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Hi Guys,
Returning player, haven't been around since around I7 or so.
I'm trying to level a fire/fire scrapper, mostly solo (I play quite a bit at work), and I'm not sure what the best approach is now.
Should I spend most of my time in the AE? or is it still faster leveling to go around the city?
I have experienced most of the content under lvl 30 so many times that it bores me, I really want to reach 30 ASAP.
What do you guys think?
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Wait. What??! You play quite a bit at work!!?!?
OK. We need to know what you do for a living...Now.
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Haha, He probably closes his office door. Thats what I do. 
I returned recently too and Love this game.
Sorry whats a Heat and Veat? thanks. I have been away for years.
Also I keep hearing people leveling really fast in AE. I guess you have to group because I didnt see a big difference. Except the one where there were groups of 50 mobs at a time in small rooms. I didnt know these were farms and didnt know people put exploding barrels/bombs you hit to do major damage to them all. Otherwise, AE seems very cool and a great way to get tickets to buy expensive stuff sold at market.
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Sorry whats a Heat and Veat? thanks. I have been away for years.
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Fire/Fire? Go to Dark Astoria.
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I'd second this if you simply want to solo. Nothing like baking the BP (Banished Pantheon) for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
(Not to mention it's a great stress reliver)
If you just want fast, where fun really isn't a prerequisite then farming with others is probably your cup of tea.
Thanks very much.
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Hi Guys,
Returning player, haven't been around since around I7 or so.
I'm trying to level a fire/fire scrapper, mostly solo (I play quite a bit at work), and I'm not sure what the best approach is now.
Should I spend most of my time in the AE? or is it still faster leveling to go around the city?
I have experienced most of the content under lvl 30 so many times that it bores me, I really want to reach 30 ASAP.
What do you guys think?
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Faster, faster, faster. This seems to be the modern mantra. Each character you roll is different (at least mine are, I don't roll 5 scrappers in a row, for example, and even if I did, they wouldn't be the same powerset, so different), and their approach to the standard content is different. I'm talking about quality over quantity. Most of my characters are played solo for that very reason.
My fire/fire scrapper is still the one character I had the most fun with leveling her up. Faster, faster was not what she was about. I loved playing her so much I was sad to see her hit 50. So please, enjoy the trip, and don't worry about taking the express. Take the scenic route, especially with this character, and you won't regret a minute of it.
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Also I keep hearing people leveling really fast in AE. I guess you have to group because I didnt see a big difference. Except the one where there were groups of 50 mobs at a time in small rooms.
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There are two reasons that you will level faster in AE compared to PVE:
1) People develop Arcs that have a particular type of critter that their toon works very efficiently against: frex: load the mission with critters that do mostly Smashing/Lethal damage and then run the mish multiple times with a toon who has the Invuln powerset (highly resistant to Smash/Lethal damage). Do this over and over again and watch the expeez roll in.
2) No travel time. Talk to contact, turn around and enter MA, then run mish. Talk to contact again, turn around and enter MA, run mish. Lather, rinse, repeat as needed. Very little travel time means much higher expeez per hour.
So, once you find an arc that your toon can do well in, and you run it over and over again, your expeez is high. Now, personally, I can't stand running the same arc over and over again. I'd pull my hair out. I also don't really like the "non-immersive" nature of AE: I don't really feel like my toon is really making a difference in the grand scheme of things by running "simulations" all the time. I run them every now and then, but pretty much only Dev Choice or one's with lots of stars.
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You know, you're already playing a video game. You already have 1 level of unreality going on. Don't let the step to 2 bother you, especially when it comes with no loss of fidelity -- it's not like you have to control your characters as they move their fingers across a keyboard, or grit your teeth in frustration when their AE simulator crashes or their graphics card overheats.
I team with the Repeat Offenders.
On the downside, in the MA you miss out on a lot of rewards the proper game has to offer- Patrol XP, Day Job rewards, special temp power and purple recipe drops, all of those don't function in MA missions.
It's meant to supplement the canon content, not replace it.
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You know, you're already playing a video game. You already have 1 level of unreality going on. Don't let the step to 2 bother you, especially when it comes with no loss of fidelity -- it's not like you have to control your characters as they move their fingers across a keyboard, or grit your teeth in frustration when their AE simulator crashes or their graphics card overheats.
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I wonder if those will be included in missions for the Praetorian AE from Going Rogue.
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Level 12 - Invention Tutorial at Steel Canyon University (don't do it at 10 -- at 12 you get a level 15 enhancement)
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If you wait until 22 you can get a 25 enhancement. Much more useful than a level 15.
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Well, a level 15 IO enhancement is about 20% better than an equivalent level DO enhancement and exceeds a +3 DO by a bit. It serves well for 10 levels. However a level 25 IO is actually less than an equivalent SO enhancement and probably isn't even worth slotting. So I'd have to disagree with you.
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Level 15 Common Schedule A IO - 19.20%
+3 Schedule A DO - 19.16% (1.15 x 16.66%)
That's a 0.2% improvement over a +3 DO not 20%.
That said, being able to slot a Level 15 common IO at 12 means you will get the benefit of a +3 DO for 10 levels instead of the bonus decaying and required restocking at level 19 if you were using standard DOs.
And as Eek says, Level 25 common IOs are worse (32.00% Vs 33.33%) than +0 SOs. And while Level 20 common IOs are far superior to +3 DOs (25.60% Vs 19.16%), again SOs easily surpasses them in a few levels.
For me I start using Level 15 common IOs at level 12, Level 25 SOs at 22 and then upgrade to Level 30 common IOs at 27 and then never think about enhancements again unless I'm looking to use sets.
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I haven't seen a timeline per se, but Eek's post upthread has a good task list, in order of what to do before moving to something else.
It covers the newer stuff - I am assuming you already know the pre-I7 task list pretty well.
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