SOing out a Lv8 character

I'm not sure how viable (or even available) L8 SO's are going to be... I'm
pretty doubtful about you being able to get SO's this low.

I know you've set your own criteria on this project and so I'm just gonna
toss this out for you to mull over. Interesting project, btw.

Were I doing this (and assuming you can't get SO's that low), I'd look at
levelling the toon into the 10-15 range. At that point, there are several
set IO's low enough that you can Frankenslot.

I'd take this approach for 3 reasons (not counting unavailability of SO's)

1> You can get some choice items in the 10-14 range with AE tickets.

2> You can probably get some set bonuses that may exemplar with you
in the ranges you're planning to play in.

3> A level 8 toon is going to have what, ~6 powers (not counting inherents),
and a total of ~15 slots to spread around? Even a couple more levels matters here.

Also, with very limited slotting, Frankenslotting will let you improve more
than 1 attribute per slot - a very helpful thing at that stage, I think...

Looking at a little math, and again, assuming you cannot get SO's that low,
an L15 common IO is ~19% improvement. So, if you 2 slot with 1 Acc, 1 Dmg
you're looking at 19/19. With DO's, you'd be looking at 16/16. With two
Acc/Dmg melee set IO's you'd have 24/24...


I'm not sure how practially helpful an L8 toon would be, but adding just a
few more levels would make a big difference. There's no need to go L50,
but I'd certainly consider the mid-teens or so, myself.

Best of Luck with your project.


Regards,
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I applaud your efforts

Well, looks like you're gonna have to get those kind of SOs yourself if you want them.

There aren't any IO sets available at that level, are there?

I recommend leveling the character up quite far, then place all your slots into your low-level powers. That way, you can six-slot everything up to level 25. You can even put a few slots beyond that. If your IOs have a percentage of 20% or less (and multi-aspect IOs count each aspect separately!), they will not suffer from degradation when exemplaring down. Note that you'll lose set bonuses if you exemplar down more than 3 levels below the IOs' level, but slotting for low levels is much more about getting the best percentages out of your powers, not set bonuses.

Then, instead of doing your missions, permanently at level 8, you complete other lowbies' missions, giving them arc XP bonuses on top of cool buffs and goodies. And on top of that, you can now help lowbies up to a much higher level, in case your team gets going real good, cranking out the XP...making your little bitty level 8 worthless fairly fast.

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Just to clarify....

I'm not doing misssiioooonnnnssssss!!!

I'm planning to pick up lowbies from Atlas Park and take them on a Skulls-and-Hellions romp on the streets of Perez, as opposed to the more traditional sewer runs.

Also, the benefits of IOs scale to their individual level, so a Lv10 IO will be barely any better than a TO, while three SOs will bump up my bubbles' defense rating by half.

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Or more realistically you could take them along on some sort of level 50 farm mission for just a few minutes to get them to whatever level you wanted to get them to. It would be identical to street sweeping farming, and could be done exponentially faster because you could actually be at a level where you have useful powers. Building up a level 8 character would be a ton of work to do one thing, and quite poorly compared to all the other existing options. Just saying.

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It's an interesting idea, but I think you'd do much, much better to take the toon to level 10 and freeze him there.

1) You'll be able to use some of the lowbie IO sets to best frankenslot the toon and not have to mess about with trying to acquire lowbie SO's.

2) Perez is a lvl 7 to lvl 14 zone. At level 8 you'll be OK near the Atlas/Galaxy doors,
but you'll be in pretty nasty purple territory if you wander just a bit too far away.

While a good team can handle +6's, handling +6's with hazard zone sized spawns (and the plethora of boss/lts that tends to spawn) with a level 8 team is a bit more problematic.

So, it's clear you've locked yourself into Level 8 come heck or high water.

Since there's no debt (below L10?), and since you won't have much in the
way of either powers or enhancement slots, none of our advice matters here.
I'd slot L10 common IO's (they beat TO's hands-down) and have at it.

Good Luck - Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.


Cheers,
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PS> If you DO manage to find L8 SO's, put out a follow-up note telling how you
got 'em (cuz I'm far from convinced that they're available, but I've never had
a character that cared about them in that level range either).

Eh, i just made the Perez Park Predator, a rad/sonic, and i will be leveling him up to 10-12 and then staying there, but my intention is mostly hunt in PP and occasionally run a Posi or other missions when not hunting the critters of the park. However, my goal is to slot him up with lowbie IO sets using the merits from TF's and AE rolls until he's fully slotted.

If you want early SOs, it looks like you might be farming Frostfire. Shouldn't be hard.

Frosty's an EB. Kurse, Nocturne and rest of the Faultline gang to up to AV, though.

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