How do you spend your 'Double XP Weekends'?
By
Alissara,
Posted on: 2008-02-01 13:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Usually begging my wife for some time to play...
We have no money this weekend so it's Top Rahmen and CoX.
"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."
The Master Double XP Plan:
8PM Thursday-Piss off wife.
This is so she won't want to spend anytime with me and that leaves me free to play. Of course my alone time will greatly depend on the level of her anger. I gotta make it good...but not too good, just long enough to last about 2 days.
10:30AM Friday-Be late for work. My schedule is flexible like that.
3PM Friday-Leave work early. Like I said, the schedule is flexible like that.
4PM Friday-Arrive home with kid in tow from the daycare. Give him a snack. Turn on Doodle Bops so he won't bug me.
4:30 Friday-Log in
3AM Saturday-Go to sleep.
7AM Saturday-Wake up. No Hygiene stuff this day. I go straight to the PC. I can shower later.
8AM-until Saturday-Play the CoH and avoid my wife's piercing stare all day...ignore everyone else...except the dog...he has to have his bio breaks.
8AM Sunday-Wake up for church and play CoH before I'm late. I think God understands. 
12PM Sunday-Arrive home from church. Don't get undressed. Play CoH in a 3 piece suit the remainder of the day.
10PM Sunday-Apologize to my wife for being a jerk. Make sweet sweet make up love.
10:05PM Sunday-Back to CoH until I pass out.
Double XP Weekend Successful!
I spend my double XP weekend depopulating the planet by the thousands.
In the Arena of Logic, I fight unarmed.
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10PM Sunday-Apologize to my wife for being a jerk. Make sweet sweet make up love.
10:05PM Sunday-Back to CoH until I pass out.
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I lol'd
I'm not really planning on anything special. I'll avoid playing my lowest level stalker, because I want to fit in all the missions. I'm not so picky with my other low level characters.
I'll probably play my level 39 mastermind a bit more than usual, doing Flashback missions to get closer to 40. I don't want to turn it in to a grind though. I still have half a level to go.
I'm very lucky. My wife will be making sure I am up and ready for the event, and that we have plenty of snacks nearby. Its great when your spouse plays the games you do
Of course, we met in CoH, so that's also a plus
EnvyExtreme....You made me piss myself...Thanks..i think
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10PM Sunday-Apologize to my wife for being a jerk. Make sweet sweet make up love.
10:05PM Sunday-Back to CoH until I pass out.
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I lol'd
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I concur with this assessment, and raise it a *ROFL*
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
As for my double xp weekend...
I shall convince a friend to play a duo character, or maybe two, until she passes out. She always was fatigue-prone 
After that, I think I'll run a Lady Grey or seven while she sleeps, potentially doubling the 150 mil I've saved on my DM/Nin.
Or I may try to level my Elec/Elec Brute to Lightning Rod (currently level eight -- quite a stretch).
mmmm. So many choices.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
I'll be PLing myself and working on my villain 3-box.
Working 9 AM - 9 PM. 
Of course, every moment not spent working will be spent playing. But I need 6 hours of sleep to function, so that doesn't leave as much time as I would like. Hmm, maybe I can call in sick on Friday...
This time around, I'll be pushing my MM to 32 to get the Tier 9's for his pets... After that, I don't really know. I don't have any characters I'm in a rush to self PL this time around as I'm either a) trying not to outlevel contacts, or b) playing new powersets and want to go slow while I learn/understand them.
Maybe build a few Flashback teams. Maybe play mentor all weekend with my lvl 50 and catch up on my reading.
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I finally have nothing going on this double xp weekend so I'll be double xp'ing til my eyeballs pop out.
Will focus on The Mutant Boomers *see thread in sg and vg recruitment* when the gang is on, then when they're not, I'll be duoing with my buddy to try to get our last AT to fifty. *ugh struggling with the damn corruptor*
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I will spend all but 5 hours a day for sleep leveling all my heroes who are not lvl 50 on Freedom to lvl 46.
Why 46?
Each one will get to 46 so that when DBL exp is over.. I can be someones PERMA BRIDGE.. to 50 for each one.
My husband is doing the same.. so after DBL EXP we will have about 9 46s sitting on Freedom each.
And if we get those all to 46 with time to waste we will get all our villains to 35+ on Virtue...
And if we still have time... ... Infinity is lookin pretty good to house all my "good names" toons 
I set a goal for many of my alts and work toward accomplishing it. Last time, it was "Get my Triumphants to 10," I wound up leaving one in the dust, however, because I wanted him to have Dual Blades. Mmmm...
Now, it's get my Triumph Heroes to 14 and run as far and fast as I can, and work some more on my Champions.
Double XP doesn't come nearly enough times for us altaholics.
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
My plans for that weekend:
Early morning Friday: Drive to hotel
Friday through Sunday evening: Ikkicon
Sunday evening until I pass out: CoH
*sigh* Such great timing on that... Oh well, it was bound to be the worst possible time for someone.
Tech support IRL, CLR/DRU/MED/WHM/PRI/DEF. Hmm, I sense a pattern...
S 80% E 80% A 40% K 0%
A few of my alts
This weekend, I plan on leveling as much as I can. I just hit 44, so I hope to flag down 45, and part of 46 over the weekend.
Next Weekend, First 50, baby.
Friday:
Farm Defeat all villains in area by Harvey Maylor for an hour or two.
Get my 25 Ill/Emp skd up to a 45/46 to get to 50 for test
Get my 14 Sonic/Cold skd up to a 33/34 and help fight 38s.
Hopefully ding 20-22.
Saturday:
Hop on Pinnacle to get my friend's Fire/Kin to level up my 25 FF Defender, 39 Ice Tanker and 32 Ice/Rad.
Sunday:
Level up more villains, with a good 2-3 hours of Demon farming for arcanes and inf.
Edit, just realized today is the Super Bowl heh.
Questions about the game, either side? /t @Neuronia or @Neuronium, with your queries!
168760: A Death in the Gish. 3 missions, 1-14. Easy to solo.
Infinity Villains
Champion, Pinnacle, Virtue Heroes
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Since we have the upcoming <a href="/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10075054" target="_blank">Double XP Weekend</a> starting February 8th - February 10th coming up next week, we wanted to find out how you spend your weekend maximizing your effort?
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Normally I don't; I just play, and giggle happily when my level dings more often than it otherwise would.
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This time? I will spend it grinding past a SECOND content gap for upper-level Villains. (CoV really DOES need a 30% or so increase in content available, post-35.)
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8AM Sunday-Wake up for church and play CoH before I'm late. I think God understands.
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I have it on good authority that God has a Stalker She wishes to level up a few times, and 2XP weekend is lookin' AWFULLY nice to Her, as it's been really tough getting that poor stalker past 40.
Hey, some miracles are beyond even HER.
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This time around, I'll be pushing my MM to 32 to get the Tier 9's for his pets... After that, I don't really know.
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If you're robotics, you'll KEEP playing him, because the sheer glory of a post-32 Robotic Alpha Strike will have you cackling in glee.
Trust me. Been there, done that. STILL get a goofy grin remembering that day ... which was, as chance has it, on the FIRST 2XP weekend.
Hmm.
Friday: Probably work on my namesake tank to get those last levels to 50 (at 44 1/2 right now.) Switch to my 45 Stalker when some of the VG on Victory are on.
Saturday: Depends on if I get the day off or not... regardless, getting my Warshade that last level and a half or so to 50 along with some friends (who are also in that same range) that evening.
Sunday - Work all morning. Continue work on Stalker or Tank if needed. If not, help get my Rad/Sonic up to a travel power, my Ill/Sonic to more pets, and at least one of my MMs to a Tier 3 pet.
Mixed in there, get a Dom and a Corruptor up a bit farther, if possible... and probably one of my Scrappers, too. It'll be the only heroside AT that won't have a 50 at that point...
I've never actually been able to play during one of these events. I'm looking forward to this one, though, because I have a character at level 38 and another at level 39, both of which I'm extremely anxious to get past the horrible pre-40s hump.
I also want to try to leverage it to get my new TA/Dark, Parthenia, up to the teens quickly. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate the early levels, but the concept is so good that I don't want to abandon the character (this is my Luminara replacement, but on Liberty instead of Pinnacle!). >.<
Since we have the upcoming Double XP Weekend starting February 8th - February 10th coming up next week, we wanted to find out how you spend your weekend maximizing your effort?
To help you organize and find other players within your communities we have started the following threads, use them to link to things your SG/VG may be doing or to find teams before and during the event.
Champion
Freedom
Guardian
Infinity
Justice
Liberty
Pinnacle
Protector
Triumph
Victory
Virtue