Wait, what the heck just happened?

So if I create a team, they all HAVE to be SK'ed or Exemplared? I can't NOT sk or exemp people? Really? That's a major turn off actually. You HAVE to play at this level. Aion can't start soon enough. Wow. I mean colors are awesome but I'm a bit stunned at the control that was just taken away from me.

I realize I can change the level of the mission and how many people are in it, etc, but that doesn't mean I wanted to give up teams ranging in 5 levels.

It's a pretty clever move to reduce or eliminate powerleveling, I think, along with letting people create solo missions with as many villains as a full team.

I knew something would come along and yank that MA powerleveling rug out from under.

Now I realize that some people abuse systems, that's just how things work. However what if I'm trying to catch up a friend in levels?

I know people PL, but mostly they offer to PL for two reasons.

1.) Get a toon to 50 for PvP.
2.) A Side Effect of Farming; Filling teams to populate the map.

But doing it to "catch up a friend in levels" is altogether different somehow?

It souds like you're saying, "but I'm not doing it the way they're doing it and for different reasons so it should be okay to do it my way." But is it really that different just because of the way you spin it?

There's also the Level Pact option.


I'm just playing devil's advocate here for the sake of discussion.

turn off your xp then

Have the mission holder crank up their difficulty levels. That way you're still fighting higher level stuff, and getting the corresponding xp. The whole point to the new system is not having to have to play matchmaker with sidekicks and mentors, and not having to exclude doing hazard zone mishes or not accepting lowbies if they can't get into a zone.

You can set it to auto-accept within a certain threshold supposedly. I haven't messed with it myself, but this is how I understand things.

I think they just wanted to get rid of PLing altogether. maybe they thought it would be unfair if normal players couldnt PL but the vets with farming buddies could get PLs.

I dont get this at all you can easly lvl a friend up still. Get a 50 run missions. How hard is this or if you had a guy who was killer at farming then well set the mission to 8 and well lvl him up

Lol the funny thing is why didnt u c this from when beta opened on test and also u dont need a team to fill the map at least not any more but it does take a lil longer 2 PL a toon now

BUT i actually do like the coloring just a lil bit and the ONE thing i get annoyed by is that stpuid option which asks u if u wana quit the team or stay on it if ur being sked or ex'd .

I did find something likable about the change. I don't think I read enough of the patch notes however let me relate the moment I basically peed myself last night.

We were having difficulty with an arc in Faultline due to a couple players having to AFK and one having to leave for 20 mins (he was playing at work... I'M JEALOUS!) so I got out my level 39 tank and had them exemplar me so we could take care of the problem we were having.

Then I dinged. I hit level 40. My opinion currently is now, screw it. If I can play any toon at any time on any team and get experience, whatever. I'm good with the changes.

Man if I'd have known that's what WHF meant by preventing the matchmaking issues, ahhh....

Screw it. My friend doesn't need to catch up. This is now too cool.

WHF, that's hilarious, you addressed things I discovered and wrote about them 1 min before I came back to write about them myself. How funny.

I really have to accentuate how truly unique CoX's teaming system is; especially now that I16 is out.

In how many other MMOs can players of completely different levels form a team and everyone make money and experience together? I can't think of one.

I was on my little level 25 dominator Tuesday when a level 43 corrupter sent me a tell, "Hey, I'm a level 43 corrupter, interested in joining a team doing missions?" I was going to send a knee-jerk response, "So I'm assuming you have lackey room?" Then I realized that I16 made all that moot. I can now team with anybody at anytime and still make money and experience. I caught myself mid-typing and send a reply, "Thanks, but I'm in the costume screen coloring my powers!"

And hmm...does this mean that while my better half is standing in WW for hours, If I am teamed with him, I can go to The Shadow Shard and kill Eyeballs for the Sword???

Need to experiment.

Lisa.