What's the fastest way to level up in CoX?
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Angry_Citizen,
Posted on: 2009-07-17 20:42 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I have no issue with farmING.
It's the farmERS that put me off my feed.
Think about that for a moment.
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Farms cows and corn for a living.
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I could see someone coming up with a fabulous concept requiring one of the hero or villain epics, and they just have to get them unlocked fast because they are too anxious to implement it. 
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Except that they never got to 50 to begin with and won't have a clue how to play with that epic character who was designed for someone who had already played a normal AT to 50.
Because surely the SoAs are the hardest ATs ever devised.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
when I'm in a hurry to level I get some friends to PL me.
If you don't have any friends, get out and make some.
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Dude I have played every way there is to play this game... except EXPLOIT the AE...
Just play to have fun...
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Maybe farming the AE is fun to some people? Everyone preaches "play to have fun!"... as long as it's the kind of fun everyone preaches. Otherwise it's "don't play at all!"
*looks down on the anti-farming bigots*
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I'm finding lvl 52-54 boss spawns to be very enjoyable. When things go wrong the team implodes in seconds. Way more enjoyable that vanilla content where you'd have to shut off your brain to team wipe on IO builds.
Seeing a granite brute literally die in seconds is pretty good imo. I find pretty much everyone has to do their job pretty well on those teams.
before they smoothed out the leveling progression, I could understand PLing through rough spots. However in the game's current pace, it's just stupid to rush to 50 since we're now naturally going at the same xp rate as werewolf and dreck farms were back in the day.
Be careful about "looking down" at folks Ladies and Gents. If you ever fall off that horse, it's a mighty long drop. 
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Be careful about "looking down" at folks Ladies and Gents. If you ever fall off that horse, it's a mighty long drop.
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That's a mighty big horse.
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1. make mish with only boss mobs that spawn at 45+ that are easy to defeat.
2. Set the lowest level of that mission to 47.
3. Have a very experienced brute, scrapper, tank clear the map for you on highest difficulty. I about half an hour you go from 1-28. (assuming city map 2) That is one mission. Second mish will take you to about 36. 3rd mish will get you to 40. Then 43 then 46 by the 5th mission. So far that is about 2.5 hours and you have 4 levels left to go.
So far I have found this is currently the fastest way to level without using exploits.
Now with that being said, I would play the game and learn your toons as they grow. The only times I have acutally leveled that fast were for duplicating a toon I have on another server because I am too cheep to pay 10 bucks for a transfer.
In my opinion, having an all Boss enemy group IS an exploit. There is no Dev-created group that conforms to that formula, and therefore there is no "natural" encounter that will resemble that situation.
If your opinion reflected that of the dev staf of CoX, I am pretty sure they would make it so all boss spawns were not possible. Almost every actual exploit has been corrected, yet they continue to allow all boss maps.
Until a redname confirms that using only bosses in a mish is an exploit, it aint.
Their actions by allowing a solo person to spawn for 8 in I16 reinforces the assumption that greater risk is worth greater reward.
I imagine all boss maps shall not be closed since bosses have boss appropriate powers and therefor do not break the risk/reward calculation.
The devs loosely define farming and would prefer that we not do it, but they only punish expletive behavior.
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In my opinion, having an all Boss enemy group IS an exploit. There is no Dev-created group that conforms to that formula, and therefore there is no "natural" encounter that will resemble that situation.
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I'm probably going to be wrong in this, because of limited personal experience with what I'm about to mention, hazy recollections of a while ago (of having run it), and sleep deprivation...
But isn't the Paragon Protector Dimension map almost entirely bosses?
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In my opinion, having an all Boss enemy group IS an exploit. There is no Dev-created group that conforms to that formula, and therefore there is no "natural" encounter that will resemble that situation.
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I'm probably going to be wrong in this, because of limited personal experience with what I'm about to mention, hazy recollections of a while ago (of having run it), and sleep deprivation...
But isn't the Paragon Protector Dimension map almost entirely bosses?
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No. There are LT and Minion versions of the 7th Gen PPs
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In my opinion, having an all Boss enemy group IS an exploit. There is no Dev-created group that conforms to that formula, and therefore there is no "natural" encounter that will resemble that situation.
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Luckily, the dev's opinions seem to differ from yours...
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In my opinion, having an all Boss enemy group IS an exploit. There is no Dev-created group that conforms to that formula, and therefore there is no "natural" encounter that will resemble that situation.
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I'm probably going to be wrong in this, because of limited personal experience with what I'm about to mention, hazy recollections of a while ago (of having run it), and sleep deprivation...
But isn't the Paragon Protector Dimension map almost entirely bosses?
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No. There are LT and Minion versions of the 7th Gen PPs
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Duly noted.
It's hard to tell on some teams, yanno?
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In my opinion, having an all Boss enemy group IS an exploit. There is no Dev-created group that conforms to that formula, and therefore there is no "natural" encounter that will resemble that situation.
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I also don't encounter the majority of custom mobs (like firemelee/fireassault, or icearmor/mindcontrol) in vanilla pve. By your logic they are also an exploit.
Thankfully your logic is faulty.
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I just have to ask it, why? Just what the hell do you plan to do with that character after getting to 50 in such a short time and skipping over 90% of the game's content?
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^^^ This.
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I strongly agree with this sentiment.
There's not much inherent difference in the game throughout the various levels. Racing to 50 as a new player is .... stupid. If you enjoy the game now, there's no reason to race to 50. If you want 50 because you're not enjoying the game, you will almost certainly not like it any more once you hit 50. Just pay to have someone level you, say "I hit 50", and cancel your account. Even after paying someone to level you, you'll save money in the long run.
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Dude I have played every way there is to play this game... except EXPLOIT the AE...
Just play to have fun...
*looks down at all the AE exploiters*
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Maybe farming the AE is fun to some people? Everyone preaches "play to have fun!"... as long as it's the kind of fun everyone preaches. Otherwise it's "don't play at all!"
*looks down on the anti-farming bigots*
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She never used the word "farm" in her post and wasn't referring to it.
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The only problem with defeating the Tsoo is that an hour later, you want to defeat them again!
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"I'm a big believer in Personal Force Field on a blaster. ... It's your happy place." -- Fulmens
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*looks down on the anti-farming bigots*
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I just have to ask it, why? Just what the hell do you plan to do with that character after getting to 50 in such a short time and skipping over 90% of the game's content?
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^^^ This.
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By the way, the best way to have FUN while leveling up fast?
Run your own TFs. Lots of them. I love it.
I don't mean the "cheap" ones either, I mean like the ones that will get you Task Force Commander.
I have SO much fun forming a full team of 50s that want to do them for the badges (and there ALWAYS are some out there) that they never even notice that I'm the only one that needs an SK and that I'm the only one that's at the BOTTOM level required to get into the TF. 
And then I proceed to level up like crazy.
By the end of any TF, I've either outlevelled it or am halfway to the next TF already. Rinse and repeat.
The high level characters get their shiny badges and a chance to play at a "challenging" lower level again without all their fancy powers, and I get PLed while having a good time and fighting epic battles for a story reason.
Everyone wins.
If people want to farm and/or PL and rush to 50, that's fine. There's negative fallout associated with that, but it's manageable fallout and the Devs have a long history of curtailing the worst offenders in that respect to keep it manageable. It's not the innocuous activity some pro-PL/farm people often try to pretend it is, but it's not nearly as bad as exploits.
If people want to PL to 50 and then complain there's nothing to do, that's retarded. They skipped over nearly everything there was to do.
As for exploiting, that's not the same as farming. Exploiting is taking a bug and using it and it's reprehensible. It's against the rules. It's tantamount to cheating. The difference is that, while PL and farming are frowned on by the Devs, they are abuses of WAI systems as opposed to exploits which are abuses of broken/bugged systems.
That, and exploits tend to have drastically larger rewards, drastically reduced risk, or both.
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Dude I have played every way there is to play this game... except EXPLOIT the AE...
Just play to have fun...
*looks down at all the AE exploiters*
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Maybe farming the AE is fun to some people? Everyone preaches "play to have fun!"... as long as it's the kind of fun everyone preaches. Otherwise it's "don't play at all!"
*looks down on the anti-farming bigots*
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.