Forget AE! A 1-50 AEless blog!

Okay, so maybe I'm crazy but CoH has never really up and grabbed me before. It's always been a really casual, chill, fun, game that I play for 2-3 weeks at a time when I get burned out of WoW raiding. However, a real life friend, Orbius really got me into it this time. I'm hooked.

The highest I'd ever gotten before this recent return (aprox 1 month ago) was 31. I promptly found a team for AE missions since that seemed to be the latest and greatest thing and lo and behold I did bubbles. Quickly going from 31-50 I played around with end game content and noticed... all people do is AEs. I wanted a change so it was time for another character!

I made a Dark/Dark Defender and starting looking for a group. I'd be very impressed with Dark/Dark when one came to a Jurrasik group (Thanks CHROME SUPPORT). No one wanted me. I was too low and not Empathy for AE, and no one did anything else. I eventually got up to 21 before I said forget it.

So, in the spirit of the old game I decided to level a character WITHOUT AE. The only exception will be Dev Choices. I've made Blast Thickneck the SD/SS Tanker and this will be a blog about leveling him to 50.


THE RULES:

- Only AE allowed is Dev Choices
- No transfering Inf from my main

Good luck, pending on server your bound to hit atleast one AE team, but if you refuse to even play on said team, its still easy, people still run TF's and PI Freakshow farms. Hell , I'll run you myself if you're on Guardian.

Day 1 Pt1: I got together a Sewers team while street sweeping with much effort. There were 5 of us between 1-4 and 1 level 8 Blaster who was exemplared down. We head to the entrence to the sewers and the blaster continues to sit in AE. "Hey (Hisname) you know that Sewers isn't an AE mission right? Look on the map and come to us". "Oh sorry I wanted AE" He left the team. Now, I've been playing on and off since release pretty much, more off then on honestly, but how in the hell do you not know what a sewers team is? COME ON! He had in his bio no vet badges and 2 level 50s listed in his info. Sad.

Anyways, the team was a success! We got off to a rough start but people quickly starting gaining levels and the Baddies started dying left and right. G E N from Chrome Support came on his 50 and babysat us out of group for nostaglica sake. I got up to level 6 and had to call it for awhile.

I'm gonna log in and try to get at least 10 tonight, possibly run a Positron TF if I can get together a group. I'll update Pt before bed.

Wait, you're making a blog about playing the game the way it has been played for the last 4 years and some change before AE...

Really?

In Before the Epic Fail!

Too late.

You want to see toons leveled to 50 before AE, I have 4 I can introduce to you.

I know they are out there, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that I'm sure some people have never experienced the content that the game has to offer. Hell I've not even experienced half of it. I just thought this would be interesting.

Bah, 1-50 on the normal content isn't all that tough. You want tough, see all the content with one character. I did that before we had the option to turn off xp gain. Of course, it was my villain, so it was easier... my hero had to wait for Oro to finally see everything.

Well, I'm glad someone that subscribed this year is doing the 1-50 AELess. I have to say, AE isn't that fun for grinding. Then again, I don't find grinding XP very fun anyway.

I applaud you, Arrgy, and if you ever need a team, don't hesitate to ask! I wish you luck on your quest to 50

I blame TehVyze for coming in here being all cheerful and helpful.














Oh wait, this isn't the blame thread is it.

NM. Carry on.

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I blame TehVyze for coming in here being all cheerful and helpful.














Oh wait, this isn't the blame thread is it.

NM. Carry on.



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haha, the Justice Insanity could lend itself towards being cheery! After all, aren't the most eccentric people generally the happiest when nobody's bothering them? *Continues talking to self*

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haha, the Justice Insanity could lend itself towards being cheery! After all, aren't the most eccentric people generally the happiest when nobody's bothering them? *Continues talking to self*

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The Justice forums were made to promote people posting anything related to Justice. If Arrgy wanted to make a blog about him creating a new costume every day more power to him... as long as he's making them on Justice . So I'm not trying to be a downer on him making a blog at all.

..And no I have no idea why I quoted TehVyze lol.



I'm just saying, has this game really come to the point that leveling outside of MA as a new/returning player is such a noteworthy accomplishment that it needs it's own blog? And yes I'm actually asking that as a question of the non-rhetorical variety.

-If- it's true I hope Praetoria/Any future content is accessible through the AE buildings. Because they will have officially trumped themselves in the whole Winter Lord fiasco and created a generation of fail players (in reference to the guy/guys like that guy who left the Sewer Team, not the poster) that won't know anything outside of Atlas Plaza/AE building.

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Too late.



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This. I got 10 of them "the old fashioned way" and then kind of stopped playing.