted him to the side of good? I've done a couple characters with that kind of a back story and it really makes for a strong bio, especially for villainous looking heroes. Some ideas for life-changing events could be;

- Life saved by a hero
- Someone close to him slain by a villain (or even his master)
- Had to perform some act that was too horrid for him to live with.
- Saw something that pushed his conscience to the breaking point.
- Code of Honor violation.
- Chemical or Biological influence shifted his alignment.

Before I start, I know that power leveling is somewhat of a taboo topic. Before you flame please understand a few things. I've taken more characters than I care to count up to level 20 and 30, a baker's dozen to 40, and two all the way to 50. I'm a bit of a character making fanatic so all but one of my 50's have been restarted a dozen times over and no longer exist. I'm not asking about power leveling because I'm one of those "I just want a level 50" idiots. I actually like the CoH storyline, and I already have a 50 that I can be proud of.

At any rate, after that's all said and done, the reason I want to know if there is a "quick" way to level up is because I have a couple friends currently at 43 and 45 who are both running blasters and aren't doing very well together. They're too squishy, as it were, and getting very frustrated with all their XP debt. My current level 50 is also a blaster, which doesn't help much.

I'm looking to create a character that would compliment my friend's characters like a tank, healer, or possibly even mastermind. I'd then like to get to their level as quickly as possible so I can join the team and give them a better chance at survival (and getting themselves to 50). I'm used to running the story lines (cause I like them) but that takes forever to level. I've never really leveled any other way, thus my dilemma. So, if anyone has any pointers on getting some quick grinding (or whatever) up to 45ish or even 50 I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance everyone.