Wee_Jock

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Or... I might just want to have a little boost in Influence for those shiny, neat Enhancements. If you don't have any debt, you may not be getting XP, but you get bonus influence. Way to actually manage and get all your slots up to par before you outlevel them /all/ again.

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I have exemplar'd for the fun of doing a friends mission. I was however, very dissapointed to find that the bonus inf was pitifully small. Total for the entire mission was less than the sell price of one of my normal TO drops. Level difference was only about 3 or 4 levels.
Unless I'm doing something wrong, no way this helps me to keep up on the shiny new SO's.

Just got fly, started playing with binds and researching here.
Found Wasabi Joes for the latest version.

It works very, very well. Almost unbreakable so far.
I changed the F to toggle to H, and removed the auto-mouselook stuff, as it was driving me nutty.

Onlt thing I found, on the ctrl-R to reset, the command for F should be "forward", not "++follow", which gives an error when you try to follow anything afterwards.

In fact, the only thing missing I think, is if you do go on follow mode, sprint/fly is not auto-activated.

Duo'ing in missions is fun and works well. Solo is no problem except for the red and oj bosses you now get sometimes. Yellows and OJ's cause me a lot of downtime and kiting. Reds cause me death when solo, and need lots of health inspirations and kiting.
Basically, you can do missions, but you are not the fastest at it, as you'll get quite a lot of downtime fighting the higher cons (white and yellow minions in most of my missins, plus the big guys). Some missions I've leveled once or twice before coming back, but then the mission xp is pretty lame. I do them for the fun and challenge when I get tired of street hunting.
Street hunting is very good and very fast.

Currently level 15, and hunting boomtown. Knowing where to hunt is definitely the key. In boomtown, the 5th column are wonderful. With practice, you can set up so that the firebreath cone and fireball take out all of the minions. Trolls and hellions or whatever they are, are a pain, because they wander about and don't pack together neatly.
** Knowing the range and shape of your firebreath cone is very important **

It's a lot more fun now that I have superspeed finally. The extra few seconds to get into position really helps.

Biggest problem for me with this build is a feeling of wanting to "clean up" and not leave stray mobs or bosses. When I force myself to do this, it works much better and faster.
Got a bit bored with it, and started playing a tanker boss killer, almost the exact opposite. It's more fun at the moment, but I'll get back to the Fire/AR blaster.

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+1 mobs are great at mid to high levels (basically, after you get fully set up with a decent assortment of powers slotted with SOs). At low levels, they're not so much fun, and lead to people avoiding door missions. Clearly, the fix should be targeted by level.

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Actually, in the low end (leveled 1 to 13 since update 2) +1 minions can be fun and great xp for some AT's, but the +1 bosses and LT's are a problem for me.

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Sorry if I've caused a gluttony of Fire/Dev Blasters ... it is a fun build

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I'm fairly new to the game, and a definite "casual" player due to travelling for work. I started a Fire/Dev char after the update 2, and have found it to be a lot of fun.
I can't say I've been concentrating on leveling as fast as possible. I've done a lot of missions, and duo'd quite a lot. I've givien up on solo missions after getting a red con boss and multiple OJ LT's, and a tonne of yellow minions, in the final room of one. I did finally complete it, after dying many times, by buying 6 heal's and 2 damages. Even then it was very close.

Currently I'm level 13, almost 14, really looking forward to my travel power next level, especially the little bit of stealth that comes with Super Speed.

So far, this build is definitely not a boss killer, which makes missions hard. I didn't take Flares, so that may make a difference at this level, but I'm happy to work along without it so far.

One thing that surprised me is that this build requires very good tactics, and is not the uber powerful build people seemed to beleive. When I get it all set up right, it's truly impressive. When I mess it up, I can die very, very quickly.
Looking forward to the new powers later, like TM and so on.

Also, with issue 2, the Hollows is also a good place to hunt, as an alternative to Perez, maybe starting a level earlier, and finishing a level earlier.

Biggest problem so far has been a group that was also hunting in Perez, using a similar tactic to mine, but with a high level friend herding the mobs, and them leaving the bosses and LT's standing. A lot of the time, between us, there seemed to be nothing standing except LT's and Bosses, so finding the gaggles was difficult.

Marsian on Victory

I understand your question, as I'm in a similar situation most times. But as the answer very much depends on how you play, you will have to wait and see basically. For example, all AT's can solo, but they may be to slow to really be fun to you.

It may be that they will make a lot of situations better to be grouped than solo on the xp/hour mark, but I'm hoping it will still remain fun to solo, even if slower.