There's always the next double xp weekend which should be soon. Also, thanks for getting MA nerfed! ;P
Yep I'm with ya. My dark/cold is the last new toon I'll have for awhile, even though I want to make a sonic/pain to transfer to heroside when GR comes out...
Maybe the next double xp weekend will give me a chance for that.
I have a feeling this double XP weekend is going to be my one last hurrah - then it's off to accolading and IOing.
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Are you saying you are leaving the game soon? or after you accolade and IO you don't need any more toons ever? I don't get it :\
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Originally Posted by macskull
I have a feeling this double XP weekend is going to be my one last hurrah - then it's off to accolading and IOing.
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I mean the odds of me rolling new toons is low. The first character I ever PLd was my Rad/Psi just before I13 hit (he got to 50 the day before the PvP changes post went up) and it took me about 50 hours, SKd to a 50 and spawned for 6 on the Battle Maiden map - I'm not looking forward to having to do that kind of grinding (and then IOing and accolading on top of that) just to have a 50 ready for PvP. I liked the boss farms because it was 7-10 hours to 50 and then I could get them ready to go at my leisure. Ah well, you can't have your cake and eat it too. |
Originally Posted by SonicBang
Are you saying you are leaving the game soon? or after you accolade and IO you don't need any more toons ever? I don't get it :\
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The speed is down about 25-40% for me personally, will that stop me from pling? Prolly not, I'm personally wondering if these nerfs are a precedent to allow PXP to be used in AE. If so, I'm neutral.
My biggest problem about the new I16 is the SSK feature, I wish we could have a choice with that. But otherwise, PLing will be slow, will be tetious, but still needed. *Sigh*
I'm in the middle of pl'ing a Mind/Thermal and a Rad/Em that are lvl pacted on Virtue. After that I'm not sure if I'll be pl'ing any toons just for the sake of PvP either. I may end up transfering the troller to freedom so I'll have something to PvP with over there.
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Screw infinity. Come to Champion.
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Originally Posted by macskull
Has anyone even bothered trying to PL new characters with proliferated sets (or otherwise) for PvP? I'm leveling a Son/EM on Justice so I can transfer it over to Infinity when it's done (yes I'm lazy) - started it today and am at something like 25.5 after 2 or so hours. Have an Earth/Cold on Justice and a Rad/EM on Freedom, as well as a smattering of toons in the upper 30s to lower 40s from before I16 that I wanna get to 50. Maybe the boss farms have spoiled me, but I can't see myself leveling too many more characters after this round. :/
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I've been thinkin the same things. I had planned to make 6 new toons for i16 -- thugs/therm MM (pvp), ice/cold troller(pvp), rad/em blaster (pvp), rad/fire blaster (pve), ss/elec brute (pve), and a spines/fire scrapper (pve).
However after seeing the leveling speed (which is WORSE than what farming used to be even before AE because of mids/bridges)... I'm not sure I really want to do all that.
The Thugs/Therm and Rad/Fire I'm doing for sure. But the rest... well I it doesn't seem likely now. Grinding is not fun.
Especially if double xp is this weekend meaning basically no playtime due to prior obligations.
I personally had a few 30 and 40 toons I was hoping to get to 50 and had all intentions of rolling AT LEAST a WP/elec tank for farming, a sonic/therm corr cause I dont have one, anothe MM, and for sure a rad blaster. Now I am not sure I even want to build another toon. Grinding really is the suck. AT LEAST fix the SK issue. WTF is up with that situation? I am sure the dedicated farmers will find a loophole, but most don't have time for such. I am sure after the new wears off and you have tinkered with every pretty color at the tailor, subscriptions will start closing like crazy. I could be wrong.......... we shall see. I am honestly suprised there hasn't been a bigger stink raised about this thus far. Good luck to us all. Now it will take months to hit 50 instead of days/weeks :-(.
Been doing my PLing in the MA because recipe drop rates are borked (and recipes, especially purples, are the only reason I'd do normal missions at this point). Got my Son/EM from 1-39.1 in around 15 hours according to an NPC - I'm sure it's probably an hour or two less given how AFK-prone I am when I'm solo. Running on +3x8, no bosses, using a group I put together myself out of standard NPCs.
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"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."
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Follow-up here:
32 hours from 1 to 43 using my MA arc. I finally got around to checking something with how the level range in the arc was set up and realized that because of how I'd set the level spread (50 min, 50 max), the arc was dropping me down to 47 when I was running at +3, and my lowbie was set to 47 as well instead of 46 as would've been expected. I changed the level ranged range to 45 min 54 max and now everything's working as I'd have expected, and levels 43 to 48 have been significantly quicker.
The character in question is a Son/EM Blaster, which I've been meaning to make for quite some time. I'm leveling it on Justice since that's where I'm best equipped for PLing heroside (I have a Fire/SS on Freedom but his IO build's not done yet and he's not very endurance-friendly). Since I already have an Arch/EM on Justice for zones and random arena, I'm hanging as to where I want to spend the $10 to transfer my Son/EM to - can't decide between Freedom, Virtue, Infinity, Champion, or Pinnacle (I've got my reasons for each).
I've also seen the first few characters with proliferated sets starting to trickle into RV on Freedom within the last day or two - a BS/something Stalker and a Rad/EM Blaster, namely, haven't seen much else I haven't already seen. In my experiences against that Blaster, I've really noticed how sub-par the Blaster of Rad seems compared to the Defenders and especially Corruptors I've seen (not sure how much of that's the set or how much of that's the player, though). If I end up transferring the Son/EM to a server other than Freedom, that leaves me with a problem - do I bother PLing a Rad/EM only to be disappointed and have wasted 30-40 hours, or do I go ahead and do a Fire/EM or Psi/EM?
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Fire was good at one time but I stopped playing my fire blaster long ago because all it takes is 1 thermal in the zone to ruin your night.. I never liked my psy blaster although he did ok.. |
Originally Posted by macskull
Follow-up here:
32 hours from 1 to 43 using my MA arc. I finally got around to checking something with how the level range in the arc was set up and realized that because of how I'd set the level spread (50 min, 50 max), the arc was dropping me down to 47 when I was running at +3, and my lowbie was set to 47 as well instead of 46 as would've been expected. I changed the level ranged range to 45 min 54 max and now everything's working as I'd have expected, and levels 43 to 48 have been significantly quicker. The character in question is a Son/EM Blaster, which I've been meaning to make for quite some time. I'm leveling it on Justice since that's where I'm best equipped for PLing heroside (I have a Fire/SS on Freedom but his IO build's not done yet and he's not very endurance-friendly). Since I already have an Arch/EM on Justice for zones and random arena, I'm hanging as to where I want to spend the $10 to transfer my Son/EM to - can't decide between Freedom, Virtue, Infinity, Champion, or Pinnacle (I've got my reasons for each). I've also seen the first few characters with proliferated sets starting to trickle into RV on Freedom within the last day or two - a BS/something Stalker and a Rad/EM Blaster, namely, haven't seen much else I haven't already seen. In my experiences against that Blaster, I've really noticed how sub-par the Blaster of Rad seems compared to the Defenders and especially Corruptors I've seen (not sure how much of that's the set or how much of that's the player, though). If I end up transferring the Son/EM to a server other than Freedom, that leaves me with a problem - do I bother PLing a Rad/EM only to be disappointed and have wasted 30-40 hours, or do I go ahead and do a Fire/EM or Psi/EM? |
I gutted my fire and psy blaster and put all the good IOs in my new rad/em..
He's fully proced and I like him way better than my psy... It really depends on playstyle up close I believe sonic is probably better.. so if your a ss/super jumper that might be better for you... I'm a hover/fly/tp toon so i hover far away and blast which rad is better at than sonic...
In a prolonged fight more than 7 or 8 seconds a sonic will do better since its recharge is faster and the -res stacking... for short burst to kill fast around 5 seconds I believe rad is better.. If a squishie can survive that initial burst of a rad blaster then he or she will have a chance. I believe sonic and rad are the top two. one will be better in certain situations and of course the playstyle will matter as well.
Hope this helps..
BTW a couple of friends helped me test I can 3 shot stalkers and other squishies at sirens lvl with aim/buildup no other buffs..
I'm on the same boat here, after this subscription is up I think I'll get on a break from this game, probably will try going rogue(well depending on the quality) right now I'm trying DDO and it has me hooked(leveling is slow than this game though, but its nowhere near as repetitive), shame since I really wanted to get my Thugs/Therm to 50 but I guess it won't happen.
And I don't see myself leveling a new pvp toon after this(probably will pimp my peacekeeper out), well at least not leveling new toons for RV, I used to power level a bunch of new toons on AE just to test em out in pvp, that was half the fun for me on pvp to be honest, just testing new different toons.
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Fire was good at one time
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Fire is still the best. People just need to relearn how to play them and forget blaze is even in their tray. I purpled/pvpoed my rad em on test out during beta. Its a notch behind my psi/em and even my psi/dev for me. I could see a rad/dev being a decent zone toon but if I was to roll a new blaster for all zones and arena it would be fire/em.
Duel me.
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people still farm??? Yeah i hate the new sk'n system, it takes forever. I am trying to get my fire/ta corruptor, currently 25, to 50 for pvp. It is a fun combo imo, but it is taking forever. But i got it 1-25 without my second account active. I just activated my second account and when i get some time ima start farming it my self and see how fast i can get it now that i might have some time to do it. Who wants to help me?? :P
Final count says 40 hours for 1-50 but I could probably get that into the 25-30 range if I were going really hardcore about it and had my SK set right the entire time >.<
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"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."
"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."
Has anyone even bothered trying to PL new characters with proliferated sets (or otherwise) for PvP? I'm leveling a Son/EM on Justice so I can transfer it over to Infinity when it's done (yes I'm lazy) - started it today and am at something like 25.5 after 2 or so hours. Have an Earth/Cold on Justice and a Rad/EM on Freedom, as well as a smattering of toons in the upper 30s to lower 40s from before I16 that I wanna get to 50. Maybe the boss farms have spoiled me, but I can't see myself leveling too many more characters after this round. :/
"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."