Can I finally reach level 50?

I'm a nerd, the worst kind of nerd, one who talks too much.

I've had an account since late 2004. Some of the characters I play, were made before inventions, back when beating up a big snow beast was the best way to farm XP.

I have woven hundreds of stories into this game, and met friends I treasure to this day.

Yet, in all this time - never, never, never have I reached level 50.

I think, I finally need to just ante-up and get there.

You see, I decided I need an Arachnos VEAT for a story line I'm working on. And apparently the only way to get one, is to make level 50.

So here I am trying to get there.

If you see @Ravyna online this weekend, or if you see the character named Demon Wing spamming for a PUG in Grandville, won't you please help this talkative carebear finally reach level 50?

I am harmless, and well behaved. I just need a gentle hand to guide me to the promised land. I'll even shut up, I promise...well at least I won't try to talk as much.

Well I wish you the best of luck my friend as I too have yet to reach 50 blue side or red side and I've been here since beta.

My SG has made it clear that I am not allowed on my alts until I get my main toon up to 50. Sitting at 45.5 right now but that's blue side. I have all day tomorrow to play so hopefully I get there or at least really close.

I'll keep an eye out for you, maybe some time in the RWZ for the two of us will help push your villian and my hero to the promised land.

Great to know there is a kindred spirit out there Manny. Good luck in your weekend quest!

I started playing around '04 myself. And I just hit 50 with my main about two or three months ago.

And actually, I did it by accident. I was getting so carried away with doing missions and getting involved in the game's stories, that I leveled on an AV team who needed a heavy-hitting scrapper. I was like, "Oh, cool. I didn't even realize I was that close."

I just hit my first 50 Tanker (5th 50) yesterday. Sadly, I still yet to have a Villain at level 50. Got a scrapper (will be my first 50 Scrapper) and corruptor at level 42, but *shrugs*

Note, I just got my 18 month badge about a week ago and I've done zero AE farms, even while they were plentiful in XP.

/em plot

Well silly old Dudley hit 50. There, he can buy all the copies of Sonic Boom he wants now.

The VEAT I started - is - well, he's an RP device mostly, but I want to get him to 24, so I have a lot of work to do.

As WG said:

\em plot

Level 44 has been acquired... only 6 to go.

So, I finally reupped to CoX a few days ago, and rejoined the Good Fight. I made a new character to play with a friend's supergroup, and relentlessly ground her from 1 to 50 over the weekend (dragging a friend who'd never had a 50 before in 4 years and 42 months of paid time along) to earn prestige and get her to a place where I felt good about playing her with the rest. Now I gotta say - the new SK/Exemp stuff has shot powerleveling directly in the face, but that's ok. If you really want to get a character up there, you can do it. You Can Do It. And hopefully you did do it over the weekend. Hell, if all you want is a 50, just make a character and play them relentlessly. It's not hard.

In any case, for everybody who teamed with my unnamed character over the weekend, I hope they had a good time. I'm sure they got leveled.

It was a good gaming weekend for me, with some great family news along the way.

It was the least amount of RP I had done in years. Even when I was in a PUG that was open to roleplaying - I pretty much stayed quiet. I just wanted to give RP a rest for the weekend and focus on growing some characters.

I made level 50. Then I made a VEAT and took him to 24. Then I reviewed all the options, and begrudgingly picked “crab”. I wouldn’t mind so much, except you have to wear the damn backpack at all times! I lack an additional slot right now, to make another character to represent him without the backpack, so now I am playing the crab legs as a physical extension of his body, which the more I thought about it - the more I began to like the idea. He will be the most evil character I’ve ever played. I think I discovered a real gem with this toon. So I logged him off to let him breathe, and I’ll have to get a VV page/concept and some more RP thoughts completed before I resume playing him.

Late last night, I tried – once again – to make a tank I like. The last one made it to level 25, before I decided he’s not much fun. This one, I hope, might stick. I need an uber-tank in my small RP circle badly. I only got him to 14, because the team availability for new toons late last night was pretty low – and because you can’t juice the difficulty to high at lower levels, it was pretty slow-going comparatively. So a long way away from uber, but I hope he sticks.

Anyway, it was fun to be a “power leveler” for a weekend. Now I am done with it. One thing I find about leveling fast - is there no story in between. Characters are created and driven to their peaks so fast - you don’t even realize who they are – or how they became to be.

It is time to slow it all down again and “live and breathe” with them again.

Time, once again, to embrace the carebear within.

Congrats on reaching 50! Too bad it was a bad guy.... :/

I've never been able to hold onto or develop a concept for a Villain that I was able to stick with and enjoy. I love all the Hero AT's though, and would love to have 50's of all of them.

Congrats on hitting 50 Chaos.

With tanks they are really only just starting to hit their stride at 25. Pre SO's and stamina most tanks are not durable enough to really do their job well. So they need a little extra patience.

Congrats Chaos; I have 1 50 in 5 and a half years, and that 1 50 will be 5 years old in December (I should have a party). So no pressure for a second