um
yea
or you could level really fast, make tons of money and just buy what you want...
also, I'm pretty sure you could suicide just fine in level appropriate zones...no need for all that travel...
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.
How bizarre. Unless there is a need to directly accumulate as much level-specific 13w7 as possible in the lower levels, I fail to see the benefit compared with simply making money through trading and getting what you want from Wentworths. I can make millions in days through trading. It takes a lot longer your way. In the time you spent on making that video, you could have made a fortune trading in commodities...
QR
Yeah, this seems... very, very pointless. I can appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into this but.. No need to do that, especially at such a low level. Just play the game normally and sell your drops, or use them whatever.
It's official, this is probably the dumbest CoX movie I've ever seen. You're strategy for more loot is to get a lot of debt? I firmly believe that you shouldn't always leave a post with nothing positive to say, so I'll offer this:
I'm watching Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God, and after seeing this, it doesn't seem that bad now. Thanks for that much!
From what I've gathered researching the forums, the sweetspot for costume piece drops is levels 10-14. The least amount of rewards is availalble during that stretch but all the costume pieces are, so your likelyhood of getting a costume piece is greater. Not fantastically better, but better none the less. So staying in perma debt from 10-14 might be novel, but going to Grandville to die is just overkill/wastefull of time.
I give the OP credit for taking time to make a video guide, however.
Centinull
Fleeting Whisper's Video Guide to 13W7 (That's "Loot" to all of you out there not cool enough to know what "13W7" is)
I created this with a demo record (/demo_record dooom)
I used a combination Zloth's Demo Editor and Notepad to remove all of the other players from the video (there's actually one guy still there, but by the time I saw him I was too far into it to care, and his name wasn't showing anyway. Cookie to the first person that posts the timestamp of his appearance!)
I created the video portion of this (rather than just the demo) by launching the demo with Zloth's Demo Launcher (yay, Zloth! You're in the credits, by the way) at 32 frames/second, and importing the JPGs into Windows Movie Maker
I deleted 3/4 of the JPGs because Windows Movie Maker's best framerate is 8fps (There were well over 15,000 images before deletion; I wrote a program to do it so my hands wouldn't get tired ^^
I was running around with Super Speed for the majority of the demo, but the fiery feet didn't show up
I "flew" by using the Good vs. Evil Jump Pack power, but the pack didn't show up
This was on a Thugs/Dark Mastermind, and the pistols wouldn't show up whenever I used them
Near the end I come to a complete stop; this was a section where I activated Hyper Stealth, but it didn't show up so I cut that section out
This was recorded at 1280x820 resolution, on recommended graphics settings; uploading to YouTube drastically lowered the image quality
The music is very recycled, but I was using the resources I had (Windows Vista; those clips were in my music folder when I bought the computer)
The last word in the video is supposed to be "there!", but YouTube cut it short and now it's "the"
On the movie I have on my computer, "Don't You?" shows up near the end. On YouTube, it shows up as "Don't You"
Nearly all of the text is in the City of Heroes Red Circle font!
I have no idea how I managed to run so far without using the run animation
The video above has pretty animations, a couple of special effects, and shows, by example, the best way to increasing the amount of 13W7 you get in this post-I9 world. Yes, we have 13W7 now. It's not going to go away, so you might as well embrace it. The steps found in the video pertain to City of Villains, but by starting in Talos Island (rather than Cap Au Diable) and going to Peregrine Island (rather than Grandville), you can use the same technique for City of Heroes.
For those that don't and/or won't read the comments I made on the video,
[u]Note[u]:
A word of caution: I performed this feat of greatness at level 18. Doing it earlier will be more beneficial, but doing it too much later (late 20s) will (slightly) harm you, because you'll want to get lots of first-tier/low-level salvage, too!
That said, the method shown will get you more 13W7 throughout your character's trip to level 50 than any other. (Combining this method will others will multiply your earnings.)
I don't want to spoil the pretty video too much, so I'll just post the steps to greatness here, so you can read them while you wait for it to load (or if you fell asleep during one of the text scenes):
Step 1: Find the Rogue Isles Ferry
Step 2: Enter Grandville
Step 3: Find an Opponent
<insert fancy whizbang awesomeness>
Step 4: Wash, Rinse, Repeat!
<insert extra suggestions to make things interesting>
That's really the gist of it all. No worries, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.
Caution! Due to certain caps in the game related to earning Exp, you can only do this 5 times in a row before it gives you no bonus. Do it 5 times, leave for a while (Keep playing! You need moar 13W7!), and then come back and do it 5 more times. Trust me
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt