Willowpaw

That was why I suggested earlier waiting until hitting 40 then running it through flashback. Doing it right at 40 instead of 41 means still getting XP for it.

Agreed with the second half of your scenario, but not the first half. Yes, the expensive ones would get pricier, but the cheap ones would pretty much no longer exist in the market, because the prices would be too low to make them worth bothering putting up.

Would you really be willing to craft and sell an IO that may have cost a million or two to list (due to the need for an expensive piece of salvage, which would be more economical to sell by itself), only to sell it for a couple hundred thousand? Or otherwise, would you bother selling the uncrafted recipe for under what the vendors would pay?

At least whoever downrated you gave a comment that actually went with the rating. I recently got downrated in another thread for my suggestion of the Banished Pantheon calling in their new allies, the Banished Skirtheon.

However, the comment was Creative. Really

Now really, with a comment like that, shouldn't the rating be anything but negative?

How about the ability to show set IOs of any possible level instead of just the minimum and maximum? It's rather annoying doing a plan for a character in her 20s and not being able to see what the enhancement values are for the current level.

So that pretty much locks out Scrappers, Tankers, and Brutes then? Not a whole lot those three ATs can do outside melee range.

Actually, you don't have to do the initiation arc to use the pillar. You just have to be level 25 (not sure if you have to have Entrusted With the Secret though, since all of my characters get that when they complete Doc Delilah's arc anyway, so I have no way of knowing).

That would have been cool. But even cooler would have been putting Beaker into the game (as an assistant to some Crey researcher or something.)

Too bad on Kill X Missions, only the mission owner gets mission complete XP.

Unless I am in the mood for simple mindless hunting, I do the "Grab a door mission to knock out the Hunt Mission" technique quite often.

Most recent uses of this technique for me were the level 20 costume mission (had Virginia Hoffman's Tsoo Shenannigans arc open), and the level 40 costume mission. For that one, I did Serpent Drummer's first mission, and one of Maxwell Christopher's Band Nemesis missions. By the time I was ready for a break, I had the costume mission over and done with. Forgot though that the first mission in Hoffman's arc only has a single Tsoo (everything else was Trolls). Next couple missions completed the hunt though.

Some other things to keep in mind:

When hunting Nemesis, Nemi Automatons do not count (you encounter those in one of Max Christopher's first missions.)

When hunting Rikti, any mission where Rikti would spawn as Lost for lower level characters will not count (except the end boss and anything summoned by Comm Officers). So the Midnighter arc is not a suitable set of missions to complete defeat X Rikti hunt.

Just keep in mind, that if you ask where to find Lost in King's Row, you better be expecting at least one person to reply with the expected smartarse answer.

Don't forget...

When fighting Freaks outside of a mission (like in TV, CF, or Bricks), Bosses take extra long to take down.

Why? Because they almost always flee halfway across the zone as soon as you attack and take forever to come back. Or has the "run away!" AI been fixed by now?

Vahz perhaps? And what is the modifier for CoT and Tsoo? With all the bags of tricks those two groups have, it seems like their XP should be above 1.0.

Since there are no story arcs in the 5 to 9 range other than the Hollows and the Kheld arcs, I have found a good course of action is something like this:

Level 5:

1: Go talk to Wincott and do his first mission to open his arc.
2: Go to King's Row and run your 3 radio missions to get your Safeguard
3: Run the Atlas Safeguard.
4: Go talk to your new contacts (introduced by both your starting contact and your detective.)
5: Run missions for them until you have their phone numbers, have full access to their stores, and they introduce you to the next contact.

6: Repeat 4 and 5 until you have all possible contacts opened. By then, you are probably level 7 or 8, and should have your Negotiator badge.

7: Return to the Hollows and breeze through Wincott's arc.
8: Talk to Flux and run his arc. That should get you to 10. If it doesn't, return to King's Row and run another three radio missions (this gets you set up for the next Safeguard anyway).

Then at 10, you can get Julius the Troll's arc opened. After opening it, go work on getting the first two of the three regular story arcs for the 10-14 range opened. Then focus on one of them until it is finished, then get the third opened. In the meantime, you can get the Fortune Teller mission as well, and if you have the time, get other misc contacts opened as well. You probably won't be able to get them all, but no harm in trying. (don't forget to finish Julius's arc and get started on Talshak at some point).

After 14 though, it is time to become pickier, but I recommend getting the Safeguard over and done with, then head to Faultline to do Temblor and Yin's arcs (both are pretty fast and easy). After that, you should have plenty of time to get the Plague Stopper badge and the three arcs for that range before hitting 20.

After 20, then it will be time to consider turning off XP occasionally if you just absolutely must get every arc possible accomplished as well as open all possible contacts, since a tremendous buttload of opportunities start opening at that level.

It's not that difficult. There were quite a few occasions where I managed to get through all my starting contact's missions before hitting level 5. If you don't turn the "click the glowie" and the "Defeat Boss and Guards" missions into kill alls, avoid the ambush in the obligatory "Intro to Ambushes" mission, and don't do any "hunting", you will very likely find yourself at level 4 1/2 by the time your contact has no more missions for you.

*** fails to resist the urge to do the Neener Dance(tm) ***

Those are both excellent ideas that I would love to see implemented (in addition to how day jobs currently work). Each Day Job could have a contact that gives missions if you have that particular badge unlocked (Serge/Carson/Lauren/Facemaker's Reps, Guidance Counsellor/The Janitor, the Guy at the front desk at the Midnighter Club, etc). Every five levels they could have a new micro story arc (say three missions) for you to run for some little reward relevant to the day job (in addition to the usual XP/inf/normal drops).

I always thought "Splortch" was the mandatory battle cry for Warshades.