How do you spend your 'Double XP Weekends'?
By
Alissara,
Posted on: 2008-02-01 13:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Friday PL till 2 go to work when i get off work drive an hour to get girlfriend for weekend
Saturday wake up and play coh with girlfriend all day Sunday same thing
Ready...
Set...
COMMIT GENOCIDE!
*Starts mass murdering purse snatchers.*
No, really, if anyone has any ideas hit me up, I have a bunch of heroes in the 30s range and villains all over the place level wise on infinity and various lower level characters on the other popular servers. If anyone knows any cool ways to rack up XP fast I'm in.
I was thinking of getting my Bots/FFs Mastermind to lvl 32 at least, he is 28 now, and my Energy/Energy Blaster (seen in my avatar) somewhere in the 40s, I think he is 37 now. I'm already stocking up on cheap easy to make food and drinks, so I will probably be in it for the long haul. 
I am at work and don't have access to be able to play the game from here. Working 12 hours a day for the next 19 days. 
Missing another Double XP Weekend...
Naked.
What? Clothes restrict my gaming mojo.
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I was thinking of getting my Bots/FFs Mastermind to lvl 32 at least, he is 28 now...
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That's not very ambitious. You're 28. Plan on hitting 40, or something equally impressive.
Hmmm...
1st 2xp weekend (my first) was last January's: Spent the weekend preparing to move, but managed to get my first character from 12-24.
Last June's: Called in sick to work and played random alts. I don't think I had a specific goal other than Wila to 38 (RoA ftw), and the Krasivyy's (3) to travel powers.
This weekend: I'm on call on Friday, but planning on playing from beginning to end with brief breaks for food, bio, and sleep. I've got a lot of alts to get past Stamina.
Siberian Spring-50 (Cold/Rad, Rad/Ice, Ice/Rad, Sh/Ice) - KGB SS8
Chernozem-50 (Ice/MM, Emp/Ice, MA/Regen) - KGB SS8
Wila-50 (Dark/Arch) - KGB SS8
Also: Krassivy Mechtayu-50 (Ill/Rad) - KGB SS8; Ms. Hypatia-50 (Dark/Regen)
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Since we have the upcoming <a href="/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;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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I don't usually do anything special, I just enjoy the faster gameplay.
Last time around I used my play time to get some lower level guys past the level 20 hump.
This time I've moved to a new server and I'm planning on getting my level 40 fire/rad to 50.
No 'farming' planned, just spending more time than usual playing with my regular crew.
The Nethergoat Archive: all my memories, all my characters, all my thoughts on CoH...eventually.
My City Was Gone
Hoping to do a push to 50 [my first!] heroside -- at 38 now. Not sure how well that'll go though, depends on the quality of PuGs on Victory. If that fails I've a stalker sitting at 42 and can push to 50 there. If all else fails I can rocket my tank to 20 from 10 and get a decent WP/DB build going.
Of course, I should be studying for my midterm on Monday. And working Saturday.
Edit: The hell? When did I get a nifty title? There are other people far more deserving.
Since I won't be around to participate in this Double XP Weekend, I guess I can reiterate from the last time, when I got my Peacebringer, Warshade, and Controller into the Twenties.
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I was thinking of getting my Bots/FFs Mastermind to lvl 32 at least, he is 28 now...
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That's not very ambitious. You're 28. Plan on hitting 40, or something equally impressive.
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If I was going to just play those two toons, maybe, but I'm an altoholic, I have alot of other characters that need levels. But those are the two ontop of my priorities, aside from them I have a fire/rad troller that needs alot of work, 2 scrappers, a Necro/Dark MM, DB/WP that is stuck at 28 (god I hate DB accuracy), etc etc etc.
Scheister, is that L from Death Note in your avatar? I can't tell for sure since I can't see his feet. XD
I'll be helping a couple friends lvl their toons on the hero side. And lvling up my dominator on the villain side
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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
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If only I had a girlfriend who played CoH.
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If only I had a girlfriend.
Anyway, I'll be playing. Get together with SG, recruit some more, and play some more.
My wife doesn't play, but she's working nights the entire weekend! I'm hoping to get my lvl 41 DB/Regen scrapper to 50.
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I wanna get my lvl 15 to lvl 50 =D
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I can dream can't I? =b maybe if I find someone to p-lvl me *dodges tomatoes*
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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*
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Ummm...yeah...I was trying to be funny...yeah that's it...heh heh...I'm a regular Eddie Murphy (80's version)...everyone knows I'm a stallion...yeah that's it...a veritable jack rabbit..heh heh...*puts bag over face in shame* 
I'm gonna try and get to 35, if the girlfriend doesn't intervene.
Maybe I should get her into CoX... she's in England though...
I usually spend my 2X XP Weekend working on alts. I really like playing around with powersets, and leveling up characters quickly is one of the best ways I can think of to mess with them properly.
Oddly enough, though, I don't PL very often. I just find it distasteful to go seeking powerleveling. If I wind up on a PL team, meh, I'll give it a go for a couple maps. But that gets boring and lacks the sense of accomplishment such as what you get out of a "Mission Complete" message (as in farms, which are one of the favorite methods of PLing).
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
I'm one of those people who doesn't actually want to self-PL even the umpteenth alt unless they're 45+. Happily, I have multiple 50s who I can use to earn double rewards over the weekend, which I'll be doing with gusto.
Good times.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Well given the insane amounts of xp required it doesn't really matter much. 100 times would be worth it.
The last few I spent working. No work this time. And I'm doing school work ahead of time. I'm PLAYING!
Get my Nec/DM MM (Bloodspeaker - Liberty - currently 48) to 50, and push my N/N Blaster (Agent Sharpe - Justice - currently 35) to wherever I can get him with the rest of the time available, considering that the wife and I share one computer... and she has characters SHE want's to level, too.
Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.
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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!
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Dude.. that was hilarious. However, I did dig deeper in the forums and found this disturbing post:
Wife's Anti-Double XP weekend:
Thursday
6pm -Expect erratic and strange behavior from husband... He'll do whatever he can to get PC time.
Friday
Morning - Not worried about the AM, downtime maintenance will bore him, and he'll head into work in hopes to get out earlier.
3pm- get home before husband. Have a great evening planned cook his favorite meal. Have a greeting card next to his plate telling him how much he is appreciated.
4pm-greet him and junior at the door, tell him that tonight would be a great night to have a family night. Even break out "candy land" and "chutes and ladders"
8pm- put junior to bed. And make husband watch "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Terms of Endearment"
11:45am- after soaking up the tears, hold him while we both fall asleep
Saturday Morning
6am- get showered and have breakfast ready.
7am- Wake up husband tell him that he has 1 hour to get ready before babysitter arrives. Hand him his suit and remind him about my 2nd cousin's wedding.
8am- Oh No! We forgot a gift! Spend 2.5 hours walking the mall trying to pick out "something special"
11am-2 hour ceremony? Wow.. They really outdid their selves
1pm- Drive an hour away to see the beautiful landscape where they chose to have their pictures taken
2pm-introduce husband to relatives that he will probably never see again
3pm- Drive an hour back to reception hall
4pm- Dinner and Dancing... How nice
9pm- spend an hour saying goodbye to everyone
10pm- head home
10:30pm Get home and tell husband that Im tired, and ask him to bring babysitter to her father's house 2 towns over.
Sunday
12am- Husband comes home to find me on the computer. I had no time in the day to get my work done, so I am finishing it now. I should be done in a couple hours.
... Wait for the snoring, and then go to bed
6am- Shower, clean house
7am- wake up husband and tell him to get showered and dressed. I invited my parents over for breakfast
8am- Parents arrive and have breakfast
9am- Father Invites husband out for a surprise, he tells him that they don't ever have "male bonding time"
10:30am- Arrives at an Ice fishing location and spend hours telling my husband old war stories while they catch nothing at all.
4:30pm- husband and father come home to supper and a few hands of Cribbage
6pm Tell Junior that Dad is going to take him to Chucky Cheese!
8pm- husband comes home with a sleeping kid and a paper crown on his head
8:15pm- Spend QT time with husband
8:19pm- when we are done, Tell husband that I need to finish my work on the computer and say "Just think... Next week... we have absolutely nothing planned!"
Bummer Dude!
Friday, do Katie Hannon on Pinnacle at 7pm e.s.t. on lvl 34 db/wp scrapper, switch to various alts after that time doing as many tf/sfs as possible.
Saturday Evening to Sunday login to tanker on protector, do Katie again, team for 3 hours, do katie again, team for 3 hours.
Bump and Grind Bane/SoA
Kenja No Ishi Earth/Empathy Controller
Legendary Sannin Ninja/Pain Mastermind
Entoxicated Ninja/PSN Mastermind
Ninja Ryukenden Kat/WP Scrapper
Hellish Thoughts Fire/PSI Dominator
Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
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On double XP weekends, I usually try to muscle through the lower levels on AT/Powerset combos that I don't enjoy playing in the lower levels.
For example, a while back I played a Fire/SS tank to 24 over a double XP weekend. I found the Fire primary to be very, very non-fun before stamina and acrobatics. (this was before -knockback enhansements)
For this upcoming double XP weekend, I haven't decided what to play yet. Maybe start up another stalker and get him into the 20s. I don't really enjoy them in the low levels.
The Bacon Compels You.
Hmmm last time some friends helped me get a villain up to 45 (I had deleted all my old ones) to help coordinate the villain Hami raid practices.
Otherwise, I just play as normal really. I look upon the bonus as a very nice 'thank you for playing' from the devs; but I don't change my playstyle around it.
"When heroes fail, the Angels will save you."
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