Here's a challenge:
A level 50 of every AT
That's 16 characters - and as someone who plays primarily ranged toons I'd find any melee based toon a bit of a struggle
Personally if I started now I've got 13 to go, but it's not something at the top of my checklist 
Another goal would be to get every build within an AT to 50 then write the Ultimate Guide to that AT. With 3 blasters at 50 already aond one almost halfway, I've got a kind of insight into that but I'm looking to diversify.
Thelonious Monk
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I think I need a DXP weekend
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Then I think you're in luck Shadowe, keep January 25th free. 
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But that's a Sunday? Surely you mean the 23rd?
EDIT: Checked the COH Calendar, it starts on the 23rd, ML
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Whoopsadaisy, that what I meant - the 23rd. *ahem.
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That's one I'm working on myself. I have almost 10 out of them 16. I counted 14 but I'm guessing you mean Bane Spider and Crab Spider separate ?
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1. Solo an AV. Many people have done this, so it can be done, but does it need to be on a specific AT? Or build? Can it be done on a Defender? Or a crappy Blaster like mine? :
2. Solo a GM. I remember a loooong time ago, Psygon solo'd Lucsa, I think it may have been on her Dark/Dark Defender, but I could be misremembering? Has anyone else done it? Or a different GM? Babbage or Jurassik for instance? Again, does it have to be a tanker?D
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Do i3/i4 Regen scrappers count? I mainly soloed Lusca on my DM/Rgn back then, I also soloed pretty much all of the other GMs too.
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Those are a few ideas off the bat, but what could you all come up with? What truly wacky thoughts pop into your head? What manic concepts have you actually done??
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Only thin I really want to do now is more a test of my ingenuity as the actual game play is proven. I'd like to multibox an entire super team, but thats eight PCs and a better net connection neither of which I have at the moment. 
At which point I would be soloing a lot of content.
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That's one I'm working on myself. I have almost 10 out of them 16. I counted 14 but I'm guessing you mean Bane Spider and Crab Spider separate ?
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You haven't unlocked the Household Appliance Justiciar or Segway Superstar AT's yet?
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A level 50 of every AT
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That's one I'm working on myself. I have almost 10 out of them 16. I counted 14 but I'm guessing you mean Bane Spider and Crab Spider separate ?
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Umm.. yes... Crab Spider... Bane Spider as seperate. That's what I meant. Ahem, no miscounting there at all 
But if we count those as different there's nothing to say we can't have then the VEATs split into 3 each - they can almost be considered different ATs in one sense
Thelonious Monk
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Ahhh, thanks Cynic, I've never done RP so I wouldn't know that
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Well, there's another challenge for you!
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Eeep, no!! That way lies madness and sweaty palms!!
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I'm determined to have a human on WS, but I wouldn't have said that was too crazy. Just cause neither form really appeals to me that much but purple blasts are awesome (I can see it being deleted if we ever actually get power customisation and a Dark/Dark defender being made)
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A little off-topic I realise but I'd highly recommend this. I feel the same about the Dark powersets all that skull-lobbing isn't really what I had in mind. But if you re-interpret the warshade powers you end up with purple blasts, regenerating yourself from corpses, making corpses explode, extracting the souls from corpses and binding them to your will etc. etc. Works really well as a dark (rather than Dark) concept toon.
Back on topic (ish). High level khelds and VEATs combined with the multiple builds option is a great source of experimentation!
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Ahhh, thanks Cynic, I've never done RP so I wouldn't know that
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Well, there's another challenge for you!
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Eeep, no!! That way lies madness and sweaty palms!!
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Hope this quote pyramid doesn't get too much...
Okay, I'm an RPer. That immediately puts me into a particular nerd-bracket, sure. And yes, us RPers have a tendency (at times - I think it's seasonal) to get heavily invested in our characters, to the extreme.
But in terms of sheer fun and having a laugh, a bit of lighthearted RP is actually really wonderful. I'd suggest to anyone (not just you, Coin) that they give it a try, just to see what it's all about. Even if that merely amounts to hanging around other people who are RPing and listening to the conversations (which sometimes get a bit deep and serious, true, but so does Real Life).
So, for anyone who thinks "Ooh, it's kind of vaguely tempting, but I don't know what to do...", then take a look HERE, and my personal recommendation is to post in the Roleplaying section of the boards saying that you're thinking of bringing a character along to see what it's like - we'll then roll out the welcome mat.
The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise.
; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise ; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*
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2. Solo a GM. I remember a loooong time ago, Psygon solo'd Lucsa, I think it may have been on her Dark/Dark Defender, but I could be misremembering? Has anyone else done it? Or a different GM? Babbage or Jurassik for instance? Again, does it have to be a tanker?
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Good thread... I should point out though that I never solo'd Lusca, and I don't have a dark/dark defender I *did* solo the paladin with my Empath tho sometime before ED... when my real PC is back up and running in the next few days I may post a pic :P
As for other challenges, the only one I set myself when I started playing COH was to level a defender of every flavour to 50... however, with the release of new defender sets over the years the challenge keeps getting harder
So far I've managed Empath, Rad, Bubbles, Kinetics and Storm... leaving Sonic (35), Trick Arrows (23), Cold (38) and Dark (34). I'll get there one day I'm sure...
Bah, sorry Psy, obviously my memory is failing now I'm turning into an Old Fart
Could have sworn you had a D3 back in the days of the Sheepies though........damn I'm old
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I had a Man build back on the US servers, I keep toying with the idea of starting up one again and getting it to 50.
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
I started a character as kind of an inverse to the no badges hero. My goal for him was to level only by doing directly badge-related activities (and not generic stuff like get inf for defeating anything for inf badges). It wasn't really all that fun, running around city zones looking for those few particular mobs I needed. I got him up to level 19 by street hunting, before the patrol XP hit and having that went against the concept of that character. Constantly turning XP gain on and off would frankly be quite tedious, and probably lead to some mistakes, so that's not really an option. But who knows, I still got the character and one day I might be bored enough to make it work
The ultimate goal was of course to get to level 50, but I don't really think that would have been possible unless I had relaxed the rules a little.
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Good point
I once dinged 50 on the Egg Hunter badge on one of my toons (that's actually the most memorable thing about her now) but I guess you could do something like ding every level with a significant badge. (Tougher at low levels I guess) and finish at 50 with the Top Dog badge (and then maybe the Atlas Medallion at the same time?)
Thelonious Monk
I badged a whole level with my Ma/Shield, that took me awhile.
Currently building my ill/storm to be able to solo av´s.
You forgot the RWZ challenges and Pylon challenges or the modified rwz challenge where a pylon attacks you while defeating a 4+spawn with 3 bosses.
Theres also the Gaussian arc challenge but thats more for scrappers.
Oh and blasters can solo avs. They also have their own version of the rwz challenge:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....2&fpart=all
Havent found any rwz challenge rules for troller though.
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1) Solo'd 11 different AVs and a Pylon on my FM/SR. Sure, an illu/rad or an MM would be better suited for it, but then where's the challenge? 
2) Doubt that's possible anymore. An illu/rad just might be able to do it.
3) Solo'd a Posi. Also duo'd Citadel. Soloing TFs isnt hard at all, it's the AV at the end that will produce the difficulties for most. And there are easier ways to find AV fights than soloing a TF, besides most TFs are faster with teams.
4) Tried MoSTF a couple of times. Failed them all. And on most attempts my badge toon doesnt even get along. Not going to waste my time with this one I think, it isnt even fun. Cant play like a reckless scrapper should!
5) Weird builds... Not my thing really. Playing to 50 without levelling once? I'd die of tedium after, hmm, maybe 10 levels. What's the point in it anyway? Make the mostly quite repetitive content even worse by artificially prolonging it by only having 2 or 3 powers for damage?
Also I tend to try and get the most out of my builds at 50 without purples/lotgs/expensive stuff anyway, so weird builds (as in lacking or very situational ones) arent for me.
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i have a few simple challanges ingam that ive had set for msyelf for a while
1) get a 50 on every AT so far got a troller brute mm and pb sp still short a few yet
2)work every arc and sf there is availible with the flashback system on monster bru then find one of my heros i would like to do the same with
3) finaly find a build im happy with on scotlands bru the poor gimprf il/emp never have gotten to grips with all the changes to ill since i6 when i all but stop playing him
4)and finaly get master of states on scotlands and master of recluse on monster
so thats my lot nothing to eath shatering but challanges ive been working on for a while now
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Scotlands Bru ill/emp troller lvl 50
Monster Bru SS/stone brute lvl 50
Carman thugs/dark mm lvl 50
My biggest challenge is to understand IO's, and start using Mid's to actually plan my builds
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Has anyone ever leveled throuhg to 50 only taking pool/Ancillary powers from lvl 6 onwards?
lvl 1 One Primary and One Secondary
lvl 2 One Primary OR One Secondary
lvl 4 One Primary OR One Secondary
lvl 6 One Pool Power (1st Pool)
lvl 8 One Pool Power (2nd Pool)
etc
You get 24 powers by lvl 50, so the first 4 powers from your Primary/Secondary plus 4 pools each with 4 powers and all 4 powers from 1 Ancillary pool = 24 powers.
Would think it's possible, but you're going to have very limited firepower. Which pools would you go with?
I think it can be done with a mind/* troller. You will get two bread & butter powers in first two levels; Mesmerize & Dominate. Pools to get are; Fitness (for obivious reasons), Fly (for AS and travel power), Speed (if you go with Rad secondary for Hasten and another good attack, Flurry) and Fighting (Two more attacks) and if you choose a single target Epic Attack like Stone you can have a good attack chain, safe soloing (maybe a bit slow), self heal and fast attacks (AM & Hasten).
I tried one sometime ago but people started to complain about me should play a dominator instead of a controller so i gave up the idea.
And here is a build for you:
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Psy-Karateka: Level 50 Mutation Controller
Primary Power Set: Mind Control
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Emission
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Ancillary Pool: Stone Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Mesmerize -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(13), Dmg-I(15), Sleep-I(29), RechRdx-I(31), RechRdx-I(37)
Level 1: Radiant Aura -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(15), RechRdx-I(23), RechRdx-I(29), EndRdx-I(31)
Level 2: Dominate -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(3), Hold-I(3), Hold-I(5), RechRdx-I(7), RechRdx-I(9)
Level 4: Accelerate Metabolism -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(5), RechRdx-I(7), EndMod-I(19), EndMod-I(31)
Level 6: Air Superiority -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(9), Dmg-I(17), Dmg-I(33), EndRdx-I(33), RechRdx-I(39)
Level 8: Boxing -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(11), Dmg-I(17), Dmg-I(33), Dsrnt-I(34), EndRdx-I(39)
Level 10: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(11), RechRdx-I(40)
Level 12: Kick -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(13), Dmg-I(19), Dmg-I(34), RechRdx-I(39)
Level 14: Fly -- Flight-I(A), Flight-I(40)
Level 16: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 18: Health -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(40)
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(21), EndMod-I(21)
Level 22: Flurry -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(23), Dmg-I(34), Dmg-I(36), EndRdx-I(37), RechRdx-I(37)
Level 24: Tough -- ResDam-I(A), ResDam-I(25), ResDam-I(25), EndRdx-I(36), EndRdx-I(43)
Level 26: Weave -- DefBuff-I(A), DefBuff-I(27), DefBuff-I(27), EndRdx-I(36), EndRdx-I(46)
Level 28: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 30: Hover -- DefBuff-I(A)
Level 32: Super Speed -- Run-I(A)
Level 35: Group Fly -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 38: Whirlwind -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 41: Hurl Boulder -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(42), Dmg-I(42), Dmg-I(42), RechRdx-I(43), RechRdx-I(43)
Level 44: Seismic Smash -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(45), Dmg-I(45), Dmg-I(45), RechRdx-I(46), RechRdx-I(46)
Level 47: Rock Armor -- DefBuff-I(A), DefBuff-I(48), DefBuff-I(48), EndRdx-I(48), EndRdx-I(50)
Level 49: Earth's Embrace -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50), Heal-I(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment
Personally i would prefer Confuse and Debuffs of Rad over useless powers in build but this is the name of the game i guess.
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Has anyone ever leveled throuhg to 50 only taking pool/Ancillary powers from lvl 6 onwards?
lvl 1 One Primary and One Secondary
lvl 2 One Primary OR One Secondary
lvl 4 One Primary OR One Secondary
lvl 6 One Pool Power (1st Pool)
lvl 8 One Pool Power (2nd Pool)
etc
You get 24 powers by lvl 50, so the first 4 powers from your Primary/Secondary plus 4 pools each with 4 powers and all 4 powers from 1 Ancillary pool = 24 powers.
Would think it's possible, but you're going to have very limited firepower. Which pools would you go with?
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You can probably do that with a Blaster, but you're gimping yourself horribly. That's a job for 2nd build I think
Thelonious Monk
The idea was for a crazy build, thus gimping yourself is just one side effect. Lets be fair its better than playing to 50 without leveling thats just damn hard work.
Another thought for a crazy (though not very crazy) build. What about only taking primaries, secondaries and ancilleries. I think the biggest pain would be not having a travel power, but some builds could get round that (kin springs to mind) and perhaps a lack of stamina (though again some builds don't need stamina). Is there a build it would be worth trying with? Is there one which doesn't need stamina and can gain it's own "Travel" type power?
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Then I think you're in luck Shadowe, keep January 25th free.