I16: Super-Sidekicking Explained

Could the level restrictions on certain zones be removed? Nothing sucks more than getting that mission in Crey's Folly and having to either do something else or tell your level 26 sk he has to wait or go do something else.

I'd just like to say that I called this one back in June.

That is all.

I'm stoked!!!

Lots of great additions to the game. I can tell already that I'm going to max out my character slots.

This looks pretty awesome. I can now team with my friends' and brother's alts with whatever toon I choose. Getting my friends hooked on this game just got that much easier =]

What's even BETTER, it cuts down on AE and normal farming. Hell, it cuts down on the appeal of AE teaming in general. One thing that makes AE farming so attractive is the ability to not worry about your level. Now that this applies to the entire game, maybe we can all move back into normal content? Now it's just time to deal with those pesky boss farms!

*Edit* I just read Posi's last bit about increasing low-leveling speeds. Okay... I don't quite agree with that. But at the same time, I do... Low levels are a time when a player should be learning the game, not speeding into their 20s. May I remind you that level 20 is usually the mark when a player starts discovering the vulnerabilities and strengths of their toon. HP and damage values start to reflect their archetypes and whatnot. Speeding characters up to this mark is... debatable. Leveling up too quickly will cause new players to quickly gain what took vets months. Hardly fair. Also it will cause the game's appeal to wear off faster. So many level 50s and most players think the game is over for them.

So, please someone correct me if I am wrong, if I get a lvl 50 killing lvl 50 foes in an AE mish while I have a lowbie auto sidekicked to 45, lowbie gets max XP, now such lowbie will be auto sidekicked to lvl 49... won't he be getting same XP if the 50 fights lvl 54 foes? If so, is this really such a big advance? as far as I know, bridging was pretty much dead since AE so not sure it's such a great feature getting rid of something pretty much nobody used already.

Obviously, killing speed will not be same for even lvl foes than for +4, but I guess rightly customized foes for a specific AT with specific powersets will minimize the impact of that speed loss in the hands of an experienced player (which farmers usually are) plus in some servers like Freedom where 99% of farms are lvl 54 bosses this won't make much difference I guess, an all Lieutenant or an all Boss mish will still give more XP than any radio/paper mish, plus you control the map and tickets give better rewards (in my own experience at least).


Anyway, it's a try and really hope it makes teaming easier.

It is a change Nightmare. It is a common misconception that the level of the mobs determine if you get xp or not. While true if they are too low it does not matter if they are too high providing you are within 5 levels of the highest member of the team.

So a level 45 (or a person sidekicked to a 46) would get xp if on a team with a level 50. It does not matter if that level 50 is killing level 50 or 54 mobs. You get xp either way. Now though with this system you cant be that much lower. It auto sks you to the 50 so instead of get xp for +9 mobs your getting xp for +5 mobs.

Hope that helps.

Bridging wasnt dead, with ae. You just didnt need a player anymore to do it. There were ways to construct a mission so that the minimum level was level 45 and the max 50. So anyone below 45 was auto skd to 45 and level 50s could be on the mission fighing level 54s.

In a sense AE became the perfect farming tool. You didnt need any mentor's and you could "bridge" up to 7 people if you could manage the mobs. Which, allthough not bosses Fire Kins (as well as some other buuilds thats just one of the best) can easily do. More often than not though you would get 3 or 4 farmers with the rest being xp mooches and that way you could do a level 54 map and pl the lowbies at a retardedly fast rate.