Anyone go all the way to 50 on Heroic difficulty?

I've always wanted a ranged fighter who could trade shots with enemies without dying quickly. I was thinking of making an assault rifle/devices blaster or an assault rifle/traps corruptor and just leaving the difficulty setting on easy.

Has anyone played the game like this, with a lot of soloing? If so, did your character make satisfactory leveling speed or was it rather pointless?

Thanks for any input!

I ran an AR/Dev to 50 mostly solo... but I didn't have to keep it on Heroic.

As for satisfactory leveling speed.. it's always going to take longer solo than it would with teams... and even moreso on a toon that you have to spend time setting up traps and such for each mob.

What do you mean by "satisfactory leveling speed"?

I solo pretty much all my chars and I can get a level a night on some of them just doing paper missions, at heroic.

I have run toons to 50 on heroic so I wouldn't outlevel some of the content. I don't worry about it now because I just turn off the XP when I team with others or when I'm getting too close to outleveling what I'm working for.

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I like a game that lets you play at your own speed. Personally, I'm happy with the way the game progresses at heroic but some people like a bit more of a challenge. That's just fine with me. That's why the option to change the difficulty (and the upcoming team size slider) exists. If winding things up to "11" is your idea of fun, go for it.

I solo'd Faultline with my AR/Dev on diff 3 - the EBs ranged from not too bad to downright frustrating, and while I completed it eventually I wouldn't set my sights that high if I ran Faultline again on another character... maybe.

I usually go to diff 2 by the early teens and diff 4 by the mid to late 20s. Admittedly that's on exceptional soloists like masterminds, scrappers and brutes. I'd imagine the post-40 game on heroic - when even unyielding/ruthless only gives about 1 bar of xp per mission - could feel very slow.

Back before they had a difficulty setting we all got to 50 on Heroic, solo or otherwise.

The thing about the difficulty setting is that people seem to misunderstand the idea that you can move it more than once and in either direction. I change mine frequently based on my own powers, level, slotting, team capability, the bad guys I'm facing, and even how much time I have.

If you need more of a challenge, move it up. It doesn't matter what your AT or level is, if you want to be challenged, move it up. When you run into tough situations, move it back down. The charge minimal in the grand scheme of things.

My Dark Defender usually plays on the middle setting, my Empath on Heroic, My Ice/Kin Controller on low to middle, etc. My Controller and Empath can play on harder settings, but it takes longer to get through a mission, so I usually have them lower. My Scrappers and Brutes usually have them middle+. With most characters, I don't go higher than Heroic until I get some form of Stamina just because I end up spending too much time recovering when I'm solo. Regens and Masterminds I start bumping up much more quickly.

The difficulty setting isn't something anyone needs to "leave" on any one setting. Your character changes, your bad guys change, your teammates change - so should your difficulty setting.

I soloed my emp/dark defender before there was difficulty levels, I did have to break from her for a while before the EB/AV code went in, and I did still have to team a little up in the high 40s to get those EBs down to size. But yes, the point of the game isn't to rush, it's to play - so it's all designed around playing the way you want to. There will be new difficulty levels soon so it's kind of moot anyway.

I almost never take my difficulty off heroic/villainous unless I'm teaming with friends. I just like being able to squish things easily. I have 3 50s, and three in their 40s, and five in their 30s. The only one I regularly run above heroic/villainous is my necro/dark MM, because it's actually boring squishing through whites and yellows on her.

edit: I should clarify that my necro/dark MM has been in her 40s for three years now. "Regularly" is relative to the amount of time I spend playing her, not that I log into her regularly.

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First 50, an elec/elec blaster, I'm pretty sure stayed on Heroic. Of course, that was also when we had big content gaps, no newspapers, no Croatoa... 500-some hours.

I tend to bump mine up these days.

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I never did but my Brother solo 90% of the time with his first 50 a Mind/Emp troller on Heroic. I don't know how long it took but I did beat him to level 50 with my first 50. I was lvl 22 when he was lvl 38 and still beat him to 50, it took so long.

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Maybe if I play my sonic/elec defender long enough I'll get there ... in a decade.

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Soloing my NRG/Kin corr yes, I did stay on Villainous just about the entire time. It was my first trip through the content red-side so I wanted to take my time and I wasn't quite sure what I'd be up against so I kept things simple.

I did attempt to up things somewhere in the 40s, figuring I could at least take advantage of larger spawns for Fulcrum Shift. Then some Malta did some very bad things to me and I bumped it right back down.

I am sure a lot of people just doorsat to 50 in the AE, without even knowing what "heroic difficulty" means

I bump the the difficulty up as soon as the character in question can handle it. I don't think I've ever stayed on Heroic past level 22 or so.

If I can't solo on at least Tenacious I lose interest in the character real fast.

I did, on my very first toon Pink Lioness. I didn't even know the concept of making the game more difficult until way after she hit 50 as a matter of fact. I was just going with the flow

Play on the difficulty setting which is the most fun.

This leads to fun play sessions.

Mission accomplished!

An AR/Dev blaster can get to 50 on Heroic.