doc_heal

It was bad even in unpopulated zones. I took my 32 blaster to Brickstown to hunt Crey for the Icon mission. There was only like 10 people in the zone cause I checked before I went. Once I got off the tram, I mapservered with EVERY SINGLE STEP. I got so disgusted I logged off that toon and just went on another for a while.

Most people know they do maintenance every Monday and Friday around this time. Just have to wait til the servers are back up.

I've been playing since the came came out in 2004 and my first few 50's took months, even a year on some of missions, TF's, hunting, etc.

I know there has always been farming and ways of getting gobs of xp easier then running missions and all that, but it just seems that now its too easy and quick to get a 50.

And it really hit home this last 2xp weekend with AE. I was teaming with some people on my 50 tank and we were talking and one of the other 50's brought up how long did it take to get to 50. I told him it took my tank like 8 months or so of constant playing to get 50. Then he says 'Oh I just got the game the other day and hit 50 already, you must not be a very good player.'

Pushing back the images in my mind of ripping him to shreds, I explained to him how life was before AE, half debt in missions, patrol xp, all the ways that debt became a joke and leveling was a joke. He says 'I'm sure glad I didn't play back then.'

To be fair, I also have done farming and AE farming to get new toons a decent level so I really can't throw stones but somehow the whole thing just seems....unfair in a way.

A lot of us vets busted our butts to get 50's and then along comes brand new players who say gee - I'll make a 50, and then in about 3 days of doing AE, they have a 50.

Now when a 50 has to ask how to get to Steel Canyon - thats just wrong.

Plus when a loading screen says 'You can level from 1-50 within Mission Architect' - to me that just sends the wrong message to new players. It's like saying - you want a 50 - do AE and you won't have to play the game.

I have a friend who was doing a lvl 44 respec with a lot of noob toons that leveled in AE and he told me the whole thing was an absolute disaster because none of them had any experience with their toons. The most they have done is spam button pressing in AE farms and watch their levels go up.

This is of course all my opinion and I'm sure a lot of people will find me wrong, but I feel the game has lost a big part of it's appeal - actually teaming and doing missions and TF's to level toons, doing arcs and seeing all the zones. Most of the new players don't even leave Atlas and if they put a trainer in the building, a good percentage of them would never leave the AE building.

Got an even better story today. I was in Atlas and I had a new toon I needed to train to 13. So I go to Miss LIberty and train. There is a low toon there that broadcast on local - "I just came out of AE and leveled. Can you tell me where the trainers are?" He is standing RIGHT IN FRONT of Miss Liberty.

Maybe they should put a trainer and enhancement store in the building - then they would never have to leave.

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*plays devil's advocate*

What are these players doing that you can't explain to them how to improve?

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After playing various AT's for 5 years, you get an idea on how to play trollers and blasters and tanks and so on.

For example - one team the leader who ws a blaster, kept bouncing into large rmobs before my tank could even get aggro, he would die and then yell at everyone to run away
because he died.

A few of us on the team explained to him about 17 times that blasters should blast and only get real close if the have to fire off an PAOE, but only after making sure the tanks or scrappers have the aggro.

Or another team where defenders stack up their 2nd set for attacks and take almost no buffs. We tell them if you are going to do that then you might as well make a blaster.

Or kinetics defenders who never use SB or FS. The list goes on.

Lately I've been on teams with people who are in the late 40's or even 50 levels and just don't know how the hell to play the game. Then you ask them and they are like 'Oh I got the game 4 days ago and farmed AE to get these levels. Also, what's an enhacement?'

Some of them really seem to know how to play and I give them credit for it, but some play so stupidly bad its actually funny.

One team I was on with my 50 tank, the leader and team was so dumb I actually had to stay on the team just to be amused at how stupid some of them really play.

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